QEF Mobility Services – 40th Anniversary
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EF Mobility Services is celebrating 40 years of helping people with disabilities and agerelated impairments to find solutions for mobility independence. Over the past 40 years, QEF Mobility Services have grown into one of the UK’s top providers, completing around 1,400 assessments each year. Providing advice, training, and support to ensure maximum mobility and to give people the freedom to live their lives as they wish, enjoying new and exciting opportunities through adaptations and mobility solutions. From humble beginnings at Banstead Place in Surrey to Royal visits, the work of QEF Mobility Services has had an immeasurable impact on thousands of lives, bringing about a positive change for disability throughout the UK.
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How it all began
1956-74
Banstead Place opened as a residential medical rehabilitation centre in 1956, and then in 1974 the role changed, and Banstead Place welcomed their first disabled schoolleaver. Students arrived when they
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BANSTEAD PLACE 1 Temporary building 2 Wheelchair store 3 Brick bulding 4 Field used for all terrain vehicles
were aged 16, with the two most common disabilities being cerebral palsy and spina bifida. Most students were full-time wheelchair users or able to walk only a few steps indoors. Giving them outdoor mobility skills was key to them developing as young people in society.
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