New City Accessibility Guide Launched in Edinburgh

Forever Edinburgh has launched a brand-new ‘Edinburgh: Accessible Highlights Guide’ in partnership with award-winning Edinburgh-based disabled access charity, Euan’s Guide.

The guide highlights the Scottish capital’s leading attractions, experiences and travel tips that provide facilities, products and services for people’s differing accessibility requirements.

The new guidebook reinforces the historical city’s commitment to inclusivity and accessibility to allow everyone to enjoy its heritage status.

Designed to help disabled visitors enjoy everything the city has to offer, it covers all 11 neighbourhoods of Edinburgh and showcases accessible experiences for all tastes - including Edinburgh’s cultural events and year-round festivals, heritage experiences, museums and galleries, sports and outdoor activities and places to stay, eat and drink.

It also provides essential practical information, such as:

·        Details on relaxed sessions and dementia-friendly spaces.

·        Venues with ground-level access and flat floors for wheelchair users.

·        Location of accessible toilets.

·        Audio-described shows and sensory-friendly experiences.

·        Links to full AccessAble Guides for applicable attractions.

“Our community regularly tells us that they continue to be excluded from everyday activities, like going for a simple cup of coffee with friends, because of poor or non-existent disabled access information,” said Antonia Lee-Bapty, CEO of Euan’s Guide.

“Insights from our 2024 Access Survey report that 78% of disabled people don’t feel confident about visiting new places when it comes to accessibility.

“Businesses don’t appreciate the importance of sharing disabled access information and are undervaluing disabled people in terms of both social inclusion and spending power by neglecting their accessible toilets and parking facilities. That’s why we encourage them to list on EuansGuide.com for free to reach tens of thousands of disabled people looking for great places to go.

“Equally, we want to encourage disabled people to review the Edinburgh places they visit on EuansGuide.com and use our website to find first-hand experiences of disabled access across the city.

“We’re delighted to partner with Forever Edinburgh on this guide, which will allow disabled people to find accurate disabled access information for great places to go in Edinburgh, the city we’re proud to call home.”    

The ‘Edinburgh: Accessible Highlights Guide’ will be regularly updated and is available online at www.edinburgh.org/AccessibleHighlights. A large text version of the guide is also available.