Lewis Reed is delighted to announce the launch of its new Mercedes V-Class Grande which will be available from Spring 2017. This latest addition to the Lewis Reed portfolio of wheelchair accessible vehicles is unique as the headroom space has been increased from 53”/135cm to 57”/145cm and takes Lewis Reed to a new level in terms of luxury, comfort and ... Read More »
The UK’s largest charity provider of specialist equipment for children with disabilities and terminal illness – which is based in Cannock – has kicked off the New Year with a new name. Newlife Foundation for Disabled Children and its supporting business, Newlife Trading Ltd, have merged to become ‘Newlife, the Charity for Disabled Children’. Newlife CEO Sheila Brown, OBE, said: ... Read More »
UK business has a golden opportunity to access the £212bn annual disability market through the Government’s Disability Confident scheme, according to disability equality champion Mike Adams OBE. The Chief Executive of not-for-profit organisation Purple says the Government’s re-launch of its Disability Confident scheme is providing businesses with the opportunity to relook at disability differently and help them access the disability ... Read More »
Stephen Hill, former Chair of Trustees at Action on Hearing Loss, was awarded an OBE for services to people with hearing problems and charity in the New Year Honours list announced today. Over his eight years on the Board, including the past three as Chair, Stephen oversaw a period of rapid growth at Action on Hearing Loss, including expansion of ... Read More »
Today (21 December) the Department of Work and Pensions has announced plans to recruit disability champions in to key sectors of businesses, such as retail, hospitality and sport, to improve accessibility for disabled people in the UK. Accessibility is a huge issue for people with a learning disability who can struggle to understand information when out in public. Despite rulings ... Read More »
WheelPower – British Wheelchair Sport will be hosting a Primary Sports Camp at Stoke Mandeville Stadium on Saturday 25 February 2017. The Primary Sports Camp is open to children with physical or mild sensory impairments between the ages of five and eleven years old. We shall also welcome entry forms from those children who would not traditionally fit within ‘disability sport ... Read More »
by Anthony William, The Geordie Traveller When I was a teenager my mum decided to quit her job as an auxiliary nurse and put herself through University on her own personal quest to become an Occupational Therapist. At around the same time as she embarked on this journey, she also decided it was high time our family home was adapted to ... Read More »
Channel 4 has yesterday announced that it will advertise all of its future vacancies on a specialist job site run by and for disabled people, Evenbreak. Channel 4 hopes the initiative will attract even more applications from disabled people in a bid to further diversify its workforce and help disabled people break into the media industry. The broadcaster’s commitment in ... Read More »
Responding to reports in the media that the government intends to allow local councils to raise council tax by 6% over two years, Leonard Cheshire Disability CEO Neil Heslop, said: “We are pleased that the government has acknowledged the severe strain that social care is under. Giving local councils more flexibility to raise revenue locally is a step in the ... Read More »
The Baxter International Foundation has awarded a grant of £50,200 to Back Up, a leading spinal cord injury charity. The grant will fund a new Outreach and Support Families Co-ordinator position, and sustain it, for the next two years. This is their first post which focuses on families, and will be part of a team which also offers support to spinal ... Read More »
Medicotech Ltd is the UK sole distributor of the Thera-Trainers Active/Passive Therapy Exercise Equipment, the BALANCE-Trainer and the E-go Gait Trainer, an innovative and well established range of German made products. The THERA-Trainers are developed, tested and approved for the treatment of neurological and neuro-muscular disabilities such as Multiple Sclerosis, stroke, paraplegia, Parkinson’s disease, brain injury and many muscle disorders. ... Read More »
The ongoing stigma that denies people the right to work will be highlighted as the world marks the United Nation’s international day of persons with disabilities on the 3 of December. The Cheshire Global Alliance, a network of 200 organisations supporting disabled persons in over 50 countries, has organised awareness-raising activities across the world. These will include an arts and trade ... Read More »
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