Many disabled children and their families struggle to access the arts and all those who attended our 2016 pilot events said how welcome the opportunities we provided were, enabling the children to enjoy arts workshops often for the first time. We want to ensure that our exhibitions are as accessible as possible to disabled people with a wide range of needs including hearing loss, visual impairment, physical disabilities and autistic spectrum disorder.

We will deliver a programme of accessible family workshops in half terms and the summer holiday in 2017 with a range of exciting practical activities for deaf and disabled children and their families, delivered by experienced professional illustrators and accessible to all. We will recruit workshop facilitators and helpers who are themselves disabled. We will also deliver three days of BSL interpreted gallery tours in 2017 - one per main exhibition - with 3 tours per day.