The James Dyson Awards celebrate, encourage and inspire the next generation of design engineers. The competition brief is simple: design something that solves a problem. After all, it has been said that that is the essence of good design. One area where we still have many problems to solve through design is disability and, as a…
I recently visited an eccentric gastro-pub on Kings Road called The Jam Tree. The bar is pretty trendy but was not the best experience for a wheelchair user such as myself. The pub was a Time Out Love London award winner in 2014 and it’s easy to see why it’s so popular. The food good was and not…
The 3 BBS Ticks are the gold standard for style and accessibility. Today we’re giving out 3 Ticks for the following… What to know… Bradley Cooper is currently on cinema screens, starring in the Oscar nominated American Sniper, but it’s also recently been announced that he’ll be crossing the Atlantic this summer to star in a…
The more you look around you the more you find that even the most adventurous activities can now be made available to people with disabilities. Whether it’s skiing down the sides of mountains, racing full pelt in motor cars or flying (even ) a plane, someone with a disability has done it and shown that almost anything is possible…
Artusi on Bellenden Road in Peckham is one of London’s hottest restaurants and part of Peckham’s increasingly stylish scene. It’s been named the fourth best restaurant in London by Time Out where they called it the “culinary real deal” and praised its “south-of-the-river sophistication”. The menu is five small plates at £5 each, three pasta/risotto dishes in small…
The Sports Bar & Grill, in the upper reaches of London Waterloo train station, is part of a chain of bars that pretty much do what they say on the tin. It’s an American style sports bar, where people can sit in front of the many plasma screens and watch ‘the game’ with a beer…
Update Jan 2015: Caxton Grill , reviewed below, does indeed have fabulous food and service, as well as an atmosphere that’s buzzy but not too loud. However, there are a couple of things to look out for: 1. The tables have balls on the end of their legs which meant I had to sit 12″ (approx)…
Part of Antic collective of pubs, The Balham Bowls Club and Hagen & Hyde are two of the coolest (possibly the two coolest) pubs in the area around Balham. This is an area with a lot of different pubs and a lot of pubs coming and going from the scene, so saying they’re two of the best is…
Saturday the 17th of January marks the first ever Disabled Access Day in the UK. The aim of the day is to encourage disabled people and their families and friends to visit somewhere they have never been before on 17 January, such as a coffee shop, sports centre, cinema or a tourist attraction. A array…