Venue Case Study: The Edinburgh International Book Festival
The Edinburgh International Book Festival is one of the world’s leading literature festivals, growing across almost 40 years to become the largest public event of its kind. We firmly believe that anyone can and should be able to enjoy our events, regardless of personal circumstances. The Book Festival has long committed to improving access, an...
Our Ambassadors are a fundamental part of our Euan’s Guide team and are fantastic at spreading the word about the work that we do. Throughout this blog series we are going to be interviewing some of our Ambassadors to find out a little bit more about them. Today we’re speaking to Ryan MacDonald who is one of our Ambassadors in Glasgow.
How d...
Guest blog from PosAbility Magazine.
The latest issue of your award-winning PosAbility Magazine has landed this month and this issue is all about finding your love of food. During lockdown many people have been taking to the kitchen to get creative and Euan’s Guide have shared some great tips and tricks for making cooking as accessible as pos...
The Worrying Rise of Assistance Dog Access Refusals
This week we hear from Jonathan Attenborough as he shares what it is like to experience an access refusal and some possible solutions.
My name is Jonathan Attenborough, I am a Euan’s Guide Ambassador and I am registered blind. I have a guide dog called Sam. He is a yellow Labrador Retriever cross and we have been partnered together for almos...
Tina, our London Ambassador, has received her first Pfizer vaccine and has shared what the experience was like.
Last week I had my 1st Pfizer vaccine. I’m so pleased and relieved that this has happened. I appreciate that deciding to be vaccinated is a very personal choice. However, I thought it might be helpful writing about the practicalit...
Last month we asked you to share some accessible loos and Changing Places toilets that you felt deserved a shout out. Over the next two blogs we'll share the selection of 21 loos that come recommended by you! In this blog we'll look at all the suggestions that came in of places that have a Changing Places toilet and then we'll continue the list...
This is the second part of our rundown of memorable loos you shared with us. In the last blog we looked at the places with Changing Places toilets, this time we'll cover places with accessible toilets only.
As we mentioned last time, this is just a bit of fun and a nice way to talk about places we remember for the right reasons. Many of the...
Claire talks to us about what it has been like to shield this time around and how she found tackling a big life change in the midst of a pandemic.
On the afternoon of Saturday the 14th of March 2020, I decided to start shielding because I feared the Covid-19 cases in my area were starting to rise and I needed to protect myself. It was a stran...
We’re back with more upcoming events. It is great to see so many options out there! Don’t forget to let us know any online events you have found – you can share them on the forum and let us know what you think of any that we’ve suggested on there too.
This blog is looking specifically at some of the events taking place in February. The event...
Hi everyone and welcome to another focus on the forum blog. I hope everyone had a restful and enjoyable Christmas and New Year whatever you manage to get up to during lockdown.
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Online events
In last week's blog we highlighted some of the online events which are taking place this month. Like Burns Suppers, did you know Janua...