Did you know?

In the UK there are over 11 million disabled people who have to use standard accessible ‘disabled’ toilets that don’t meet the needs of 230,000 people in the UK.

Almost 1/4 million people in the UK need personal assistance to use the toilet and the lack of clean and adequate disabled toilets and changing facilities is a barrier to taking part in community life.

 

Without Changing Places, disabled people and their families are often confined to their own homes or have to change sanitary pads on dirty public toilet floors.

Disabled people account for 20% of the customer base of the average UK business. Households with a disabled person have a combined income of £212billion after housing costs. This is known as the ‘Purple Pound’

20% of tourism day trips in England 1n 2014 were taken by people with an impairment and their travelling companions.  Amount spent – £9.1 billion

14% of all overnight trips by British residents in England in 2014 were taken by those with an impairment and their travelling companions. Amount worth – £2.7 billion

Expenditure of people with health conditions and impairments (and their travelling companions) on tourism in England per year. Amount equals – £12.1 billion.

Public toilets hold approximately 77,000 germs and viruses. 55% of families with disabled children reportedly feel isolated frequently or all the time.

CaseStudy: Sandcastle Water Park, Blackpool

Sandcastle Water Park have seen a 90% increase of guests with disabilities as a result of installing a Changing Places toilet facility in June 2013.

Since embarking on a journey to increase accessibility, Sandcastle Water Park in Blackpool saw the number of disabled visitors increase by 115%.

£100,000 in revenue has been generated at Sandcastle Water Park since the launch of their Changing Places toilet facility.

83% of disabled people have ‘walked away’ from inaccessible or unwelcoming businesses, or made a conscious decision not to visit somewhere if they believed there were not suitable, clean toilet facilities for them

This could be a thing of the past with the provision of … … Changing Places
toilet facilities!

If you would like to discuss your next Changing Places project, please feel free to contact us on 01242 822 979.