Wokingham

Electric wheelchair users at the Wokingham Westmead Day Centre are ready to play now that their high table is back in action! A specially designed high table where Westmead service users eat their meals, play games and socialise in the evenings broke last week (February 16). The breakage left electric wheelchair users high and dry with nowhere to sit, and faced the Wokingham centre with a repair that could have cost several hundred pounds.

But local company Custom Metal Craft in Bennett Road, Reading, quickly repaired the table free of charge, so that care Wokingham activity officer Sheila Parkin was able to take the table back to the centre even before it was missed.

“They did the work so quickly that we had the table repaired and back in its place before it was needed at lunch time,” said Sheila. “We’re all very impressed, and we’d like to thank Custom Metal Craft for their generosity and excellent repair work.”

Executive member for Wokingham social care and housing Pauline Helliar Symons said: “I’m delighted to see a local business offering the Westmead Centre their support in this way. Donating services like this is absolutely invaluable and enables the centre’s money to be spent on other things. I would like to thank Custom Metal Craft very much indeed.”

Westmead Day Centre in Rances Lane, Wokingham, offers rehabilitation and respite care to physically disabled adults over 18 years. More information about the centre is available on (0118) 989 4032.

Wokingham District Council