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…
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…
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…
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…
There was a huge response to our Awards for ‘Venues With Exceptional Style & Accessibility‘. Here are the relevant articles…………most concentrated on the ‘Best Accessible Loo’, this was also the most coveted award by the hospitality audience at the Awards!! First was from The Caterer 6th Oct – German Gymnasium Wins Two Blue Badge…
This article on BBC News talks about The reality of life as a disabled clubber and the inaccessibility and health & safety nonsense you have to put up with in nightclubs… ‘A night out clubbing is something most young people take for granted. But even if they get past the bouncer, life on the dance…
Green Hotelier Sept 29th 2016: Talking Point: Hotels should see their disabled guests as stakeholders. Continuing our theme examining the role of stakeholders in improving hotels’ performance as responsible businesses, and with a nod to the theme this week for World Tourism Day of equality of access for people with disabilities, Fiona Jarvis, Founder of…
Update Aug 2016: BBS Director Paul Mounsey presents a cheque for £750 to Robert Carter at The Royal Academy of Music. The proceeds of BBS MIX 2016 concert will again be awarded as a bursary to Soprano, Fiona Joice who suffers from dyslexia and dyscalculia. The recipient of last year’s bursary, Fiona Joice, Soprano, said “I was…
July 25th 2016: We tell Big Hospitality what makes a bad disabled loo and how to fix it….. This link reveals all