We’re inviting anyone who wants to show support for quality disabled access, World Disability Day and Blue Badge Style to join in with our Guerrilla Sticker Campaign on the 3rd of December.
Every year World Disability Day (officially know as International Day of People with Disability) falls on this day and this year we want to do something to raise awareness of the needs of less able people. IDPwD (World Disability Day does seem easier doesn’t it?) is a United Nations sanctioned day that aims to promote an understanding of people with disability and encourage support for their dignity, rights and well-being. We’ve come up with a fun campaign which we think will help to do just that.
We’ll be the first to admit that we have, of late, been focusing rather a lot on the negative side of less able access, particularly with the BBS Bonfire. So we thought that for International Day of People with Disability we’d try to promote something more positive. Something that can celebrate the things that have been done to improve the rights and well being of the less able people in the UK. We want to promote what we spend our time reporting to our readers on: good disabled access.
With that in mind, we’ve had these really cool Blue Badge Style stickers made and we want to ask people to stick them up as guerrilla stickers on disabled facilities that they think are really high quality. Here’s what the stickers will look like:
Sorry, that was a pretty lame joke there. The reason that we’re calling this a guerrilla campaign is that we want to involve as many of you as we can, secretly putting the stickers up.
We would like to send out stickers to anyone who wants to be involved and then have you place stickers on anything at all that you think shows an outstanding commitment to making a stylish venue, local transport, a shop or anywhere else more accessible. We’re thinking of toilets, ramps, lifts, signage etc but we’d also really like to show individual examples, you wouldn’t immediately consider, of out of the box thinking to make life easier for the less able.
The plan is simple: if you want to get involved – whether you instantly have somewhere in mind or just want to carry some stickers on you for when you spot something – you can contact us and we’ll send the stickers out. Then you can stick the stickers on the very accessible item that you find. Ideally, take a photo and share it with us online on December 3rd.
As you can see, the stickers have a Q-Code so hopefully when other people come along after you they’ll scan the code and find out all about Blue Badge Style and World Disability Day (Sorry. IDPwD). Fortunately, we’ve decided to put them on good facilities rather than bad. If we’d done that you can imagine quite a few urinals getting the guerrilla sticker treatment and you really don’t want to be getting your smart phone out at them when the toilet’s busy! The less said about that the better.
If you want to get involved we’ll obviously need to send you some of the stickers. The best way to do this is to contact us by email at info@bluebadgestyle.com or call 0208 568 7353 and tell us where to send them.
Then, on December 3rd, post the photos on our Facebook page, email them to us or tweet us @BlueBadgeStyle and if you’d like to, include a comment about why your example is useful.
Please get in touch if you want to have some stickers. This should be a good, positive way to highlight accessibility on World Disability Day.