Holistic Thinking Holidays

Holistic Thinking Holidays SME Beds Business Awards 2024 - Business Innovation Silver Award. SME Nationals finalists 2024, Family Business of the year and Positive Impact Award.
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Blue Badge Access Awards Finalists 2023, SME Beds Business Awards 2023 - Positive Impact Silver Award. HTH offer accommodation that is equipped to meet the needs of people with disabilities and complex mobility issues for whom “wheelchair access” just isn’t enough. We provide holiday homes with, or giving access to, equipment that meets as many of their mobility and complex needs as possible. We

locate them in holiday parks that have greater accessibility, including on to the beaches. All on site shops, entertainment venues, pubs and take away food outlets are fully accessible. They all either have on site, or are located close to, accessible swimming pools with hoisting facilities. Many other accessible holiday providers don't accept dogs, but we accept up to 2 pets for no additional charge! Our caravans are in multiple coastal locations, in different areas of the country keeping traveling times down, but also offering variety and choice. Short breaks starting at £150 or even FREE for a family of up to 7. Claire Welsh is the brains behind the project, bringing over 30 years’ experience as a Paediatric Occupational Therapist, 15 years as an Expert Witness and, more recently, as a Case Manager, where she has witnessed first-hand the struggles that families with extraordinary disability challenges face when they try to book a holiday. Then, husband Steve retired from a career in Electronic Manufacturing to manage the operations of Holistic Thinking Holidays in 2021. We bought our first standard wheelchair accessible holiday home at the end of 2019, at Caister on Sea Holiday Park in Norfolk. They added ramped access and full room coverage ceiling hoist to the master bedroom, along with a profiling bed. In the large wet room, they provided a shower commode chair and there is a mobile hoist for other transfers around the accommodation – as well as transfers into the beach wheelchair that was made available for exclusive use for their visitors. In the past 3 years we have added a further 5 accessible holiday homes on the coast, at Burnham on Sea Holiday Village in Somerset, Golden Palm Resort, Chapel St Leonards in Lincolnshire, Oakfield Caravan Park, Towyn, in North Wales. And New for the 2023 season, at Seal Bay Resort in Selsey, West Sussex and Newquay Holiday Park in Cornwall. By the end of 2022, we had provided more than 175 family holidays, more than 40 of which were offered FREE by working with charities and directly with families with a member who has higher level of care needs. We now have capacity to provide over 250 TRULY accessible holidays every year. Where more specialist equipment is required, we can arrange for the hire from local suppliers, or even purchase the equipment that can then be used by future guests. Holistic Thinking Holidays aim to ensure that their holiday is as stress free as possible, in a comfortable and homely environment, with facilities on hand to keep travel to a minimum on arrival at the resort. Uniquely, we are proud to offer a FULL cancellation refund policy, right up to the day of the holiday, as recognition of the families’ need for confidence when booking an accessible holiday, more than any other, without the inflated insurance cost. We recognise that our guests can often not control when events might prevent them from taking that holiday. In addition, Holistic Thinking Holidays now also offer an accommodation management service for owners of similar UK properties as they press forward with their plans to make UK coastal holidays accessible to all. To view a video tour and photographs of each holiday home and site location, enquire about availability, or if you have accessible accommodation of your own that you feel could meet their model, visit their website or contact us directly for more information. Contact: Steve Welsh
Email: [email protected]
Company: Holistic Thinking Holidays Limited
Web Address: www.holisticthinkingholidays.co.uk

Early warning!!! We want to see our feed full of these socks in December this year. Make a statement with the 2024 purpl...
29/08/2024

Early warning!!! We want to see our feed full of these socks in December this year.

Make a statement with the 2024 purple sock day design… really comfy too!!

It’s Season 4 of Purple Sock Day! 🧦 💜

We are very excited to reveal ‘Shades’ – our new design for this year. We hope you like it as much as we do.

Purple Sock Day is an annual national act of mass participation on 3rd December – The International Day of Disabled People (IDPD).

All you need to do is buy a pair of our soft, sustainable bamboo socks made by Bamboo Clothing and wear them on IDPD. In doing this, you show support and solidarity for the disabled community, whilst helping budding disabled entrepreneurs start their businesses with the profits from the sale of each pair of socks. A pair of socks is just £7.

Sustainable style with social impact – what’s not to love.

