Edward Common and family enjoy a day on the beach at Seahouses thanks to our wonderful new beach wheelchair.The GoodFund in association with the North-East based Post Code Lottery have been kind enough to provide us with over £5,000.00 of funding. A part of this has been used to import, from America, a specially designed beach wheelchair with pneumatic wheels for use on the beach allowing more poorly children to enjoy all the fun of the seaside on our beautiful Northumberland Coast. Following our request for assistance to the National Trust, that organisation is looking into providing disabled access to the beach close to Jonathan’s Halfway House which will obviously be of benefit not only to users of our holiday home, but also to local residents.The remainder of the funding has been used to install a hoist in the specially adapted downstairs bedroom of the house and to purchase a wonderful two-storey Wendy House and some lovely furniture for the garden.
(Photo by kind permission of Bernadette Lawson/Northern Cross)NINE YEARS AGO, Tommy Armstrong (far left) decided to run a weekly ‘domino card’ at Steels Social Club in Sunderland where he was a committee member in order to support CHIN-UP. About CHIN-UP
Registered in 1994 we are a local charity established to relieve children and young people (0-18 years) suffering from a progressive or terminal illness by the provision of facilities for family breaks or respite care in the North-East & Cumbria.
Thanks to the generosity of thousands of people, we have been able to purchase and operate a holiday home in the Seahouses area of Northumberland. This half-way house, which opened in March 2006, now provides much needed, free holiday breaks to families with a child/young person suffering from a progressive or terminal illness. Photographs of the house can be seen on the Holiday Home page.
Owing to its success we are now endeavouring to raise the funds to open a second holiday home somewhere on the West Coast of Cumbria in order to make our service accessible to more families. We need all the help we can get to achieve this aim.