Our campaign was inspired by our supporters, who told us that travelling while living with Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) can be a big source of stress. So we teamed up with Takeda to help improve the day-to-day experience for those living with IBD in our Travel with IBD campaign, which has won the Communique Excellence in Healthcare Collaboration and Partnerships award.
Travel with IBD mobilised the travel industry to install new accessible toilet signage, raising awareness that not every disability is visible, and making a real difference to people living with Crohn's and Colitis.
The aim was to introduce new signage across the UK’s main travel hubs (airports, rail stations, service stations) to help people with Crohn's and Colitis when they travel, and raising public awareness of invisible illnesses.
Our amazing supporters sent 48,784 campaign emails and nine travel hubs had committed to adopting accessible toilet signage by the end of 2017.
The campaign is still going on, and more travel hubs are still coming on board.