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Seema Flower, founder of Blind Ambition, at the Barclays Entrepreneur Awards 2026 as a finalist in the Breaking Barriers Award category

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Seema Flower Named Finalist at Barclays Entrepreneur Awards 2026 — Why Recognition Matters for a Blind-Led Business

On the evening of 5 November 2026, Seema Flower attended the Barclays Entrepreneur Awards 2026 as a finalist in the Breaking Barriers Award, sponsored by Barclaycard Payments. Blind Ambition was named alongside seven other businesses working to dismantle barriers across communities and industries. For a behaviour-change consultancy founded and led

Content Team 6 November 2026

A blind man wearing Meta AI smart glasses standing outdoors in Scotland, holding a white cane, looking confident and engaged with his surroundings.

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Meta AI Glasses and Blind Users: A Game-Changer With Eyes Wide Open

When the BBC wanted to understand what Meta’s AI-powered glasses actually mean for blind and partially sighted people in their daily lives, they turned to real users — including Gordon and others from Blind Ambition’s community WhatsApp groups based in Scotland. The resulting BBC News article captures something important: this

Content Team 17 October 2026

A diverse group of people including a white cane user gathered outdoors for World Sight Day 2026, with a #LoveYourEyes banner in the background

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World Sight Day 2026: What Behaviour Change Has to Do With Eye Care for All

World Sight Day is observed every year on the second Thursday of October. This year — 8 October 2026 — the global campaign #LoveYourEyes, coordinated by the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB) and the World Health Organization (WHO), is calling on individuals, communities and governments to make

Content Team 8 October 2026

Seema Flower, Founder of Blind Ambition,Woman holding a white cane beside the LCRIG Strictly Highways 2026 conference backdrop.

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Seema Flower Wins Outstanding Contribution Award at the DfT Special Recognition Awards

On 7 October 2026, Seema Flower, Founder and Managing Director of Blind Ambition, was presented with the Outstanding Contribution Award at the Department for Transport Special Recognition Awards, held at Strictly Highways in Blackpool. The award, supported by LCRIG, recognises an individual who has made a lasting difference to the

Content Team 8 October 2026

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Meta’s speech-only glasses and Muse AI: what it means for blind and partially sighted people

Meta’s camera-free audio glasses and Muse AI promise voice-first independence. What do they mean for blind and partially sighted people in the UK?

Content Team 25 September 2026

Seema with a Waymo driverless car in London

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Freedom on Four Wheels: What Driverless Cars Could Mean for Blind and Partially Sighted People

By Seema Flower, Founder and Managing Director, Blind Ambition I grew up around cars. My father worked in the motor trade, and from a young age the smell of a garage and the sound of an engine turning over felt like home. Like a lot of children, I dreamed of

Content Team 15 July 2026

Stack of PIP claim forms struck by a beam of light, scattering documents — symbolising the broken benefits system and its impact on blind and partially sighted people.

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PIP Is Not Fit for Purpose — And That Has Real Consequences for Blind and Partially Sighted People

The interim Timms review, published on 9 July 2026, has confirmed what blind and partially sighted people and disability organisations have been saying for years: Personal Independence Payment is not working. Sir Stephen Timms, the disability minister leading the review, told the BBC the system is “not fit for purpose”

Content Team 9 July 2026

Long cane and magnifying glass beside a fashion mannequin in a warmly lit retail store with tactile floor strips, representing accessible shopping for blind and partially sighted people.

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What John Lewis Got Right — And How Your Store Can Do the Same

John Lewis Oxford Street has launched a VIP Sight Guided Shopping Service for blind and partially sighted customers — offering one-to-one support from trained Partners, product descriptions, sighted guide assistance, fitting room help and more. It’s a concrete, operational step forward. And it raises a straightforward question for every other

Content Team 18 June 2026

A blind or partially sighted person at a desk with a braille display and laptop, facing a complex online government form — representing the inaccessibility of the Access to Work application process.

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Access to Work Is Failing the People It Was Built to Serve — and It Has a Direct Human Cost

In June 2026, the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) published a damning report on the DWP’s administration of the Access to Work scheme. The findings are stark: a backlog of 66,000 cases, average processing times of 106 working days against a 25-day target, and an application process so inaccessible that some

Content Team 13 June 2026