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Helping Disabled people find accessible places and add access info worldwide. 20,000+ UK venues. Download the free Sociability app!
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Why are wheelchair users travelling on the road instead of the pavement? 👀 Spoiler alert: it’s not because we enjoy playing chicken with traffic. The reality is that inaccessible pavements sometimes leave us with no other choice. Missing dropped kerbs, uneven pavements, narrow paths, parked cars blocking access... the list goes on! And while some wheelchair users can navigate certain kerbs, for many of us, especially those using power wheelchairs, it’s simply not possible. Trust us, we’d much rather be on the pavement than sharing the road with cars! So next time you see a wheelchair user travelling on the road, instead of asking why they’re not using the pavement, ask why the pavement isn’t accessible in the first place. ♿ ️ Have you ever noticed how many dropped kerbs are missing or blocked in your local area? #WheelchairAccessibility #AccessibleStreets #WheelchairUsers #DisabilityAwareness #Sociability
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Imagine being forced into the ROAD because someone couldn’t be bothered to park properly… ♿️🚨 Please SHARE and tag @lime to help get their attention! ‼️ That’s exactly what happened to me in London. 🥲 One badly parked rental scooter completely blocked the pavement, leaving me no choice but to turn around, find a dropped kerb and wheel along the road just to continue my journey. I don’t think people do this intentionally, but I DO think we need to start thinking about how our everyday choices affect Disabled people. So I left one of @sociabilityapp #ClearTheKerb stickers as a little reminder! 🧡 Should @lime be doing more to stop this happening? 👀 what’s your experiences with this? Let me know in the comments! #AccessibleTransport #LondonLife #LimeBikes #AccessForAll
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Getting the train as a wheelchair user can feel daunting if you’ve never done it before 🚆♿️ From booking Passenger Assistance to boarding the train and getting off at your destination, here are some tips to help you feel more confident when travelling. Every station and journey can be different, so knowing what to expect can make all the difference. Was this helpful? Do you have any other tips for getting the train as a wheelchair user? Share them in the comments so we can help each other travel with more confidence! 👇 #Sociability #WheelchairUsers #AccessibleTransport #AccessibleTravel #DisabledCommunity
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Come to Camden with me as a wheelchair user! Fun but not fun! #accessibility #sociability #disabled #disabledinlondon #camden
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A Friday night very well spent. 🥂♿️💜 After what has been a rather intense few weeks, it was genuinely lovely to finish this one surrounded by friends at the Sociability party in London. @sociabilityapp Sociability has become one of those spaces where disability, accessibility and community don’t need lengthy explanations — you can simply turn up, be yourself, catch up with people doing brilliant things and, apparently in my case, immediately start test-driving somebody else’s powerchair. 😂 (thankyou, darling @georginagrogan_ I commandeered yours for all of 5 minutes🫶🏽) Mum joined me for the evening too, and we had such a wonderful time catching up with @georginagrogan_ , @rowan_sociabilit, @robynsedwell, @mattpierri, @wheelie_good_life and so many familiar faces, alongside meeting some new ones. There’s something particularly special about being in a room full of disabled people, allies, innovators and friends who aren’t simply talking about inclusion, but actively building it into the world around us. Thank you to the wonderful Sociability family for having us, for the laughs (I told you all, once I knelt, i couldn’t get up! Thanks to @sarahwtooke and @robynsedwell for helping me on those occasions), the drinks, the conversations and the very warm invite & welcome as always. And a particular thank you to Matt for staying with us until our taxi finally arrived at midnight. one of those small acts of kindness that means rather a lot. 💜 (and I promise, I promise… I was fully ‘sober’. I blame @rowan_sociability 😂 At least I helped to try and hit the bar tab LOL) After the week we’ve had, I think Mum and I needed this one. As my saying goes, Visibility Equals Validity. ♿️ I truly love you all. I tried to get as many pics in as possible, I’m sorry if I missed any of you. Happiest of birthdays to you, Sociability. Here’s to the next one. (I did sharpen and tweak a few, I admit the first had a lil help from ai because i didn’t get a Sociability backdrop pic. I hope I’m forgiven 🫶🏽) {Description: Djed - Pronounced ‘Jed’, a disabled mixed race larger build male} #Sociability #DisabilityCommunity #Accessibility #DisabilityAdvocacy #DisabledAndProud
