Access for All

Funding is for capital spend only (one-off itemised cost to purchase or invest in a physical item or asset).  Examples of capital expenditure include: 

• Access infrastructure, buildings, machinery and equipment, for example: 
  • Disabled toilet facilities
  • Replacement of gates
  • Additional seating areas
  • Improved access to waterways for the mobility-impaired 
  • Widening and resurfacing of paths for multi-user use
  • Purchase of trampers, mobility scooters, electric bikes and storage/charging facilities
  • Purchase of specially adapted tools and PPE for volunteers 
  • Provision of accessible signage and visitor information, physical and digital 

• Research and development, defined as: “Creative work undertaken on a systematic basis to increase the stock of knowledge, and use of this stock of knowledge for the purpose of discovering or developing new products, including improved versions or qualities of existing products, or discovering new or more efficient processes of production”. 
• Creation of a new or improvement of an existing piece of access infrastructure, such as, building a toilet or fitting a new accessible gate or adapting a minibus or visitor centre.