For those of you following our journey on Spark programme with The Design Council (read more here), you’ll realise we’re about to create something new for the Blue Badge Style ‘movement’ – A New Brand, the ADDITI+ON collection of accessories ‘for people who have their hands full’. Here’s what it means and why we think…
The day before DRINK was at No. 10 and last night Blue Badge Style attended a brilliant event on #Assistive Technology hosted at The Speaker’s House (he was out for the night)! Organised by Shaw Trust/Disabled Living Foundation. Great ideas on how assistive devices help everyone at one time or another – none are immune to disability even if…
Today we met Baroness Celia Thomas & filmed her at The House of Lords using her DRINK glass holder on her scooter. Proving is usefulness for any mobility equipment. Endorsement enough but this was then followed by an invitation to No. 10 Downing St. to review their accessibility and use their new Sesame Lift, ramps were…
If you’ve been reading our blog you’ll know we received some funding from the Design Council to produce our idea of a stylish glass holder for wheelchairs/walkers/scooters/baby buggies! It’s known as DRINK – The Chanel of Glass Holders and now we need your input on what you think of it. We’ve devised a very short survey…
Update 23 May 2017: BBS MIX Inclusive Concert, was held this year at a unique and ‘pop-up’ venue of the showroom at Charlie Allen Bespoke, menswear designer. So surrounded by the ultimate in men’s style the performers gave some supreme performances. Here’s just a few of the images we received…….. Compère Mik Scarlet in full flow;…
Update May 16 2017: Things are moving on with the Glass Holder and following some inspiring chats with fellow contestants at Spark (over a glass of wine), the product has morphed into a monster – The BBS Butler System. This is a series of accessories for wheelchair, rollator, scooter users as well as anyone with…
I and The American Lieutenant went to Naidex again this year where I spoke about the importance of a sense of style for people with disabilities. Here is a snippet of what I said and you can read the slides here…….. As well as speaking we also had a look to see if there…
April 2017: A change in the law (Equality Act 2010) brings three key new protections to disabled people in England and Wales. This means that taxi and private hire vehicle drivers will be obliged by law to: Transport wheelchair users in their wheelchair Provide passengers in wheelchairs with appropriate assistance; and Charge wheelchair users the…
For Disabled Access Day this year our friends at Sesame Access suggested a Bar Crawl. Previously we did the same in the City, you can see the results here. But for 2017 we chose Covent Garden, you can read all about it here and see the video below. Needless to say only 2 of the 5…