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Jun 2021

Last Updated: 28/06/2021

Business

New bid to welcome disabled shoppers to Harrogate

by Calvin Robinson

| 28 Jun, 2021

Shops will display stickers to show disabled people they are happy to come out to serve them if they are unable to access the premises.

Harrogate BID Manager, Matthew Chapman; The Cheeseboard owner, Gemma Aykroyd; and Disability Action Yorkshire Chief Executive, Jackie Snape.

A total of 250 stickers are set to be offered to Harrogate businesses to show they welcome disabled customers.

Funded by Harrogate Business Improvement District, the stickers will be handed out by the charity Disability Action Yorkshire to shops, bars and restaurants in the town centre.

It is part of the charity’s ongoing accessibility campaign, which has recently seen it work with independent retailers on Commercial Street.

Jackie Snape, chief executive of Disability Action Yorkshire, said:

“I’d like thank Harrogate BID for funding these widow stickers, which will alert disabled people to the fact these businesses have a different approach to accessibility.

“What they say is if people can’t physically enter the premises, then staff will be more than happy to come out to them, which more and more shops are now happy to do.

“We have recently been working with Commercial Street businesses, and they have been incredibly receptive to our accessibility campaign, and this is where our BID-sponsored stickers are first appearing."

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Matthew Chapman, Harrogate BID manager, said:

“One of our key aims is to increase footfall into Harrogate town centre by making safe, welcoming and accessible for all, and Disability Action Yorkshire’s accessibility campaign falls into all three of these categories.”

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