Lottie is a very happy, smiley 5 year old girl who loves to be involved with everything. She has been diagnosed with a rare genetic disorder which has severely delayed her development, causing complex special needs. She is unable to talk, walk, sit, chew solid foods or feed herself. Which as you can imagine, means she requires a large amount of care on a daily basis.

Our current aim is to make our house more accessible to her. To achieve this, we need to raise funds for specialist equipment for the home, in particular a wheelchair lift so that she can access the whole of our house, not just stay downstairs. This will allow her to sleep upstairs with the rest of her family. This lift will be fitted into a wall so we can park her wheelchair into the lift and send it upstairs. Once upstairs she will have a bedroom that is very close to her parents bedroom, as currently we have to rely on a baby monitor or popping downstairs to check on her.

The cost of this piece of equipment (reconditioned) is estimated at £10,000. We estimate that our house will be ready for the wheelchair lift in 2 years time.

Currently we are taking the fundraising one step at a time- we have events planned for this year but only ideas for the next couple of years.

Thank you for reading and for your support xxx