LUNA Look In – Creating an Accessible and Inclusive Working Environment by Sophie Mattholie

Listen Here: https://open.spotify.com/episode/3LKrW25Q3EjmoMIdkHTu5K?si=f56b6bf494554bc1 This blog post is part of our LUNA Look In series! Today, I wanted to talk a bit about all the ways we make LUNA as inclusive and accessible an environment as possible. This is really important to us as a majority disabled team, especially due to how many of us have …

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“Making the Future Accessible, Access and Inclusion in the Climate Movement”: A conversation with Hannah

A green infographic with a photo in the centre of two young women sat on a sofa looking at a laptop underneath a banner reading “We care about clean air”. Above the photo is the LUNA logo an the Young Friends of the Earth Scotland logo and the text “A LUNA Project COP 26 blog post on…” and below is the text: “Making the Future Accessible, Access and Inclusion in the Climate Movement”: A conversation with Hannah“. End of description.

By Ally Lloyd (she/her) “It is hard to distill, but I think that an accessible and inclusive climate movement looks like a space where care, listening and communication are built into every aspect of organising.” Being able to visualise a fully accessible and inclusive climate movement is an incredible thing. Today I was lucky enough …

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Accessibility: Being part of the solution (2/2)

Ally is rollerblading and Beth is holding her hand to steady her. Next to it is the text "accessibility: beng part of the solution".

By Ross Tanner and Ally Lloyd Last weeks post touched upon just how big a problem accessibility is, and how isolating and demoralising it can be for individuals up against it, and how widespread a problem it is in a way you may never have noticed. This makes having friends who both support you with …

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Accessibility: A conversation we need to have. (1/2)

Beth is sat in her wheelchair with a small dog on her knee. There is the text "accessibility: a conversation we need to have" next to her.

By Beth Dillon So, what is accessibility. The dictionary definition of accessibility is … ‘The quality of being able to be reached or entered’ However, accessibility can often be defined by what ‘inaccessibility’ means. Inaccessibility means being unable to go out alone due to cobbles, kerbs with no drop downs and degrading pavement stones. Inaccessibility …

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