The Christmas toys have been played with, the festive day trips are all ticked off and crucially, the money is all spent! So how do we keep the children occupied now?! January can feel approximately 478 days long! For many of us, the weather is pretty miserable too and us parents could do with some … Read more
2024 has been another awesomely busy year at Active Hands! Achievements, exhibitions, new colleagues, weddings, new products – this year has had it all and we can’t believe it’s nearly 2025! A Growing Team This year has seen us welcome Bev to our team at HQ. Bev has joined the Dispatch team and is responsible … Read more
Oliver lives in Manchester, UK and is the writer behind the blog, ‘The Tudors Make Me Tic’. We first ‘met’ Oliver when he tagged us in a Facebook post, reviewing many of our products that he has been using to support his Tourette’s. And his post taught us a whole new way of looking at … Read more
We’re delighted to be heading to the OT show 2024 later this month. We’ll be at the NEC, Birmingham (UK) on the 27th and 28th November. Come and meet our helpful team on stand H35. Try out our latest products, and ask us your questions! Check out our newest products at the OT Show 2024 … Read more
If someone told you that you need a bunch of fancy gym equipment to get in shape… they told you wrong. A lot of the time when I’m training clients in corporate ‘big box’ gyms, I only use fancy equipment simply because it is there and quite honestly, I know that my clients are paying … Read more
We’re a camper van family. We love camping and the kids are pretty great at long road trips. So once the summer holidays are here, we can generally be found packing up the van and heading off for an adventure. This year we had planned to go to France. With the Paralympics starting just before … Read more
Start with Part 1 of Does Paralympic Sport Benefit the Right Athletes. A Shift in Recruitment of Athletes Part 1 of this article mostly talked about classification within Para sport. In part 2, I focus more on trends within the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) in relation to medal event and athlete selection. I will be more critical … Read more
Paralympic Sport Origins Paralympic sport has come a long way from its humble beginnings at the Stoke Mandeville spinal cord injury unit in England just after the Second World War. This small sporting event, which at the time used competition between those with similar injuries to assist the rehabilitation of wheelchair users, is now a worldwide … Read more
The Rise of The Convenience Cubicle I, along with millions of others, recently spent the start of summer watching England claw their way through Euro 2024, only to fall at the final hurdle once again. I watched the final in my local pub which was packed to the rafters with fans going through the usual … Read more
Back in 2023 my training partner, Steve Montgomery, and I were in the US for the Kessler Foundation 10k race. While there, many of the other wheelchair racers we met recommended the Triple Crown series of races. These take place over a week or two at the start of July. We decided then that we … Read more
