Taking steps to make your venue more accessible is beneficial to everyone – from shops trying to increase sales to attractions aiming to increase footfall; and from wheelchair users to young parents out and about with prams. Here are our top tips for making your venue as accessible to as many people as possible.
1. List your venue on Euan’s G...
Nominate your favourite accessible places for a Blue Badge Award!
Voting is open for the People’s Choice category in the Blue Badge Awards 2019! You can nominate your favourite venues, companies and people to be recognised for their exceptional work making the world a more accessible place.
What are the Blue Badge Awards?
The Blue Badge Access Awards is a global initiative that brings together two major desi...
With summer just around the corner, we’ve put together a selection of gardens, nature parks and trails that lend off-road mobility scooters to visitors! Popular with reviewers, off-road scooters are a great way for disabled people to enjoy the sights, sounds and fresh air of the countryside – why not try one of these places for your next adventu...
Nominations are open for The Movement for Good Awards! 500 charities will be getting donations of £1,000 to support their work. You can help us win an award by nominating us on Ecclesiastial’s website here: www. ecclesiastical. com/movementforgood
Our charity number for is: SC045492
Nominations are open until the Friday 17th of May. The more n...
5 accessible self-catering cottages for a summer break
Elderburn Lodges, St. Andrews
If you are going to explore Fife, St. Andrews a great place to start! Elderburn Lodges has a 5-star rating on Euan’s Guide for how spacious, clean and comfortable the accessible cottage is. A reviewer visited with a powerchair user had this to say: “We have already booked again for august this year so that te...
Locations: St. Andrews, Lymington, Cromer, Hambleton, Blackpool, Ballater
Downpatrick and County Down Railway
Downpatrick, Northern Ireland
This heritage railway links the village of Downpatrick to Inch Abbey 3 miles away. A team of volunteers operate steam locomotives on the line on certain days of the month with seasonal trains laid on for Easter, Halloween and Christmas. You can find out when the trains are runn...
There’s lots happening up and down the country both indoors and out! Here is a small selection from all the events happening this month:
HOME, Manchester – Friday 3rd
Richard III (Signed performance)
Tom Mothersdale (The Glass Menagerie; Cleansed; John) returns to Headlong to play Shakespeare’s iconic villain, in a revelatory new production dir...
Euan's Guide are pleased to work with VisitScotland on projects such as our Accessible Highlights series and will be launcing Travel Trade Accessible Scotland Itineries later this year.
The recent Visit Scotland Travel Trade Survey revealed that more than half of travel agents have reported an increase for accessible travel information. Our Ac...
Top tips for disabled access in hotels and other accommodation
Family holidays, weekend getaways, business trips and more; disabled people are an important market that all accommodation providers can be targeting with accessible booking systems, adapted rooms and most importantly, a warm welcome! Here are our top ten tips for making access easier in your hotel:
1. Share your disabled access information onl...
We're urging people to help us achieve a record-breaking safety campaign!
Euan's Guide calls on public to help make 100% of disabled toilets safer for World Toilet Day.
The disabled access charity Euan’s Guide is appealing to the general public to help it make disabled toilets safer. As featured on Radio 2’s Jeremy Vine show, the charity is printing thousands of life-saving postcards to stop people from tucking awa...