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	Public Toilets - Comfort Break Scheme in Fife
	I was asked to be involved with the setting up of the disable toilet at muddy boots; they were not happy about the type of fittings that the UK had to offer and therefore sourced them from Germany through Spittals
	Fife Shopmobility - Shopmobility in Kirkcaldy, Shopmobility in Dunfermline, Shopmobility in Glenrothes
	Trail Scooters At Loch Leven A free service Available 7 days a week at Loch Leven’s Larder
	www.guidedogs.org.uk/sharedsurfaces Shared space is a new design concept for town centre and high street developments, often delivered by means of a shared surface street design. In most cases the design involves removing the kerb that has traditionally separated areas for vehicles and pedestrians creating a shared surface street. Pedestrians, motorists and cyclists need to make eye contact to establish who has priority. However this puts blind and partially sighted people at a serious disadvantage. Blind and partially sighted people, particularly guide dog owners and long cane users are trained to use the kerb as a key navigation cue in the street environment. Its removal, without a proven effective, alternative feature, exposes blind and partially sighted people to greater risk, undermines their confidence, and so creates a barrier to their independent mobility. The kerb is also vital for children's safety when using roads. From an early age children are taught as part of the Green Cross Code to Stop, Look, and Listen at kerbs. If these kerbs are removed, how will children know where to stop?
	SGU Walking on Air is a Charity dedicated to making gliding available to the disabled, not just as an "experience" but on the same footing as able-bodied pilots. Founded in 1998 we operate a modern two seater fibre-glass ASK21 glider, adapted to be entirely hand-controlled, from the Scottish Gliding Union's Portmoak Airfield near Scotlandwell in Fife, Scotland.
	Lochore Meadows County Park / Outdoor Education Centre Adaptive Equipment Lochore Meadows is a great place for everyone, whether able bodied or with disability. The Park has a network of accessible paths for use by mobility scooters, power chairs and adaptive bikes. These can be hired the Outdoor Education Centre, where there is also an access dinghy for use on the loch.
	I was asked to write an article for the Scottish disability equality forum, I thought to myself, what could I write on and I thought, what’s close to disable people’s heart, it’s level access, dropped kerbs and toilets will you not all agree.
	Ninewells Hospital Dundee - Charging for the disable parking
	I am pleased to inform you that the railway stations at Barrhead and Cupar have today been added to the list of stations to receive improvements through the Access for All funding stream.
	I'm very glad to be able to report that since my letter to Gordon Dewar, Commercial Director of the First ScotRail, in March 2005 I had been travelling by train regularly.

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	Fife Independent Disability Network West Bridge Mill, Bridge Street, Kirkcaldy, Fife, KY1 1TE Scottish Charity No: SC 026112