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Disabled access has been given to Queens Park bowling green “at long last”.
The Borough of Rochdale Fund, an initiative set up between the Community Foundation and Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council, has supplied £2,500 to upgrade the area and provide easy wheelchair access for disabled users – a facility that previously wasn’t in place.
Wheelchair user John Edrich from Green Lane, Heywood said: “This has come at long last. I can’t say I am a regular user of the bowling green but I can say it is about time there was full disabled access, it is what we pay our tax for.”
Walter Lomax from Friends of Queens Park said: “We were delighted to get this money, because it means we can meet the needs of the local community. I know there is going to be so much use and enjoyment out of this specially adapted chair”.
Nick Massey, chief executive of the Community Foundation comments: “It’s great to see a grant being used for something fun as well as to benefit local people. Making activities most accessible is a high priority for the Community Foundation”.
Beth Haller, Ph.D., is Co-Director of the Global Alliance for Disability in Media and Entertainment (www.gadim.org). A former print journalist, she is a member of the Advisory Board for the National Center on Disability and Journalism (https://ncdj.org/). Haller is Professor Emerita in the Department of Mass Communication at Towson University in Maryland, USA. Haller is co-editor of the 2020 "Routledge Companion to Disability and Media" (with Gerard Goggin of University of Sydney & Katie Ellis of Curtin University, Australia). She is author of "Representing Disability in an Ableist World: Essays on Mass Media" (Advocado Press, 2010) and the author/editor of Byline of Hope: Collected Newspaper and Magazine Writing of Helen Keller (Advocado Press, 2015). She has been researching disability representation in mass media for 30+ years. She is adjunct faculty in the Disability Studies programs at the City University of New York (CUNY) and the University of Texas-Arlington.
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