The founders of a charity set up to provide disabled people with enjoyable caravan holidays have said they are sad to see the end of their initiative.
North Staffordshire and South Cheshire Holidays was established 15 years ago with the purchase of a specially converted caravan in Wales.
However, the trustees Alan Barlow and Jake Plant have had no choice but to wind up the charity because of old age and ill health, the Sentinel newspaper reports.
Over the years, thousands of local people have used the trust’s disabled-friendly caravan at Greenacres Holiday Park in Porthmadog to enjoy a holiday by the sea at a dramatically reduced cost.
Mr Barlow, aged 73, said he and his friend decided to set up the charity after hearing that a local council was closing down a holiday home for the disabled in Llandudno.
Explaining their reasons for bringing the initiative to an end, he said: “One of us had to go to the site every month to do general housekeeping duties and sadly it has now got to the stage where we just can’t do it anymore.”
Mr Plant also said he was sad to see the charity closed down and insisted there have not been many weekends when the caravan has sat empty.
