New Changing Places Facility Installed at Thrigby Hall Wildlife Gardens  

New Changing Places Facility Installed at Thrigby Hall Wildlife Gardens  

Thrigby Hall Wildlife Gardens are thrilled to announce the opening of a new Changing Places facility.

This facility has been installed thanks to funding from the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities program that was secured with the help of Great Yarmouth Borough Council.

Thousands of people with profound and multiple learning disabilities, as well other disabilities that severely limit mobility, cannot use standard accessible toilets. Standard accessible toilets (or "disabled toilets") do not provide changing benches or hoists, and most are too small to accommodate more than one person. Without Changing Places toilets, the person with disabilities is put at risk, and families are forced to risk their own health and safety by changing their loved one on a toilet floor.

Thrigby Hall Wildlife Gardens hope that providing this facility will make a dramatic difference to visitors who desperately need these facilities and that having Changing Places on site will make trips to the park more accessible.

We were delighted to be joined by pupils from John Grant School in Caister to officially open the facility. We were also joined by Emma Spagnola, the Norfolk Loo Lady who campaigns tirelessly to raise awareness of the importance of Changing Places and Fred Nunn from Innova Care Concepts who installed the facility on site.  

 Friday 19th July is Changing Places Awareness Day. This day is all about celebrating all that the campaign has achieved to date thanks to the dedicated support of all our incredible campaigners. It is also an opportunity to help raise more vital awareness of the life changing difference Changing Places toilets make to peoples lives - not just in the UK but around the world!