Fashion footwear retailer schuh and disability equality charity partner Shape Arts have launched a tote bag inspired by the theme "re-thinking disability" online and in 124 schuh stores in the UK and Ireland.
Shape Arts is a disability-led arts organisation which works to improve access to culture for disabled people by providing opportunities for disabled artists, training cultural institutions to be more open to disabled people, and through running participatory arts and development programmes.
The Charity nominated award-winning illustrator and 2D animator, Grace Fairley, to create this year's tote bag design.
As part of its Disability Equality commitment to actively better understand, spotlight and support disabled people as customers and employees, schuh is raising awareness of Disability History Month by sharing some of the progress it has made to improve inclusion and accessibility.
Her work has a special focus on disability, mental health, and womanhood.
The retailer has also donated 487 items of footwear to Facebook group, Jo's Odd Shoes, for people who only wear one shoe or two odd shoes because of amputation, limb absence or conditions such as CRPS.
The retailer has also donated 487 items of footwear to Facebook group, Jo's Odd Shoes, for people who only wear one shoe or two odd shoes because of amputation, limb absence or conditions such as CRPS.
Available online and in all 124 schuh stores from November for £3.00/€3.44, all profits from the sales of the tote bags are directly donated back to the charity partner to help fund their work.
