#ThursdayThoughts Today’s is Thursday and that means it's the start of our #ThursdayThoughts series where we share a thought on disability, equality or accessibility. Today’s thought focusses on the need to implement and enforce the Equality Act 2010.  This Act makes it unlawful to discriminate against people [...]

Out-of-town Developments: Are they a more accessible option for disabled people? Having read with interest a recent report on BBC News about Out-of-town developments affecting town centre trade we write today with some thoughts on the debate between out-of-town shopping developments versus the traditional town centres. An [...]

Disability Simulation - An insight into disability or a patronising activity? A disability simulation is any activity designed to give participants a sense of what it is like to experience the issues someone with a health conditions encounter. Common disability simulations include: spending time in a wheelchair, [...]

International Day of Disabled Persons A Virtual Conference on Post COVID and the effects on Disabled People In 1992 the United Nations convened the annual International Day of Disabled People to be held annually on 3rd December.  This year’s day has a goal of spreading the awareness [...]

Anti–Bullying Week Monday 15th – Friday 19th November Anti–Bullying week is a week that most primary schools take part in, bullying strategies and education should be done as part of the curriculum. Accessible Wales’ has been delivering Disability Awareness Training for over 10 years and primarily our [...]

Purple Tuesday – How could it help your business? We think it is important to make you aware of the initiative, Purple Tuesday, which will be taking place on 2nd November 2021.  The initiative is free for all organisations to take part and is focused around promoting [...]

Colourful Crossing, what are they? Some time ago, we looked in to running a ‘Pretty Pothole’ project through Accessible News, it would involve putting flowers in the potholes around the community. We were hoping it would have a number of benefits, firstly draw attention to how bad [...]

Global Access Awareness Day 2021 Yep, judging by the title of this post today is Global Accessibility Awareness Day and I thought it would be daft for us not to mention it. I’m not going to bore you with a long article about how important it is [...]

COVID-19 National Day of Reflection On 23rd March we will be turning the Social Media channels for both Accessible Wales and Accessible News yellow to reflect on the year that has passed since the national lockdown.   The last year has seen utter devastation unfold in ways [...]

Sober October Hello folks, for the last two years now I have fundraised for Macmillan Cancer Support by taking part in Sober October. I’m now in to my third year and am looking to raise as much money as possible for such a worthy cause.  In recent [...]