Most accessibility advice starts with regulations. Mine starts with turning up.
I attend events, attempt the hard ones, and write back the truth about how the day actually felt. If you create experiences and want to know what yours is really like for the people you are trying to welcome, that is where I come in.
Who it’s forFestivals & sporting events · Attractions · Museums & cultural venues · Destinations · Experience brands
I go and do the thing. Then I tell the truth about what it was like.
Plenty of people will audit your venue against a standard. I am not one of them. I turn up as a participant and go through the whole thing the way your visitors do: the booking, the journey, the queue, the noise, the moment it all becomes too much or unexpectedly comes good. Then I tell you honestly what I found.
I do this with sight loss, at the loud, crowded, demanding events most accessibility writing quietly steers people away from. Motorsport. Marathons. A mountain in Norway. Not because I am fearless, but because those are the days worth getting right, and the ones nobody else bothers to report on honestly.
Four ways in.
I come and attempt it
The full attempt, written up honestly.
The most useful feedback you will ever get comes from someone going through your event exactly as a participant would, with nothing smoothed over for the visit. I book it, travel to it, take part, and write back a clear account of what worked, what got in the way, and what would genuinely change the day for the better. Where it fits, the story runs on Go Anyway too, read honestly, with the difficulty left in.
Before you open the doors
An early read on something you are planning.
The best conversations happen before launch. If you are building a new event, attraction or challenge, I will read it the way a participant would and flag the barriers, the gaps in your information, and the bits that will trip people up before they are built in. The aim is not to strip out every difficulty. It is to clear the ones that serve no purpose, so more people can take part.
Talks worth sitting through
Speaking and workshops.
Accessibility lands far harder when a room feels the human experience behind it. Drawing on motorsport, endurance events, mountains and the ordinary business of getting around a city without reliable sight, I give talks that shift how people think about challenge, participation and who gets to take part. Audiences forget statistics. They remember the skier with no usable vision flying past me down a mountain.
Tell the story properly
Content partnerships.
Sometimes you do not want feedback. You want the story told well, by someone who was actually there. I work with destinations, events and brands to experience something first-hand and share it through Go Anyway. One condition, and it is not up for negotiation: the writing stays honest. The whole thing is worth nothing the moment it reads like an advert, and that is the part that protects you as much as me.
A method, not just an opinion.
Most reviews come down to one person’s gut feeling. Mine runs on the Go Anyway Experience Framework, the same nine weighted areas scored from nought to five every time. It is the same framework whether I am writing about Goodwood or a Tuesday on the Underground.
- Before you arrive
- Arrival and entry
- Finding your way
- Sensory environment
- Taking part
- Staff and culture
- Facilities and recovery
- Belonging
- Departure
Two judgements sit outside the scoring. How demanding the day was, and the one I care about most: the Value of the Attempt, which can run high even on a hard day. That is the difference between “I didn’t enjoy it” and “here is exactly where the day broke down, by how much, and whether it was still worth doing.” It turns one person’s experience into something you can act on, and compare over time.
Real attempts. Honest accounts.
Every one of these was attempted in full, scored against the framework, and written without softening. They are the clearest picture of what working together actually produces.
Goodwood Festival of Speed 2026: The Greatest Driveway in the World
Seventeen kilometres over one extraordinary driveway, covered as accredited press. Loud, hot and punishing, and still one of the most accessible major events I attend.
Prague: Two Nights in a City Built on Cobbles
The cobbles are not a barrier to fix. They are the city itself, a challenge to prepare for, and I had learned the route before my plane ever left the ground.
Jurassic Oceans: Experiencing Rather Than Viewing
A museum that asked me to experience it, not view it. The hard part was slowing down enough to let it work.
If you build experiences, I’d like to know what yours is really like.
A review, an early read on something you are planning, a talk, or a story told properly. Tell me what you are working on and we will find the right shape. No pitch deck, no jargon, just an honest conversation about the people you are trying to reach.
Work with me