This year, Euan’s Guide listed venue Woodhorn Museum in Northumberland launched a fascinating new interpretation experience which threads in disabled access from start to finish. The iconic winding engine of this historic colliery now emerges at ground level and its story is being told to visitors through new animated sequences and entertaining...
Disabled Access Day is all about trying something or somewhere new, whether that’s a local coffee shop, cinema, sports centre or anywhere else! This year the event will take place on 12th March and we’d love you to get involved and visit somewhere new with your friends and/or family!
There are lots of exciting events, activities and offers going...
This year we invited you to take part in The Access Survey 2015, and the results are in! Together with our friends at Disabled Access Day, we wanted to find out your opinions of searching for disabled access information, and to discover what factors might influence whether or not you try out a new place for the first time, or indeed whether you...
Today as part of International Day of People with Disability (IDPwD), the Power 100 List was announced with Euan among Britain’s most influential disabled people! Power 100 highlights the successes of disabled people and the final members shortlisted by the public were judged by a panel chaired by Ade Adepitan MBE, wheelchair basketball player a...
Let's talk toilets - World Toilet Day 19th November
Don’t laugh – it’s no joke; World Toilet Day is an awareness campaign started by the charity Water Aid to alert people to the fact that one in three people around the world still do not have access to a safe and private toilet. Water Aid know that talking about toilets isn’t always easy, and so this year they’re using comedy to help people over...
While in Leith gathering inspiration for his next big storyline, crime-writer Ian Rankin joined us for a chat at Euan’s Guide HQ where we shared with him all things review and disabled access related. Now, Ian shares with us his experiences of disabled access with his son everywhere from music festivals, to cruise ships and theme parks, right b...
We were delighted to have best-selling Scottish crime writer Ian Rankin endorse Euan's Guide:
'As the parent of a young adult wheelchair-user, I am a huge fan of Euan's Guide. It celebrates accessibility and flags up shortcomings. It gives the disabled and their carers a voice. And it's fun. Think of it as Trip Advisor - with wheels on!'
Ian...
Raising the bar, not the curtain, for accessible performances
We've announced the winners of the Euan's Guide Accessible Fringe Award!
Euan’s Guide Founder, Euan MacDonald and BBC journalist Ian Hamilton presented the award and prize of £1,000 to The Solid Life of Sugar Water (Graeae Theatre Company and Theatre Royal Plymouth) and the runner up award was presented to Wendy Hoose (Birds of Paradise and Rand...
Robert Softley Gale: On technology, creative audio description and the Fringe
Fringe Feature: Drama
This week we caught up with artistic director, Robert Softley Gale, after a showing of Wendy Hoose by Johnny McKnight at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Robert is a long-standing figure in the Scottish arts scene and has worked in many diverse roles including as an actor, writer and an activist for disability rights. We sp...
Garry Robson: On the circus, storytelling and a talking pig
Fringe Feature: Theatre
We met up with artistic director, Garry Robson, at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this year where an Edward Gorey poem is being brought to life in the deaf-friendly musical, ‘Edmund the Learned Pig’. The performance features a broken down circus and a witty, out-of-the-ordinary pig who somehow manages to steal the show....
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