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19th July saw the first ever National Changing Places Awareness Day to celebrate Changing Places‘ 10th Anniversary at the Barbican Cinemas, London.  As part of the celebrations, Astor-Bannerman were invited by the Centre for Accessible Environments (CAE) as...

“Celebrating the 10th Anniversary of Changing Places Together” July 19th 2016 marks 10 years since the Changing Places campaign was officially launched! We thought this was a great opportunity to celebrate all that the campaign has achieved and help raise more...

Changing Places Awareness Day In 2006 the Changing Places campaign was launched and to mark the 10thAnniversary, the Changing Places consortium and sponsors of the campaign, Aveso (Astor-Bannerman and OpeMed), have announced July 19th 2016 as the first annual Changing...

The lack of disabled changing facilities in public buildings and attractions is a very real issue that many thousands of people face every single day.  Everyone has the right to access their community but without disabled changing facilities such as Changing Places...

This week Astor-Bannerman had the pleasure of recently installing and opening the very first Changing Places at a National Trust venue in England. Following numerous meetings with the National Trust and Astor-Bannerman team, Attingham Park in Shropshire became the...

Installing Changing Places Facilities in my Business... Astor-Bannerman are officially co-sponsors of the Changing Places campaign making up half of Aveso Ltd. As experts and manufacturers of specialist changing, hoisting and moving and handling equipment,...

Dignified Changing for Everyone Anywhere... Accessible toilets are always seen when out and about (and rightly so).  But sadly, although the Changing Places campaign is going from strength to strength, we still don’t see these toilet and changing facilities in all...

Earlier this year our Marketing Manager, Wendy Payne, gave an interview live on BBC Radio Gloucestershire early 2015 about the need for better toilet facilities in the county. As co-sponsors of the Changing Places campaign (Aveso Ltd) we’re incredibly proud to support...

It’s with great pride that we can announce the launch of a new song called ‘When You’ve Got To Go’ which has been created and presented by a group of secondary and FE students from Ash Field Academy in Leicester to raise awareness and promote the need for better...

With festival season in full swing, we are excited to announce that as so-sponsors of the Changing Places campaign (Aveso) we have teamed up with Why Not People for their official STAR STUDDED launch event on 1st July at The Troxy, London. Why Not People is a members...

Dirty and smelly toilets, small and cramped toilets, we’ve seen them all but whatever the facilities are like, we know there will always be toilets we can use when we go out.  Or can we?  Every day, hundreds of thousands of people face the seemingly simple challenge...

February 2015 saw the first ever conference dedicated to Changing Places toilet facilities for the disabled and was organised by Changing Places and their sponsors Aveso Ltd (Astor-Bannerman & OpeMed). The event was an informative and collaborative day which...

Whilst at the Kidz up North event organised by Disabled Living in Manchester late last November, we had a chance to spend some time with friends old and new. As sponsor of The Joshua Wilson Brain Tumour Charity, we caught up with mum and founder and spoke about the...

As supporters of the official Changing Places sponsor Aveso we’re very pleased to announce that Gloucestershire based charity Hop, Skip and Jump will be speaking at the first ever Changing Places Conference on 21stFebruary 2015. Established in 1982, Hop Skip and Jump...

Euan’s Guide is a website which features disabled access reviews from disabled people and their friends and families which aims to remove the 'fear of the unknown’ and the team are working closely with Astor-Bannerman as co-sponsor of the Changing Places...

It is with great pleasure that as co-sponsor of the Changing Places campaign as Aveso Ltd, we can formally introduce the guest speakers for the first ever annual Aveso Changing Places Conference 2015 which will be held at the home of Chesterfield FC – The Proact...

Congratulations! You are invited to The Changing Places Conference 2015 When Saturday 21st February 2015 10:00am - 3:00pm Where Chesterfield FC Community Trust The HUB at The Proact Stadium Chesterfield Derbyshire S41 8NZ Championing Changing Places Together! Whether...

Through our work this year as co-sponsor of the Changing Places campaign and friends of the Muscular Dystrophy Campaign, we had the great pleasure of speaking with the very lovely Hayleigh Barclay recently who is a Muscular Dystrophy Campaign Trailblazer and Changing...

"Disability is a difficult subject for some people because it's just too easy to avoid it." DisabledGo, who aim to maximise independence and choice for disabled people in accessing their local area and the places we all want to visit, have recently tackled the issue...

At Astor-Bannerman, we make up one half of Aveso Ltd – The official sponsor of the Changing Places Campaign and together we are planning a celebratory Campaigner Day in 2015. We want to reach out to all the campaigners who work so hard to promote the importance of...

Astor-Bannerman had a chance to speak to the people of Bromsgrove recently at their celebratory event to mark the 5th anniversary of their town centre Changing Places toilet facility. Their Changing Places opened in August 2009 as part of their toilet block...

TV personality Alex Brooker and Mencap Changing Places volunteer Leroy Binns at Arsenal FC Changing Places This week we are celebrating our first year as official sponsor of the Changing Places campaign as Aveso Ltd and making toilets fully accessible for people with...