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Welcome to The Wheelyboat Trust
The Wheelyboat Trust is a registered charity dedicated to providing disabled people with the opportunity and freedom to enjoy waters large and small all over the UK. Our role is to help and encourage venues open to the public to acquire Wheelyboats for their disabled visitors and to help groups and organisations acquire Wheelyboats for their own use.
Our vision is straightforward - open access for disabled people on waters everywhere via a range of Wheelyboat models to meet everybody’s needs.
Whether it's for the scenery or wildlife, sport or recreation, education or rehabilitation, lochs,
reservoirs, lakes, ponds, rivers and canals are a magnet to millions of visitors throughout the year.
However, by their very nature, access on and around these waters for wheelchair users and others with
limited mobility is very much restricted. Our specially designed Wheelyboats overcome all the difficulties.
Wheelyboats
provide their disabled users with the dignity of their own independence: they make the entire water accessible, are simplicity itself to board via the roll-on, roll-off bow ramp
and the level deck provides access to every corner of the boat including the helm.
Find out more about the Wheelyboat's capabilites here or where you can use a Wheelyboat here.
NEWS - STOP PRESS!!
New Wheelyboats coming:
Coulam 16s for Waterford & District Anglers, Hanningfield Reservoir, Grafham Water, Bewl Water, Loch Awe, River Tay.
Mk IIIs for Tamar Lakes, Leitrim Association of Disabled People, Hull's East Park Lake, Rollesby Broad, Decoy Country Park.
Mk IV Wheelyboat delivered to Bristol Sailability on 29th July – Formal launch due shortly – report and photos to follow.
July 2010
Toft Newton Trout Fishery wins 2010 Alan Faulkner Memorial Award.
For report, photo and video clip click here.
Mk III Wheelyboat delivered to Rudyard Lake, near Leek.
Report and photo to follow.
Coulam 16 Wheelyboat delivered to Blithfield Reservoir.
Report and photo to follow.
June 2010
Latest issue of the Trust's newsletter, Waterwheels, published. To download a copy, click here.
May 2010
Eyebrook's new Coulam 16 Wheelyboat launched. For report and photo click here.
Feature on the Trust in Fly Fishing & Fly Tying magazine.
The May issue of leading game angling monthly, FF&FT, included an article by Peter Lapsley on three charities working in the fly fishing arena, including The Wheelyboat Trust. To download a copy click here.
April 2010
River Fowey Mk III Wheelyboat launched. For report and photo click here.
March 2010
Stithians Mk III Wheelyboat launched. For report and photo click here.
Coulam 16 Wheelyboat delivered to Lake Windermere.
Refurbished Mk I Wheelyboats to Blenheim Estate and Kennick Reservoir.
February 2010
Wheelyboat Trust trustee Danny Peet fishing in a Wheelyboat breaks fishery record with a 17lb rainbow trout at Toft Newton. Click here for a photo.
THE KILIMANJARO CLIMB - FATHER AND SON TEAM UP TO CLIMB MOUNT KILIMANJARO IN AID OF THE RIVER TAY WHEELYBOAT APPEAL
For more details click here or to make a donation go to the Tay Foundation website.
Our Aims
Our national Wheelyboats For All project is a major initiative which aims to broaden the appeal of the Wheelyboat, provide them to a greater range of venues, widen the scope of their usage and increase the numbers of disabled people using them. Funding received for this project has enabled us to recruit a Field Officer and the project is beginning to make an impact, especially now we have the brand new Mk III Wheelyboat model.
Wheelyboats For All is also providing the basis of some important development plans. These include more Wheelyboat models such as a larger trip/ferry boat and an angling boat for stillwaters. We want to recruit more volunteers and an additional Field Officer. We want to work more closely with disabled charities and organisations, especially those benefiting children, so that the Wheelyboat's principal beneficiaries can help us determine and provide them where they are most needed.
If you have any questions or would like any further information please do not hesitate to contact us.