Disability Horizons

Listen Makin’ Tracks is an independent, family-run business offering overseas tours to wheelchair users. Here they tell Disability Horizons about excursions around Bavaria. If you read our first article about our trip to Bavaria, then you might be wondering where we chose to take the group on excursions around the country… The Danube The celebrated [...]

Listen Young People For Inclusion (YPFI) recently headed to Camden Market and the nearby Regent’s Canal to test out the areas’ accessibility. Here’s what they found! Camden is a vibrant, lively area of the capital City of London, full of exciting things to do and places to visit. Perhaps the most well known attraction is [...]

Listen New Disability Horizons contributor, Emily Alecock, is a photographer specialising in the positive promotion of disability. She tells us how she hopes her work will change people’s perceptions of disability. Hi, I’m Emily, a photography student currently in my last year at University of Derby. I first decided to specialise in disability promotion when [...]

Listen Regular Disability Horizons contributor, Sarah Ismail, tells us her thoughts on new book “God’s Rich Pattern”, and how she was inspired by one woman’s story. God’s Rich Pattern by Lin Berwick is a love story on many different levels. It’s a story first of the love between a disabled child and her parents, then [...]

Listen John Pring, who runs the Disability News Service, publishes his weekly news round-up of the happenings in the disability world the past week. • The government has been defeated by peers again on its welfare reform bill, this time over a proposal that was set to punish disabled people in social housing who have spare [...]

Listen Makin’ Tracks is an independent, family-run business offering overseas tours to wheelchair users. Here they tell Disability Horizons about their first trip to Bavaria. Our tours are all about discovery and enabling people to connect with the country we are visiting. After three decades spent exploring Europe, on behalf of groups of wheelchair users, [...]

Listen Disability Horizons contributor, Margo Milne, discusses the effect temporary disability can have on people when it comes to treating others with a disability.  Imagine you were born perfectly fit and able-bodied. As a teenager, you suddenly became severely physically disabled, but then you became able-bodied again. How would that affect your attitudes to disability [...]

Listen Disabled artist, Jason Wilsher-Mills, tells Disability Horizons how the Apple iPad helped him to rediscover art and use it as a way to express himself. My name is Jason Wilsher-Mills and I am a 42-year-old disabled digital artist. After having to leave full time work in 2010, due to my disability and illness, I [...]

Listen SHAPE is a disability-led arts organisation working to improve access to the arts for disabled people. They’re currently calling for artists to join the Shape Open Exhibition 2012, where people can showcase artwork around the subject of disability. Based in Camden, north London, Shape works locally and nationally, promoting excellence in the work of [...]

Listen John Pring, who runs the Disability News Service, publishes his weekly news round-up of the happenings in the disability world the past week. • Coalition MPs who play leading roles in disability-related parliamentary groups – but still voted to slash disabled people’s benefits – have been accused of hypocrisy. • Disabled peers believe they could still [...]