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BBC Lifeline Appeal
This coming weekend Remap is the subject of the BBC’s Lifeline appeal, which will be broadcast on BBC1 at 4:40 on Easter Sunday. It is then repeated next Wednesday on BBC2.
Featured Case Studies
Bicycle adaptation
Isabella is a little girl who is full of life, but she was born without a left forearm and this meant she was unable to ride a bicycle. She used to feel very left out when her friends went to play in the park on their bikes. Now all that has changed. The Remap group in Cambridge adapted a bicycle for her so that she can now cycle with her friends, and she is delighted.
Music machine
Naomi is a tiny woman in her mid-twenties who lives at a care home in West Sussex for young adults with complex needs. Kate, her occupational therapist, asked David Heaps, chairman of Remap’s West Sussex group, to make a music-playing device she felt would give Naomi pleasure and help with her development. The result was a small box fixed to the wall of her room which has strings she can pull to make music play.
Welcome to Remap’s Lifeline Appeal
Helping people with disabilities to achieve independence and enjoyment of life’s opportunities
Remap is a very special charity, working through a nationwide network of dedicated volunteers. These inspiring people use their ingenuity and skills to help people with disabilities to achieve much-desired independence in some aspect of their lives, or to enjoy leisure opportunities previously closed to them.
Remap’s unique pieces of special equipment are tailor-made by volunteer experts and given free to the people who need them. Because, as well as being inventive and skilful, they also care about people in their local communities who have disabilities – even a combination of them - which mainstream services have not been able to counteract. Our volunteers think these people matter a great deal - enough to give their time and energies for free, taking the trouble to ensure that each item they make really suits the individual person concerned and does the job it is meant to do.
Remap already has 85 panels across England, Wales and northern Ireland, and helps over 3000 people with disabilities each year. With your help, through the Lifeline appeal, we can help many more.
To watch the BBC Lifeline appeal for Remap again, please click here