Press Release 07.08.2017: Best Restaurant, Favourite Accessible Bar, Most Ludicrous Loo? Recommend Your Favourite Venue for an Award London, 7 August 2017, Nominations are open for the fourth annual Blue Badge Style Awards. The Awards will recognise the effort that stylish hotels, restaurants and bars have made to attract guests with disabilities. A stylish venue…
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…
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…
The ‘D’ List features new things in the world of disability and here’s our latest round up. 1st The WHEEL PAD a new concept in accessible homes. It’s a temporary home that accommodates a family member that needs extra support due to a sudden disability. It’s a temporary bedroom and bathroom that can be attached to…
1st 10th March is Disabled Access Day and we’re joining forces with Sesame Access to re-create our Bar Crawl from last year. See the clip below. It was great fun and a myriad of things went wrong. We’re “shaking” up (all will become clear on the night) Central London again……contact us and we’ll tell you…