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All services must be pre-booked in advance to ensure availability. The Park Mobility service is running as a pilot in 2014. Bookings are taken by our ArcelorMittal Orbit ticket line. To book, please call the ArcelorMittal Orbit ticket line on 0333 800 8099 and mention Park Mobility. Trained staff will then take your booking details. (Calls from landlines are charged at a local rate. Calls from some mobile operators may vary). The phone line is open from 9am to 6pm, seven days a week. For more information please visit QueenElizabethOlympicPark.co.uk/park-mobility A PARK FOR EVERYONE A new heart for east London, Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park will soon be home to thousands and a new destination for millions of visitors. VENUES The Park’s iconic venues offer something for everyone. You can swim at the London Aquatics Centre, watch a basketball match at the Copper Box Arena, or try cycling at Lee Valley VeloPark. PARKLANDS The north of the Park includes the parklands and wetlands as well as the Timber Lodge and Tumbling Bay adventure playground - winner of the 2014 Civic Trust Award and the Selwyn Goldsmith Award for Universal Design. In the south of the Park, you can enjoy an accessible, urban playscape, a range of food and drink options and the ArcelorMittal Orbit, the UK’s tallest sculpture. Accessed by lifts and with accessible toilet facilities, it offers stunning views across the Park and London. YOUR PARK PARK MOBILITY BOOKING PARK MOBILITY This service is available for visitors with mobility and/or visual impairment and is delivered with support from our specially trained volunteer Park Champions. Key services include: • Mobility buggy • Sighted guides • Hire of mobility equipment including mobility scooters and manual wheelchairs The buggy service is free to use with a hire charge for manual wheelchairs and mobility scooters. For days/time of operation and additional information please get in touch or visit QueenElizabethOlympicPark.co.uk/park-mobility PLEASE NOTE: Park Mobility is only operational on a Friday and a Saturday initially (winter opening hours) and will be extended in the summer. DESIGNED FOR EVERYONE We’ve worked hard to make sure that Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park really is a place for everyone, and we think that our park might be the most accessible in the UK. It features good step-free access, hard-standing surfaces, regular seating and accessible Blue Badge car parking for each of the venues. The venues themselves have been designed with facilities that include accessible and Changing Places toilets, accessible changing facilities, baby change, multi-faith rooms, induction loops and audio assistive systems. Find out about our Inclusive Design Standards and our Built Environment Access Panel (BEAP) at QueenElizabethOlympicPark.co.uk/inclusive-design MOTIVATE EAST Motivate East is an inclusive sport project aimed at disabled people in east London which was inspired by the London 2012 Paralympic Games. It is creating more than 26,000 opportunities to try new activities. We work with London Sport, WheelPower, Lee Valley Regional Park Authority, University of East London, Better (GLL) and the boroughs of Barking and Dagenham, Greenwich, Hackney, Newham, Tower Hamlets and Waltham Forest to deliver this programme, which is supported by Sport England. To find out how to get involved go to www.motivateeast.co.uk or find us on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram. NATIONAL PARALYMPIC DAY The London 2012 Paralympic Games changed the way a lot of people think about disability. We think it is really important to make sure that this continues and so we are investing over £5m in projects such as an annual family festival of disability sport and arts, called National Paralympic Day. In 2014 the festival will be held on Saturday 30th August. You can find out more about how to come along at QueenElizabethOlympicPark.co.uk GETTING THERE AND AWAY Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park has some of the best transport links in London, making it one of the capital’s most accessible destinations: • Nine tube and train links, each with step-free access • Numerous bus and coach routes • Less than 40 minutes to all of London’s major railway stations • Seven minutes to St Pancras International • 30 minutes to the M25 • Less than an hour to all London international airports from Stratford station Public transport is the best and easiest way to get to and from the Park – by train, underground, bus or bicycle. ACCESSIBLE ‘BLUE BADGE’ PARKING Each venue on the Park provides accessible ‘Blue Badge’ parking for disabled customers. For general Park visitors, there is paid parking at Westfield Stratford City, Stratford International station and the Stratford Centre.

