About this guide
About Gentle Grade
An independent educational guide to getting outdoors with a disability, injury or long-term condition, written by the editors and checked against public sources.
Gentle Grade exists because planning an outdoor day looks different when a body works differently, and the information is scattered. Trail design standards sit on one agency page, rehabilitation advice on another, first aid on a third. The editors read those pages, check what they actually say, and put the useful parts into plain language in one place.
What this guide is
A set of short guides for people who live with a disability, an injury or a long-term condition, and for the family, carers and students who want to understand the options. The guides cover activities such as hiking, paddling, cycling and fishing, the body side of getting active again (returning after injury, pacing), and planning pages for checklists, first aid and weather.
What it is not
Gentle Grade is an independent publication. It is not a charity, a medical society or a clinic, and it is not affiliated with any of them. It runs no programs, organizes no events, sells no equipment and takes no bookings. It cannot give personal advice, and nothing here replaces the judgment of your own doctor, physical or occupational therapist or rehabilitation team.
How it is written
The editors speak as a publication, not as individuals with a personal story, and make no claim to have tested equipment, visited places or treated anyone. Every figure, rule and name on a page comes from a source the editors opened, and each page lists those sources at the bottom. The method, and what the editors do when a source cannot be checked, is set out in where this comes from.
The short version
This is a reading guide, built from public sources and kept honest about its limits. For anything about your own body, your care team has the final word.