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Happy 6th birthday @sociabilityapp! I am crap at remembering to take photos so I have stolen the first from @georginagrogan_ taken by @mialainchbury 's lovely mum 💕 I love this community so much, and so I am overwhelmed by the love and appreciation I receive back from them. It really was an honour to be recognised in this way with such kind words and cool merch 😎 This has been such a tough year for me, but it always cheers me to catch up with them all. I'd been following Sociability for a while before I had the confidence to turn up to one of their community days, and now they can't get rid of me. This is one of the few places where I can answer "how are you?" completely honestly. I never realised how much I needed this. If you're like me a couple of years ago, wishing you had Disabled friends but not really knowing where to start, please join us. You will be so welcome. Don't forget, download the app to find detailed accessibility information for yourself, or your friends and family with access needs! There's been lots of exciting new features added this year to make it even easier to explore with confidence. Image description: 1. Three wheelchair users posing together in the street at night outside the Sociability office. On the left is Mia, a white woman with curly blonde hair wearing a bright pink strapless jumpsuit. In the centre is Georgina, a white woman with reddish purple hair in glamorous curls wearing a long, teal-green dress. On the right is Sarah, a white woman with blonde hair tied back, wearing a black and white cow print dress. All three are smiling. 2. an open card signed by lots of names from the Sociability team. The message reads: To Sarah, Thank you for being such a Sociability Superstar, we really appreciate the ongoing support! Lots of love, The Sociability Team. 3. A hand holding up a Sociability branded travel coffee cup. Three wheelchair users posing together in the street at night outside the Sociability office. On the left is Mia, a white woman with curly blonde hair wearing a bright pink strapless jumpsuit. In the centre is Georgina, a white woman with reddish purple hair in glamorous curls wearing a long, teal-green dress. On the right is Sarah, a white woman with blonde hair tied back, wearing a black and white cow print dress. All three are smiling.
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It was an honour to celebrate @sociabilityapp 6th birthday with the team, friends & family 🍰🥂 Sociability is a brilliant app designed to help Disabled people find accessible cafés, bars & restaurants. It is more than a data base. Sociability is a movement. Empowering us through community events and transparent clear accessibility information on many venues across the UK 💖🥂 It was also fabulous to FINALLY meet @georginagrogan_ after around 12 years of following each other ✨ 👓: @specsavers 👕: @desigual Skirt: @slazenger1881 👟: @koifootwear 🎃: @collectiflondon @collectifvintage Thank you @beekatyal for the fab first photo on this post! 💖🥂 #Sociabilityapp #DisabilityAdvocate #ChronicIllnessCommunity #dynamicdisability #londonnightlife
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I had the best time at the @sociabilityapp 6th Birthday Party! It was so good to finally meet some online friends, and to make some new ones! Sociability as a whole is such an important project, telling us all the access information for cafés and businesses etc, I’m so grateful to have been invited 🫶🏼🫶🏼 #DisabilityAwareness #DisabilityAdvocate #DisabilityAdvocacy #ChronicIllnessAwareness #ChronicIllnessCommunity
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♿Passenger Assistance♿ by Sarah Tooke I'm going to the @sociabilityapp birthday party tomorrow, which means it's a year since I wrote this poem about an eventful journey into London.  You might think the events described in this poem are exaggerated, or combined from a number of different journeys. Nope, they genuinely all happened, on a single journey from Hitchin to Hackney. This is also the only time I have successfully boarded a London bus, having had drivers refuse to even open the door because they don't want to ask people to move from the wheelchair space (as they are legally required to do). The tube network is mostly inaccessible to me, so I mostly stick to trains, the Lizzie line and black cabs. Which obviously gets expensive. Non-disabled friends, next time you're planning a journey by public transport, please humour me and pop on the "wheelchair accessible" filter on Google maps. Then imagine you also have some people saying weird shit to you en route. Then imagine that you're not able to move from the spot you're stuck in when they're saying that weird shit.  HOWEVER... getting to meet up with a community of people that truly understand what that's like makes it worth it.  EVERYONE DESERVES TO HAVE FUN 💖 Visual description: Sarah, a white woman with blonde hair and a tropical patterned shirt is speaking directly to camera against a dark green wall.  #NationalPoetryDay
