Last week VisitEngland and VisitScotland launched their dementia-friendly tourism guides and at the same time we also launched our own new dementia filter for reviews on Euan’s Guide.
Tourism Guides
These VisitEngland and VisitScotland guides are designed to help tourism businesses be more welcoming to customers living with dementia. The guide...
World Toilet Day takes place annually on 19th November.
Every year on World Toilet Day, we try to highlight the common issues faced by disabled people when they use accessible toilets when they are out and about. Last year for World Toilet Day we asked you to share stories of the strangest things you have found in accessible loos for our #NotA...
Thank you for your interest in the 2019 Access Survey. The survey is now closed and the results will be published later this year.
The #AccessSurvey is the longest running survey of its kind in the UK. It gives an annual insight into what disabled people think of access provision in public places and spaces.
Together with Disabled Access Da...
Euan is included in the Disability Power List 100 2019!
Euan MacDonald, the co-founder of Euan’s Guide and the Euan MacDonald Centre for motor neurone disease (MND) research, has been featured on the list of the 100 most influential disabled people in the UK again this year!
The announcement was made at a reception at the House of Lords this afternoon (Tuesday 8th October). Euan’s Guide’s Managing D...
We were delighted to attend the Blue Badge Access Awards at the Langham Hotel in London last night. It was a pleasure to celebrate people, venues and organisations that go out of their way to make everyone feel welcome!
The Awards
In case you missed it, here are the winners and the shortlist from each of the award categories:
The Euan’s Guide...
What does it take to make a sporting event accessible?
Written by Euan MacDonald, co-founder of Euan's Guide
As a sports fan, I’ve been determined not to let my Motor Neurone Disease diagnosis get in the way of getting out there to watch live sport. At times this has been challenging, particularly as I have had to adapt to my changing access requirements, but I’m pleased to say that I have attended...
This World Toilet Day we’re asking businesses up and down the country to get involved and test the red emergency cords in their accessible toilets.
Red emergency cords are designed to save lives, yet across the country disabled people are having to use accessible toilets which are unsafe because these cords are unusable. This can be because t...
It’s British Food Fortnight, two weeks dedicated to celebrating the best of British food. Rather than just focus on British cuisine we thought we’d use this opportunity to highlight a selection of restaurants and cafés from across Britain that come highly recommended. From classic Welsh dishes to Mediterranean flavours, the wide range of food...
Locations: York, Cardiff, Glasgow, Keswick, Perth, London, Edinburgh
As the nights draw in it can be hard to find an event enticing enough to warrant leaving home comforts for, but we think that this selection of exciting events should do exactly that! With film screenings, haunted train rides and gardening tips to choose from, the big question is which one takes your fancy?
Why not let us know in the comments be...
We’ve teamed up with Blue Badge Access Awards to create an award that lets you vote for which venue you would like to see selected as the People’s Choice award winner at the awards ceremony on 7th October.
The shortlist is made up of the 6 venues who received the most nominations earlier this year. And now it is down to your votes to decide o...