Philip ConnollyPolicy and Development Manager Disability Rights UK

Push and pull factors for involving disabled people

Disabled people have rights – Doug Paulley required First Group to consider what more it could do to accommodate wheelchair users

Disabled people have a collective and often untapped spending power estimated in 2015 by DWP at £212 billion

Spectators

• Theatre is a form of knowledge; it should and can also be a means of transforming society. Theatre can help us build our future, rather than just waiting for it

Augusto Boal - playwright

Co-Design – seeing your consumers as co-designers/ or user testing as vital to your business model

Accessibility auditing to inform improvements to transport infrastructure - not just disabled people

Community street audits – benchmarking access

Thank you

• Philip J Connolly

• Policy and Development Manager

• Disability Rights UK

• Can Mezzanine

• 49-51 East Road

• London

• N1 6AH

• 0207 250 8192This Berliner printed his own ramp to overcome

the lack of dropped kerbs –

what can you equip your passenger with?