This video of Dergin Tokmak dancing with his crutches is absolutely sensational. He’s an amazingly talented dancer and a shining example for anyone who is interested in dance, less able or otherwise. Tokmak was diagnosed with Polio when he was just one year old and has been paralyzed from the waist down ever since. But…
What a result in the cricket I was absorbed all week in the ups and downs of England in The Ashes. Keeping cool under the pressure of watching required more than one glass of wine but I managed to enjoy it, possibly!?! Later in the week I went to Petersham Nurseries in Richmond on a…
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…
Update on Champagne & Fromage , a further visit discovered that the disabled toilet was another ‘Quasi Khasi’ i.e. just about get a wheelchair in but no grab rails so they are now downgraded to 2 BBSTicks. Shame. ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. What a week I went to Charing X hospital without an escort and managed the lifts…
Figures showing a rise in disability hate crime are truly shocking: 9 out of 10 people with learning disabilities are victims of disability hate crime according to Mencap‘s research. There has been a rise in the number of hate crimes with 1,942 recorded in 2012 – that is a 14% rise since 2010 – according to…
This was the speech I gave at Digital Shoreditch. It covers the value to the economy of people with disabilities and accessibility issues in London, which I’m sure are true for other places in the UK. Unfortunately it doesn’t show the slides with all the figures on but you’ll get the gist! Let me know…
Last week I was invited to The Digital Shoreditch Party as a thank you for speaking at the event. It was at the Book Club, Leonard St., Shoreditch and of course I rang in advance re accessibility I was assured that there was no problem although there wan’t a disabled toilet. On arriving with my friendly black…
I’ll start this weeks Weds Wrap with the image of me being carried along by a team of strapping young waiters – trust me, it’s far less glamorous than it sounds. I had to be carried up the stairs at The Gilbert Scott last week because their lift had broken down. I was not particularly…
Blue Badge Style founder, Fiona, has written an article for the latest edition of Hospitality Today an online magazine for the UK’s hospitality market. The magazine possesses a circulation of over 35,000. Blue Badge Style hopes that a good proportion of that number will agree with our point of view and reach out to the emerging market…