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Suzanne Bull speaking into a microphone from her wheelchair

April 12, 2018 0

Music fans face premium-rate phone charges to book access for live events

More than half of disabled people who have tried to buy tickets for live music events have had to call premium-rate phone numbers to arrange access, according to a new survey. Four-fifths of those surveyed said they had experienced problems with booking access alongside their ticket, while nearly three-quarters said such barriers had been

Arts, Culture and Sport

August 10, 2017 0

Charter could give fresh access boost to smaller live music venues

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The country’s smaller live music venues will be encouraged to make access improvements that are within their budgets, and so open their doors to Deaf and disabled audiences and artists, thanks to a new best practice charter. The Grassroots Venue Charter of Best Practice will support hundreds of smaller, independent music venues – those

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Six people lying in a circle, surrounding a cardboard box

June 29, 2017 0

Disability arts misses out again, despite huge rise in diverse-led Arts Council funding

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Disability arts organisations have missed out on a huge increase in funding that has been handed to other diverse-led groups by Arts Council England (ACE). Although there has been a significant increase in the number of disability-led arts organisations that will be funded for the next four years – from 23 to 35, according

Politics

February 23, 2017

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Minister appoints 11 ‘sector champions’ to boost inclusion

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One of the 11 new “sector champions” selected by a minister to tackle the issues disabled people face as consumers has already used the appointment to rethink his own strategy on inclusion, he has told Disability News Service. Robin Sheppard (pictured), the chair and founder of Bespoke Hotels, the UK’s largest independent hotel group,

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Change Maker James Rose conducting musicians

December 15, 2016

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Major arts organisations have ‘zero per cent’ disabled staff, Arts Council admits

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The arts sector appears to be making gradual progress on increasing the proportion of disabled people in its workforce, although many leading companies have admitted employing no disabled staff at all, a new report by the Arts Council has revealed. The percentage of disabled people working for the larger organisations receiving Arts Council England

Arts, Culture and Sport

March 10, 2016

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Concerns over training centre plans that will ‘separate’ disabled students

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Bristol’s largest concert hall has defended plans to set up the country’s first centre to provide advanced training for disabled young musicians, which will not include any non-disabled students. The plans, part of a £45 million development of Colston Hall, were unveiled at the House of Commons this week, with backing from four Bristol

Arts, Culture and Sport

February 25, 2016

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Lack of online access information for live music events is ‘constant frustration’

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One third of venue and festival websites offer no information about the accessibility of their events, according to a biennial survey of the live music industry. Two out of three disabled music-lovers could not find the information they needed online, and three-fifths of them were put off buying tickets as a result, while less

Arts, Culture and Sport

February 6, 2015

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Radio One DJ’s crowdfunding bid wins high-profile backers

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A Radio One DJ is seeking crowdfunding for a company that will stage live music events for disabled people and their friends… with gold-standard access. Why Not People? (WNP) has been launched by Jameela Jamil, and has backing from a number of disabled celebrities, including TV presenters Sophie Morgan, Ade Adepitan and Alex Brooker,

Arts, Culture and Sport

January 30, 2015

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High hopes for new card access scheme

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A user-led disability consultancy has launched the first national card designed to ensure that disabled people can let service-providers know their specific access needs with the minimum of fuss. Nimbus hopes that its Access Card – launched this month, and costing £15 for three years – will mean disabled people no longer have to

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