Providing powered wheelchairs – Providing powered wheelchairs

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Since 1975, this charity, started by George Makey MBE, has raised more than £7 million to fund the purchase of powered wheelchairs (PWCs) for severely disabled children throughout the UK and Ireland, a service the NHS cannot satisfy. Chairs can cost between £3,500 and £15,000 and we have, in the past, presented more than 45 each year, typically at golf clubs or at events such as the Open Championship and the PGA Championship at Wentworth.

Your fundraising efforts would be following in the footsteps of some of the game’s greats. Lee Trevino and Fuzzy Zoeller were the first ‘big names’ to donate a wheelchair, and, since then, Open Champions have donated more than 30 – the late Seve Ballesteros alone donated no fewer than 17. £5,000 gets you a chair and three places at the annual tournament in Hampshire.

See some of the donations

You might like to just sponsor a hole for £300 and get your name in the press and attend the dinner, additional tickets for just the dinner are available.

We are a Registered Charity (1113745).
When your organisation makes a donation, you will be able to defray 20% of that sum against your tax liability.

I do hope you can join us.

Together we can make a life-changing difference to a young person’s future.

Yours sincerely,
Peter Alliss.

“The powered chair and its flexibility make a world of difference to Nina. Because of her visual impairment the NHS will not fund a powered chair so the only way that Nina can have a degree of independence is to have use of a powered chair. This is an absolute necessity at college where she can navigate the routes to the various classes and get involved in learning how to take visual prompts when out in the community. The other really useful feature for Nina of this chair is the ‘recline’ position. Since Nina’s spinal surgery, sitting for long periods can be uncomfortable so it a great relief to be able to recline even for short periods. As far as the family goes it is just the pleasure of knowing that Nina has the best and most appropriate seating available.”

Hi to all you wonderful people who have been so very kind in raising funds for our brave princess Georgia. We are so excited as this will make a huge difference to Georgia and ourselves. Georgia’s current chair weighs around 100kg with Georgia sitting in it and her equipment. So it’s very heavy and I’m only 5ft 2 so this will be amazing. I also suffer with fibromyalgia so really struggle. Once again massive thank yous! Tracey, Paul, Dan & Georgia x – 2017

A powered wheelchair gives me the ability to go out with my friends and not be dependent on people pushing me, it means I have more independence in every aspect of life and therefore improves it as a whole.

“The problem with a family member being less abled than others is that it can effect daily family life. You can find yourselves not going places or doing activities because of simple access situations that normally you wouldn’t even think about. Having a chair for Ellis will mean that he can go places with the rest of his family that currently he is unable to go and be part of the family once again. Ellis can only walk very short distances now and when he does he often falls due to the weakness in his legs. His incurable condition can only deteriorate, so having the safety of his chair to help him to prevent injury and to enjoy family life as much as possible is a relief to us as parents. His quality of life shall improve immensely. Becky and I thank you, the golf club, and everyone who was involved in fundraising from the bottom of our hearts to help Ellis become mobile once again.”

Since 2015 Dave Burlison has been on hand to record the PAM many of the photographs on the site were taken by him.

Prior to that others have helped out in a similar way. All images are provided by their kind permission.