SAMEE is a Dorset based charity founded in 2016 by our CEO Samantha Everard. The name SAMEE represents Support and Mentoring Enabling Entrepreneurship. Our charitable purpose is to support disabled and neurodivergent people wanting to explore self-employment as an alternative to traditional employment.

Day-to-day the SAMEE team work with people from all ages. This starts from school aged children, and goes all the way up to adults looking for a new career path more accessible to their needs. We don’t believe in limiting our support services based on the level of disability. Instead, we pride ourselves on the quality and adaptability of our support, enabling us to provide bespoke guidance no matter the need. 

With strategic partnerships in both the employment and education sectors, as well as 5 qualified careers professionals on the team (and 1 working towards it), we ensure provision of the highest quality information, advice and guidance. SAMEE has also been a Disability Confident Leader since 2018. 

We have come a long way since 2016! We are proud to offer services such as 1:2:1 self-employment mentoring, which is completely flexible to work with you, a supported self-employment internship for young people, and sociable group workshops based around employability, self-employment, wellbeing and confidence building.

SAMEE has co-created with the help of our amazing disabled beneficiaries, an NCFE-accredited Level 1 and Level 2 Self-employment programme which can be completed on its own or alongside… the UK’s first Self-Employment Supported Internship!!

In March 2026, we have launched our newest programme… the Discovery programme!

Check out the programmes page for more information on this!