Accessibility
Our guidance and policies for event accessibility at the University of Kent.
Most of our event venues and accommodation have step-free or lift access for our guests.
You can access guides for each building on our AccessAble page and use them to plan your accessible route into the building.
We currently have 75 accessible parking spaces across our Canterbury campus which are located as close as possible to building entrances. View our campus map to locate the nearest accessible parking spaces.
Government blue badge holders can park for free at any time within any marked bay when displaying their blue badge. If you don't have a blue badge, however have a health or medical condition, we can arrange a Health Access Permit for your visit.
Our Canterbury campus has excellent transport links, making it easily accessible via the motorway network, rail links and local bus services. We're also only two hours away from London airports.
We encourage our visitors to plan their journeys and travel as sustainably as possible via public transport. We have a local bus service which runs hourly and stops at various places across our campus.
For conferences and events run on campus, we can arrange for visitor parking and coach parking to be made available. There are also accessible parking spaces available near the majority of our event venues.
We can work with you to meet the specific accessibility needs of your guests. It's important to let us know any specific requirements in plenty of advance of your conference or event so that we can ensure suitable solutions are in place beforehand.
The University of Kent has a dedicated Accessible Information team, helping assist students with disabilities, neurodivergence or Specific Learning Differences (SpLDs).
If one of your guests has an assistance dog, let us know and we can arrange the relevant permissions for them. Animals aren't normally allowed in campus buildings but a permit can be created for assistance dogs.
We will provide assisted evacuation for any guests with disabilities, impairments, medical conditions, etc. This will be considered when we are putting together our risk profile for each event.
You can find detailed descriptions for how to access our venues, i.e., how many steps there are, lift weight limits, the width of doorways, and more on our AccessAble page.
You are welcome to leave any of our venues as you need to and will be allowed to re-enter without any issues. If you are attending an event. it's worth letting the organisers know.
If you have any guests that are attending an event with their personal assistant or companion, let us know and we can look at suitable accommodation for them both.
We can provide quiet rooms near our venues for your guests to use. Whether they get overstimulated and need a neutral space, need somewhere to pray or if they need a space to breast feed.
If a guest requires lockable storage facilities for their medication or equipment, let us know and we can work to find a suitable solution for them.
Get in touch with our experienced team today and find out how we can your accessibility needs as an events venue.
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