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 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 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 [...]
Listen Michael Abbott recently won the 2012 On the Move photography competition for those aged over 18. Our roaming reporter, Zubee, spoke to him about his winning shot, ‘Gold Maybe Silver’, taken at the men’s Olympic C2 canoe slalom event, at the Lee Valley White Water Centre. Please, can you tell DH readers a bit [...]
Listen Have you been watching The Secret Millions on Channel 4? If you tuned in on Sunday 24th March, you would have seen charity Papworth Trust win £2 million from the Big Lottery Fund! Here we speak to David Martin, from the charity, to find out how it all happened. Winning the £2 million on The Secret Millions [...]
Listen Many would agree that the right care can transform your life. That’s why we’ve spoken to Ann Macfarlane (OBE), who is an independant living consultant and disability rights campaigner, for her tips on getting the best care for you. I have needed care and support all my life. It’s taken me a long time to understand how [...]
Listen Jewel Michelle Kats is a writer who has transformed her quick whited stories into a comic strip of her life. Check it out… I recently created a comic strip and, it also happens to be about (GASP!) my life! Yes, a reality series. So, who in her right mind would subject herself to this? [...]
Listen We’ve teamed up with the tour guides at the Houses of Parliament to offer a lucky Disability Horizons reader 2 tickets (plus any needed for PAs or carers) for… absolutely free! UPDATE! This competition is now closed and we have a winner: Liz Sheppard (@wheelieels). I hope you look forward to reading about her [...]
Listen Co-editor Martyn Sibley has been volunteering in Spain again for the last couple of months. Working as ever to make a change for disabled people, Martyn tells us about his recent ups, downs and how you too can make a difference. This article is going to touch on quite a few points, so brace [...]
Listen After breaking his neck in 2005, James Taylor became determined to turn his new accessible, but hospital-style home, into something practical… but at the same time chic and homely. There are 4.8 million small enterprise entrepreneurs in the UK, but how many of these business leaders are disabled? Currently 6.9 million people of working [...]
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