Accessibility
Box Hill, National Trust, Surrey
The Olympic Cycling Road Race and the Olympic Cycling Time Trial will be coming to Surrey during the Games in July and August 2012.
Accessible Accommodation
South East England offers a range of accessible accommodation for visitors with visual, hearing or mobility impairments.
Accommodation Providers
Due to our work with Pre-Games Training Camps there is an opportunity for accmmodation providers who have accessible accommodation to work with visiting international Paralympic teams. If you are an accommodation provider and would like to know more about this opportunity please contact Carol Plunkett.
Accentuate and Welcome All
Accentuate is the 2012 Legacy Programme for the South East consisting of 15 projects representing the arts, film, tourism, business, sport and heritage.
All 15 projects aim to promote the talent of deaf and disabled people in whatever area they work in. Accentuate aims to create a cultural shift in the way disabled people are seen and provide a variety of opportunities for disabled people to take part and to lead.
Accentuate is funded by Legacy Trust UK an independent charity whose mission is to support a wide range of innovative cultural and sporting activities which celebrate the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games and will leave a lasting legacy in communities throughout the United Kingdom. SEEDA has also invested significant financial support in Accentuate, as have the regional cultural agencies.
Accentuate believes disabled people must be at the heart of everything we do. Our View helps to ensure this happens. Our View is a diverse group of talented deaf and disabled people. The Our View Core Group acts strategically as an internal steering group. Our View Project People have direct relationships with individual projects.
Tourism South East delivery
Tourism South East is responsible for Destination Zones which involves carrying out Destination Access Audits in the South East assessing the ability of disabled visitors (mobility, visual or hearing impaired) to experience the Region and enjoy the full range of visitor facilities without barriers to enjoyment.
Nine Destination Access Audits have already been carried out, meeting the target set. Tourism South East is now working with Partners in West Oxon (The Oxfordshire Cotswolds), at Plumpton Racecourse and Brands Hatch and Sevenoaks where the Paralympic cycling event is taking place to deliver additional audits.
Destination Zones also includes an Our View representative who has prepared a toolkit for best practise when involving disabled people in the access audits.
Following the audits, an Access Workshop has been delivered in Buckingham at the Bucks 2012 Go! Conference and further workshops are being planned at key future events. If further workshops are not required, Tourism South East will seek to use the funding for these workshops to deliver additional Access Audits.
Welcome All training is being delivered at major events across the Region. More Welcome All training has taken place in the South East than in any other region.
Thanks to the Accentuate match funding, businesses are able to participate in Welcome All training for a significantly discounted rate.
To date nearly 500 delegates have taken part against a target of 1145 to be achieved before the end of September 2012.
The Disabled British Open 2011
The Disabled British Open will return to East Sussex National Golf Resort & Spa on August 20th & 21st.
The Disabled British Open, a pan-disability amateur golf tournament, offers golfers with a wide range of disabilities the opportunity to compete against each other according to their golf handicaps. The tournament also offers the more elite golfers the opportunity to compete in a "gross" strokeplay tournament to become the Disabled British Open Champion of the year.
For 2011 the tournament will also include the inaugural Junior Disabled British Open, offering golfers between the ages of 12 & 18 the opportunity to compete against each other in tournament conditions.
Entries for the Disabled British Open 2011 are now closed. However golfers are welcome to apply and go on the waiting list. Further information can be found on the How To Enter page of this website.
