Blind to disability?

Marlêne Cantan-Taylor asks if Friends do enough

by Marlêne Cantan-Taylor 1st August 2014

I was looking at a Friend’s concern about being put in a tent or caravan at the coming Yearly Meeting Gathering (YMG), when she had booked and hoped to be provided with a private room, as she considered she had paid for that.

Numerous Quakers, including myself, do not go to YMGs held in the countryside or outside London. The reason for this is – and I speak for myself as one of many disabled Quakers – I could not contemplate walking through fields or even walking quite long distances to get to large tents where Meetings and activities are held (sometimes in fields). Recently, I was told that this was the case in Bath.