Get a tasty return from your garden
Well-known ethnobotanist, James Wong, talks us through how simple it is to get a tasty return from gardening and a few tips on making plants work harde…
Disability News
Here comes the summer
Revitalise is the largest provider of respite holidays for disabled people and carers in the UK, but this only tells half the story.
Review: 3rings Activity Monitoring Plug
People of a certain vintage will recognise the old style ‘three rings’ as being the renowned way to signal you’re OK or you’ve got home alright without…
Getting Outside – Your Comfort Zone
The beautiful blooms signal summer and hopefully warmer weather. Many people will seize the opportunity to get outside, breathe fresh air and feel the…
Disability Awareness Day 2016 (DAD25): Sunday, 10 July – Walton Hall Gardens
In 1992, who would have thought that a small information event, held in Warrington for local disabled people, would grow to the size and stature associ…
Review: Fiskars Digging Fork, Light Series
Turning the soil can be an arduous task, made more difficult when tools are heavy and cumbersome. The Fiskars light digging fork however, utilises a li…
Beautiful clothes designed to make dressing easier
The Able Label is a new innovative range of easier dressing womenswear clothing, for those who like to look good but find high-street fashion too fiddly or awkward to wear.
Countryside Mobility, Haldon Forest Park
Countryside Mobility, is a charity passionate about enabling everyone to explore the countryside of the South West with freedom and ease. All-terrain …
Paralympic medallists to make waves in Swansea
Paralympic Gold Medallist Jessica-Jane Applegate and elite swimmer Jack Thomas to race swimmers with a learning disability ahead of Paralympics
Review: Fiskars Digging Spade, Light Series
Gardening can be a great way to relax but as we all know, is often painful the next morning as a result of inflamed hands and wrists. The Fiskars light…
Getting Active Doesn’t Have To Mean Getting Sporty
Not all exercise has to be on the sports field or in the gymnasium. Although it may seem that an increased interest parasport means every disabled pers…
Motoring Tips: From Empire State To The Big Easy
The Disabled Motorists Federation (DMF) is involved in efforts to make holidaying for disabled people simpler. This time we left the car at home for on…
Education: How To Be A Student
The latest figures show that the number of students with disabilities who start higher education each year has increased from around 26,000 in 2010 to …
Junior disabled athletes ready to go for gold at Typhoo National Championships
More than 200 of the country’s finest young disabled athletes will be going for gold in Coventry on (2 and 3 July) at the Typhoo National Junior Athletics Championships.
Review: ViraLITE Mini Vibration Watch
This cute little watch would make an ideal ‘first watch’ especially for children with hearing impairments. Of course it looks the same and even sounds …
Accessible summer days out in the UK
As the weather improves and the elusive sunshine comes out, many people start to think about day-tripping and making the most of the summer. By Mich…
Thirteen medallists star as first track & field athletes to be selected for ParalympicsGB at Rio 2016
Thirteen proved a lucky number last week as the British Paralympic Association (BPA) announced the first wave of track and field athletes who will comp…
Review: Flexyfoot Urban Hiking Pole
A cool, sporty accessory and fitness tool for cross country and urban environments. The Urban Hiking Pole is height adjustable and therefore has the ca…
Congratulations to our competition winners!
Regular readers will already know that every issue of Able Magazine comes complete with more chances to win competitions for great prizes and scoop gre…
Limbpower sets a challenge with a difference – The Manic Marafun
We’ve all seen and been amazed by the accomplishments of our outstanding athletes over the past year or so, and now LimbPower have decided that there s…
Save the date – House of Sport to host Kidz to Adultz Wales
Where: House of Sport, Cardiff, CF11 8AZ – next to Cardiff City Football Club When: 9.30am to 4.30pm, Thursday 7th July 2016 Price: Free What: Kidz …
Review: Flexyfoot Walking Stick With Oval Handle
The soft-touch oval handle feels great in the hand and allows users to really lean into it. Again, the cane folds neatly into three tubular pieces via …
Chartwell Insurance – Giving disabled travellers a fair deal
Travel insurance might now be universally regarded as a necessity for anyone going on holiday, but it’s a sad fact that many disabled tourists can stil…
Technology Practitioner Days for disability advisers in Higher Education
National digital inclusion charity AbilityNet is running a series of technology Practitioner Days in centres around the UK.
Making an important space for hearing loss
The Ear Foundation has created a major innovation in the field of hearing loss, SoundSpace Online, the only website of its kind which brings together a…