How Can You Help??

Motability are a leading car scheme for disabled people. They believe that everyone has the right to personal freedom and independence and do everything they can to help disabled people realise their full potential by providing them with personal mobility.

Each year they raise money for their Charitable Grants Fund which depends on voluntary income. Last year they spent over £3 million in Charitable Grants helping over 4,000 disabled people become mobile. Support from Motability can mean the world of difference to their beneficiaries; people who have been completely housebound have now received a new lease of life after receiving a Charitable Grant from Motability.

"Every year Motability helps people like Gary, 50, from Ashton-Under-Lyne, who has multiple sclerosis a chronic disease of the nervous system. He is a published author having written Tap-Dancing’s Out Then? – a frank account of his life with MS and is a keen Manchester City Football Club supporter. Gary has a specially adapted Ford Focus with hand controls as he is a full time wheelchair user. He loves nothing better than to drive his family on days out and his Motability car enables him to do this. He says, “Thanks to Motability I am able to go to football, visit friends and make new ones. Without my car I would be almost housebound and unable to do the things I love. It has given me back my independence”."

By taking part in our events you will be helping people like Gary and his family. All the money raised from this year’s fundraising events will allow us to help those people who would not be able to afford a suitable vehicle or adaptation to become mobile.

Motability’s upcoming events in the North are:-

Great North Run          5th October 2008-08-22
Whit Water Rafting      Anytime
Skydiving                      Anytime

If you are interested in helping raise money for Motability please call 01279 632258 or email ainec@motability.co.uk