Face coverings are important in helping to limit the spread of Coronavirus. We ask everyone who is able to wear a face covering to wear one to help keep yourself and others safe.
We also have always been aware of people who are unable to wear face coverings and that they have been very concerned about how they will be treated going out withou...
Survey reveals the need for accessible toilet improvements
Many places could still be losing out on valuable income simply by not providing an accessible toilet. Our Accessible Toilet Survey revealed that 78% of participants have avoided going somewhere that did not have an accessible toilet. These venues are potentially missing out on a porti...
Spend a few minutes reading our top ten tips to help make sure your venue is doing what it can to support disabled people during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Can’t wait, here are our top ten tips:
Make sure you share information in advance online
Offer different ways to book to make visiting easy
Providing up to date information on how to get there...
Zoe shares her thoughts on accessible toilets - and the lack of them.
One of the interesting changes to come from the impact of lockdown is how everyone has had to adapt to a new way of life, whether they are a disabled or non-disabled person.
As disabled people we often gain a variety of new skills through being disabled. We have to learn to...
Euan’s Guide London Ambassador Tina shares her experience of coming out of lockdown and what impact it has had on her.
For each of us who have or continue to shield, we each need to work out what is best for our own individual situation. This is my story.
I had a hysterectomy in 2019, after a diagnosis of womb cancer. My sole aim for 2020 wa...
For this week’s Voices of Covid we hear from Kim. Kim is a Euan’s Guide Ambassador and she shares the huge variety of things she’s been doing during lockdown – and lets us know just what she thinks of being called “vulnerable” (we’ll give you a clue – she doesn’t like it one bit!)
So my last day of work was on 20th March 2020, now I’m working f...
Paul, Access and Inclusion Director at Euan’s Guide, takes part in our Voices of Covid series to share his experience of shielding and wonders what it will be like to venture outside.
It’s certainly been an unusual, emotional and sometimes frightening three months during lockdown. As I sit looking out of the window I dream of being able to go...
Disability Pride Month takes place in July around the world but started in the USA as it coincides with the anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act. As it is the thirtieth anniversary of this Act being founded, I have noticed a lot of conversation over social media on what disability, disabled activism, and pride means to everyone....
Over four hundred people took part in the Covid Concerns and Precautions Survey this summer. We wanted to know what disabled people were worried about as lockdown restrictions were beginning to lift across the UK, with little knowledge of how this lift would directly affect disabled people.
The results have now been published and can be found...
Karine and her wife Sarah are both Euan’s Guide Ambassadors who have been shielding since March. Recently they took their first trip outside as lockdown measures ease. Karine kindly shares this experience with us in her latest Voices of Covid blog.
During our 122 day captivity the one constant was that Sarah was excited to get back out the ho...