need funding for SN trikes, where to go??

[mieow]

I went to a Scope thing yeaterday and it was very good, except DD1 has fallen in love with the Tomcat trike that was displayed there, she had a go, and the man wheeled her about while she rang the bell, I need to get funding now to cover the cost (£1021)where to go please??

Who s/he? If s/he might help I'd go for it!

It a small colom in the NOTW newspaper, he has some silly requests wihich he refuses to help, but have noticed that if the request is for a disability they pay out! Usually a small amount toward it

Best of luck with getting support from somewhere, mieow. It does look like a cracking trike, I must say. If I think of anywhere else I'll let you know.
Off to bed now. Night.

Thanks SM, nite

ask your h/v to apply to some local charities. i got £200 for my flooring from a local charity. and get her school to do a fundrasier lol.

Have emailed Whizzkidz to see what they say.

HAve you asked your pt/ot if they provide them?

The ponywalker for ds2 came through our pt, via a special charity set up for children with sn. Your area may have the same sort of thing.

Ia there any fund raiser type activity you could do to try and raise some of the cash locally?

The NHS don't provide anything other than Majors and wheelchairs here.

we did wonder about Fundraising the cash ourselves, but don't know where to start. What could we do?

What they dont provide standing /walking frames etc?

yes, but thats all, they no longer provide trikes

Grrr

Have you tried the family fund? Or have you used up your application this year?

ask debbies mum. she is involved in fundraising for the hospital. she might know how to go about it.

bungee jumping, sky dive, swimathon, fun day. might be best to speak to her new school.

Decided that DS really needs a new trike too, and just asked his school whether they could do some fundraising for it, and the head said he had just agreed to fundraise for the local diability centre, and he will say to them that he want to give half of the oney to Ds for a trike!!! thats about £500 sorted just another £1500 to go!

and have emailed Children today and whizzkids for applictaion forms!!

c'mon mieow (almost said your real name there). your a bit of a rarity round here with having more than one disabled child (apart from my neighbours, could ask them for ideas i guess), i think if you get in touch with the WHT they might also be interested.

NO, don't say me real name!!! you may expose me!!

you expose youself!! lol. how about contatcing them? i'll call you tonight (dh is at college later so cant moan at me for being on the phone too long)

I have never given my real name out on here, but if people knew me in RL they would know its me,

i know that. i wont say a word. but how about the local paper? or the scouts lol. do they do fundraising apart from for their groups?

DH sisters kids school are going to do some fundraising too

Hi mieow - just got reminded of this yesterday when our physio was here. She got a call at the time from another physio to say that a trike had become available for one of her patients. Where we live it seems that the PTs support applications to charities (the NHS don't supply them here either), but then encourage parents to relinquish the trikes when their kids have outgrown them. Don't know if you've tried asking your PT, just thought of you when I was chatting to our PT. Good luck with all your fundraising , I like the Capn. Cash idea