We’re working hard to make Newmarket a more inclusive and accessible place – we want everyone to have a fantastic time in the home of horseracing. That’s why, today, we’re celebrating Purple Tuesday.
Purple Tuesday aims to support businesses and organisations around the world in their efforts to improve the experience of consumers with disabilities and their families. But when tomorrow comes, how does this initiative translate on the ground, day in day out, for people facing these issues?
One in five of us in Britain has a disability or impairment, visible and invisible. It might affect our mobility, hearing, or sight, or be another need for support with our physical or mental health. Everyone has a right to accessibility and people facing such issues are major contributors to the economy.
So organisations such as ours are striving to remove barriers. We want to ensure access to reliable information and communications, technical aids, adapted environments, spaces and routes, and promote general disability awareness.
That’s why we are improving accessibility details on this website and working closely with Suffolk County Council and the national accessibility organisation AccessAble to expand information available to visitors ahead of a trip to Newmarket. It’s an ambition that we can achieve now thanks to funding from Suffolk Growth.
We are designing a streetscape guide detailing an accessible route between the station and car parks and points of interest around the town. Twenty tourism businesses on our website are also compiling Access Guides.
Plus our Discover Newmarket tourism members are receiving free e-training about best practice for responding to accessibility enquiries. And our town will also be included in accessibility itineraries to the county that are currently being developed.
In Newmarket, we want to turn the whole week purple.
A new interpretation board and commemorative plaque have been unveiled at Newmarket railway station, marking the town’s rich railway heritage as part of the national Railway 200 celebrations.
Ely Cathedral is delighted to announce the return of peregrine falcons to its historic West Tower, marking another exciting chapter in the life of one of the region’s most iconic landmarks.
As generations of fine-limbed thoroughbreds pranced on and off the trains at Newmarket’s original railway station, almost unnoticed, their working class cousins were shifting around the waggons which carried them to racecourses all over the country.
The Ipswich to Cambridge rail line, which includes 11 stations including Newmarket, is to be promoted as St.
Spring has finally arrived, and Easter is looking to be packed with egg-citing adventures for families looking to make magical memories.
Whether your car is temporarily off the road, you are planning a weekend escape, or you simply need flexible access to a second vehicle, Plug in Suffolk Car Clubs are aiming to transform the way residents think about travel.
The tourism body Discover Newmarket is launching a new initiative with Newmarket Racecourses, extending a warm welcome to the first 100 new residents to move into the town this spring by offering an all-access, behind the scenes tour of the town’s historic racing landmarks.
As we celebrate International Women’s Day (8th March 2025), we’re taking the opportunity to look back at a definitive time in history when Ellen Chaloner, a trailblazing trainer became the first woman to be given a permit to train horses by the Jockey Club in 1886.
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