 Naomi meets festival organiser Melvyn Benn |
In October last year 14-year-old Naomi McAdam from Hove in Sussex was a guest on Breakfast talking about her experience of being a teenage disabled person. Naomi was injured a birth leaving her unable to walk.
She's cared for by her father and a team of assistants, and was originally on Breakfast to talk about this.
We decided to invite Naomi back to do some work experience with us.
She has spent the past week making a film for Breakfast about the problems of getting access for people with different needs at music festivals.
She was really keen to do something to be included, and perhaps change society's view of disabled people.
We sent Naomi to the Latitude festival in Ipswich, she takes up the story of her week with us in her own words...
Monday morning: I was a bit nervous - quite nervous in fact, but I have to admit when I arrived at Breakfast , and went to my first morning meeting, everyone seemed quite nice.
My challenge: to make a short film for Breakfast to be shown the following week - I was very excited and have never done anything like that before.
I was introduced to my producer for the week - Charlotte; we got together and started to make some calls about the report I would be doing.
I wanted to look at the issue of access to festivals in the UK. It's huge a problem.
There's often no disabled camping, hardly any disabled toilets and they're never easy to get to!
It makes me angry that the organisers have not considered the needs disabled people enough.
 Naomi chats to Jamie - lead singer from the Inseparables |
As far as seeing the stage and the performers, it's really hard, and the rough terrain can make it extremely difficult for wheelchair users.
For my film, I decided to look at the Latitude festival - where facilities for disabled people are actually very good.
Even though Latitude takes place in the rough Suffolk countryside - the facilities there are wide-ranging and they're making a positive difference
I went to Suffolk to interview Melvyn Benn, from the Mean Fiddler organisation - it's his festival and it is only in its second year.
He's made sure there are disabled camping facilities - plenty of space, nice smooth terrain, showers and toilets all nearby.
Melvyn also employs disabled people because he recognises the benefit of user involvement and people who have experience of specific impairments are often the best people to ask about what's required.
I spoke to some other disabled people who were camping at Latitude they told me they all had guest passes so they got to meet all the artists and crew.
I felt it was really positive, helpful and supportive and those guys felt valued by the organisers.
I felt privileged and inspired - it was a long day filming but I felt I got to the heart of the issue of access.
Friday morning and Charlotte took me into the Breakfast edit suite to start putting together the tape of my story.
I was very impressed and met my video tape editor Tess and we shared some great ideas.
I recorded my commentary, but being a big music fan I resisted the urge to sing.
The final cut of the film was perfect and I hope my report for Breakfast will encourage disabled people to speak out more about the issues affecting us. 
Bookmark with:
What are these?