Corporate sales are now open (minimum order of 20 pairs). Direct sales open on 28th October via the BAM website and other outlets.

Rumour has it that it's going to be toasty for the next few weeks and we have a little bit of availability to help you g...
29/08/2024

Rumour has it that it's going to be toasty for the next few weeks and we have a little bit of availability to help you get the most of it in Newquay.

Following a couple of cancellations, Zelda is now available from Monday 2nd September through to Friday 13th September.

For these and ALL REMAINING 2024 DATES AT ALL LOCATIONS we are now offering 20% discount (automatically deducted on check out).

For any remaining September Monday to Friday dates the discounted price FOR UP TO 7 PEOPLE is £240 plus £75 refundable accidental damage bond,

For any remaining September Friday to Monday dates dates the discounted price FOR UP TO 7 PEOPLE is £210 plus £75 refundable accidental damage bond.

In October Friday to Monday dates dates the discounted price FOR UP TO 7 PEOPLE start at £180 plus £75 refundable accidental damage bond.

For October Monday to Friday dates the discounted price FOR UP TO 7 PEOPLE start at £200 plus £75 refundable accidental damage bond.

To see availability and book online visit our website here....

https://holisticthinkingholidays.godaddysites.com/home -b5b6-403f-8be4-5dcf05e6c4d4

Another lovely bit of coverage for our latest venture 😃Don’t forget, we really need your help to make this even more rea...
28/08/2024

Another lovely bit of coverage for our latest venture 😃

Don’t forget, we really need your help to make this even more readily available. Here’s a few ways that you can assist us.

1. Identify other locations that would benefit from a hoist donation.

2. If you or someone you know has a mobile hoist that they no longer need, we would be happy to receive it and put it to better use.

3. If you see or hear of any beach wheelchairs for sale second hand please let us know too.

4. Please keep sharing your pictures and videos using the beach wheelchairs. We NEVER tire of seeing them!!

EVERYONE SHOULD BE ABLE TO FEEL THE SAND BENEATH THEIR FEET AND DIP THEIR TOES INTO THE SEA!!

What a great idea!

News of our new venture is spreading in North Wales 😃We absolutely love to see so manySeaside resorts having beach wheel...
26/08/2024

News of our new venture is spreading in North Wales 😃

We absolutely love to see so many
Seaside resorts having beach wheelchairs for hire and very often for free. Some of our favourite memories of the first 5 years of HTH have been the brilliant videos and photos our guests have shared when using the ones that we provide for their exclusive use in Caister on Sea, Burnham on Sea, Chapel st Leonards and Prestatyn.

Unfortunately, for many of our guests at different locations and elsewhere across the UK, they still aren’t able to get on to the sand and into the sea if they need hoisting.

We are on a mission to change that, starting in Rhyl with the help of PKS Watersports, which sits just between Towyn and Prestatyn, David and Jubilee’s locations.

We are looking to donate and fund the maintenance and testing of mobile hoists around the UK coastline to make beach access available for many more people with complex mobility issues.

The user needs to bring along their own slings, just like when they stay at our caravans, with the carers taking responsibility for their own transfers using the hoists.

We’d really like our to join us in our venture in a few ways.

1. Help us to find other locations that would benefit from a hoist donation.

2. If you or someone you know has a mobile hoist that they no longer need, we would be happy to receive it and put it to better use.

3. If you see or hear of any beach wheelchairs for sale second hand please let us know too.

4. Please keep sharing your pictures and videos using the beach wheelchairs. We NEVER tire of seeing them!!

EVERYONE SHOULD BE ABLE TO FEEL THE SAND BENEATH THEIR FEET AND DIP THEIR TOES INTO THE SEA!!

Take a 360 degree tour of David with Disabled Adventurer Nick. If  you’re using a mobile device, you’ll need to use the ...
25/08/2024

Take a 360 degree tour of David with Disabled Adventurer Nick. If you’re using a mobile device, you’ll need to use the YouTube App for the full 360 experience.

A 360 look inside one of Holistic Thinking Holidays static caravan holiday homes, with commentary by Nick Wilson, aka Disabled Adventurer.For more informatio...

Wembley here we come!
23/08/2024

Wembley here we come!

