Able Magazine Enjoys Another Successful Naidex!
Able Magazine was again proud to have been selected as Headline Media Partner with Naidex, the biggest and best independent living event for disabled …
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Fuller’s introduces talking menus in pubs for visually impaired diners
Fuller, Smith & Turner, the premium pubs and hotels business, has introduced Good Food Talks in its Managed Pubs, offering a talking men…
Fashion And Textile Children’s Trust Join Forces With Special Orthotic Services For Charity Raffle
Fashion & Textile Children’s Trust join forces with Special Orthotic Services to launch prize draw for bespoke P-Pod seating system worth £2,000. …
Unique salon for people with learning disabilities opens its doors
Bradford’s first beauty salon exclusively for adults with learning disabilities has opened its doors with the help of celebrity hairdresser, Andrew Co…
FFORA Launches Accessory Brand For the Community
Parsons School of Design graduate Lucy Jones has spent two years researching and developing a product line that redefines what a traditional fashion b…
The first-ever app of its kind tests your hearing from the comfort of your home
Audiology business Amplify Hearing has launched a brand-new hearing screener app for Amazon’s Alexa after recognising a pattern in undetected hearing …
Youtube Video About How A Homelift Transforms Woman’s Life Goes Viral
A video by a popular American YouTube vlogger about how he installed a homelift so his partner could move safely between floors in her wheelchair has …
Nations Confirmed For Wheelchair Rugby League World Cup 2021
The announcements were made across the tournament’s official social media channels, we saw each of the eight individual nations revealed with a unique…
Survation Poll: Majority of business leaders apprehensive about recruiting disabled people to senior positions
A Survation poll commissioned by executive search firm Inclusive Boards has revealed that the majority of business leaders are apprehensive about recr…
HomeToGo reveals the 19 UK cities with the greatest share of wheelchair-accessible accommodation
For travellers with disabilities, finding the right holiday accommodation is vital. So where are the best places to visit? HomeToGo’s data reveals tha…
Lifetime achievement award for research into the understanding and treatment of MS
The MS International Federation (MSIF) is delighted to announce that Professor Catherine Lubetzki, seminal in her field, is the 2019 winner of the Cha…
New Study Reveals The Most (And Least) Accessible Cities For Disability Travellers in Europe
New research from comparethemarket.com evaluates 38 of Europe’s capital cities from a traveller’s perspective to determine which are the most accessib…
Able supports Remap Annual Awards for 2019
Remap’s ingenious volunteers are well known for creative solutions to everyday challenges and the charity’s recently announced annual awards ceremony …
Scotland’s Railway – Accessible Travel For Everyone
ScotRail. Scotland’s Railway. For just that, all of Scotland. Rail travel should be accessible to everyone and we’re doing everything that we can to d…
Sporting Stars Encourage Disabled People To Get Active On New Podcast Series
Paralympic Champion And Wheelchair Tennis Superstar Support Need For Improved Disabled Facilities Around The Country. Paralympic gold-medallist Han…
Poppy Factory Win The Disability And Health Employment Award at ERSA Awards 2019
The Poppy Factory is delighted to have won the Disability and Health Employment award at this year's ERSA awards. The Poppy Factory’s employability p…
Minister for Disabled People Welcomes Groundbreaking Tiny Hotel
Three-bed Premier Inn will help young people check-in to the work of work. The Minister for Disabled People, Health and Work Justin Tomlinson welco…
UnLtd and Scope join forces to fight back against the disability employment gap
A partnership between UnLtd and Scope is offering funding and support for social entrepreneurs with bold ideas to get more disabled people into jobs a…
Microsoft announces new tools to help disabled schoolchildren
Most curriculum subjects flow through text and pupils with visual and learning (intellectual) disabilities can find themselves ‘locked out’ of learnin…
Disability film festival winners announced
Winners of the Business Disability Forum’s Film Festival Challenge 2019 were announced yesterday evening at a prestigious event in London, hosted by K…
Prior Park Landscape Garden introduces new online Visual Guide to welcome people with Autism
Visiting a local heritage attraction can be an exciting experience for many people. However, for autistic people the idea of going somewhere new can b…
Why Study? Able’s Guide To The Benefits Of Further Education
Education is about far more than learning and can really help to enrich your life…Disabled people might regard studying for further qualifications as …
Blue Badge Access Awards Launches to Challenge Industry Standards
Combining two major design competitions – the Bespoke Access Awards and the Blue Badge Style Awards - with the support of charity Leonard Cheshire, th…
Be The Difference Employment Initiative Gives Support And Advice
Regular readers of Able Magazine will already know that we launched our employment initiative, ‘Be the Difference’, in 2018 with the specific aim of h…
MS organisations call on the public to recognise invisible symptoms on World MS Day
Walking into town. Teaching at the front of class. Drinking coffee in the local cafe. Normal life, right? For some. Others may appear to be going abou…