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Holidays

Links to organisations with information on holidays and breaks for people with a disability or with mobility problems.

MS Trust links

Revisiting my home - Uganda
The author and her family travel to Uganda. She writes about how she adapts the trip to take account of her MS symptoms and medication. An article from Open Door, the MS Trust's quarterly newsletter

Other sources of information

RADAR
RADAR produces a book called The Open Britain Guide, a guide to accessible accommodation in the UK and Ireland. The current edition can be bought from RADAR's website.
Tourism For All
Provides information on accessible accommodation of different types in the UK and abroad.
Disability Holidays Guide
Provides information and a holidays search facility for people with a disability.
Matching Houses
Offers information and a database of house swaps for people with disabilities. The idea is that if one person's accessibility needs meet someone else's, both houses should be equally accessible. This is a commercial organisation.
Doctor Babel
A website that allows users to create and maintain an online medical record. The site includes a translation function - this aspect requires a fee, the rest is free. This function allows the information to be translated into a wide range of languages, which may be of help to the traveller who needs medical help.
Door To Door
The Door To Door website has information on holidays for people with a disability or mobilty problems.

Financial assistance for holidays

Family Holidays Association
A charity that provides financial assistance for low-income families for holidays and breaks. Only a welfare agent - social services, GP, nurse - can apply for help on behalf of a family or an individual.
See also the Grants and financial help section