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All services must be pre-booked in advance to ensure availability. The Park Mobility service is running as a pilot in 2014. Bookings are taken by our ArcelorMittal Orbit ticket line.

To book, please call the ArcelorMittal Orbit ticket line on 0333 800 8099 and mention Park Mobility. Trained staff will then take your booking details. (Calls from landlines are charged at a local rate. Calls from some mobile operators may vary).

The phone line is open from 9am to 6pm, seven days a week.

For more information please visitQueenElizabethOlympicPark.co.uk/park-mobility

A PARK FOR EVERYONE

A new heart for east London, Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park will soon be home to thousands and a new destination for millions of visitors.

VENUESThe Park’s iconic venues offer something for everyone. You can swim at the London Aquatics Centre, watch a basketball match at the Copper Box Arena, or try cycling at Lee Valley VeloPark.

PARKLANDSThe north of the Park includes the parklands and wetlands as well as the Timber Lodge and Tumbling Bay adventure playground - winner of the 2014 Civic Trust Award and the Selwyn Goldsmith Award for Universal Design.

In the south of the Park, you can enjoy an accessible, urban playscape, a range of food and drink options and the ArcelorMittal Orbit, the UK’s tallest sculpture. Accessed by lifts and with accessible toilet facilities, it offers stunning views across the Park and London.

YOUR PARK PARK MOBILITY BOOKING PARK MOBILITY

This service is available for visitors with mobility and/or visual impairment and is delivered with support from our specially trained volunteer Park Champions.

Key services include: • Mobility buggy

• Sighted guides

• Hire of mobility equipment including mobility scooters and manual wheelchairs

The buggy service is free to use with a hire charge for manual wheelchairs and mobility scooters.

For days/time of operation and additional information please get in touch or visit QueenElizabethOlympicPark.co.uk/park-mobility

PLEASE NOTE: Park Mobility is only operational on a Friday and a Saturday initially (winter opening hours) and will be extended in the summer.

DESIGNED FOR EVERYONE

We’ve worked hard to make sure that Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park really is a place for everyone, and we think that our park might be the most accessible in the UK. It features good step-free access, hard-standing surfaces, regular seating and accessible Blue Badge car parking for each of the venues.

The venues themselves have been designed with facilities that include accessible and Changing Places toilets, accessible changing facilities, baby change, multi-faith rooms, induction loops and audio assistive systems.

Find out about our Inclusive Design Standards and our Built Environment Access Panel (BEAP) at QueenElizabethOlympicPark.co.uk/inclusive-design

MOTIVATE EAST

Motivate East is an inclusive sport project aimed at disabled people in east London which was inspired by the London 2012 Paralympic Games. It is creating more than 26,000 opportunities to try new activities.

We work with London Sport, WheelPower, Lee Valley Regional Park Authority, University of East London, Better (GLL) and the boroughs of Barking and Dagenham, Greenwich, Hackney, Newham, Tower Hamlets and Waltham Forest to deliver this programme, which is supported by Sport England.

To find out how to get involved go to www.motivateeast.co.uk or find us on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram.

NATIONAL PARALYMPIC DAY

The London 2012 Paralympic Games changed the way a lot of people think about disability.

We think it is really important to make sure that this continues and so we are investing over £5m in projects such as an annual family festival of disability sport and arts, called National Paralympic Day.

In 2014 the festival will be held on Saturday 30th August. You can find out more about how to come along at QueenElizabethOlympicPark.co.uk

GETTING THERE AND AWAY

Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park has some of the best transport links in London, making it one of the capital’s most accessible destinations:

• Nine tube and train links, each with step-free access

• Numerous bus and coach routes

• Less than 40 minutes to all of London’s major railway stations

• Seven minutes to St Pancras International

• 30 minutes to the M25

• Less than an hour to all London international airports from Stratford station

Public transport is the best and easiest way to get to and from the Park – by train, underground, bus or bicycle.

ACCESSIBLE ‘BLUE BADGE’ PARKINGEach venue on the Park provides accessible ‘Blue Badge’ parking for disabled customers. For general Park visitors, there is paid parking at Westfield Stratford City, Stratford International station and the Stratford Centre.

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