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'Total Football - Total Access'
To learn more about our project for UEFA EURO 2012, Respect Inclusion - Football With No Limits, please click here
Click here for our 1st CAFE European Conference 2011
Total Football - Total Access
24-25 September 2011 at Wembley Stadium, London, England
About CAFE:
In August 2009 UEFA announced the great news that its Monaco Charity Award for 2009 would be dedicated to the creation of a new organisation to establish and promote equal access in European football stadiums.
CAFE - Centre for Access to Football in Europe has been created to promote and ensure equal access across UEFA's region. CAFE is providing support, guidance and advice to all of our partners and stakeholders. These stakeholders include the EC (through CEN), UEFA as the governing body, national Football Associations and their leagues and member clubs, EURO partners, disabled supporters (of all disabilities), their advocates, carers and personal assistants, disabled supporter groups, other national and European diversity and supporter networks, disability Non Governmental Organisations (NGOs) and other interested organizations.
CAFE's aims are inclusivity and equality of experience, and because football embraces diversity in all its forms, CAFE is working with the football family to raise disability awareness more widely throughout Europe. Part of our mission is to empower disabled people to exercise their rights.
It's a big challenge, and people may wonder why this is important. It is recognised that supporting football and attending live matches is an integral and vital part of European culture and tradition. Football supporters are increasingly diverse and are becoming more and more representative of the wider multicultural European society. This naturally includes many more disabled people who wish to attend football matches.
Importantly the local football community gains a greater understanding of diversity with football stadiums reflecting the wider and inclusive society that they serve. In addition, many football clubs and stadia provide activities and facilities outside of match days and are at the heart of local community life. It is also reasonable to expect an increasing number of disabled people to work within football and as such, clubs and stadia as employers should ensure an accessible working environment.
A barrier free environment is vital to ensuring an equal experience and opportunity for all disabled people. Without good access the basic human rights of disabled people are compromised or removed and their right to expression and freewill immediately becomes more restricted.
Disabled people have the right to enjoy football, sports and all forms of entertainment and social life in the same way as everyone else. By using the powerful voice of football CAFE wants to promote and implement those basic European values among European citizens and organizations.