A BOATING club in South Oxfordshire have finally found a mooring for a planned 'wheelyboat' for disabled users.

The Wallingford Accessible Boat Club (WABC) are now appealing to local businesses, individuals and grant-making organisations to help fund the project.

John Jenkins MBE, the chairman project founder, said: "We have been searching for over two years now and although the mooring is only temporary... if our wheelyboat arrived tomorrow we would have somewhere to put it.

"Now we can crack on raising the necessary funds (estimated at £65,000). It is a tall order but I am confident we can achieve it, possibly in less than a year."

The group added that they hoped to have a wheelyboat for use by the local Wallingford disabled community and their supporters by next May/June, in readiness for the 2019 season.

It is looking to purchase a wheelchair accessible powerboat, the Coulam V20, which it says has been proven on other waterways around the UK. The Coulam V20 offers a drop-down bow facility that enables wheelchair users to roll on to the flat bottom of the boat.

Their objective is to enable disabled people the opportunity to independently participate in river experiences on the Wallingford stretch of the Thames.

Interested parties are asked to email Mr Jenkins on john.jenkins999@btinternet.com