What an exciting week at Active Hands!
Our week started off in a fairly ordinary manner with the normal routine of dispatching your orders, posting on social media and whatever it is that Rob and Mel do as directors! However, we knew we had some excitement on the horizon as I had been contacted by the BBC to see if Active Hands ... Read more
Rob Smith recognised in the Shaw Trust Power 100 2018 awards
We are thrilled to be able to announce that our director, Rob Smith, has been awarded a place in the Shaw Trust Power 100 List: a list of the most influential people with a disability in the UK. Recognised for his contribution to business, as well as his sporting success, Rob enjoyed a night celebrating ... Read more
Finalists in the Blackwood Design Awards
If you’ve been keeping your ear to the ground you’ll probably know that we released our Limb Difference Aid in September 2017. This year, we entered our Limb Difference Aid into the Blackwood Design Awards competition, andwe made the final! Check us out alongside the other finalists here. Since its release last year, we’ve sold ... Read more
Active Hands Support Charity
For the last year we have been making donations for every Mini aid sold. Our Mini aids are designed for children with limited hand function, so we decided to make the donations to Back Up Trust Kids. Back Up works with children with spinal cord injuries. They provide wheelchair training, telephone support, and even courses ... Read more
The Great Active Hands Bake Off! (New product)
Getting to grips with cooking can be really challenging with reduced hand function – it can be hard to feel independent when it comes to making meals or enjoying baking. Earlier in the year, we set Nino, a quad/tetraplegic from Slovenia, the challenge of baking us something delicious, completely independently, using kitchen products from our ... Read more
‘Against All Odds’ – Active Hands featured on Unilad
Kate Farley, known as ‘Girl boxer with CP’, is one determined athlete. Keen to train hard and push her boundaries, Kate met with personal trainer, Matthew Furnell. She quickly showed an interest in boxing and together they adapted their workouts to develop her passion, with their eyes set firmly on the Paralympics. Kate uses a ... Read more
Reach for our latest product.
Always on the lookout for new, well-designed and high-quality solutions for those with reduced hand function, we were especially excited when we came across our latest product. Reaching and picking up items from the floor, or up high, can be really tricky when you have reduced hand function, and potentially reduced balance or core strength ... Read more
To Dubai and beyond
An EIGHT-hour flight, plus waits and transfers either side sure sounds like a long way… but for Rob and Clare, it sounds like their plans for the week! After months of tough training, our director Rob is due to compete in the Dubai marathon on Friday. He’s won the race a whopping FOUR times in ... Read more
New Limb Difference Gripping Aid Launches!
Squirrelling away in our office and factory, our team have been busy designing, testing and refining a brand new gripping aid and we are thrilled to now be able to present it to you. Alongside our gripping aids, we also run a bespoke design service for those with very individual needs and it was through ... Read more
BBC at the Active Hands office.
At the beginning of the year, Active Hands were excited to be contacted by BBC Business Online who had heard about our business and were interested in meeting us and finding out about the work we do, as a part of a larger theme they were researching on disabled people working in business. After a ... Read more