Rose Ayling-Ellis to sign CBeebies bedtime story
Strictly Come Dancing champion Rose Ayling-Ellis will make her CBeebies' story corner debut this Sunday, the first time a BSL-signed story has ever appeared on the programme. Marking the...
Deafblind UK launch employment programme
A new employment programme has been launched by sight and hearing loss charity Deafblind UK. The programme is called Access Employment and will be a 12-week programme designed to help...
Motability Scheme’s One Big Day events are back
The Motability Scheme’s face-to-face events are back for 2022 with the return of The Big Event and the regional One Big Days. These events are the perfect way for visitors to find out...
Deafinitely Theatre confirms anniversary season line-up
Deaf-led theatre company Deafinitely Theatre has announced the full line-up for their 20th anniversary season, including a new show staged on a bus. The line-up of shows includes James...
Naidex Returns for 2022
Registration is now live for Naidex, the flagship event of the disabled community, which takes the stage this summer on 6-7 July at the NEC Birmingham, and we can't wait to meet you all...
D-Live! launch youth theatre project
Deaf-led theatre company D-Live! has announced the launch of their newest project, Big Dreams, which will see them working with deaf young people aged 11 to 14 in Medway who will create a...
Rose Ayling-Ellis first d/Deaf winner of Strictly
Saturday night saw Rose Ayling-Ellis and her dance partner Giovanni Pernice crowned the winners of Strictly Come Dancing 2021. Rose, the first d/Deaf contestant to participate on Striclty...
Applications open for The Great British Bake Off
This Tuesday, we'll see which of our remaining three bakers will be crowned the winner of this year's series of The Great British Bake Off - but next year, you could be the one holding the...
Cinema pop-up dedicated to disabled audiences to host first virtual event
A new pop-up cinema that's dedicated to empowering and representing disabled audiences and talent will have its first virtual screening this week. Caption This Cinema will host an online...
Freedom t-shirts launched by Enham Trust and CDUK
As part of their centenary celebrations, service users at Andover’s disability charity Enham Trust designed a dozen inspiring ‘freedom’ themed T-shirts in partnership with sustainable...
Channel 4 access issues could continue until “mid-November”
Channel 4 has confirmed that it could take them until at least mid-November to bring subtitles, signing, and audio description back to their programming as the outage looms on its fourth...
Scope launches online shop
Today Scope has launched its first standalone online shop, to bring you a wide and varied range of items, including many from disabled creators. Like many charities Scope took a huge...
Get ready for Accenture Live
The Accenture LIVE series is getting underway on Monday 11th October with a schedule of 11 events running until Thursday 28th October 2021. Over the month, you’ll learn all about who...
Thistle Assistance VoyagAR
The Thistle Assistance programme is all about helping to relieve travel anxiety, we want people to feel confident when using all forms of public transport across Scotland. Our research has...
RNIB launches pop-up to highlight inequality in packaging
The Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) have today launched a new pop-up "shop" in London that hopes to highlight the difficulties blind and partially sighted people face when...
Overcoming barriers to education with speech technology
The Nuance Assistive Tech Leadership Series continues with an exploration of how assistive tech is improving educational accessibility, and you could be part of the discussion by attending...
On Happiness season
This July Wellcome Collection will launch On Happiness, a season of free events, activities and two exhibitions - Joy and Tranquillity - which will bring together voices from across the...
New campaign to support disabled entrepreneurs
Small Business Britain is the UK's leading champion and supporter of small firms, and they have launched a new campaign to profile, support and inspire disabled entrepreneurs....
Physios helping EDS patients
#AD When Anna Higo attended a physiotherapy conference with her business partner Louise Grant, she was drawn to a DM Orthotics stand. Having had a painful shoulder for years, she was...
Speech recognition technology
#AD Nuance is inviting disabled people as well as businesses, schools and colleges and other organisations, to join them at their first webinar/roundtable conference on 16 June 2021 at 11am...
BBC commissions 12 works by disabled creatives
The BBC has commissioned a number of new works by D/deaf, disabled, and neurodivergent professionals based across the UK that will be broadcast this summer as part of its BBC Arts Culture...
ViacomCBS joins Evenbreak
The multimedia creator has teamed up with specialist job board Evenbreak, to actively attract disabled candidates to roles within their company As part of their commitment to being an...
Raising disability awareness during lockdown
A student has successfully transformed his team building and disability awareness business into an online hit during the Covid-19 pandemic. Azeem Amir, a visually impaired University of...
Online escape room for people with visual impairments
In 2019 we discovered a an amazing escape room run by Access Escape, the reason it caught our attention was that it was accessible to people who are blind or have visual impairments. Hannah...
First MG electric estate car joins Motability
#AD Award-winning MG dealer Vic Young is thrilled to announce the addition of the Electric MG5EV to the Motability family. What’s more this car is the only electric estate car on Motability...
