Elton Community Centre raising funds for specialist chair

Staff and customers at Elton Community Centre are raising money to buy a specialist chair so that people with complex disabilities can relax outside their wheelchairs and join in group activities.

The centre is part of Bury Council’s Learning Disability and Physical Disability Day Service, and provides support to adults with learning and physical disabilities who live nearby.

Alison Messenger, senior day service officer at Elton, said: “The specialist chair we want to buy will offer people with profound and complex needs a different way of spending time outside of their wheelchairs. At the moment people can be supported to lie down on our beanbags but this new chair will enable people to be supported to sit upright in a comfortable position and take in their surroundings or join in activities with the rest of the group.”

To buy the new chair the centre needs to raise £3,000, which will allow them to buy the main chair base and a selection of different cushions to allow people with disabilities such as scoliosis and other posture-related conditions to be supported comfortably.

To help raise funds, Elton will be holding a holding a special ‘Chinese New Year’ coffee morning on Wednesday 18 February, from 10am to noon. Everyone is welcome to come down and help the staff and customers at the centre celebrate the Chinese New Year, where there will be some traditional Chinese cakes on offer alongside teas/coffees and a prize raffle.

For more information about the coffee morning, or to make a contribution towards the ‘chair fund’, you can contact the centre on 0161 253 6697 or drop off your donations at Elton Community Centre, David Street, Bury, BL8 1SA.

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Press release issued: 19 January 2015.