News (August 2019) - Accessible Holidays - Tourism For All

High Street bank, Lloyds, has become the first major organisation to sign up to the Mental Health Accessible standards, which have been created to make essential services easier to use for millions of people.

People with hidden disabilities are set to benefit from improved access to travel in and around Bath and North East Somerset when new eligibility criteria for Blue Badges come into effect this month.

We’ve all been there, we’ve found a great holiday we’d like to go on and we’re really excited about it and then you get hit with the crashing reality of trying to get the right insurance.
 

Premier League team, Burnley FC, have teamed up with Innova to make its ground more inclusive to their fans and visitors and have installed a Changing Place facility. This news will be well received for fans and the wider football community as both Changing Places and the Equality and Human Rights Commission having been putting pressure on Premier League football teams for failing to provide adequate facilities for disabled supporters.

 

The UK is full of incredible places to go, from the open countryside and historic sites of places like Wiltshire and the south west to the abundance of things to see and do in the cities of Manchester, London and Cardiff. Wherever you go in the UK, you’ll be sure to find something to interest you, but getting to enjoy those places can be a challenge if you have mobility issues, especially in the older buildings which are difficult to adapt. Don’t worry though, there are loads of places in the UK that are making an effort to be as accessible as possible, so here are five places that are wheelchair friendly.

Longleat Safari Park in Wiltshire are celebrating the birth of a pair of endangered Amur tiger cubs – the world’s largest big cats. These are the first tigers to be born at the park for nearly 20 years and keepers have said that they are delighted with the cub’s progress so far.

The summer holidays are upon us which means that the UK’s top attractions, roadways and places of interest are going to be busier than ever. Which is great for them, but not so much for those of us with sensory conditions, like autism or Asperger’s who can easily get overwhelmed in crowds and where there is a lot of noise.

The French restaurant group Café Rouge has become the first major restaurant chain in the UK to provide customers with detailed information on all the disabled facilities and accessibility features across all its branches. The new access guides have been published online.

Tourism For All member, Stubcroft Farm Campsite are pleased to announce the launch of their new “Beach Clean Kits”. The dangers of Marine Plastic pollution and the widespread detrimental effects on marine ecosystems has been highlighted by David Attenborough’s recent Blue Planet series on TV. 

For the first time ever no airports in the UK have been classified as poor for accessibility, the research was revealed by the Civil Aviation Authority in their recent annual report on the disability access on the UK’s 31 largest airports which highlights the most and least accessible airports.