A CONTAINER filled with new and second-hand mobility equipment will be shipped from Sankey Bridges next month in order to aid disabled people in refugee camps.

Warrington Disability Partnership has been collecting equipment donations in a unit at Gatewarth Industrial Estate since it announced the Phoenix Project in February.

The project, set up as part of the charity’s 25th birthday celebrations, will see second-hand and unsellable mobility equipment shipped to countries in dire need including Egypt and Sudan.

Next month, the first batch of 22 pallets of equipment will be sent off to Syrian refugee camps in Jordan.

Dave Thompson, cofounder and chief executive of Warrington Disability Partnership, said: “We’re hoping that by the first week in December we should be ready to put a container together – that’s the aim.

“People can donate anything and we’ll see if we can get parts from it and recycle it.

“The whole idea is that this will be a self-sufficient project so that the scrap will pay for the work that we’ve got going on.

“What we’re after is anything that can aid people’s mobility – don’t tip it, bring it here.

“We will sort the stuff we are given, keep what we can keep and refurbish it and scrap and recycle what we can’t keep.

“There are a whole load of ways that people can get involved and we’re also looking for volunteers.”

Warrington Disability Partnership’s latest project will also create jobs for young disabled people in the town.

The charity is looking for donations of wheelchairs, zimmer frames, walkers, walking sticks and crutches.

Industrial racking plus shrink-wrapping and banding machines are also being sought for use at the project’s unit.

Donations can be dropped at the charity’s base on Beaufort Street for more information call 240064.