Wheelie Good Fun
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.
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.