Newcastle City Guides Accessibility Guide

The Newcastle Association of City Guides has been providing walking tours in Newcastle, Gateshead and surrounding areas for more than 60 years.

All guides have received comprehensive and detailed training in leading walking tours and some of the Guides have the nationally recognised Blue or Green Badge qualifications.

This accessibility guide aims to accurately describe the services that we offer all our attendees.

If you have any queries about accessibility and your specific requirements, please contact us before attending the walk. This will allow us to identify what actions we might be able to take, to enable us to deliver a good experience for our attendees.

Where possible we seek to incorporate wheelchair negotiable routes within our tours.

We will choose routes with official road crossing points, as far as is possible.

We will go at the speed of the slowest person.

Guides may be able to advise on accessible toilets and restaurants.

Guides will speak clearly at all times and make sure they are facing attendees to facilitate lip-reading.

Extra care will be taken with regard to road safety.

There will be an extended description of what is being "seen".

We will provide extra opportunity for feeling/touching/hearing, where appropriate.

Assistance dogs are welcome, but otherwise attendees are not allowed to bring dogs on our tours.