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Mar 5, 2024 · Spring and summer are the perfect time to get back to nature and explore the UK’s nature reserves and country walks. But what if you have accessibility needs? How can you be confident that you won’t turn up to find totally inaccessible routes and paths with a lack of facilities you can actually use?
- Background
- Outdoors For All: Promote The Natural Environment For Everyone to Use and Enjoy
- Benefits: The Evidence
- Get Involved
Natural England is committed to making sure everyone has access to the countryside. A report in 2005, called the ‘Diversity Review’, looked at what could be done to support a diverse population to take part in outdoor recreation. The diverse group includes people: 1. with physical disabilities 2. with learning disabilities 3. living with mental hea...
Natural England’s Outdoors for All programme works to improve opportunities for all people in England to enjoy and benefit from the natural environment. The Outdoors for All working group brings together users and providers of services for the diverse population that would otherwise not have access to the countryside. The purpose of the working gro...
Natural England’s work shows how access to the natural environment benefits all visitors and can be used to provide ideas for improved access for all to your site: 1. Outdoors for All reports: including case studies 2. Monitor of engagement of the natural environment: Natural England’s survey on how people use the natural environment 3. Diversity R...
Contact Sarah Preston sarah.preston@naturalengland.org.ukfor more details on how to get involved with Outdoors for All.
A selection of Wildlife Trust sites with great access and facilities for pushchairs, wheelchair users and those with limited mobility. Find out which nature reserves have excellent disabled access.
May 9, 2024 · How accessibility benefits all people and conservation efforts. Accessibility is often framed as a niche concern that benefits only a few individuals. But the All Persons Trail, its creators say, demonstrates that accessibility improvements can enhance everyone’s experience.
Mar 10, 2022 · Having access to nature is beneficial to people of all ages, races, income groups, and abilities. Living with a disability can impact all different types of people at any age, so how can we make nature more accessible to these people?
Natural England therefore commissioned this series of Evidence Briefings called ‘Included Outside’ to bring together, in user-friendly formats, existing evidence on barriers to engagement with nature, and lesson from interventions to overcome them for particular under-represented groups.
Aug 31, 2021 · But what if instead of supporting disabled people to ‘access nature’ we all worked to bring nature closer to home? What support do they need to increase the biodiversity of their window sills, gardens, street corners?
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