A huge congratulations to our SME Nationals Family Business of the Year finalists! 🎉


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Look who I bumped into at PKS Watersports. Are you thinking of taking up kite surfing Nick, and why is the Caravan Man t...
22/08/2024

Look who I bumped into at PKS Watersports.

Are you thinking of taking up kite surfing Nick, and why is the Caravan Man taking a keen interest in such activities? With his 2 original hips he couldn’t stand on a surf board, so he has no chance, now that he has had 2 replacements!!😉

21/08/2024

Remember this video from early July??

Another little clue for our upcoming project involving beach wheelchairs and mobile hoists. BIG NEWS coming very soon!!

19/08/2024

So, Disabled Adventurer is heading back to Towyn to finish our filming in North Wales.

Is there anything else you would like to see spotlighted in our Final Cut??

Our email system has been down following a major outage at our email provider Fastnet at around 8:30 on 13th August. At ...
14/08/2024

Our email system has been down following a major outage at our email provider Fastnet at around 8:30 on 13th August. At 9:30 on 14th August, we don’t have an accurate recovery timescale.

All other HTH services are still fully operational including our website and booking system.

If you are waiting for a reply to an email please drop us a message on FB or call Steve on 07305504292.

Apologies for any delays in our responses whilst Fastnet are working on a resolution.

Anyone like to guess how these two items are linked???If you know,  you are on the way to working out HTH’s next little ...
13/08/2024

Anyone like to guess how these two items are linked???

If you know, you are on the way to working out HTH’s next little step to make make coastal, and specifically BEACH holidays accessible to ALL wheelchair users across the UK!!

We are going to need a little help from you all with this one, but exciting plans are afoot…watch this space 😉

Cancellations due to health issues for Monday 12th to Friday 16th August and September 9th to 16th September in Norfolk....
09/08/2024

Cancellations due to health issues for Monday 12th to Friday 16th August and September 9th to 16th September in Norfolk..

As usual our unfortunate guests will be refunded in full, but we are hoping that another family can get to enjoy a last minute break away in Wilbur at a bargain price!!

4 nights from Monday 12th August for £300 plus £75 refundable accidental damage bond.

7 nights from 9th September £380 plus £75 refundable accidental damage bond.
4 nights from 9th September £210 plus £75 refundable accidental damage bond.
3 nights from 13th September £192.50 plus £75 refundable accidental damage bond.

Private parking, 1m wide ramped access, 1.4m wide entrance. sliding internal doors width 0.75m. Ceiling hoist and 6 foot long profiling bed, large wet room with handrails around toilet, basin and shower, with a tilt in space Invacare Aquatec shower chair. Mobile hoist and beach wheelchair child/small adult up to 65kg.

Online booking available here ...

https://holisticthinkingholidays.godaddysites.com/home -b5b6-403f-8be4-5dcf05e6c4d4

06/08/2024

Back in April, Our friend Nick aka Disabled Adventurer made his first trip up to North Wales for us to spend a few days in David, just before some of Rockclimber's trials.

This was the result!

We still have a little bit of availability in August as follows:

3 nights from 16th August £420 plus £75 refundable accidental damage bond.
4 Nights from 26th August (Bank holiday week) £490 plus £75 refundable accidental damage bond.

Head over to our website to secure the dates...

https://holisticthinkingholidays.godaddysites.com/david -4dfe-4969-88f7-907af6a1d2a9

Watch this space for more of Nick's footage from North Wales in the coming weeks.😀

Super El is a little different from all our other caravans, but still amongst the trailblazers when it comes to accessib...
03/08/2024

Super El is a little different from all our other caravans, but still amongst the trailblazers when it comes to accessible caravans.

There used to be a DOUBLE ADJUSTABLE BED along with our usual Direct Healthcare Rise Atlas H frame hoist system in the master bedroom.

As of today, after a 6 hour drive the Caravan bean has delivered a Birdy Compact 150kg mobile hoist donated by HTH to Tailored Leisure for exclusive use in Super El!!

You can find lots more details, photos and TLC’s Tara’s video tour here…

https://holisticthinkingholidays.godaddysites.com/super-el

We still have a little availability for 2024 and 2025 bookings are now open.

HAVEN PASSES FOR ENTERTAINMENT AND POOL INCLUDED!!!

You may recall that our last competition winner Jess and her family visited Zelda last week and accepted a couple of mis...
03/08/2024

You may recall that our last competition winner Jess and her family visited Zelda last week and accepted a couple of missions.

