Reading Festival awarded gold for accessibility
Reading Festival has reached gold status on Attitude is Everything's Charter of Best Practice, after increasing deaf and disabled participation by 91% in three years
News By | 6 October 2017
Reading Festival has been awarded gold status by Attitude is Everything, reflecting the UK event’s 12-year commitment to increasing accessibility for deaf and disabled people.
The Festival Republic-run event has worked with Attitude is Everything, which works to improve deaf/disabled people’s access to live music, since 2005, and has since then delivered a huge increase in deaf and disabled festivalgoers: +91% between 2014 and 2017 alone.
Reading reached silver status on the charity’s Charter of Best Practice in 2014, and in…
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