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The kerb is really steap, even the dropped part and there was not enough space with where the railings where. Bright side I got to use a sticker. You can get the stickers free from #clearthekerb
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NAIDEX Roadshow South 2026 💜♿️ As a public figure, multi-award winner and disability advocate with a rapidly growing national platform, there’s something I take increasingly seriously: never allowing recognition to create distance between me and the people I represent. Awards, stages, titles and opportunities are extraordinary privileges, but behind them I’m still Djed! A disabled person, a son and a family carer. If somebody sees me at an event, I never want them thinking they cannot come over and say hello, share their story, laugh with me or have a conversation and picture. A recent message from a mother who told me that my work had positively impacted her family and that she would be honoured for me to speak with them about what I do. That really brought it home. Having a platform means very little to me unless people can still feel part of it. I had the pleasure of meeting @adeadepitan and his wife, @sofunny_joshua who declared me as a friend, so there’s no escaping me now! 😂 | kind Gem Hubbard from @wheelsnoheels_ the incredible Nick @disabled.adventurer (Disabled Adventurer) and lovely @maddytalksmoney 🙌🏽 I caught up with my friend @joelthetinygiant , and my beloved SociAbility family, @sociabilityapp , alongside so many brilliant disabled people, families, advocates and organisations. There were also some very exciting conversations with the NAIDEX team about potential involvement as we head towards 2027… 👀💜 And through all of it were Mum and Nan. Three generations experiencing the day together. For somebody whose advocacy is rooted in disability, caring and family, having them beside me mattered enormously. From Birmingham earlier this year to Farnborough this week, this relationship with NAIDEX and its community keeps growing. Whether I’m introduced as Djed Khan-Warsop, AMRSPH, Founder & Director of National Mobility Scooter Day, or somebody simply comes over and says “Djed!” - I hope there will always be room for both. Same community. Bigger conversations. Brighter futures. 💜 See you again soon - 2027, NAIDEX… 😉 @naidex_show
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Who gets priority on the bus: wheelchair users or parents with buggies? 🚌♿️ Before the comments start… no, I’m not saying parents with buggies should automatically be kicked off the bus ❌ What I am saying is that the wheelchair space exists so wheelchair users can actually travel. It’s a priority space for a reason - and it’s also important to remember that it may be needed by Disabled children in buggies, Disabled parents, and others who genuinely need that accessible space. And so often, there actually is room for us to share 🤷🏽‍♀️ The frustrating part is when a wheelchair user is left at the bus stop without anyone even having the conversation. Could the buggy move slightly? Could we fit side by side? Could it be folded? Is there another way of arranging the space so everyone can travel? The answer shouldn’t immediately be: “There’s a buggy there, you’ll have to wait for the next bus.” Especially when the next bus might have exactly the same problem🤦🏽‍♀️ Accessible transport exists because Disabled people fought for the right to use public transport too. We’re not asking to make life harder for parents - we’re asking people to work with us, rather than access automatically being the thing that gets sacrificed. And if you’re non-Disabled and you see this happening, please speak up. Disabled people shouldn’t always have to be the ones fighting for our own access. Have you experienced this from either side? Let me know your experiences in the comments 💬👇 #AccessibleTransport #Accessibility #WheelchairUsers #DisabilityAwareness Sociability
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