Hi Craig,
Have you seen a copy of the Email from Chris Hardesly? I do not have it but im sure Jay will be happy to forward it on to you.
My understanding is that if any one entering requiring disabled access to the rostrum the club regardless of the class or event are required to provide, failing to do this will be a breach of Human rights and be classed as discriminating to the disabled as it will make the event open only to the able body
Obviously there are areas such as timing /finance blockages/ Uneven ground that are out of the clubs control that can not be helped.
As for suggestions, We have looked into requiring at a ramp such as the one at Caldicot that we could bring with us, and the club would only need to provide a rostrum / box (apologies for the pore term )
Also, I personally thought that you had required funding for your disabled ramp you have at club, reading from above is this not the case?
I would like to suggest the WRCA approach an organisation like Mencap and purches ramps and disabled rostrum platform for all its registered clubs as this would provide racing availability for those disabled at all times.
However this dose not solve the issue of racing outside of the region, but dose help with the WRCA championships
One point I want to make is how graceful we are that Caldicot club have provided the access for there disabled members/racers and that the features of the track have also been designed to cater for the low sitting position of the disabled members /racers.
I personal enjoy racing at Caldicot and have dose for over 10 years its one of the best long running club in the WRCA ,the welcome and the effort put in on this matter as always felt positive.
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