For too long, catering for people with disabilities has been a matter of complying with regulation – eliminating the risk of fines or damage to a brand’s reputation. But businesses are waking up, and we’ve created a platform for this change. The Blue Badge Access Awards is a global initiative, officially launching this year on May…
BBS have been busy.. First read about our Addition Collection of inclusive products on the website of The Design Council……….. ‘Meet the Design Council Spark awardee bringing style to independent living, one DRINK at a time’ Our winning design for a inclusive drink/cup/glass/bottle etc. holder has an interesting story behind it, read more here and…
Blue Badge Access Awards Who We Are The Blue Badge Access Awards are the result of two major design competition initiatives, coming together with the support of Leonard Cheshire. The Bespoke Access Awards have now joined with the Blue Badge Style Awards to give a consumer breadth to a predominantly B2B conceptual design competition, producing…
Press Release Oct. 2018: Blue Badge Access Awards Unveils New Look & Expanded Scope Blue Badge Style, in association with Bespoke Access and Leonard Cheshire Disability, is pleased to unveil the Blue Badge Access Awards, a merger between the preexisting style and accessibility initiatives, aimed at raising the profile of travelers with disabilities and expanding…
First what Blue Badge Style stands/sits for …….. BBS founder Fiona Jarvis explaining the importance of style at the very un-stylish Naidex The European Investment Bank explanation of what Blue Badge Style does and why it’s important not just in the UK but globally…… Let’s hope designers, the fashion world and equipment manufacturers/suppliers take note!…
On Wednesday 2nd May the Toilet Police appeared on Rip Off Britain to comment on the disability facilities in restaurants. In response to the show we have received a number of reviews from the public on their own experiences with facilities in public places labelled disabled. It is too often that the disabled facilities are…
TGA the UK suppliers of WHILL PEV (personal electric vehicle/electric wheelchair), have provided me with one to trial. We’ve been interested in WHILL ever since it hit the market – see our previous wheelchair reviews – so an in depth review/trial was long overdue. Never having used an electric wheelchair I was at first apprehensive using…
Press Release London, 5 October 2017, Blue Badge Style Awards’ Best Loo goes to Brook Green Pavillion in London, designed by Motion Spot! Most Ludicrous Loo to Café Royale. Ten stylish hotels, restaurants and bars won a BLADE at the 2017 Blue Badge Style Awards last night at Lutyens, supported by Bespoke Access & Hewi.…
The Nominees have been chosen for The BLADES the BBS Access Awards ‘celebrating exceptional venues with both style and accessibility’. Here’s the official press release and don’t forget you can still get tickets to the Awards night on 4th Oct – the most inclusive and fun night you’ll ever have with the infamous Blue Badge…