Category: Accessibility
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Disabled Access Day 2025
Disabled Access Day falls on 16 March. The award-winning disabled access charity, Euan’s Guide, created the day in 2015. The aim of Euan’s Guide is to empower disabled people. Providing information that gives them confidence and choices for going out and about. Their website shares thousands of experiences and venue reviews by disabled people. Thousands of…
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Personal Stories – Rare Disease Day
Rare Disease Day is an important international awareness day that takes place annually on 28 February (or 29 February in leap years). Our secretary, Mindy, has chosen to use the day to tell us her personal story about living with a rare neurological condition. ❝I became disabled by transverse myelitis in late 2015, with a growing list…
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Becoming a host venue for Kirkstall Art Trail
Being a host venue for Kirkstall Art Trail is “fabulous”! Don’t take our word for it; that’s what one of the first-time hosts told us in 2024. “It was fabulous, thank you for encouraging us to get involved, and for making it all so easy and well organised.” Many new hosts can be wary and a…
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Callout 2025 – making Kirkstall Art Trail accessible
We welcome all artists to apply for this year’s Kirkstall Art Trail. But, we recognise that there may be barriers to taking part. We want you to feel that this is the place for your work, and we want to help where we can. Below are the ways in which we can do this: How you…
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Kirkstall Art Trail’s View on the Proposal to Close Abbey House Museum
It saddens us to hear about the proposal to close Abbey House Museum to the public. It has been part of the Kirkstall community, as a museum, for almost 100 years (1927). The marvellous and educational Victorian Street has been with us since the 1950’s. “Museums have always been a space of civic pride, for…
