Let's Bake Some Scones, Millie Knight's Paralympic Dreams, Making Friends, & More!

Time for a new Happy Hour, as always hosted by Life of a Blind Girl's Holly Tuke and RNIB Connect Radio's Paulina Kuchorew. 

This week, we’re finding out about Millie Knight's Paralympic Dreams, a kids' bedtime story that aims to inspire visually impaired children to keep active and follow their sporting dreams. 

RNIB Connect Radio's Allan Russell chats with Lucy Barrett from Energise Leisure Centre to find out how a free toolkit for the leisure industry from Thomas Pocklington Trust and UK Coaching, is helping make places like gyms and leisure centres more accessible for blind and partially sighted visitors.

Paulina is joined by blind Pastry Chef Amun Chawla for a lovely scone bake along. We'll pop the recipe at the bottom, so if you'd like to bake along with them, you can! 

And finally, Toby Davey finds out about Sightline's one to one telephone befriending service for blind and partially sighted people.

Flour  450g 

Sugar 100g

Butter 100g 

Eggs  1

Milk   150g 

Baking powder 15g

Dryer fruit of your choice nuts or chocolate drops 

Set your oven to 180 degrees Celsius.

Place all dry ingredients into a bowl 

Add the butter (room temp) and with your fingers rub together until all the butter is mixed in.

Next mix the egg and milk together and mix into-your dry mix to form a dough 

Add this stage when your dough is ready split the dough in half and add your dried fruits nuts or chocolate drips 

Roll the dough out to about 2 fingers thick. Using a round floured cutter cut out your scones and place onto a baking tray with parchment paper on. Egg wash using a whole egg and milk.

Bake for 15-18 mins until golden brown. 

Hear Millie Knight's Paralympic Dreams here: Millie Knight’s Paralympic Dreams – Beijing 2022 | Dreams Beds - YouTube

Let Amun know how your scones turned out by following him on Instagram @amunchawla 

Find out more about Sightline here: Home - Sightline

For more information about TPT's free toolkit for the leisure industry here: http://www.pocklington-trust.org.uk/ 

And finally, send in your music therapy choices here: radio@rnib.org.uk. 

The Happy Hour Podcast is our trimmed down version of this hour-long show, so if you'd like to listen to the full show with all the amazing songs featured, catch a new episode of the Happy Hour on RNIB Connect Radio Mondays at 1 PM, with a repeat Thursday at 6 PM and Sunday at 10 am.

Image shows Amun's fruit scones.