The RAMP Project (Reporting on Accessibility and Mobility Project) aims to provide factual information about access to locations and businesses for those who have limited mobility. We aim to provide this objective factual information to supplement the personal comments and reviews available elsewhere. The purpose here is to provide basic, but adequate, information about the accessibility - not to talk about the quality of the food, or indeed the helpfulness of the staff - but just to give facts about the venue and whether it has suitable access for mobility-impaired users.
There are many types of disability, each requiring different sets of information. This makes it hard for an inspector to adequately assess a venue for all the differing needs. Therefore we restrict ourselves to mobility issues, which allows our volunteers to understand the needs, and to score a venue against our assessment criteria. The reports should be useful for those who use a wheelchair (manual or powered), or crutches/walkers/other wakling aids.
RAMP is currently a purely volunteer effort. To be properly successful, the project will need to gather a number of volunteer inspectors, so that enough venues can be assessed. To achieve this, we will at some point likely seek sponsorship or donations, and at that point we will become a registered charity.
You will be able to donate to help cover costs of running the website.
All donations go directly to running costs for the web site, domain name, etc. All the effort to create and maintain the site, and indeed to complete, enter and maintain the reports on venues is done by volunteers.
We are not yet set up to accept sponsorship (not high on our priority list), but if you would like to sponsor us, please get in touch (see the Contact Page).