As part of the BuDS Fair4All Visitor project, a ‘BuDDy tour’ of six disabled people from BuDS visited the Paralympic Heritage Trust at Stoke Mandeville Stadium on 4 September 2022. The purpose of the visit was to assess and help develop a new phone app being developed by the Trust. The app guides visitors around the Stadium and its surroundings, giving information about the things to see and do.
All the tourists were volunteers or BuDS staff. We were not paid or commissioned by the Paralympic Heritage Trust, and our views and opinions are entirely independent.
The BuDDy tour, with Sam from the NPHT who designed the app, followed the route suggested by the app from Elm Farm Road to Stoke Mandeville Hospital, taking in the stadium and many sites along the way. Detailed feedback about the app’s content and functionality was given at each stage. This will be taken into account in the next version of the app.
“In terms of feedback, it was a really productive and fun afternoon, all the volunteers were extremely helpful with their suggestions and enthusiastic about the project. It was a pleasure!”
Sam, the app’s developer
BuDS is in close contact with the National Paralympic Heritage Trust, and more collaborative working will take place in the future.
The BuDDy Tour was organised to support the Visit Buckinghamshire Boost, Boost Accessibility project. The BuDDy Tour was delivered by BuDS volunteers, in partnership with Visit Buckinghamshire, Buckinghamshire Business First, and Buckinghamshire Council. The Visit Buckinghamshire Boost programme was funded by the UK Government through the UK Community Renewal Fund.
