Disability Horizons

Listen Welcome to Disability Horizons! We are the duo of Srin and Martyn and as co-editors we would like to introduce and welcome you to our new online magazine, Disability Horizons! In this first article of our first edition we wanted to share our reasons for starting Disability Horizons and what we aim to achieve [...]

Listen Ever thought of flying a plane? Disability Horizon’s co-editor Martyn “Top Gun” Sibley talks about his experience flying a specially adapted plane last summer. Having had some quite long, drawn out health problems two winters ago, I decided to plan something different, a little crazy and very exciting. I found the guys at The [...]

Listen As part of his travels around the world during his time off, Disability Horizons co-editor Srin Madipalli talks about the final leg of his trip to Singapore and Bali, where he was able to go scuba diving in the Bali Sea. I had just got back from California and I immediately got ready to [...]

Listen The current economic situation has created uncertain times for disabled people in the UK. Jamie Robertson from Scope, one of the UK’s leading disability charities speaks about the effects that the cuts to Disability Living Allowance will have, and how he intends to make his voice heard by joining a large march through London [...]

Listen Travelling with a disability is rarely straightforward and one may think that travelling with a disability to somewhere in Africa on a more adventurous holiday would just simply be impractical and impossible. Mike Hill from Botswana has every reason to argue otherwise. Mike founded a company called Endeavour Safaris who specialise in organising adapted [...]

Listen Sonshine Morris, an artist from Florida, USA shares with us a story about their personal experience with disability as a result of her husband’s injury and how it inspired her daughter Merry Lynn, a choreographer and dance teacher at the University of South Florida to help develop a hands-free wheelchair to allow people with [...]

Listen Recently Rupy Kaur, the NUS Disabled Students’ Officer took some time out of her busy schedule to talk to Disability Horizons. Rupy began by telling us that the NUS Disabled Students’ Campaign is the largest single organisation in the UK run by disabled students, for disabled students. “We work on the social model of [...]

Listen It is often said that the best job you can ever have is one that you create for yourself. We at Disability Horizons would like to introduce you to Andrew Bush who seems to prove that point. Andrew is a 29-year-old entrepreneur based in London who along with three others recently founded a company [...]

Listen In the current economic climate, unemployment is increasing and one may question the interest of recruiters to employ people with disabilities. Disability Horizons covers the work of Helen Cooke, Director and Founder of Disability Consultancy MyPlus, who recently organised an event in the City of London for disabled graduates interested in law. According to [...]