Disability History Month is an informative and entertaining, four week long series of events to learn about, discuss and debate disability in the UK and it starts today! The overall idea of the month is for disabled people to celebrate their heritage, understand the struggle that has taken place towards equal rights and accessibility and to create…
Last week Max & I went to the Independent Hotel Show at Olympia to spread the word about BBS and our community of people who want more than a Holiday Inn Express. This indeed surprised a few people as we told them the disability market for hospitality was worth £2Bn a year in the UK…
The Warehouse Project is a bit of a wandering institution on the Manchester club scene. Having originally opened in Boddingtons Brewery before moving to Store Street car park, it reopened last September in Victoria Warehouse. In all three locations the club has attracted incredible line-ups and become one of the best big nights out in the world. After…
As we slowly but surely move towards the future we all want – where all buildings offer total accessibility – you might expect nightclubs to be among the last places to make the change. Being dark, cramped and normally downstairs they’re hard to get into and there is also a common preconception that less able…
Perhaps, you might think, the end of October is not the best time in the world to decide to write a post on how less able people can take up surfing. You’d have to be extremely brave to start surfing in the bitterly cold, windy and wet weather we see at this time of year,…
Here’s a insight into the disabled access at IP Expo – one of those big conferences they hold at Earls Court – from a friend of BBS. I went to IP Expo today… well of course it’s a strain on the sanity to be there at all… but worse for some than others… One of…
Because half term and Halloween aren’t stressful enough individually, Halloween has to take place during the October half term this year. With the 31st falling on the Thursday, it’s likely to be the centrepiece of the week. So there are lots of spooky activities going on to entertain the kids next week. We’ve come up with…
We’ve been invited to a Meeting at the Houses of Parliament on 23rd October, to discuss with individual fitness clubs and MPs about ‘Access To Fitness’ for people with disabilities. Does anyone have anything you’d like us to ask?? Contact Us Here. We asked them in this blog about accessibility & facilities & got few…
Allyson Payne and her daughter went to the Birds of Prey Centre at Shuttleworth, Old Warden Park in Bedfordshire. Here’s her review on a day out with a difference: “Not only do they have a birds of prey centre there, including owls, condors, falcons, pelicans and storks plus other types of birds of prey but it…