Wheelchair (Hire or Loan)
See below for contact details of services that provide wheelchairs for hire or loan.
Disability Watford has also created a new page to help you source wheelchairs, mobility aids and related equipment, provide information on potential funding assistance and also guidance on what types of mobility aids are available.
Here is the link to the Wheelchairs and Mobility Aids page.
Red Cross
Croxley Green (Watford) Mobility Aid Service
Tel 01923 720485
www.redcross.org.uk/get-help/borrow-a-wheelchair
Shopmobility
Tel 01923 211020
Powered wheelchairs/scooters for use in the High Street from Town Hall to Tesco’s and Intu shopping mall.
ShopMobility also hire out manual wheelchairs for those areas and other areas, home or out and about. A daily hire fee may be incurred.
Meadow Mobility
Potten End
Tel 01442 865588
Herts Action on Disability (HAD)
Welwyn Garden City
Tel 01707 384260
Please remember that for long term hire of a manual wheelchair it may be cheaper to purchase one from a mobility aids company or places such as www.amazon.co.uk or www.ebay.co.uk amongst others from the internet.