One of the Rotary Club of Saffron Walden’s main projects was able to restart last week after months of being on hold due to the Coronavirus pandemic.
The project, the collection of unwanted mobility and physiotherapy equipment from the East and South East England on behalf of the Yorkshire charity PhysioNet had to be suspended at the onset of the pandemic.
After conducting risk assessments and introducing Covid-secure precautions for the volunteers taking part, the Club was keen to run a trial collection of equipment and a delivery to the PhysioNet depot in Yorkshire.
Last week a collection of wheelchairs donated by the Red Cross in Harlow was collected by two club volunteers and driven to Yorkshire.
The collected equipment is checked by physiotherapists and where necessary refurbished, with the help of the Margaret Carey Foundation in Wakefield, which sends items to various prisons for the work to be carried out.
Ed Netsel of the Club’s PhysioNet project said, “After many months of the road, it was great to be able to restart this useful project.”
He added that he hoped that more collections and deliveries could be made in the coming weeks, but this depended on Government restrictions in various parts of the country.
