National inclusive sports event and festival Parallel Windsor is back and Living with Disability is proud to support this year’s event as a media partner. Whatever your level of fitness and mobility, Parallel Windsor’s flagship summer event has been specially designed for people to start together but finish whenever. You can join in and run, walk, wander, push or pull along Windsor Great Park’s stunning Long Mile in a truly inclusive event on Sunday, July 7. The leading antiperspirant brand, Sure, will continue its support for the event and, in partnership with Parallel, for a more inclu ..read more

A youngster born with 2% of his brain, giving doctors little hope for his future, this week performed at the Royal Albert Hall. Noah Wall (pictured above), now 12-years-old, took to the iconic stage with the ground-breaking music education charity for people with disabilities, The Music Man Project. No stranger to the spotlight Noah, from Cumbria, has appeared with the group at the London Palladium and now twice at the Royal Albert Hall. And he was greeted with rapturous applause from 5,000 people in the audience as he was presented with an award for ten years as a Music Man Project patr ..read more

Music from top quality artists, gig-quality sound and no queue at the bar became an online hit with audiences during the Covid-19 lockdowns.   Four years on and Live to Your Living Room is as popular as ever.   Launched by Cat McGill and fellow musician, producer and educator Pete Ord, Live to your Living Room delivers the very best of the folk, roots, and acoustic music scene live to your home.   Originally set-up as a means of providing professional musicians with a vital lifeline and viable income stream while venues were closed during lockdown, Live to Your Living Room tu ..read more

It took less than a minute from curtain up for the audience at ‘Seven Drunken Nights – The Story of the Dubliners’ to be clapping, whooping, and singing along to the music. Most didn’t stop until after the third encore and others would have been tapping their toes and humming in their heads all the way home. Yes, it was that good. Direct from a highly acclaimed run in London’s West End, this ultimate feel-good Irish show is on tour, with a hugely talented cast of musicians and singers bringing the music of iconic Irish folk group The Dubliners to life. The energy and passion of the music ..read more

TV presenter Chris Tarrant will host a night of bookies and betting in aid of a Berkshire disability charity.  Swings & Smiles will be holding its ‘Race Night in Bucklebury’ on May 17 to raise funds for play and respite resources for disabled children and their families.   Guests will bet on horses for eight different randomly selected races with the help of a professional race host. For the final race of the evening, guests will bid to become the owner of a horse. The lucky owner of the winning horse will take home a percentage of the total raised.   The face of th ..read more

The iconic heritage railway station at Ravenglass in Cumbria is the latest location for a Changing Places facility.   The new fully accessible state-of-the-art Changing Places toilet can be used not just by disabled visitors to the railway and museum, but also the public.   It’s designed specifically to cater to the needs of individuals who require more support and space than standard, and includes additional equipment such as a hoist, adult sized changing bench and space for carers.   A consortium of leading charitable organisations including Muscular Dystrophy UK, Age Conce ..read more

Elite global runner Ryan McGuire will take part in the TCS London Marathon this weekend to raise awareness of the charity Phab.   As the UK’s leading national charity in providing safe and fun activities for people with and without disabilities, Phab played a crucial role in finding a guide runner who would be able to keep up with Ryan.   Despite being on the Autistic Spectrum with delayed development, living with Apraxia, and having limited speaking abilities, Ryan is one of the world’s top athletes. He achieved an elite-level time of 2:52:57 during the Chicago Marathon in O ..read more

The Royal National College for the Blind (RNC) football team has won the National Blind Football League.   In a competitive season it went down to the final day of fixtures to decide the league winner.   The closing matches saw RNC beat Merseyside Blind and VI Football Club 4-1 and in a final nail-biting encounter West Bromwich Albion 1-0, when team captain Owen Bainbridge rose to the occasion to score the winning goal. The Royal National College for the Blind (RNC), located in Hereford, is the UK’s leading specialist residential further education and training provider f ..read more

A research group from the University of Birmingham needs volunteers with a spinal cord injury (SCI) for its latest home-based exercise project. The group’s research focusses on studying how home-based exercise can improve function and the quality of life of people after a SCI. Its latest project is investigating the effect of 8-week home-based arm cycling exercise on trunk/core function on individuals who have had SCI for longer than a year and a level of injury at T8 and above. The study will require three separate visits of three hours each to the University of Birmingham for assessmen ..read more

Congratulations to Amy Trigg who won the Best Actress in a Supporting Role In a Musical award at last night’s prestigious Olivier Awards. The actress won for her role as Agnes in ‘The Little Big Things’, a new musical that puts disability movingly and unapologetically centre stage. Based on the best-selling memoir by Henry Fraser, the musical is built around Henry’s life-changing accident on a lads’ beach holiday in Portugal in July 2009 that led to him being paralysed from the shoulders down, age 17. No longer a promising young teenage rugby player, Henry battles both physically and men ..read more