Living with Disability Magazine

08/04/2024

Brilliant new invention here for visually-impaired hikers 👀

An innovative new cane has been designed to help blind and partially sighted people enjoy the great outdoors. Available from the Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB), the All-Terrain Cane (ATC) offers hikers the stability to tackle the unfamiliar terrain of the UK’s countryside. The ATC...

08/04/2024

Another one for for theatre lovers to mark in their diaries! Faith Healer is running at Hammersmith's Lyric Theatre until April 13 - more details here:

Hammersmith’s Lyric Theatre has a 125-year history presenting groundbreaking theatrical productions. In recent memory, they’ve included the hilarious Noises Off, the frankly terrifying Ghost Stories, seasonal pantomimes – and now this spring’s commanding ‘Faith Healer’.Directed by the th...

08/04/2024

Some tremendous theatrical shows happening around the UK this month! 👀 The Bar at the Edge of Time is a great experience for those with learning disabilities and it's touring the UK in April & May - more info here:

Frozen Light creates exciting and original multi-sensory theatre for audiences with profound and multiple learning disabilities (PMLD).It creates theatre you can touch, theatre you can smell, theatre that happens during intimate one to one interaction, theatre that is collective.Audiences are limite...

08/04/2024

Great to see more and more Changing Places facilities appearing all over the UK 👍 - another new one opened at Africa Alive in Suffolk last week! 🦁🦒🦏

27/03/2024

Bridie here and her sister Cheryl are running the London Marathon to raise funds for the RNIB 🏃🏃🏃
If you want to donate and support their efforts you can find more info here 👇

Sisters Bridie and Cheryl Starr are running the TCS London Marathon for the Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB). Bridie, 36, and Cheryl, 42, from Essex have been inspired to join Team RNIB in aid of Bridie’s daughter, Mia, who lost her sight at 16 months old in 2021 because of a collec...

27/03/2024

This exciting new stage production by the UK's only deaf-led theatre company kicks off in April and is coming to Birmingham, Newcastle, Manchester and London - don't miss it! More info here: 👀

A new play by the UK’s only professional deaf-led theatre company will get its world premiere next week at The Rep in Birmingham.Deafinitely Theatre is acclaimed for producing high-quality bilingual theatre for deaf and hearing audiences, by combining British Sign Language with the English spoken ...

26/03/2024

If you live in the south east and you've always wanted to learn how to fly a plane, here's your chance! 👀

UK disability flying charity Aerobility has partnered with Lydd Aero Club to provide flying lessons and experience flights for disabled people at Lydd Airport in Kent. The charity, which has its headquarters at Blackbushe Airport in Hampshire, and which also operates a satellite operation from Taten...

25/03/2024

📣🍩 Attention Bakers!🍩📣
Want to show off you baking skills AND raise some dough for charity?
National Doughnut Week is happening in May and is once again raising money for The Children's Trust - here's how you can get involved 👀

25/03/2024

Jorvik Tricycles launch an inclusive and accessible nationwide home demonstration service

25/03/2024

Congratulations to George Nelson and Russell Davis who have successfully rowed 3,500 miles across the Atlantic! 🌊🚣♂️🚣♂️🌊

Congratulations to George Nelson and Russell Davis who have successfully rowed 3,500 miles across the Atlantic Ocean. The two novice adventurers from Mansfield in Nottinghamshire rowed their boat across the world’s second largest ocean in a challenge dedicated to people who live with dementia in t...

24/03/2024

Tremendous work from the Sunderland Empire here 👏👏👏

Sunderland Empire has raised £11,800 in the past year for its nominated charity Washington Mind. The mental health charity was selected by the theatre’s staff for its commitment to supporting the local people of Wearside, promoting recovery, and improving mental health and wellbeing services. The...

23/03/2024

Fabulous exhibition taking place at the Barbican right now - it's on until May and there are BSL and Audio-Described tours availablle, as well as several 'relaxed' viewings. Find out more below 👀

Using textiles, fibre and thread, 50 international artists challenge power structures and reimagine the world in a major group exhibition at London’s Barbican Art Gallery.Textiles cover and protect us, engage our senses, trigger our memories, represent our beliefs, hold our stories. We are wrapped...

23/03/2024

Lauren here is doing great work! If you feel like sponsoring her amazing efforts you can do so here:

Runners the length and breadth of the UK are preparing for this year’s London Marathon.With just one month to go before the iconic event on April 21, Living with Disability will be featuring some of the many thousands of charity fundraisers attempting the 26.2 miles course.People like 23-year-old ...

22/03/2024

One for theatre fans in the London area here; Billy Crudup starring in a production of Harry Clarke at the tiny Ambassadors Theatre - and there are audio-described and captioned perfromances too! More info here:

What a treat.One of London’s smallest theatres (seats 406 – minimal legroom, two tiny ladies’ toilets for the whole of the stalls) is currently playing host to one of the US acting world’s biggest talents.If you want to see Billy Crudup in a masterclass audition for nearly every other role i...

