WHEELCOME ABOARD! Your local centre
THAT great Wheelyboat charity, set up to give wheelchair users free use of specially adapted boats, have done it again!
A fleet of boats in rivers all over England – including Liverpool, Lancashire and Cheshire – is already providing plenty of fun.
Now, the charity has teamed up with the Castle Semple Centre to launch a second wheelyboat on the 1.5 mile long freshwater Castle Semple Loch in Renfrewshire.
Local schoolboy Kyle named the wheelyboat “Lightyear” after Toy Story
ACCRINGTON
Tel 01254 233332 BARROW Tel 01229 820698
BIRMINGHAM Action for Blind Tel 0121 665 4200 BLACKBURN
Tel 0125 554143 BLACKPOOL: N-Vision Tel 01253 362696
BURY Tel 0161 763 7014 BURNLEY
Tel 01282 438507 character Buzz Lightyear.
Andy Beadsley, director of operations at The Wheelyboat Trust, says: “As a wheelchair user myself, I know first-hand the benefits that being able to take part in activities that able bodied people take for granted can bring.”
Castle Semple Centre offers activities for all levels of ability, from sailing and canoeing to orienteering and archery.
Since setting up in 1984, the Wheelyboat Trust has helped organisations across the UK to acquire more than 220 Wheelyboats.
Liverpool Watersports Centre, Tel. 0151 708 9322.
The Anderton Centre, Chorley. Tel. 01257 484220.
Overwater Marina, Audlem.
Tel. 01270 812677 / 07455 130305.
Westlow Mere, Congleton.
Tel. 01260 270012.
Quay Watermen’s Association, Connah’s Quay, Flinthshire.
Tel. 07747 066742
llllll www.wheelyboats.org l Tel. 01798 342222 / 07860 650023.