Disabled Access

Please don’t hesitate to contact us if you need any further information about access to specific events, or if you have any specific needs. Large print or on tape copies of the  programme are available.

Signed Events

As many events as we can afford are sign language interpreted each year. Last year’s signed events included:

• John Simpson
• Shappi Khorsandi
• Alexei Sayle
• Michael Parkinson
• Audrey Nieffenegger
• Roddy Doyle
• If you are a BSL user and have favourite authors you would like to see interpreted, email us and let us know.

We do our best to consult with all our BSL users once the programme is booked, to identify which events people would most like to have signed. If you would like to be involved please contact us.

Do let us know in advance if you are coming to a signed event and need a seat reserved close to the BSL interpreter.

Guide Dogs and Hearing Dogs

Guide dogs and hearing dogs and working dogs in training are welcome at all events.

Access to Main Event Venues

Ilkley Playhouse, Weston Road

Car parking space at rear of building
Lift to box office area, wheelchair lift to Wildman Studio
Lift to upstairs auditorium (The Wharfeside)
Accessible toilet in corridor to Wildman Studio
Accessible dressing rooms
Induction loop.

Kings Hall, Station Road

Parking on street or drop off
Ramped access
Accessible toilets
Tea bar on same level as Events
Built in infra red induction system with head phones available at the venue. Please ask at the Box Office on the night so that Kings Hall staff can give you the appropriate headset or let us know in advance if you prefer.

Craiglands Hotel, Cowpasture Road

Can drop off outside entrance
Ramped entrance
Venues have level access from entrance
Disabled toilet on same level close to our venues
No induction loop – we can provide a portable induction loop but need prior notice.

All Saints C of E Primary School, Easby Drive

Level access from car park
Accessible toilets
Most rooms we use are on ground floor level and there is a lift to upstairs rooms.

St Margaret’s Church Hall, Queens Road

Newly built fully accessible hall (via lift)
Accessible toilet
Roadside parking outside

Church Rooms, Ilkley Parish Church, Church Street

Parking – near to church off Far Brook Street
Paved access round past the front of the church to Church House
Ramped access into Church House and into the event space
Please note this venue is still fund raising for an accessible toilet and so for all our event s we have access to an accessible toilet in another building in the Manor House complex.  Directions:– out of the front gate of the Church, turn right down the street for 20 yards and then turn right under the ‘arch’  into the Manor House courtyard (large stone cobbles).
The toilet is situated in the Education Room at ‘Number4’ on the left hand side facing the Manor House. Stewards will be glad to direct you. Please note that while the toilet is fully accessible, the Manor House Education Room the original nineteenth century cottage style doorway is not wide enough for some of the large powered wheelchairs. If your chair is one of these please do contact us.

Manor House Education Room

Parking outside and drop off at the door
Note: Courtyard is old fashioned large cobbles.  The Education Room is at ‘Number 4’ on the left hand side facing the Manor House.
En suite accessible toilet at the rear of the Education Room
Please note this is an old cottage style building and we are concerned that the doorway may not be wide enough for some large wheelchairs. Please enquire if you use a very wide chair.

Otley Courthouse, Courthouse Street, Otley

Newly refurbished, fully accessible building with automatic doors, induction loop in main hall, lift to first floor and accessible toilets on both floors.
Café is also accessible.
Parking in car park next door or across street. Drop off on Courtyard possible.

Venues which do not have full access or have restricted access