We’re sharing your Red Cord Card stories for World Toilet Day 2023
This World Toilet Day we’re sharing, directly from our community, the importance of safe emergency red cords in accessible toilets. We’re so proud of our volunteers, who have helped us distribute tens of thousands of Red Cord Cards making accessible toilets safer for disabled people.
Today, we want you to hear directly from our Toilet Warriors...
Purple Tuesday: how we can help you improve your disabled access
This year, Purple Tuesday is asking organisations to make one new commitment to improve their accessibility and practice, implement the improvement, and join the global celebrations on Tuesday 7 November.
Here at Euan’s Guide, we’d like to extend this invitation to our community of venues, business and organisations - we’re asking you to commi...
We welcome this guest blog post from Lorna Fillingham, on behalf of our friends at the disability charity, Scope.
On warm summer days, I sit and listen to children racing up and down the path that leads to our local park. It's just across the road, but it's not a park for us, it has nothing that my disabled daughter can play on. If we go to...
It’s Trustees’ Week, so what better time to introduce our Euan’s Guide Trustees?
Our Trustees determine the strategy for Euan’s Guide, set the pace for our operations, future development and growth. They provide direction and guidance for the Euan’s Guide team, while acting as champions of our small but mighty charity by supporting our cause pe...
New Orchard Trust Accessible Wildlife Pond and Changing Place Toilet
Our friends at Orchard Trust have written a guest blog for us about their new accessible wildlife pond and public Changing Places Toilet.
Here at Orchard Trust in the beautiful Forest of Dean we are excited about opening our new Wildlife Pond. The pond is the latest new facility on our Stowfield Day service site at Lower Lydbrook in the Wye V...
Digital Volunteer of the Year at the Tech4Good Awards 2023
We’re really proud that our Ambassadors Dennis and Veronica AKA Disabled Traveller were finalists in the Tech4Good Awards last night for Digital Volunteer of the Year. In the end Alex, a volunteer at The Cyber Helpline won and Dennis and Veronica were highly commended.
Dennis and Veronica couldn’t attend the awards but Christina from the Euan’...
Nothing About Us Without Us Disabled People’s Activism: Past, Present and Future
Euan's Guide Ambassador, Tina, visited the People's History Museum in Manchester to see Nothing About Us Without Us Disabled People's Activism. Here, she tells us about her trip.
I was blown away when I recently visited the Nothing About Us Without Us Disabled People’s Activism: Past, Present and Future exhibition, which is on at the People’s...
Welcome to the March edition of our review roundup! This month we’ve had loads of fantastic reviews, so hopefully within our selection here there’ll be one that sparks your imagination. If you’ve been somewhere recently that you’d like to share, why not write a review? Just one review can give someone else the confidence to try somewhere new,...
My Accessibility Wish List for 2023
Belated Happy New Year everyone. Here is my accessibility wish list for 2023.
1. More venues to be creative and push the boundaries regarding accessibility and inclusivity
Last year when I visited the “In Plain Sight” exhibition at the Wellcome Collection, I was very impressed that they had incorporated tac...
One of our Ambassadors shares had experience of getting COVID-19 for the first time after shielding for three years.
After three years of being a clinically vulnerable person and shielding, radically altering my lifestyle, mask wearing, on Monday 6 February 2023 I tested positive for covid for the first time.
In the run up to my illness my be...