How can I dispose of a wheelchair?

essy
essy Online Community Member Posts: 3 Listener
edited July 2024 in Housing and independent living
I have a wheelchair which is not mine but I need to dispose of it, any ideas I’m in tingley Wakefield area, 

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  • Pippa_Alumni
    Pippa_Alumni Scope alumni Posts: 5,761 Championing
    Hi @essy, welcome to the community!

    This guidance on selling/disposing of second-hand disability equipment may be helpful- have a read, and do come back to us with any queries.
  • essy
    essy Online Community Member Posts: 3 Listener
    Hi I have read the guidance info, I have just signed up for a property and there is a wheelchair still inside, the equipment centre says it’s not theirs. I just want to no where I can take it. If it will help someone else.
  • Pippa_Alumni
    Pippa_Alumni Scope alumni Posts: 5,761 Championing
    Hi again @essy, how odd! I wonder if Parkgate Mobility in Wakefield would be better able to advise? As you said, it would be great if it could go to somebody else who needed it. 
  • Jean_OT
    Jean_OT Online Community Member Posts: 511 Empowering
    Hi @essy
    As you are in the Wakefield area you could try offering the wheelchair to: Wakefield DIAL  http://www.dialwakefield.co.uk/services.html , a local charity which rents out wheelchairs to people at a low cost. If they don't want it they may well have local knowledge of where you can take it.
    Best Wishes
    Jean

  • essy
    essy Online Community Member Posts: 3 Listener
    Thank you jean I will try them, I don’t have any use for it x

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