Our Strategy 2022 - 2024

Too many young people aren't getting a wheelchair that fully meets their needs. Without the ability to be independent young wheelchair users are restricted in their ability to socialise and participate in society.

Our new strategy, Empowering Young Wheelchair Users, is here to change that.

Vision

A society where every young wheelchair user is mobile, enabled and included

Initiatives

• Mobile: We will significantly increase our provision of high-quality wheelchairs to young people.

• Enabled: We will provide confidence-building experiences for every young wheelchair user in the UK.

• Included: We will work with young wheelchair users to create societal change and inclusion.

Enablers

• Sustainable: We will raise awareness of our work and create exciting opportunities for more people to support young wheelchair users.

• Energised: We will develop a diverse team which is happy, collaborative and motivated by what we do.

• Transformed: We will transform the ways we work to deliver our ambitions in the most effective way.

Values

We are young people focused, ambitious, collaborative and inclusive.

Our strategic initiatives in detail

Mobile 

We will significantly increase our provision of high-quality wheelchairs to young people.

This priority is focused on doubling the number of young people we support by providing wheelchairs and essential mobility equipment.

By the end of 2024, we aim to:

• Increase the number of young wheelchair users receiving wheelchairs and equipment support to 2,000*.
• Deliver all mobility equipment to young people within 18 weeks.

*In 2021, Whizz Kidz provided wheelchairs and mobility equipment to 900 young people.

Enabled

We will provide confidence-building experiences for every young wheelchair user in the UK.

This priority is focused on increasing the number of young people we support with confidence-building experiences delivered through Wheelchair Skills Training, Employability Training and our Activity Programmes.

By the end of 2024, we aim to:

• Offer accredited training and support to young people.
• Increase the number of young wheelchair users accessing our young people's services programmes to 1,600* per year.
• Improve how we measure and understand our services' impact on young people to inform and shape future service provision.

*In 2021, 600 young wheelchair users accessed Whizz Kidz young people's services programmes.

Included

We will work with young wheelchair users to create societal change and inclusion.

This priority is focused on influencing long-term sustainable change and inclusion for young wheelchair users in the UK.

We will amplify young people's voices to create and lead a movement for change and ignite public awareness of the challenges faced by young wheelchair users.

By the end of 2024, we aim to:

• Work with the NHS to improve the NHS Wheelchair Criteria for young people.
• Campaign to make wheelchair skills training mandatory for all young wheelchair users.
• Inform and lobby decision-makers on changes that could be made to benefit young wheelchair users.

But we can't do it without you.

By working together with young wheelchair users and all our supporters, we know that we will be making a bigger difference for young wheelchair users across the UK.

Without our supporter's generosity and dedication, we would not be able to empower young wheelchair users across the UK.

Join us and be the change young people need to see. Donate, take on a challenge, volunteer, campaign, leave a legacy - there are so many ways to get involved: