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Speaker • Presenter • Disabled Adventurer • Veteran

Nick Wilson

I’m Nick Wilson, also known as the Disabled Adventurer. I’m an Army veteran, speaker, influencer and wheelchair user using lived experience, challenge and storytelling to push for better access, inclusion and understanding.

After 14 years in the British Army, including deployments to Northern Ireland, Kosovo, Iraq and Afghanistan, I was medically discharged with a spinal injury and PTSD. What followed was not an inspiring comeback story. It was chronic pain, serious mental health struggles, suicide attempts, homelessness and a long stretch of trying to work out whether life was going to get better.

Since 2020, I’ve rebuilt my life with purpose and become a leading advocate for disability inclusion and mental health, raising more than £125,000 for charities along the way.

followers across social platforms

raised for charities

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National media coverage

across TV, press and digital
Where the mission began

How the Disabled Adventurer started

When my mobility declined and I needed a powerchair, I had a choice. I could see it as the end of freedom, or I could treat it as a new way to get moving again. I chose the second option.
That decision changed everything. What started as me trying to stay alive, stay sane and stay useful became The Disabled Adventurer. Since then, I’ve taken on challenges that have helped change the conversation around disability, access and adventure.

That includes becoming the first person to achieve a solo ascent of Yr Wyddfa using an allterrain power wheelchair prototype, completing 96km of the Ridgeway Trail in a powerchair, and cycling 385 miles from Margate to Land’s End on a recumbent trike.

My work has been featured by BBC News, ITV, GB News and recognised through national award How I create change The work I do and services I offer I use my voice, my platform and my experience to start honest conversations, challenge the nonsense and help create practical change where it matters. The reason behind the mission shortlists for accessibility, advocacy and community impact.

How I create change

The work I do and services I offer

I use my voice, my platform and my experience to start honest conversations, challenge the nonsense and help create practical change where it matters.

Speaker and Presenter

I work with brands and organisations that want more honest conversations around disability, mental health, access and resilience. My style is honest, human and direct. No waffle, no performance, no pretending life wraps itself up nicely in the final five minutes.

Influencer

As an influencer and content creator, I make films and digital content around disability, accessibility and adventure. Several of those videos have gone viral, reaching tens of millions of views and helping bring these conversations to far bigger audiences.

Advocate and Founder

As an advocate and founder, I’ve supported hundreds of men through Talk Mental Health CIC, raised more than £125,000 for charities, and kept building projects that deliver practical, real-world change rather than stopping at awareness alone.

Charity Work

Through Access Outdoors CIC, my focus is on making outdoor adventure genuinely accessible, by working with councils, businesses and innovators to create better opportunities for disabled people to get outside and experience adventure for themselves.

Adventures

Through the adventures I take on, including 50 at 50 (a campaign of 50km challenges to celebrate my 50th birthday) I raise awareness, challenge assumptions and show what is possible when disabled people have the right support, equipment and opportunity to take part.

The reason behind the mission

Why this matters to me

My mission is simple. Disabled people should not be treated as spectators in life, adventure or society. We should be in the thick of it.

That means championing accessible adventure, better representation, mental health awareness, suicide prevention, veteran support and innovation in mobility technology. It means challenging poor access, calling out lazy thinking and showing what is possible.

I know what it feels like to think your world is shrinking. I also know how powerful it is when somebody helps you see that it does not have to end there. That is why this matters to me. Everything I do comes back to that.

If my work helps someone feel less alone, pushes people to take access seriously, or gives another disabled person the belief that adventure and purpose are still theirs for the taking, then it means something.

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Follow my journey across social media

Follow along for adventures, advocacy, honest conversations and the occasional muddy situation.
Let’s do something with real impact

Work with me

Whether I’m on stage, behind the camera or out on a campaign, the aim is always the same: to spark honest conversations, challenge assumptions and create real-world impact.

If you’d like to book me for speaking, collaborate on a campaign, create content, support an adventure or help turn access into action, I’d love to hear from you.

Work with me

Get involved

Help me make the outdoors accessible for all

Everything I do is about making adventure more accessible, challenging outdated assumptions and showing that disabled people can get outdoors too. Your support helps bring that life, whether that is by funding adaptive equipment, backing future expeditions or helping create opportunities for disabled people and wounded veterans to get outside and experience adventure.

If you want to back the mission, a donation is a direct way to help. Every contribution goes towards the adventures, the equipment and the work behind them, helping remove barriers and create more opportunities for disabled people to get outdoors.

Donate today

If you are a brand, business or organisation, sponsoring my work is a chance to align with a campaign that has real visibility and purpose. It puts your name behind bold adventures, powerful storytelling and a mission that is pushing for better access and inclusion in the outdoors.

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