The Department for Transport is carrying out consultations with regard to improving services for disabled passengers. Their ACCESSIBILIIY ACTION PLAN (AAP) includes 48 different actions which include proposals for increasing the availability of accessible toilets on trains, …
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Smart glasses are being tried by the National Theatre in an attempt to make performances accessible to the hearing and visually impaired. They’re calling it a ‘mobile phone on your face’. Basically it will unobtrusively …
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Sylvia Mac, aged 49 and mother of three children, had a childhood accident which disfigured her for life causing deep scars to her body. When she was a three year old, she played a game …
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FESTIVAL OF BODY ACCEPTANCE – 13-15 OCTOBER .. TOTNES Bodykind, who are hosting the festival, are a grassroots, non-profit, whole community event organisers, with the aim of promoting genuine inclusiveness whilst encouraging everyone to look at …
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Public health campaigns like ‘your five-a-day’ should be used to to encourage Britons to learn another language to ward off dementia. Experts say that the British are notorious for being monolingual and really don’t try …
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“Earlier in the year I was asked by Parallel London to be an ambassador for them. The event is an annual inclusive participation challenge. Disabled and non disabled people attempt the 10k, 5k, 1k or …
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Yoga and meditation could help lower the risk of heart disease. Researchers said that the practice may help lower blood pressure and stress which can put a strain on the heart. Coronary heart disease is …
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From Penny Melville-Brown OBE, Baking Blind, Disability Dynamics, food, cooking, Holman prize, WRNS 100, recipes, disability, visual impairment, blind, war pensioner, veteran, Lighthouse, honey cake, Steven Edwards, Sydney Ferrario, walnuts, honey. “One of the joys …
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Dame Evelyn Elisabeth Ann Glennie CH DBE is a Scottish virtuoso percussionist. She has been profoundly deaf since the age of 12 and taught herself to hear with parts of the body. “As a profoundly …
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Dame Helen Ghosh is the Director General of The National Trust. She moved into that position in late 2012 where her interest in history, people and places, and her commitment to the environment came together. …
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