We were looking for a few extra measurements to add to our accessibility statement and some updated video footage showing some specific features.

Here’s the result for the first part. Mission accomplished, but it got me thinking. Is there anything else that people would like to see more information for in the accessibility statements?

They will all have copies of, or links to the equipment manuals for the various bits of kit that we provide, like Profiling bed, hoists, shower chairs/ commodes and beach wheelchairs where we have them.

All updated accessibility statements will be on the website in the next few weeks.

Jess and Family endured a 12 hour journey home from Cornwall yesterday, but enjoyed a lovely week. Video footage will follow once they have recovered! 😃

02/08/2024

Some of you who follow Disabled Adventurer, may have already seen this, but we are very proud to show you our latest video tour from Prestatyn. Another step closer to fulfilling our Purple Tuesday 2023 pledge. Thank you Nick, this is everything we hoped for and more!

We still have a little bit of availability in Jubilee this summer as follows:

4 nights from 26th August (Bank holiday Monday) £490 pls £75 accidental damage bond.
7 nights from 26th August (Bank holiday Monday) £892.50 pls £75 accidental damage bond.
3 nights from Friday August £420 pls £75 accidental damage bond.

Online booking available here...

https://holisticthinkingholidays.godaddysites.com/jubilee -bc7d-4ca0-ae47-b545decb55ab

The Caravan Man is also available for other starring roles and can be contacted through our page 😉

01/08/2024

Spoiler alert…

Just before his successful ascent of Snowden, Disabled Adventurer visited Jubilee to help us with the next stage of our video tours.

Hippocampe versus Disabled Adventurer… I think you should have brought Rockclimber Nick 🤣🤣

28/07/2024

… and our winner and official videographer for Newquay this week is…..

28/07/2024

So who's off to Newquay as our own budding Disabled Adventurer ( Please tell me you haven't trademarked the name yet Nick) 😁😁????

Winner coming in the next few minutes!!

Entries now closed!!So it seems we DO have a few people who are interested in a little break in Zelda on the sunniest we...
28/07/2024

Entries now closed!!

So it seems we DO have a few people who are interested in a little break in Zelda on the sunniest week of 2024 so far.

This time we are asking you to do a little something for us in return during your stay!

Please read the whole post before commenting entries will close at 4pm and we’ll do our wheel of names around 5pm.

Back in November last year, on Purple Tuesday we committed to improving our offerings in a couple of ways…

1. Publish detailed location specific accessibility statements on our website.

2. Improve our video tours by producing them with wheelchair users.

We are well on the way with number 1, but still have a few things that we’d like to add over the summer.

We’ve made a start on number 2 with a video tour of Super El by Tara and over the last couple of months have been working with Nick Wilson aka Disabled Adventurer , in David in Towyn and Jubilee in Prestatyn.

Over the next few weeks we’ll be starting to share some more of Nick’s amazing work!

We’d love it if some of our guests could help us with completing number 2 before the end of the summer season, so that we can start to think about our commitments to Purple Tuesday 2024!

Steve Hebben’s little clip from Weymouth a few weeks back, showing how easy it is to get into Stella, gives an idea of the type of thing we’re looking for.

So to start the ball rolling with this, we’d ideally like Zelda’s guests for this week to be happy to produce a few video clips for us during their stay from a wheelchair users perspective and take a few measurements for us inside the caravan.

We’re definitely not looking for for ultra professional BBC documentary style footage, or even something with a commentary necessarily. We just want to be able to show Zelda’s accessibility features giving a better perspective of size and ease of access for the wheelchair user and footage from a mobile phone would be more than adequate.

All that said if you or a family member are looking to follow in Nick’s footsteps as an advocacy and influencer in your own right and fancy a little project to play with whilst have a FREE say in Zelda this could be just right for you. If you wanted to throw in a little humour too that would be most welcome, but not essential😃

So if this has prompted an interest, you are DEFINITELY available to head to NEWQUAY in CORNWALL for a 4 night stay at NEWQUAY holiday park, with someone in your group who is a wheelchair user who is happy to be filmed showing off Zelda and the holiday park, and you own a tape measure, or are happy to buy one 😉, please comment below.

Please don’t worry too much about the content of the videos at this stage. We’ll provide plenty of details of the things we’re looking for.

