It is great that physically disabled people can attend and enjoy so many more events than they used to. Incredibly, if you can navigate the tents and muddy fields, you can now use a festival-ready off-road mobility scooter at Glastonbury!

We thought we would take a look at the other disabled friendly considerations that the Glastonbury festival made:

The site

There is little they can do about the site itself. Glastonbury festival is spread over green fields and farm land – so the weather plays a huge part in how accessible the site is to everyone.

Campsite

There was a disabled campsite located onsite, with special facilities, run by an experienced team who were on hand throughout the festival.

Campervans

If you can’t camp, but wanted to go to the festival, there were some spaces available for campervans and caravans in the disabled campsite.

Toilets

There were adapted toilets at locations throughout the Festival site.

Viewing Platforms

There were viewing platforms at the some of the stages with access ramps, for use by disabled festival goers.

British Sign Language Interpreters

DeafZone were onsite offering a free Interpreting service.

Event Mobility

Event Mobility was hiring out both electric and manual wheelchairs.

It all goes to show – don’t let disability get in the way of living your life how you want to. If you can get there and get around – enjoy yourself!

What made it all the more special was when the main headline act made a heartfelt plea during his performance at Glastonbury asking for increased accessibility for disabled people.

“Make It Accessible”

Stevie Wonder said,

“I want you to encourage the world to make things more accessible for those who are physically challenged. Make it more accessible. Let there be nowhere that I can’t go being blind, that someone cannot go being deaf, someone cannot go being paraplegic or quadriplegic. Make it accessible so that we can celebrate the world as well as you can.”

Stevie Wonder is a United Nations Messenger of Peace and has often spoken out for the rights of disabled people.

You are SO RIGHT Stevie – thankyou!

Author: Jason