The Jolt Trust Charity

If you read our inspiring guest blog posts from Emily Yates you'll be familiar with the charity organisation she mentioned called Jolt Trust. We're really interested in what this small charity offer to disabled people and what they have already achieved. So we'd like to share some more info about the Jolt Trust movement with you... "Since 1983, the Journey of...

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Emily Yates: Q+A - Part 2

After reading about Emily's incredible story so far we decided to ask her some questions about her involvement at London 2012 and what her plans are for the future. Here is our short Q+A session with her... 1. As a wheelchair user, how did you find the facilities and accessibility at The Games? I thought it was incredible.  Not only were the facilities great,...

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Emily Yates: 'Journey of a Lifetime' - Part 1

- Emily and Seb at London 2012 - Emily and her friend Tom with  The One Show's Alex Jones Me and my twin sister, Lucy were born 10 weeks prematurely, and later diagnosed with Cerebral Palsy, after not being able to walk for quite a while when we were young.  My early memories are of constantly walking up and down the stairs at our local Children's Development...

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