The National Trust has taken steps to make eating and drinking at its venues accessible to all.

The organisation, which is Europe's largest conservation charity, cares for miles of coastline, woodlands, countryside and hundreds of historic buildings, gardens and collections up and down the country.

In February, their director of communications, Celia Richardson, shared a tweet which promoted the fact that customers could now request accessible crockery and cutlery.

A National Trust spokesperson has since confirmed that accessible tableware is now available at 100 National Trust cafés.

Items include two-handled mugs, anti-spill saucers and accessible large-handle cutlery sets.

The spokesperson added: "These enable more people to feel welcome in our cafés and to enjoy our food and drink offer."

A member one of the Trust's food and beverage teams, said: "We had a couple of accessible large-handled cutlery sets available last year which we would give out on request, but we now have plenty of ‘rocker’ knives and large-handle cutlery sets, freely available alongside our standard cutlery self-service station.

"Where last year we did not have a single request for large-handle cutlery we now are seeing daily usage of it, which is so wonderful to see."

A spokesperson for the National Trust also confirmed the accessible crockery and cutlery should be available at all of the organisation's food and beverage outlets where standard cutlery is available.

National Trust venues in Lancashire include Gawthorpe Hall, an Elizabethan gem near Burnley, and Heysham Coast, a beautiful sandstone headland renowned for its eighth-century chapel and rock-hewn graves.