Ecas Edinburgh

Wecome to Ecas Welcome to Ecas, the voluntary organisation dedicated to giving friendly and practical help to physically disabled people. To achieve this Ecas does everything from running classes through to providing individual grants for holidays and equipment and supporting initiatives to bring greater freedom to physically disabled people - including our new befriending project.

This website has been designed as an easy-to-use guide to the charity, its work, its history and the people who make it tick. Use the links above to find out more about Ecas and then we hope that you will come and join us - as a client, a volunteer or as a donor.

David Griffiths, Chief Executive

Research & Campaigning

Publications

Demand Responsive Transport

...The starting point is to build from the networks and services we already have. (Scottish Executive 'How to Plan and Run Flexible and Demand Responsive Transport Guidance' 2006)

This short discussion paper has been produced by Ecas and is available for download from the document list on this site. The paper aims to help inform current debate, and to raise questions for discussion, rather than to provide a substantive review of the subject.

Press

Prams on Buses

Ecas has recently been asked to comment on Lothian Buses' controversial ban on the use of prams on its vehicles. (The Edinburgh Evening News has run a series of articles which cover this debate.) Lothian Buses' has claimed that its ban arises from having to comply with disability discrimination law and to give preference to wheelchair users in accessing wheelchair spaces. Ecas believes, however, that such rules are unnecessary and are counterproductive - a better solution is to allow common sense and common courtesy to prevail.