New podcast celebrates accessible theatre
A new video podcast which seeks to celebrate and demystify accessible theatre will launch this week on 11 February. The Green Room is a 12-part series which will tell the stories of Deaf,...
Young innovators changing the world
The Young Innovator Award winners have been announced by Innovate UK and The Prince's Trust, and five of these young innovators have ideas that are designed to help disabled people lead...
Naidex postponed to September
Naidex have today announced that they will be postponing the exhibition to 15-16 September. The independent living exhibition was due to run in March this year, but in light of the current...
Whizz-Kidz celebrates 30 years
To mark its 30th anniversary as a charity, Whizz-Kidz are releasing “30 Stories” from wheelchair users across England, Scotland and Wales in partnership with National Life Stories at the...
BBC Reframing Disability
The BBC's Creative Diversity team is hosting a series of important conversations on LinkedIn Live on Thursday 19 November from 2pm - 6pm. Titled Reframing Disability and supported by The...
Stagetext calls for accessible lockdown performances
Charity Stagetext is calling on venues and performers to ensure that online performances during lockdown are accessible to the Deaf community and people who live with hearing loss....
BBC marks 25th anniversary of Disability Discrimination Act
Recognising the 25th anniversary of the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) which was passed on 8 November 1995, BBC Arts continues its Culture in Quarantine initiative that aims to support...
Naidex virtual series launched
While we await a time when events and exhibitions are safe to go ahead, Naidex, Europe’s most established event for the independent living and healthcare industry, has decided to launch a...
Naidex Postponed until 2021
ROAR B2B, the organisers of Naidex, have announced that the independent living event has been postponed adn will now take place on 9 - 10 March 2021. After extensive consultation with...
Sign Language Success
The disability charity Sense has helped over 50,000 people start learning British Sign Language (BSL) through lockdown, thanks to a fantastic digital campaign that began in May this year....
Emma Barton supports QEF appeal
TV star and Strictly Come Dancing finalist, Emma Barton, has been announced as the Patron of the Queen Elizabeth’s Foundation for Disabled People’s (QEF) Survive and Thrive emergency...
New Access App
A new access app has been launched by a trio of Leicestershire tech-entrepreneurs who have out their downtime during lockdown to good use. They are now calling on the support of Leicester's disabled community to download the app and rate their city's venues to help...
Brotherwood Lead the Way in Client Safety
While many companies in the UK closed their doors entirely during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, wheelchair accessible vehicle (WAV) specialists Brotherwood were hard at work,...
Changing Places campaign win
New building regulations have made it mandatory to include a Changing Places facility in new public buildings in England from 2021. These buildings include shopping centres, cinemas, arts...
Euan’s Guide offer free ‘Face Mask Exempt’ badges
Euan's Guide has launched a new initiative to help disabled people and individuals with hidden impairments navigate the complexities of social distancing. The charity is providing free...
Help QEF Survive and Thrive
Queen Elizabeth's Foundation for Disabled People (QEF), a charity which has been at the heart of the Surrey community for more than 85 years, is still facing an uncertain future due to the...
Celebrating World MS Day
The global MS community connected through music on World MS Day, via international live-streamed concert World MS Day (30 May) challenged the social barriers that leave those with MS...
Virtual wellbeing festival
The UK's first virtual wellbeing festival is set to take place on 8-10 May and everyone is invited! No worrying about queues and busy environments, noise levels or accessibility requirements, you can attend from the comfort of your own home. The Live Life Well...
New dates for Naidex
Following the postponement of Naidex which was due to take place on 17-18 March, the organisers have announced new dates for the show, it will now take place on 9-10 November 2020. The...
Nathalie McGloin ambassador for Permobil
#Advertorial In 2015 Nathalie McGloin became the first woman with a spinal cord injury to be granted a racing license in the UK. One of her many insightful reflections on life is that...
Naidex 2020 Postponed
On Friday 6 March it was announced that Naidex, one of the largest independent living events in the UK, would not be going ahead as planned on 17-18 March 2020. The organisers of Naidex...
Three accessibility tips to make technology work better for you
Lots of websites and devices bury their accessibility features deep down in random menus, making it difficult to find if you're looking for them, and a whole new world if you stumble upon...
Will we see you at Naidex?
It's that time of year again, when we descend upon the NEC for our annual trip to Naidex! Our favourite thing about this time you ask? Well, of course, it is meeting our lovely readers in...
Libby Clegg wows on ice
Double Paralympic Champion Libby Clegg has joined the ITV show Dancing on Ice and wowed the judges and audience with her first performance with partner Mark Hanretty. Sunday (12 Jan) night...
WheelPower and Active Hands on Honours List
After his role in transforming the lives of young and newly disabled people, Martin McElhatton, the Chief Executive of WheelPower, has been awarded an OBE for 'Services to Disability Sport'...
