Our indoor club has managed to blag a metal ramp to give one of our members who's in a wheechair acces to a rostrum. We have some rostrum boxes built that are bigger footprint than the other to better accomodate wheelchairs.
It's only a low rostrum, as our room isn't massive, and we were just lucky that another member knew where he could lay his hands on a ramp that is perfect for the job. If he hadn't we'd still be lifted him up onto the rostrum to race! That worked ok for a bit, but is certainly not the safest way to go about it for him or for anyone helping to lift him.
If we hadn't been gifted our ramp it would have been a considerable spend to provide one, so it would have taken a while to get it sorted. I think all cubs would love to be able to provide that access if they knew it was going to be used by someone, but funds are obvously tight everywhere, so it's just not as easy as we'd like it to be.
We're hoping to build a new outdoor track shortly, and for sure we'll do everything we can to try and accomodate our members needs if it's feasibly possible. It just isn't always that simple when you have limited resources.
Fingers crossed we'll come up with a solution we can afford, and other clubs find ways to help out with this where they can, I'm sure if asked they'd all try and do everthing they could to help out.
Neil, where abouts in Wiltshire are you? You say south west, we have guys who come over from all around the SW area, including one from around Swindon somewhere I think to race with us, so not sure if we might be close enough?
Take a look and see...
www.caldicotrcracers.co.uk
