On Thursday the first of August BBS assembled a crack team of professional revellers to take on the Wheeled In Chelsea Bar Crawl to help launch our Summer Competition. We were going to go to five different venues that had featured on Made In Chelsea. The night would involve five people, four bars, one restaurant, one…
Joshua Hepple goes to The Edinburgh Fringe Festival every year in his wheelchair. He’s experienced all there is to see in terms of accessibility difficulties at The Fringe. Whether it’s being carried up stairways or tackling the cobblestones he’s been there and done it. We asked him to give us his expert guide to access…
The Edinburgh Fringe Festival, the world’s largest arts festival, begins on Friday. There are going to be an incredible 2,871 shows by 24,107 performers in 273 venues. So there’s a lot to see and do, but where can you go when you’re not busy at a performance? We’ve compiled a guide to an accessible Edinburgh Fringe. It’s…
This weekend, one year on from the London 2012 Olympics, the stars of both the Olympics and the Paralympics are returning to the Olympic Stadium for the Anniversary Games – a three day athletics event. After two days of Diamond League Athletics – ‘headlined’ by Mo Farah, (hopefully) Jessica Ennis-Hill and Usain Bolt – the…
Yesterday we profiled how it has become easier for less able people to drive a car. Today we’re going to go one step further and tell you about Aerobility – the charity dedicated to teaching disabled people how to fly a plane. If space is the final frontier, then the skies are surely the penultimate…
It’s all over. The entire country’s annual, two week long obsession with tennis came to a glorious end on Sunday and our 77 year wait for a British Wimbledon Men’s Champion finally finished with it. What a crazy day it must have been for Andy Murray (by all accounts, soon to be Sir Andy Murray) becoming such…
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…