We want to know what people with disabilities & their friends & families think regarding access improvements to Restaurants, Bars & Coffee Shops since the Olympics in 2012……Help make a change!! Vote Here
We’re inviting anyone who wants to show support for quality disabled access, World Disability Day and Blue Badge Style to join in with our Guerrilla Sticker Campaign on the 3rd of December. Every year World Disability Day (officially know as International Day of People with Disability) falls on this day and this year we want…
The BBS Bonfire has been over a week in the making – a list of the pet peeves of many less able people. We’ve been venting our frustrations and it’s been fun, cathartic and occasionally more serious. Tonight we’re finally off the put these annoying aspects of accessibility and less able life onto our nearest…
It was at about this time four hundred and eight years ago Guy Fawkes was allegedly putting the final touches on his big old pile of gunpowder underneath the Palace of Westminster (we say ‘allegedly’ wisely. It might be over four hundred years since he was hung drawn and quartered but you can never be…
Working for Blue Badge Style I’ve a lot of conversations over the phone with restaurants and bars asking them about their disabled access. During this time, there’s been one particularly odd thing that keeps cropping up a lot and I just can’t get my head around it. The conversation normally goes a little something like…
We’re looking for less able people and their carers/attendants to join our BBS Interest Panel. It’s basically a forum to discuss all of the issues that affect less able life. We’re looking to open up a discussion about anything and everything that concerns the discerning less able. So if you have anything at all that you…
We all know that it’s really frustrating when you want to go somewhere cool – a stylish restaurant for instance – but you find out that they don’t have a disabled toilet. Yesterday we named and shamed some Michelin star restaurants who fall into that category. However, what can be equally or maybe even more…
People don’t believe me when I say there are Michelin Starred restaurants without disabled facilities. There are and here are my selection for the BBS Bonfire: I was going to put the Heston restaurants in Bray, The Fat Duck & The Hinds Head on the Bonfire but they seem to have followed our advice and our badgering of the…
Further update Oct 2013 the person we spoke with is wrong there is no disabled toilet at the Hinds Head but ambulant disabled can use the Gents on ground floor, accessed by a step, cleaned and cordoned off by staff if a Lady wants to use. So as you were there’s still no relief in…