In return we will provide 4 nights FREE accommodation in a fantasies holiday park with lots of 🌞 ☀️ 🌞 and plenty of time to explore the fantastic Newquay beaches using Cornwall’s MOST wheelchair accessible caravan as a base!

To access the outdoor pool and entertainment venue you will need to purchase passes.

If you’re still interested comment away!!

28/07/2024

Incoming Free break at Newquay from tomorrow until Friday!! I don’t suppose there is anyone available for this is there 😉🤣

Summer is arriving tomorrow!!! Please share the news and remember where you heard it first!If you haven't already got yo...
25/07/2024

Summer is arriving tomorrow!!! Please share the news and remember where you heard it first!

If you haven't already got your summer holiday booked, we still have a little bit of availability all at 30% off our listed prices for all locations.

This means that all remaining July and August breaks are now priced at :

3 nights - £420 (was £700) plus £75 refundable accidental damage bond
4 nights - £490 (was 600) plus £75 refundable accidental damage bond
7 nights - £892.50 (was £1275) plus £75 refundable accidental damage bond.

Available dates for each location as follows:

Berwick Upon Tweed - Super El
29/7/2024 to 9/8/2024
30/8/2024 to 2/9/2024

Bowland Fell - Horton
29/7/2024 to 5/8/2024
9/8/2024 to 12/8/2024
16/8/2024 to 23/8/2024
26/8/2024 to 2/9/2024

Burnham on Sea - Eldo
30/8/2024 to 2/9/2024

Chapel St Leonards - Rose
09/08/24 to 16/08/2024

Towyn - David
23/08/2024 to 30/08/2024

Newquay - Zelda
29/7/2024 to 02/08/2024
5/8/2024 to 12/08/2024
30/8/2024 to 2/9/2024

Prestatyn - Jubilee
26/8/2024 to 2/9/2024

For details of each caravan and it's location visit our website here...

https://holisticthinkingholidays.godaddysites.com/our-holiday-homes

Or if you already know where you'd like to book head straight for online bookings here...

https://holisticthinkingholidays.godaddysites.com/availability

23/07/2024

30% off remaining Summer availability at Berwick upon Tweed.

July/August/Sept

26th July to August 9th and August 30th to Sept 2nd.

Limited availability late October.

Prices INCLUDING PASSES for entertainment and pool:

3 nights - £420 (was £700) plus £75 refundable accidental damage bond
4 nights - £490 (was 600) plus £75 refundable accidental damage bond
7 nights - £892.50 (was £1275) plus £75 refundable accidental damage bond

Super El has the following features:

Sleeps 6 in 2 bedrooms
Private Parking
Ramped access,
Master bedroom with double electric adjustable bed and full room coverage ceiling hoist.
Twin bedroom
Sofa bed in Lounge
Accessible wet-room with step-free shower, wall-mounted shower seat and tilt in space wheel in shower chair commode, grab-rails, raised WC seat, and wheel-under washbasin.

Guests can enjoy indoor and outdoor pools (with water chute), play areas, family entertainment, and amusement arcades. The park is in a clifftop location just a short walk from the historic walled town of Berwick-upon-Tweed and within easy driving distance of the beautiful Northumberland coast.
The holiday park has a swimming pool with hoist.

To view all Super El's details and book online visit our website ...
https://holisticthinkingholidays.godaddysites.com/super-el

For any of you wondering if Bekki Prenny is going to Weymouth this weekend… She is!!! Have a lovely weekend Bekki and fa...
19/07/2024

For any of you wondering if Bekki Prenny is going to Weymouth this weekend… She is!!! Have a lovely weekend Bekki and family!!

This marks a couple of HTH milestones that are worth mentioning. This will be the first weekend that all 10 of our current fleet are occupied. This is now pretty much the case until September, but if you’re quick you can still snap up the last few available dates her with 20 % off all of our own caravans for bookings happening between now and the end of October and 30 % off all bookings received before the end of August at Bowland Fell in Horton!!

https://holisticthinkingholidays.godaddysites.com/home -b5b6-403f-8be4-5dcf05e6c4d4

Today also saw our last guests ( for now anyway😉) leaving Tailah, on the same day as our first guests arrive at Horton.

Our capacity now sits at over 500 short breaks per year!

Thank you everyone for your continued support!!

