How accessible is the UK really?

On Saturday disabled people in the UK were encouraged to visit public venues during Disabled Access Day, but I wonder how much of our rich cultural heritage was inaccessible to them?

I work for an amazing charity called Revitalise. We run the Netley Waterside House centre in Southampton, which provides respite holiday breaks for disabled people and carers. The issue of accessibility is very close to our hearts since we regularly take our guests on excursions to tourist attractions around the country.

We’ve done a lot of research and found only a third of the UK’s top visitor attractions are fully accessible to wheelchair users and eight out of 10 disabled people have had problems with the accessibility of major high street stores.

The upshot of this is 65 per cent of disabled people have decided against visiting a tourist attraction. Access should be a right, not a privilege. Please join us in our call to make the UK more accessible.

Colin Brook Revitalise www.revitalise.org.uk