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Opening festivities to Guide Dog owners

Summary

Don’t make access a barrier to festive events this Christmas. Many venues are making assistance dog owners feel excluded from Christmas festivities by illegally refusing access to venues and services. The Guide Dogs’ ‘Open Doors’ campaign aims to combat the problem, but it seems there is still some way to go. This article is written by Fiona and read by Colin.

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The Open Doors campaign aims to prevent people with assistance dogs being illegally refused access to venues
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Authors

  • Fiona worked as a journalist with local and national newspapers for 12 years before joining local government as a press officer. She also volunteered for several charities, including Mary's Meals, Citizens Advice Scotland and Argyll Talking Newspapers before joining TNF Soundings and returning to her roots of sourcing and writing news articles.

  • Colin lives in Cambridge. He's a regular editor and contributor to a sound magazine produced for Camsight. He's also been actively involved in local theatre productions for more years than he cares to remember.
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