As much as we hope that EVERYONE gets to enjoy their holidays with us over the summer, there will no doubt be a few cancellations over the coming weeks, so keep your eyes peeled for more last minute offers! Let’s see if we can get all 10 vans full for the whole summer!!

Accessible Family Holidays for all, including children and adults with special needs, for whom "wheelchair access" is just not enough.

18/07/2024

Would you believe that Leanne can’t make it either!!

Third time lucky???

And the winner is Bekki Prenny…. Apologies for the typos on the wheel!

18/07/2024

NEWSFLASH!!! Unfortunately Jay can’t make it to Weymouth this weekend so ,,,,,Second chance everyone!!!

18/07/2024

And the winner of a weekend in Weymouth is……..

Entries now closed!!Winner will be announced later this evening. So who's been hanging on to see if we'd offer another F...
18/07/2024

Entries now closed!!

Winner will be announced later this evening.

So who's been hanging on to see if we'd offer another FREE weekend away??

Don't be silly! This is the first weekend of the school holidays, surely you don't expect us to give away a holiday in peak season??😉

Well, Prestatyn has been booked today, but Weymouth is still available for 3 nights from tomorrow... SO... to be in with a chance of winning the break for £0, zero, Zilch, please give us the name of our caravan at Weymouth Bay Holiday Park in the comments below. Entries close at 7:30 this evening and we'll reveal the winner in the usual way on our wheel of names later.

To access the pool and entertainment venue you will need to purchase Haven passes.

Even the camera shy Mrs HTH couldn't avoid the gaze of the official cameraman at the recent Bedfordshire SME Business Aw...
18/07/2024

Even the camera shy Mrs HTH couldn't avoid the gaze of the official cameraman at the recent Bedfordshire SME Business Awards!

Unlike the caravan man, she's even holding the trophy the right way around so we can read what it says!

Now we're looking forward to another shindig at the Nationals in December at Wembley!

UPDATE…. Prestatyn is now booked, but Weymouth still available for this weekend. Last chance for a cut price break this ...
17/07/2024

UPDATE…. Prestatyn is now booked, but Weymouth still available for this weekend.

Last chance for a cut price break this weekend!

3 nights from Friday 19th July at either Prestatyn or Weymouuth.

Where else can you get all this, for £260 plus £75 refundable accidental damage bond, in the first week of the summer holidays, for up to 7 people??

Private parking
Pet Friendly (up to 2)
Ramped access to wide door (up to 1.4m at Weymouth, 0.9m at Prestatyn))
All internal sliding doors 75cm wide minimum.
Sleeps up to 7
Ceiling Hoist in master bedroom with 6' Profiling bed and double bed.
Twin second bedroom
Sofa bed in lounge
Large wet room with tilt in space shower chair commode
Mobile hoist
Low level kitchen with roll under sink.
All bedding provided.

Child or small adult sized beach wheelchair also included at Prestatyn!

Head over to our website to see more information including photos and video tours and to book online..

Weymouth - https://holisticthinkingholidays.godaddysites.com/stella

Prestatyn - https://holisticthinkingholidays.godaddysites.com/jubilee

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Our New project

Hi everyone! I would like to introduce our new project, Holistic Thinking Holidays. We have purchased a wheelchair accessible, 2 bedroom static caravan which already has a good size wet room and an extra large master bedroom. We plan to install overhead tracking in the large bedroom and buy a profiling bed. That room will easily accommodate 3. There is also a twin bedroom. We are going to adapt the kitchen so that it is a normal height - most wheelchair accessible vans have low level kitchens assuming the wheelchair user will do all the cooking, The van will have a wrap around veranda with a ramped access. We are also installing double doors out onto the veranda.

We want our mobile home to be accessible for families with a member who has higher level care needs. But our aim is that it will be non clinical and comfortable for all. It is pitched on a Haven holiday park at Caister on Sea, Norfolk, which is well set up for wheelchair users and we are in conversation with them to make it even more accessible. The swimming pool has a has a beach style entry point and a hoist as well.

We want to offer a style of accommodation that is affordable, suits the family and offers more of what is needed for children and adults with special needs for whom "wheelchair access" is just not enough. It's a project and we are just beginning - watch this space! But we really hope some happy memories will be made staying at "Wilbur" the static caravan.

Claire Broughton-Welsh Independent Paediatric Occupational Therapist and Case Manager