Opening doors across London
Access to buildings: the work of the City Bridge Trust
'Access for all' is a modern idea in which everyone, regardless
of age, race, religion, creed or disability, has a right to belong
and contribute towards society.
'Access for all' is an old idea that finds expression in the
origins of The City Bridge Trust. Bridges across the Thames gave
Londoners easy access to both sides of the river and transformed
their lives.
Old and new are combined in the City Bridge Trust's work on
Access to Buildings, which forms part of our Access for Disabled
People's programme. Through physical access to buildings, disabled
people can obtain access to wider opportunities. What is good for
disabled people is good for everyone, so that efforts to improve
buildings help to transform society.
This publication is in two parts. The first records the
achievements of people who have been through the process of making
their buildings accessible for disabled people, and notes the
difficulties they faced along the way. The second part is written
for people who are going through the process of improving access to
their buildings and makes suggestions about how they might reduce
the difficulties.
The material reported here is based on an evaluation of the
Trust's programme on Access to Buildings. Centris, our consultants,
studied 22 of the 322 grants that the Trust has made since the
beginning of the programme in 1995. It was clear that there was
much to be learned from the programme that could be useful to other
people who wanted to make their building accessible.
Opening Doors Across London was launched in October 2007 with a
seminar held at Sadler's Wells.
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