A Festival Of Support

A Festival Of Support

I want to tell everyone about a wonderful organisation called Green Access & Mobility Areas (GAMA). This inspiring volunteer group is devoted to helping people with disabilities go to outdoor festivals. Not only do they advise festival organisers on access issues and how to make spaces and activities more welcoming to people with disabilities and chronic conditions, but they set up camp too in order to provide on-the-spot support, assistance and general back-up for disabled people and their friends/family/carers.

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About Green Access & Mobility Areas

The idea for GAMA came out of the work a group of us who had been supporting both adults and children with disabilities, mobility problems and particular needs, in outdoor community event/festival situations. Many people have been coming to festivals for years, and they now may be disabled or impaired in some way, or, they always had a disability, and believed that camping and enjoying themselves at a festival was impractical.

The 1995 Disability Discrimination Act (subsequently amended by the Disability Discrimination Act 2005) allegedly heralded a new beginning for people with disabilities. The aims of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 are simple – “a society where all disabled people can participate fully as equal citizens”. In practice the Act seeks to ensure that disabled people are treated no less favourably than anyone else...

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