We’ll be announcing The Blue Badge Style Awards 2017, and sampling Blue Badge Style cocktails, at a Central London locationagain this year, on 4th October 2017. Entry deadlines are 8th September 2017 so if you’re a venue and want to show off your accessibility or a customer with a favourite place, please send your nominations here.
The Official Cocktail of Blue Badge Style Went down Too Well at the 2016 Awards!!
We created the Awards four years ago, because as founder Fiona Jarvis says
“We are passionate about helping people with disabilities to lead an exciting social life. As those of us with a disability know; style remains, despite disability. The awards are about promoting stylish venues which also have good access and facilities. Too often people with disabilities don’t go out because they don’t know what to expect when they get there. We want to change that with our Awardsand App”
The Blue Badge Style Award, Known as BASA to His Friends – Represents Style With Accessibility
Blue Badge Style Awards give venues a chance to shine, and promote that they are accessible and inclusive. People with disabilities represent a market with a potential spend of £250bn in the UK. As the population ages, demand for information about stylish venues with great accessibility is increasing. Our community has now reached 72,000 and growing.
If you’re a customer and would like to give your favourite place some recognition let us know. The venue has to be accessible and have ‘something about it’ that gives it a sense of style – no Global Burger Chains, please!?!
Last year the much coveted ‘Best Disabled Loo’ Award as well as the not so popular (with venues) ‘Ludicrous Loo’ Award, created intense competition and the audience went silent when they saw the nominations……
Cafe Murano Covent Garden – Good Looking Disabled Loo But Inaccessible as Door Was Too Narrow
Hotel Armani Milan
Hotel Du Vin Cambridge
The 2016 Ludicrous Loo Winner Tom’s Kitchen Chelsea – Need We Say More!? A Great Loo Rendered Useless by Storage.
So again we need your nominations for best and worst disabled toilet!!
The full list of Awardsare:
Best Venue in a Listed Building
Most Accessible Bar (upmarket & budget)
Most Accessible Restaurant (upmarket & budget)
Most Accessible Hotel (upmarket and boutique)
Best Disabled Loo
Most Ludicrous Loo
Best European Venue
Above & Beyond – for the venue or company who has made a special effort
The wonderful Mik Scarlet will be presenting the Awards again and tickets will be on sale later but please send your nominations and make this another great night to remember.
Fiona With Rob From Bank of England Who Won ‘The Above & Beyond Award 2016’. Plus Mik Scarlet The Brilliant Compere For The Night
Fiona With Claire & Jo From Bellanger Winners of Best Bar, With Judge Alex Taylor
2016 Awards Were Full of Celebrity, Paralympian Sophie Christiansen With Fiona & Alex Taylor + His lovely Carer
A Truly Inclusive Night. A Lot of Fun Was Had By All.
