This was the speech I gave at Digital Shoreditch. It covers the value to the economy of people with disabilities and accessibility issues in London, which I’m sure are true for other places in the UK. Unfortunately it doesn’t show the slides with all the figures on but you’ll get the gist! Let me know…
What a weekend of sport with Andy Murray winning the Men’s Wimbledon Trophy and the British Lions slaughtering Australia. Plus Team Sky & Chris Froome retaining the yellow jersey in the Tour de France. Simply Brilliant!! Shame this overshadowed the Wimbledon Wheelchair tennis but congrats to: Men’s Wheelchair Doubles, Stéphane Houdet (Fr) and Shingo Kunieda (Japan). Women’s Wheelchair…
We all know that British people have a reputation for being a bit eccentric and it seems that some of our museums reflect this. Along with the standard art galleries and historical museums we also have a wealth of stranger, more specialist museums on offer, dotted around the country. We found out about the disabled…
Vanilla is a very chic private venue in Fitzrovia. We first came across Vanilla on the Worlds Best Bars website which describes it as “rather wonderful inside: all glimmering, glittering white with subtly shifting lighting and rippling water features.” However, although it remains on their website, Vanilla no longer operates as an open bar or restaurant but…
Piccolino is a chain of Italian restaurants across England they say: “We incorporate the best and freshest seasonal produce, Italian cheeses, meat and seafood, all delivering pure classic Italian flavours.” We haven’t visited any of these restaurants yet but by the sounds of it they have all got fabulous disabled access and facilities. Birmingham gets a provisional…
Jake’s Bar, in Leeds, “has long been renowned for the quality and selection of our cocktails and mixed drinks.” They also do a selection of bar snacks and platters to share which are a bit random for bar snacks – ‘thinly sliced ox heart’ anyone? We haven’t visited Jake’s Bar but we have found out that it is…
Annie’s is a small restaurant in Chiswick, it is decorated with bright bold colours! They say “we love good food, generous portions and taking care of people.” Always a good start! Fiona has been to Annie’s in Chiswick and Barnes and she said that there are no steps in to get into the restaurant but…
Last week I was invited to The Digital Shoreditch Party as a thank you for speaking at the event. It was at the Book Club, Leonard St., Shoreditch and of course I rang in advance re accessibility I was assured that there was no problem although there wan’t a disabled toilet. On arriving with my friendly black…
We haven’t been to The Winchester in Islington yet but it looks pretty stylish! They have different sections of the bar and restaurant – the gnome garden, the snug, magpie corner. There access appears to be pretty good. They have a flat entrance and it’s flat throughout the bar except 2 steps to the bar which…