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Hi, I’m Sue Maynard Campbell and I have been a ceiling track
hoist user since the early 1960s. My first hoist, which still hangs
in my garage, was designed for lifting car engines out of cars!
Things have moved on since then, thank goodness.
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I am a qualified solicitor but I now run
a disability consultancy in the UK called
Equal Ability CIC. For
years I have had great difficulty trying to operate the business
from Yorkshire, when a great deal of work happens in London, at
least two hours away on the train. Last year I managed to persuade
the Intercontinental Hotel Group (IHG) to install ceiling track
hoists as a trial in two hotels in London and one at Heathrow. Since
then my business (and leisure) life has been revolutionised and I am
beginning to feel I have more of the freedoms my non-disabled peers
have.
The good news is IHG has found the business case for the hoist
installation to have been met and the hoists will remain. More are
hopefully on their way but we still need to make sure the demand is
there.
I have four reasons for setting up CHuC as an
Equal Ability CIC
community
project:
- To let other ceiling track hoist users know about the new facilities
and when more come on line.
- To build up a strong business case backed by support from people who
need these facilities worldwide, to encourage others to install
hoists in their accommodation.
- To gather what little information there is on accommodation offering
ceiling track hoists as an easily accessible resource for
individuals and for organisations wishing, for instance, to book
accessible venues for their events.
- To provide a “meeting place” for those of use who use ceiling track
hoists to share information and experiences and widen the campaign
for more hoists.
If you are a ceiling track hoist user, anywhere in the world, please
get in touch and tell us where you go – or where you want to go!
Read my account of recent adventures with a mobile hoists
here!
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Bloomsbury has fitted a second hoist ..... (more) |
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