Wheelistically @ Claire.NU

An Update

Nine days after I launched this appeal, thanks to a Good Samar­itan and count­less oth­ers, I was able to pur­chase a Free­Wheel™. You can read about their gen­er­os­ity, here.

Catch Up on the Full Story

1. The Bit With The Free Wheel…
2. The Bit With The Appeal Update…
3. The Bit With The Good Samaritan…
4. The Bit Where I Wheeled Freely…

This video is ded­ic­ated to every­one that donated to the Wheel­ist­ic­ally Free Wheel Appeal.

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The Ori­ginal Appeal

Wel­come to the Wheel­ist­ic­ally “Free Wheel” Appeal.

I am rais­ing money in order to pur­chase a Free­Wheel™ attach­ment for my wheel­chair. Dis­abled since birth, I have Cereb­ral Palsy [Spas­tic Diple­gia] and (sec­ond­ary) neur­omus­cu­lar Scoli­osis and have been a full-time wheel­chair user for over twelve years. You can read how my Dis­ab­il­it­ies affect me, in more detail, here.

Like most spe­cial­ist equip­ment designed for those with dis­ab­il­it­ies, the Free­Wheel™ doesn’t come cheap. This Appeal began as a res­ult of being unable to gain any fin­an­cial help from Social Care Ser­vices or my local NHS Wheel­chair Ser­vice, des­pite my best efforts. Also, many sources of fund­ing in the third sec­tor will only provide grants to exist­ing registered char­it­ies and/or com­munity groups, not indi­vidu­als in need, such as myself. You can read the full back-story, here.

I am rais­ing money through the sale of my pho­to­graphy and self-designed greet­ings cards*, with 100% of the pro­ceeds going towards fund­ing a Free­Wheel™ and through any dona­tions made online dir­ectly to the appeal. If you can and want to help, please do.

Pur­chase Houndy Greet­ings Cards

Set of 5 Houndy Greet­ings Cards, star­ring Ziggy & Hec­tor

Each card fea­tures my own design/photography and is pro­fes­sion­ally prin­ted onto high qual­ity, heavy (340gsm), FSC cer­ti­fied stock. They’re satin coated on the out­side for bet­ter col­our repro­duc­tion, and the inside is left uncoated and left blank for you to write a mes­sage. Comes com­plete with 5 heavy-weight, high qual­ity, white envelopes.

£5.99

(excl.P&P)

Ship­ping :UKInternational

Pur­chase Houndy Christ­mas Cards

Set of 5 Houndy Christ­mas Cards, star­ring Ziggy & Hec­tor

Each card fea­tures my own design/photography of my Hounds (in full fest­ive cos­tume!) and is pro­fes­sion­ally prin­ted onto high qual­ity, heavy (340gsm), FSC cer­ti­fied stock. They’re satin coated on the out­side for bet­ter col­our repro­duc­tion, and the inside is left uncoated for you to write a mes­sage. Comes com­plete with 5 heavy-weight, high qual­ity, white envel­opes.
The front of each card reads: Merry Christ­mas
The inside of each card reads: And a Houndy New Year

£5.99

(excl.P&P)

Ship­ping :UKInternational

Free­Wheel™

The Free­Wheel™ is a light­weight, adapt­ive wheel­chair access­ory that “quickly clamps to the footrest of a rigid-frame wheel­chair and allows you to push over sur­faces that would typ­ic­ally be impossible”.

With a Free­Wheel™, I finally have a chance at being able to do some of things things that, up until now, I have never been able to do: Take my dogs on a walk through a field, nego­ti­ate curbs with fear of tip­ping or fall­ing, eas­ily cross areas that are grassy, muddy, uneven or full of stones. These are all things that so many people take for gran­ted and yet, they pose a very large and very real bar­rier to both my inde­pend­ence and my inclu­sion in both fam­ily activ­it­ies and in the wider society.

I’ve spent years of my youth house­bound and I want so des­per­ately lead an act­ive, inde­pend­ent life befit­ting my twenty-five years; I’m a young, determ­ined and con­fid­ent young per­son, I want to be out there, tak­ing part in life and all that it has to offer. Adapt­ing my wheel­chair with the Free­Wheel™ will fur­ther allow me to do that.

Thank you for read­ing, I really appre­ci­ate your time.