Press Release 07.08.2017: Best Restaurant, Favourite Accessible Bar, Most Ludicrous Loo? Recommend Your Favourite Venue for an Award London, 7 August 2017, Nominations are open for the fourth annual Blue Badge Style Awards. The Awards will recognise the effort that stylish hotels, restaurants and bars have made to attract guests with disabilities. A stylish venue…
We’ll be announcing The Blue Badge Style Awards 2017, and sampling Blue Badge Style cocktails, at a Central London location again 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.…
We’ve been on the scout again and have more in our series of ‘Ludicrous (disabled) Loos‘ and ‘Ridiculous Ramps‘………….If being disabled wasn’t bad enough, look what you have to put up with. Say no more other than ‘Oh Dear What Can the Matter Be’!! If you have any to add please contact us. Which is your favourite??
We’ve been invited to speak at Naidex this year, explaining why style should be paramount for people with disabilities – whatever the style whatever the disability. Under new management, the number and quality of exhibitors has vastly improved and we think this will be the turning point for what was a less than stylish event.…
The Bespoke* Access Awards 2016 were held on 6th December and the Celia Thomas Prize was awarded to our friends at Motion Spot and Ryder Architecture for a practical but nonetheless stylish hotel bedroom that was inclusive for all. The audience for the event at the House of Lords consisted largely of architects, access consultants and…
There was a huge response to our Awards for ‘Venues With Exceptional Style & Accessibility‘. Here are the relevant articles…………most concentrated on the ‘Best Accessible Loo’, this was also the most coveted award by the hospitality audience at the Awards!! First was from The Caterer 6th Oct – German Gymnasium Wins Two Blue Badge…
The results are in from the 2016 Blue Badge Style Awards, supported by Conran and Partners, Thomson Reuters and Hewi accessible bathrooms. All of the nominated venues are now officially holders of the BBS Recommendation with ratings of 2 or more BBS Ticks. The judging was extremely close and all nominees should be congratulated on…
Update Sep 2016: The Nominations are out for the BBS Access Awards, here they are, including an award for the ‘best’ Ludicrous Loo: Book here for tickets, 1 nominee goes free! Best Bar There will be two awards for Best Bar, budget and upmarket White Horse at Brancaster Staithe, Norfolk No. 1 Duke St, Richmond,…
Having stunned the world, and Hitler, by winning four gold medals at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, Jesse Owens returned to America and found himself locked out due to the colour of his skin. Part of the racial discrimination he was on the receiving end of meant that, even when he attended events that were being…