The team at POW Thanet are passionate about making our events and activities accessible for everyone who wants to attend.

We are currently conducting research and reviewing our work to further develop our programme going forward, so that it is easier for people with different access needs to attend.

We have a questionnaire that we are asking people with access needs to fill in. The results of this questionnaire combined with further research will go towards POW Thanet creating a framework for accessibility that we can use across all our activities. If you have a disability or chronic condition, whether physical or mental, we want to know how Power of Women’s work can be more accessible for you.

If you would like to volunteer to fill in this accessibility questionnaire, please do email info@powthanet.com and state whether you would prefer to receive the questionnaire as a text document, large print text document, Easy Read, or audio recording.

Our work on accessibility is informed by the social model of disability. Here’s some information from Scope about the social model of disability:

The social model of disability is a way of viewing the world, developed by disabled people.

The model says that people are disabled by barriers in society, not by their impairment or difference. Barriers can be physical, like buildings not having accessible toilets. Or they can be caused by people's attitudes to difference, like assuming disabled people can't do certain things.

The social model helps us recognise barriers that make life harder for disabled people. Removing these barriers creates equality and offers disabled people more independence, choice and control.

Not everyone uses the social model and that’s ok. How anyone chooses to talk about their impairment is up to them (Scope).

If you have any suggestions or comments about how we can make our events more accessible, please do get in touch on info@powthanet.com