Scoliosis Awareness Month June 2021

Check Your Back – Check Your Child’s Back – The Access Card Team is delighted to be sharing this press release by Caroline Freedman, a Personal Trainer and TRX Sports Medicine Suspension Training exercise professional, to mark the start of Scoliosis Awareness Month 2021. – Caroline Freedman is a Personal Trainer and TRX Sports Medicine […]

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Live events fill calendars across the UK this summer

The ticket race is on for those summer-sizzlers – It’s the 3 little words we’ve been waiting to hear: Book.Tickets.Now! As the UK continues to work together to lift lockdown restrictions by June, festival-favourites have already been organised for a summer to remember. Access Card Holders can use their Access Cards to book accessible tickets […]

The Access Card – an Interview

Earlier in August, we took part in a live stream with Martyn Sibley to talk all about the Access Card Scheme. Here’s the clip if you ever wanted a more detailed overview into who we are, what we do and where we came from.

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Here at the Access Card team we have for a long time been committed to rolling out the use of the card as far and wide as possible and have, to date managed to do this successfully and quite organically by approaching decision-makers in key organisations. A prime example of this was the work we […]

Covid Shopping Experiences Survey

We have been receiving quite a lot of feedback through our social media channels about peoples experience of accessing shops and stores throughout the Covid situation. We would like to collate this in order to be able to feedback to the industry about the impact this has on disabled customers and the stores themselves to […]

Access Card ‘Names and Fames’ The Town Hall and Symphony Hall

Access Card ‘Names and Fames’ The Town Hall and Symphony Hall. These venue are ‘Named and Famed’. Visit our FAQs page to find out more. For more than 180 years, Town Hall has been a hub of civic and cultural life in Birmingham. Symphony Hall sits in the bustling heart of Birmingham City centre and […]

Join us at Naidex 2020!

We’re delighted to announce we’re renewing our partnership with Naidex! Europe’s most established event dedicated to the disability and independent living industries is returning to Birmingham’s NEC on the 9th & 10th November! With the addition of some brand-new features and the comeback of many beloved ones, we are ecstatic to attend the 46th edition […]

New Year, New ‘Named and Famed’ Provider!

We are pleased to welcome Loro Parque to our growing list of ‘Named and Famed’ Providers. This venue is ‘Named and Famed’. Visit our FAQs page to find out more. Loro Parque or ‘Loro Park’ is a 13.5-hectare zoo on the outskirts of Puerto de la Cruz on Tenerife, Spain where it houses an extensive […]

Martin Austin awarded MBE in Queen’s New Year Honours List

Martin Austin awarded MBE in Queen’s New Year Honours List Martin created Nimbus, a Derby-based Social Enterprise in 2006 as a way to generate additional income for the sister Charity Disability Direct and provide tailored Business-to-Business advice on the requirements of the Equality Act. Amo Raju, CEO of Disability Direct and Martins original line manager […]

Troxy recognises Access Card!

We are pleased to welcome Troxy to our growing list of Access Card Providers. Access Cards with +1 accepted as proof for a free companion ticket. Troxy is a Grade II-listed Art Deco music venue on Commercial Road in Stepney, London. Built as a cinema in 1933, it has been converted for modern use and […]