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Club Looks for Next Generation of Para Ice Hockey Players
The Sheffield Steelkings Para Ice Hockey club is launching an initiative to get more youngsters playing the sport. Teaming up with Hallam...


Bellway Backs Intern Scheme for Disabled Students
An undergraduate from Newcastle has completed an internship designed to help disabled students. Ivo Vasilev, 31, undertook a three-month...


Disabled Cyclist Rides into Battle Over Cycle Path Barriers
Disabled cyclist Alastair Fulcher is challenging Newcastle City Council over barriers on the National Cycle Route which bar his access to...


Deafblind Conference 2023 – Speakers Announced
The third virtual Deafblind Conference will take place on October 5. Well-known international and UK based speakers, including deafblind...


Nominate a Venue with Exceptional Accessibility for Award
There’s less than a week to go to nominate a hotel, restaurant, leisure, or tourism venue you think offers the very best in exceptional...


Disabled Entrepreneurs Launch Latest High Tech Mobility Device
The award-winning distributors of the Omeo mobility device are launching a second game-changing piece of kit. Following their success in...


Ensuring Accessible Travel for All at the Heart of New Commission’s Roll
The first meeting of a ground-breaking Accessible Transport Policy Commission will take place this week. Set-up by UK's first ever...


Seven Veterans. 21 Miles. One Inspiring Swim
In the early hours of tomorrow morning (Wednesday, 06/09/23) – weather conditions permitting – seven brave veterans will set out to swim...


More Wheelchair User Homes Could Save Public Purse Millions
New research has revealed that building more wheelchair user homes for disabled people, from children to adults over 66, could save the...


The Cool Way to Recycle Unwanted Mobility Aids
One of the UK’s most innovative walking aid companies has launched a scheme to improve access to mobility equipment around the world....


Win a Trip to the 2024 Paralympic Games in Paris
There’s just one year to go until the 2024 Paralympic Games takes place just a short hop across the English Channel. And to give fans the...


GB Wheelchair Basketball Teams Qualify for Paris 2024 Paralympic Games
GB Men have won gold at the 2023 International Wheelchair Basketball Federation (IWBF) European Championships by beating Spain 74:53 in...


Parastronaut Workshop Will Reach for the Stars and Beyond
Disabled flying charity Aerobility is hosting a workshop to help shape a project supporting astronauts with physical disabilities. ...


BBC Documentary Follows Actor Tommy Jessop’s Mission to Play a Superhero
When your television roles have involved being arrested, interrogated, pushed off a cliff, electrocuted and nearly drowned you’d be...


Tile Me a Story Boosts Funds to Improve Facilities for Disabled
The good and the great visited Camphill MK recently to launch a brand-new community-wide art project called Tile Me a Story. The Lord...


Skydiving Daredevil with Parkinson’s Raises £2,150
A daredevil who has Parkinson’s has raised £2,150 for charity by undertaking a skydive. Brave Welshman Gareth Blake jumped from a plane...


DJ with Sight Loss on Track to Raise Money for Charity
Yvette Chivers is gearing up to drive three race cars to fundraise for the Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB). Yvette, also...


Flying Charity for the Disabled Lands Game Changing Sponsorship Deal
Flight safety company Aerobytes has agreed a substantial financial sponsorship package for Aerobility, the flying charity for disabled...


Morph Spotted Out on the Town
Whizz-Kids has launched a fully accessible step-free art trail featuring dozens of eye-catching six-foot-tall sculptures of the animated...


BBC Personality Surprises Tia by Presenting Life Changing Power Chair
Tia McConnell got the surprise of her life when she was presented with a brand-new hands free self-balancing active power chair by BBC...

