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2018 PyeongChang Winter Paralympics- Team GB Takes Another Silver

Britain's Menna Fitzpatrick and guide Jen Kehoe have taken Silver in the women's visually impaired super combined event. Despite a tremend…

Started by Oliver Hughes

0 Mar 13, 2018

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PyeongChang 2018: A Guide to Para Snowboarding

With just over a month to go, the start of the PyeongChang Winter Paralympics 2018 is fast approaching. With speed in mind, the Paralympics…

Started by Oliver Hughes

0 Feb 6, 2018

Welcome to the Tokyo Blade Library - you'd better run!

Okay so the term “blade library” is perhaps a little misleading as it conjures up images of a dusty old building where Jason Voorhees brows…

Started by Paul Richoux

0 Oct 26, 2017

Horse box hoist takes the pain out of mounting and dismounting for para riders

A one off bespoke solution for competitive para rider Jane Lishman looks set to turn into the next big thing in the world of disabled ridin…

Started by bespoken Team

0 Apr 20, 2016

Scottish golf course becomes first in the country to offer specially designed wheelchair free to disabled golfers

Blackwood tenant Peter McWilliams and myself were privileged to be invited to the official launch of the Paragolfer at Mearns Castle Golf A…

Started by Paul Richoux

0 Apr 19, 2016

Disability and fitness; why do they still appear so far removed to so many?

When Kris Saunders-Stowe met the Australian Paralympic team, his life changed completely. He underwent something of an epiphany that has go…

Started by Ainara Carmona

0 Nov 24, 2015

Physiotherapy to become more widely accessible thanks to researchers at Glasgow University

Researchers from the University of Glasgow are developing a simple and easy to use website to enable and encourage people who have Multiple…

Started by bespoken Team

0 Oct 1, 2015

The Will to Survive: A Conversation with Jamie Andrew

In a quiet Edinburgh coffee shop on a Thursday afternoon Jamie Andrew looks out into the damp sky and is briefly thousands of miles away a…

Started by Kenneth Hogg

0 Jul 14, 2015

Phoenix flying high with Blackwood support under their wings

Wheelchair basketball is an unfamiliar sport for many, present writer included.   But like many sports it became quickly apparent that it w…

Started by Suhayl A

0 May 5, 2015

Wheelchair hiking guide by an expert!

A couple of weeks ago one of our members who follows us on Facebook sent through the following. Darren Heaton's a wheelchair user and avid…

Started by Paul Richoux

1 Nov 25, 2014
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