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Sunday's game is Club's designated Unite For Access fixture

2024-03-02T14:00:00.000Z

CLARETS CONTINUE SUPPORT OF LEVEL PLAYING FIELD

Sunday's game is Club's designated Unite For Access fixture

2024-03-02T14:00:00.000Z

Sunday's game is Club's designated Unite For Access fixture

Burnley FC are proud to continue our support for The Level Playing Field 'Unite For Access' campaign, an annual period of inspiration and celebration of good access and inclusion at sports venues.

The 2024 campaign, which runs from Saturday 24 February to Sunday 10 March, aims to focus on raising awareness and driving equality for a more inclusive matchday experience for disabled sports fans.

Year after year the campaign helps to recognise why watching live sport is so important to disabled supporters and what Clubs do to deliver this as we come together to mark the occasion.

This is an ongoing area of work for the Club, find out some of the things we have been doing over the course of the past year…

Disability Access Officers in the Club and Community

We have a further nine staff trained to act as Disability Access Officers in the Club and Community department.

Our qualified DAOs have been trained to provide a high level of customer service to all of our disabled fans and aim to understand as many of the accessibility barriers there may be in the stadium, from social to physical, to help individuals overcome those barriers in their roles both on a matchday and non-matchday.

Sunday's game is Club's designated Unite For Access fixture

Those trained include customer facing staff from the ticket office, fan experience, EDI and the community staff who work directly with disabled supporters.

It’s important to us to have individuals from a broad range of departments DAO trained, to create more allies who can support both fans and staff who have accessibility requirements.

Disability Confident Employer

Burnley FC is a Disability Confident Employer, and we take pride in removing barriers that are in place to develop a more inclusive workplace.

We are committed to understanding and challenging attitudes and providing opportunities for disabled people at the Club.

There are three levels to the scheme. We are currently on level one, but acknowledge we are just at the start of our journey to ensure our organisation reflects the community we work in.

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Learning more about sign language

Vincent Kompany, Jay Rodriguez and Club President Stuart Hunt took part in TNT Sports new sign language series, Sign Up - Into Football in November.

Aimed at raising the profile of the deaf community, elevating the visibility of British Sign Language (BSL), and leading the way in making sports programming accessible for all - the show is fronted by deaf British Sign Language presenters Damaris Cooke and Rolf Choutan.

In addition to the interview, Damaris and Rolf showed Clarets Manager Kompany some BSL commands that he can use in his technical area and Rodriguez spoke about playing for Burnley, his work in the community and was shown how to do a goal celebration in BSL.

Whilst on a tour of Turf Moor the presenters met Club President Stuart Hunt who spoke about his role at the Club and the Clarets commitment to making the stadium an inclusive environment for disabled supporters. This includes customer service staff receiving basic sign language training, the availability of hearing loops at games and the ongoing developments to Turf Moor’s accessible guide that details the stadium for first time fans and caters for a range of disabilities.