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Wheelchair training scheme gets BIG lottery grant

Big Lottery FundAN England-wide scheme delivering wheelchair skills training to children and young people with disabilities is one of dozens of initiatives today taking a share of £11.8 million in lottery good cause funding from the .

Whizz-Kidz (The Movement for Non-Mobile Children) are planning to expand their project delivering specialist wheelchair skills training to children and young people.

BIG’s grant of £496,783 will fund schemes throughout England, consisting of five individual sessions for everyone involved using a combination of games, sports and group activities.

Topics will include spacial awareness, accuracy when turning, route planning and road safety.

Wheelchair Skills Training Manager Ruth Giller said: “A vital part of providing disabled young people with wheelchairs is making sure they know how to use them to have fun and to be safe.

“This grant will give 1,800 disabled children and young people the opportunity to attend a local wheelchair skills training scheme and gain the skills and confidence they need to get the maximum benefit from their wheelchair.”

Action for Blind People also received £176,607 to provide activities and excursions for visually impaired people, together with their carers and families, through four specially adapted hotels in the Lake District, Somerset, Devon and West Sussex.

The charity’s general manager Chris Lawrence said: “The much-needed money will allow us to provide a range of outdoor excursions and activities for blind and partially-sighted people, who can so often feel isolated and excluded.

“The activities will be offered from Action for Blind People’s four hotels in the Vision Hotel Group, all of which go well beyond the label of a mere ‘hotel’, but rather provide opportunities for blind and partially sighted people to gain or regain confidence and meet people in similar circumstances.”

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