A CHARITY, which provides short-term loans of electric scooters, powered wheelchairs and manual wheelchairs, has received a boost to the coffers of £4,600 after receiving a Gannet Foundation Grant.

Event Mobility Charitable Trust, based in Tewkesbury, is celebrating the cash injection, which it plans to spend on six new electric scooters to replace those that are redundant or beyond repair.

The charity is staffed primarily by volunteers and provides short term loans of electric scooters, powered wheelchairs and manual wheelchairs at countryside events for the benefit of elderly, disabled and mobility impaired people.

There is no need to be registered disabled or a regular wheelchair user. The service is available to both young and old who are suffering from mobility problems, whether as a result of temporary or permanent disablement, age, accident or illness.

Operations director, David Taylor, said: "It's very nice that we've got this money and we plan to buy some new scooters with it."

The Gannett Foundation is the charitable arm of Gannett Co Inc, owner of the Newsquest Media Group, one of the UK's largest publishers with the Evesham Journal as one of its titles.

The Gannett Foundation provides funding to support local organisations in the area where Newsquest operates in the UK.

The Greater Bristol Foundation, on behalf of the Gannett Foundation and Newsquest, manages the Fund.