Designing Accessible Information at Bishop's Forum

Inspiring, challenging, motivating, developing

The Sensory Trust has worked with Bishop's Forum (soon to be BF Adventure) to design accessible information as part of the development of their adventure quarry. The development was made possible through support from the Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund.

BF Adventure accommodates participants of all ages, backgrounds and abilities who want to challenge themselves through the outdoor activities they offer. Whether it is canoeing, rock climbing, archery or one of the many other activities available BF Adventure helps individuals develop the necessary skills to achieve.

Each activity is designed to suit the needs of the groups or individuals taking part. People visit BF Adventure for different reasons; through summer clubs, school days out, programmes of children in care, referrals from social services or even corporate days out. Whatever brings you to BF Adventure you will find the same reception from its expert team, they are highly skilled in working with people to bring out the best in them however that needs to be done.

Inspired by the former Bishop of Truro, the Right Rev Peter Mumford, The Bishop's Forum was set up as a charity for the young people of Cornwall. Since inception the Charity has expanded its scope to welcome local community use of our facilities.

"Our mission is to Inspire, Challenge and Motivate people to develop their Life Skills to bring about positive change."

With the funds awarded by the Aggregates Levy Sustainability fund BF Adventure have redeveloped their adventure quarry to include accessible rope bridges, floating pontoons, an outdoor teaching space and a zip wire. It has all been done to an excellent standard creating a fully accessible resource which was demonstrated at their launch last month.

The young people who work closely with BF Adventure opened the ceremony with a fantastic display of their skills by carrying the over-sized scissors needed to cut the ribbon around the quarry. They tackled bridges on bikes, canoed across the lake chased by pirates, scaled climbing walls and finally zipped down the wire to hand over the scissors to special guest Olympic rower Ed Coode. Accompanied of course by the Mission Impossible theme! It was a great event to celebrate the success of the meaningful work they do and the new facility they have created.

BF Adventure is one of those places armed with the most amazing members of staff who really do make a difference and have a real passion for what they do. It was a pleasure to work with them on the development of some of their new information including a new map for use on site and as a download.

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