Woodlarks Camp Site Trust
Disability is no barrier to adventure
Woodlarks Camp Site Trust’s focus on accessibility ensures that disability need not be a barrier to adventure. Anyone, whatever their physical or cognitive ability, can enjoy camping and outdoor activities in their12-acre woodland setting.
The Axis Foundation was delighted to support their application and donated £4,965 so they can purchase another accessible tent.
The tent allows plenty of room for users to have profiling beds (if required), hoist access and plenty of storage space for the essential equipment that comes with so many of their more complex campers. Each tent can accommodate six to eight people at a time, so many more people with disability will benefit from the joys of accessible camping.
That is brilliant news, THANK YOU! You have no idea how grateful we are to you for this grant, it will make an enormous difference to our users” – Nick Richards, Warden
More about Woodlarks
Over the last 25 years, Woodlarks volunteers have developed a facility that will meet the needs and risk assessments of any organisation that co-ordinates holidays or short breaks for people with disabilities. Examples of their adjustments include:
- hoists at the swimming pool and in changing rooms
- height-adjustable changing tables and private showers in pool changing rooms
- accessible showers and toilets
- height-adjustable tilting bath and nine profiling beds, all accessible by ceiling hoists
- new accessible food prep and cook house area
- wheelchair-accessible tarmacked paths
- tents on wheelchair-accessible timber tent bases
More about their work here
