Friday 10th October 2014: Fiona jarvis is interviewed by Henrietta Harrison from BBC Radio 4, You & Yours, a daily consumer programme. She is asked why glamorous disability aids are important and whether the government should pay for better designs. Follow this link to hear more http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04krnsy
Sesame Access Welcomes Lord Livingston by Sesame in News Sesame Access were delighted to welcome Lord Ian Livingston, the Minister of State for Trade & Investment to their Surrey workshop on 28th August 2014. Lord Livingston, a conservative member of the House of Lords, also leads on Foreign Commonwealth Office (FCO) relations with British Businesses. Steven Lyons, Sesame’s Managing…
At a recent pitch to directors from Compass Uk the BBS product PADs (Pictorial Access Descriptions) got a unanimous vote of YES in The Idea Works Competition. All four saw the need for every venue to provide online information regarding ‘accessibility’. See founder of BBS, Fiona Jarvis ,’Pitch’ here: PADs provide access information as a…
We’re in the disability press. Mik Scarlet, broadcaster, journalist, actor and musician, (a ‘cool guy’ in his own right), interviews our Founder for Disability Now and says we’re ‘cool’………….. View the full image Blue Badge Style website Blue Badge Style: disability cool By Mik Scarlet – 21 min 39 sec ago Disabled people have always been interested in style, fashion and having a…
In what is already a really big win for our company, Blue Badge Style will be sending a team to Madrid this October to compete in the European Social Innovation Tournament. We’re extremely proud to have been nominated for this prestigious European-wide award for entrepreneurial endeavours which aim to make our society a better and…
To say that House of Commons Committee Room 9 was unprepared for the arrival, en mass, of around ten to fifteen wheelchair users would be an egregious understatement. In fact, it would probably be fair to say that the accessibility of the room which hosted yesterday’s parliamentary event on accessing the high streets was almost…
This Wednesday, BBS representatives are going to be attending an All Party Parliamentary Group, at Portcullis House, looking into access to the high street for young disabled people. The APPG has been set up in the wake of a recent report from Trailblazers, named Short Changed, which came up with many interesting points about what high…
Equipment for disabled people is functional to the point of being “institutional” says a new survey from Blue Badge Style. The results of the latest BBS Interest Panel, set up to find out about the opinions of the disabled community on both mobility and household equipment, found that the available products are generally considered “not…
Less able people and their carers overwhelmingly feel that too little is being done to make venues accessible for less able visitors, according to results of our BBS Interest Panel survey, conducted late last year. The respondents of the survey agreed that too many venues are failing to adapt their buildings to become more inclusive…