In the wake of the London 2012 Paralympics, there has been a big increase in demand from the less able to become more involved in sport and exercise, or at least that is the theory. But how much has been done to cater for this growing demand for accessible fitness? In this, the first of…
Kit Us Out is a brilliant new charity that works to provide sports equipment for disabled athletes in developing countries, who might otherwise not be able to compete. The charity began in the build up to the 2012 London Paralympics when its founder, Alex Mitchell, who had been working as a Gamesmaker, came across two…
Here at Blue Badge Style one day just isn’t long enough to celebrate all things wild and wacky, so this year we’re going to be putting on an April Fools’ Week competition! We’re giving away a meal for two to the first person to spot our April Fools’ post. To win the prize all you…
From this week on we’ve got Blue Badge Style founder, Fiona Jarvis, to write a weekly diary called the Wednesday Wrap. Never someone lost for words, we think it should be fun to hear her rave about some of the places she’s been and rant about some of the poor disabled facilities she’s encountered. As…
Blue Badge Style Signs-Up The Hoxton Hotel for Pictorial Access Descriptions Inclusive Hotel Brings Disability Facilities to Life Online Press release London, 26 February 2013, Blue Badge Style, the first app and website guide to a stylish lifestyle for the less-physically-able, has signed-up the award-winning Hoxton Hotel for its first Pictorial Access Description (PAD). The…
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…
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,…
As part of our New Years push to get fit, we’ve asked personal trainer and BBS Lieutenant, Paul Huntingford, for his top fitness tips for the less able: Whatever your level of ability, staying fit can be tricky. However you don’t need to have access to lots of cash and Olympic level facilities to ‘get…