We started the Blue Badge Style Sports Blog to help advise less able people on how to get into sports. Each week we feature a different Paralympic athlete writing about their own sport. This week Swimmer Ollie Hynd has written about his journey to the Paralympics. Ollie made his international debut in 2011 before winning…
Mother’s Day is coming up soon. If you didn’t know what date it’s on yet, or if you had forgotten about it completely, it’s on the tenth of March this year. If you had forgotten about it then shame on you but you’ve been let off because we’re here to help you out. Mother’s Day…
We’ve started the Blue Badge Style Sports Blog to help advise less able people on how to get into sport. Each week we feature a different Paralympic athlete telling us about their own sport. This week we’re featuring an interview with Great Britain’s Sitting Volleyball Captain, Rob Richardson. Rob has been involved with the GB…
The BBS Sports Blog has been postponed for this week so we can focus on our London Fashion Week specials. Apologies to anyone looking forward to the Sports Blog but it will be back next week with our Rob Richardson (Sitting Volley Ball Captain) interview.
The history of St. Valentine is unclear but one version of the truth is that he married Christian couples who were being persecuted in Rome. Helping Christians at this time was a crime and the Roman Emperor Claudius condemned him to death. He was beaten with clubs and stones; when that failed to kill him,…
We started the Blue Badge Style Sports Blog to help advise less able people on how to get into sports. Each week we feature a different Paralympic athlete writing about their own sport. This week, we’re featuring Wheelchair Basketball player, Sarah Grady, who has represented Great Britain at three Paralympic games. She’s written a fantastic…
The Royal Festival Hall is on London’s South Bank and “opened in 1951 as part of the Festival of Britain, the Grade I listed Hall is one of the world’s leading performance venues”. There is easy to access to the Royal Festival Hall on both the East and West sides. In the West side there…
The Royal Opera House is “based in the iconic Covent Garden theatre, it is renowned for its outstanding performances of both traditional opera as well as commissioning new works by today’s leading opera composers.” The Royal Opera House is a real treat to go and visit, they also have great concessions if you’re disabled. There are…
The Roundhouse is in Camden, London. It is a well known venue and has had a range of bands and artists perform here including Pink and Stereophonics. Coming up this year is The Stranglers, OMD, Adam Ant and more. If you don’t fancy music there is always the Perfoming arts . There is flat access into…