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Covid-19 Risk Assessment: Week Ending 30 September 2022

The next wave of Covid-19 is mounting rapidly here in Bucks. As of last week, we estimate 1 in 28 people in the county were infected with Covid-19. That’s a huge increase over previous weeks, and proof that we are now in the FOURTH Covid wave this year.

We have raised the Covid risk level in Bucks to EXTREMELY HIGH. In your average busy supermarket, there will now be eleven people breathing out Covid for you to catch.

Our advice remains to wear a FFP2 or N95 filter mask in public places, breathe clean air, avoid crowds and busy places, work from home if you can, and protect your older and vulnerable relatives and friends. These simple precautions will help save you and your family from serious illness or long-term disability.

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BuDS staff and volunteers wearing masks stand around the statue of Sir Ludwig Guttmann at Stoke Mandeville Stadium

BuDDy Tour to Assess National Paralympic Heritage Trust Phone App

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.

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BuDDy Tours To Waddesdon Manor & Chiltern Open Air Museum

Would you like a free trip to Waddesdon Manor or the Chiltern Open Air Museum to help us improve their disabled accessibility and inclusion? If you’re a disabled person, or the parent/carer of a disabled child, why not join our BuDDy Tours of these two famous attractions? A BuDDy Tour is a guided tour of a visitor attraction, accompanied by BuDS volunteers, where you’ll have the chance to tell us about how accessible and inclusive you feel the place is for you. All disabilities and impairments qualify, including ‘invisible’ ones.

We will be at Waddesdon Manor on Saturday 24 September and at Chiltern Open Air Museum on Sunday 25 September. Admission is free, and refreshments are also included. Trips will be Covid-safer and suitable for clinically vulnerable people.

Please let us know if you would like to attend one or both venues by emailing volunteering@buds.org.uk. But be quick!

Waddesdon Manor
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Covid-19 Risk Assessment: Week Ending 16 September 2022

The next wave of Covid-19 is about to begin or is already building up. That’s the sad conclusion we’ve reached after looking at all the available data. We want to warn everyone not to be lulled into a false sense of security by the lower infection levels we have now. The last Covid wave has finished, but the next one is about to begin, so keep being Covid-Careful.

Around 1 in 89 people in Bucks are still infected with Covid-19 so your chance of meeting someone who will give you Covid is still VERY HIGH. In your average busy supermarket, there will be three people breathing out Covid for you to catch.

Our advice remains to wear a FFP2 or N95 filter mask in public places, breathe clean air, avoid crowds and busy places, work from home if you can, and protect your older and vulnerable relatives and friends. These simple precautions will help save you and your family from serious illness or long-term disability.

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