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Dear Cath/Alex,
My father is now in his 70's and registered disabled. He always
shoots at our long range events at a military range in Hampshire and
our events at Bisley. He is frail, suffers badly from arthritis, but
can walk the short distance from his car to the firing point. I must
admit that we don't have any wheelchair bound members to my knowledge.
I'll post your message in the club and pass on any responses.
Closest to being wheel-chair bound was Dudley (unfortunately passed
away year before last) who always took a short step ladder with him to
the long range events because he couldn't climb out of the foxholes
without it. [Over the past two years we seem to have been planting a
small memorial forest, for our late members, on the green outside the
Elcho Hilton at Bisley.]
We have never had any complaints, or even comments, from the range
warden over my father or Dudley driving their cars along the narrow
road down the range, and parking them just behind and to the right of
which ever firing points we may be using.
You might like to search the MoD website to see whether MoD have any
published policy with regard to disabled persons. I do know that the
Defence Evaluation and Research Agency (part of MoD) have a positive
policy with regard to access for the disabled.
Regards,
George
--
I have to say I am growing very tired of the MoD. We have
to pay these outrageous range fees and often the service is
rubbish, as Cathy alludes to.
Steve.
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