A FUNDING crisis has forced a charity which provides wheelchairs and scooters to disabled shoppers in Poole to slash its service in half.
Shopmobility, which loans motorised scooters and wheelchairs from its town centre base, has cut back opening times from six days a week to just three.
Graeme Lines, chairman of the charity Wheels for Freedom, which operates the service, said less than half of the service's £1,000-a-week running costs were met by funding from the Borough of Poole, and the charity had found it impossible to make up the difference through subscriptions and donations.........
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