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 …
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 …
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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, and we made the final! Check us out alongside the other finalists here. Since its release last year, …
Good News Everyone! Exciting little announcement before I get into the main thrust of this latest blog entry: Towards the end of last year I was contacted by one of the founders of the website Feedspot. He informed me that my blog had been selected as one of the Top 30 Quadriplegic Blogs on the …
Disability is no barrier to determination as two entrepreneurs living with mobility issues have clearly shown. Last month wheelchair users Rob Smith, 36, who has a spinal injury, and Huw Thomas, 64, who has muscular dystrophy, were named joint winners of the Stelios Award for Disabled Entrepreneurs in the UK 2011, run by Sir Stelios …
After being a finalist in 2010 The Active Hands Company and company director Rob Smith have won the prestigious Disabled Entrepreneur Award 2011! Sponsored by Disability Charity Leonard Cheshire and easyJet owner Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou, the award ceremony took place in the Millennium Gloucester Hotel in London on Wednesday 14th Dec 2011. The award for …
(Article appeared in the Leamington Observer, 16th November 2010) A disabled entrepreneur from Leamington has been shortlisted for a prestigious business award for an invention which offers a helping hand. Rob Smith’s product allows disabled people to which allows disabled people with limited hand function to grip a wide variety of items, from gym equipment …