22/03/2024

RNIB Chair Anna Tyler criticises the BBC's schedule shake-up

The Chair of the Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) has criticised the BBC for cutting the airtime for a programme which covers issues related to people living with sight loss. Anna Tyler has called the move to cut BBC Radio 4’s weekly In Touch programme from 20 to 15 minutes each wee...

22/03/2024

We met so many wonderful people and had a great time at Naidex. We even got the chance to hold a gold medal thanks to our neighbours on the Boccia UK stand. Good luck to them at the Paris Olympics! 🥇

21/03/2024

Some are working harder than others here at Naidex! 💪 🚴

21/03/2024

Very busy here at Naidex! Come see us at the LWD stand and say hi! 👋

20/03/2024

A tremendous ensemble performance here at London's Gillian Lynne Theatre - accessible shows are on the menu too! More info here:

A relaxing trip to the theatre starts before the show does.While Standing at the Sky’s Edge is an amazing ensemble piece of theatre (of which much more in a minute), we’d like to give a first round of applause for the brilliant front-of-house staff at London's Gillian Lynne Theatre.We were early...

20/03/2024

Aviation charity Aerobility are looking for trustees - could that be you?! More info on this great charity here:

Disabled aviation charity Aerobility is seeking new trustees to join the team and shape the organisation’s future development.The charity is currently looking for both a trustee and a trustee secretary to join the board to help steer the next 10-year vision for the charity.Aerobility changes lives...

20/03/2024

Don't miss this new documentary following the athletes, coaches and volunteers of Special Olympics Great Britain released by BBC Sport. 👀

A new sports documentary following the athletes, coaches and volunteers of Special Olympics Great Britain has been released globally by BBC Sport.‘Five Days in Folgaria’ tells the inside story of the SOGB’s first ever national Winter Games, which took place in northern Italy in January of this...

20/03/2024

We're at Naidex today and tomorrow, come and say hello to Allan & Millsy and enter our free subscription competition! 👋

19/03/2024

New courses launched to help swimming and tennis coaches boost the number of blind and partially sighted people participating in the sports

New courses have been launched to help swimming and tennis coaches play their role in boosting the number of blind and partially sighted people participating in the sports. Leading sight loss charity British Blind Sport has partnered with Swim England, the Lawn Tennis Association (LTA) and UK Coachi...

19/03/2024

Don't miss the reunion of these two radio legends this weekend in an accessible online show via Live to your Living Room! 👀

Twenty years on from the end of their BBC Radio 1 show, Mark Radcliffe and Marc Riley are to reunite for a one off accessible live show.The popular duo – known as ‘Mark and Lard’ – will reminisce about their time on the airwaves, share backstage stories and bring back some of their famous ca...

18/03/2024

A new photography exhibition invites blind, partially sighted and sighted visitors to experience photography in a new, accessible and immersive way

A photography exhibition that invites blind, partially sighted and sighted visitors to experience photography in a new, accessible and immersive way has been announced. Canon Europe’s ‘World Unseen’ exhibition will be held at Somerset House, London, between from April 5 to 7, in partnership wi...

15/03/2024

Sci-fi fans! Have you seen Dune Part Two yet? You can catch captioned screenings at the Barbican next week - more info here:

There will be a Captioned Screening - text description of significant sound effects as well as dialogue – of Dune: Part Two at London’s Barbican next Tuesday (19) and Wednesday (20).The second instalment of Denis Villeneuve's adaptation of the epic 1965 sci-fi novel starring Timothée Chalamet, ...

14/03/2024

Want to be a part of the UK's biggest ever disability exercise class?! It's all happening at Naidex next week, here's how you can get involved (even if you're staying home!) 😊

An attempt to hold the largest disability exercise class ever held in the UK will take place at Naidex. With just one week to go until this year’s high-profile event for the disabled community, preparations are being finalised to run the largest online live adapted exercise class from the NEC in B...

14/03/2024

Disabled Londoners get a kickstart to a career in inclusive design and access-related roles thank to a funding boost - details here:

Disabled Londoners will get a kickstart to a career in inclusive design and access-related roles thanks to a £303,000 funding boost.The funding, from City Bridge Foundation, will support the work of Pathways Academy, run by the Centre for Accessible Environments (CAE), to train and support disabled...

13/03/2024

Romeo & Juliet meets Hip-Hop? It's all going down at the Polka Theatre in Wimbledon 👀

A remixed tale of the star-crossed lovers Romeo and Juliet is being staged at one of the leading venues for children’s theatre in the UK.Polka Theatre and Beats & Elements present a fresh version of Shakespeare’s most famous story, re-told through rap and rhythms. It’s 'Romeo and Juliet', but ...

12/03/2024

Ali Adepitan backs Spain as holiday destination for the disabled

Popular television presenter Ade Adepitan is probably the last person you would reckon on bumping into on a holiday in Spain. But the chance of doing so has increased after the former Paralympic wheelchair basketball player was announced as the official ambassador for ‘Spain for All’, a campaign...