City Sights Project

We are working on a new project to help visually impaired people to enjoy the city. The project,
City Sights, will provide sighted guides to help with navigating and describing the sights and scenes around our heritage rich city.

Exeter CTA volunteer, Mike Taun, who is registered blind, is helping to develop the project. Mike was previously involved in a similar stand alone project, Exsight, which folded in 2005. Since this time, there has been no service to assist blind and visually impaired individuals to access the city's services, facilities and shops.

We have engaged the expertise of Age Concern Devon's Iris Project, which offers a range of enabling services for blind and visually impaired clients, but which is currently unable to offer this service.

We have sent funding bids out to trust funds to ask for assistance with the costs of employing a project co-ordinator to recruit and manage the volunteers and work with the user group to ensure that the project is a success.  Funding is arriving for this project and we are continuing to fundraise.

How can you help?

We are working hard to raise funds to put this project into place as well as to keep our Shopmobility and Ring&Ride services ‘on the go’. Please give generously to help keep Exeter Community Transport Association going.

We are also seeking volunteers to assist our clients in accessing the city centre.  Volunteers will be offered full training and support in the role. For more information, please visit our vacancies page.

Mobility Motivator Project

Support needed!

Exeter Community Transport Association is working to develop the services which we offer to persons suffering from mobility impairment.

In order to offer a fully rounded service, we are currently developing a project to enable us to provide a member of staff to co-ordinate access to events and activities to discover local heritage.

Exeter CTA will work with local groups, such as Exeter Red Coats and local heritage sites to ensure that tours and visits are suitable for wheelchair/scooter access and will be able to provide these mobility vehicles for use at these events.

The city tours will enable persons with mobility impairment to discover the history of Exeter, with guided tours around some of the ancient churches and the cathedral and to see the development of the city through the ages.

We will work with local sites of interest such as Berry Pomeroy Castle and Okehampton Castle to organise trips and to enable access through the provision on mobility vehicles for use at the site.

We would also work with the management of other sites to encourage any reasonable changes to enable wheelchair friendly access to their site.

Coupling with other accessibility groups means that we will be able to open up the activities to wider groups of people than we currently have registered with Exeter CTA.

How you can help...

In order to progress with this project, it is important to us to know that we have the support of the people who will be using the scheme.

We would like to invite you to contact us with your comments on this project, letting us know whether you would like to get involved and what it would mean to you.

Please write to:

Deborah Rylands

Exeter Community Transport Association
8 – 10 Paris Street
Exeter
EX1 1GA

or email:

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For further details of any of our upcoming projects and events,
please contact our Fundraising and Publicity Officer, Deborah,
on 01392 494 001
email: Deborah@excetercta.co.uk