Disability Horizons

Listen Thinking of going on a short break this bank holiday weekend? Carrie-Ann, from Tourism for All UK, tells Disability Horizons about the new OpenBritain website, which aims to give disabled travellers all the information they need in one place. It has long been the dream of the charity I work for, Tourism for All [...]

Listen John Pring, who provides us with our weekly news round-up, has created The List, a breakdown of influential disabled people in modern Britain. And guess who features on the list… dynamic duo and Disability Horizons Co-editors, Martyn Sibely and Srin Madipalli! Here’s how John devised The List. How do you decide whether Baroness [Jane] [...]

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. A councillor who won re-election despite having to apologise for suggesting disabled children should be “put down” to save money has told Disability News Service he believes there is a good [...]

Listen In the event of an injury or an accident, it can be difficult to know where to turn for help and advice. Knowing which avenues are available to you during your recovery and rehabilitation means that you can focus on yourself and your health, rather than stressing about where you can go to get [...]

Listen Did you watch the new Channel 4 documentary Sex on Wheels? Laura Chapman, a freelance writer and wheelchair user, gives her views on the new TV show. You can’t help wondering just what is in store for you when you settle down to watch Sex on Wheels… a documentary focusing on the sexual lives [...]

Listen Love the outdoors and love horses? Then you’ll love Pony Access – a system designed by Simon Mulholland to allow disabled people to enjoy the rugged outdoors with the help of horses. Pony Access was definitely an accident. Thirteen years ago I decided to build a safe one-man vehicle so I could exercise my children’s [...]

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. • A disabled former prisoner is suing the government for hundreds of thousands of pounds for what he says was the failure of five different prisons to provide him with the [...]

Listen Disability Horizons has always been about you, our community of readers, passionate about living life and sharing your experiences. With this is mind, Co-editor Martyn Sibley shares a recent blog post about how your stories shape Disability Horizons, inspire our readers, and empower disabled people. For those who’ve followed my blog during the past [...]

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. • A disabled peer who defeated government plans to restrict the remit of the Equality and Human Rights Commission has praised the support she received from across the equality and human [...]

Listen Paula Moulton is an international award-winning wheelchair dancer from Manchester, UK, who represents one half of the dance partnership called Strictly Wheels. Paula shares with Disability Horizons the story of her amazing journey to date and how you can get involved in wheelchair dancing. It was almost 20 years ago when I had pneumonia [...]