Mobility Challenge and Better Choices Workshop
at Moor Park

A Mobility Challenge and Better Choices Workshop forum was held at Moor Park on Thursday 28 February 2002 to give disabled people a voice in transport and leisure issues in the North East.

The workshop was organised by Don Smith and Margaret Wright, and was facilitated by Margaret Greico, Professor of Transport and Society, Transport Research Institute, Napier University, Stephen Little, Senior Lecturer in Knowledge Management, Open University Business School and Rob Rolls, IT Volunteer at Moor Park Community Centre. This was a very exciting meeting for Moor Park. There were 5 wheelchair users in a group of 12 plus carers, who turned up for the workshop.

Although Moor Park does have full disabled access, we do not get many wheelchair users accessing the Centre,we have never had as many as we had at the workshop.

It was a really cold day but thanks to the volunteer ladies of Moor Park we enjoyed a lunch which included home made soup and a bun. There was a really friendly,happy atmospher throughout the whole day, it was nice to see such a mixture of women and men from differing age groups.

Moor Park would like to thank all the organisers,volunteers,carers, Don Smith and the Better Choices Group. It is hoped we can repeat the workshop again at a later date.

Links relevant to this article:
Mobility Challenge
Better Choices: Leisure for Disabled People Sadly, since the owners of this site have decided not to update it since it was created in 2001, the information contained within it is out of date. Bear this in mind if you decide to visit the "Better Choices" web site.

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