BDDA youth section caters for children from 12 to 16 years of age with physical disabilities and is run in conjunction with Walney Comprehensive School Special Needs Unit.
We organise regular activities for the children on Friday afternoons between 3:15 and 4:15, including, pizza and video parties, games, quizzes, meals out, local trips and other events.
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For more details contact the Youth Services
Co-ordinator Carole Barry at the centre.
Youth Services
Services
BDDA provides a wide range of services from advice on specific disability issues to delivering a community-based social and activity programme. The centre provides a venue for delivery of educational and recreational courses, houses a cafe and complementary treatment room, offers a hire service from wheelchairs to minibus and acts as the hub for the disabled community of the district.
This section of the website introduces the main services that BDDA provide and some of the ways in which they can be accessed.
For further details about our Advice Shop or Training and Education, please go to the appropriate page using the link opposite
To find out more about any of the topics or issues included, please contact the centre either in person, by telephone or via e-mail or the website enquiry page, where your request will be dealt with by a trained staff member.
Quick Links
Transport for the disabled is always a concern. Hire of the BDDA Volkswagen Shuttle minibus might provide the solution to some of these concerns. It’s a comfortable size to drive being about the same chassis size as a people-carrier or large estate car and can carry up to nine people (including the driver) or up to 6 people with two narrow wheelchairs.
It is in excellent condition and is currently available to hire for just 70p per mile (a small, minimum hire fee applies).
In the past we have hired out the minibus for family trips, wedding parties, holidays and even funerals, basically any journey that requires the transportation of a group of people in a very economical way.
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For more details about hiring the minibus, please contact the centre
Minibus Hire
Mobility impaired people often face problems in getting about. For some a wheelchair is the answer but may only be needed on a few occasions or for a short period.
At BDDA we have several manual wheelchairs available for hire for at anything from a day to longer period for say a holiday. We do not set a fee for the hire of our wheelchairs, instead we feel it more appropriate that a small donation is made to the organisation.
Wheelchair Hire
This is a very popular group within BDDA - and there is usually a waiting list to join! The Social Club meet at the centre on Wednesday evenings between 6.30pm and 9:00pm.
A wide variety of social events and activities are organised based both at the centre and around the district. Members enjoy games of bingo and cards, sporting events, tenpin bowling, videos nights, dining out and trips to a range of attractions and entertainments.
Social Activities
BDDA are fortunate to have the services of a resident, professional, therapist, Margaret Hall. Margaret can provide homeopathic advice and preparations, a fascinating and useful method of dealing with both everyday and complex medical conditions.
Margaret also delivers a number of other therapies to improve general or specific health and well-being, including:
Bowen Technique - manipulation of the body’s soft tissues
Indian Head Massage - manipulation applied to the upper body and head
Reiki Therapy - healing through transference of energy
The service is professional and confidential.
For more details contact Margaret Hall at the BDDA centre or at her home on 01229 463028.
Complementary Services
The café, at the heart of the centre, is for the use of the members of the Barrow & District Disability Association and for their guests. In order to use the café registration with BDDA is required as we do not serve the general public.
All the people working in the café are generally volunteers who give their time for the betterment of the organisation and work hard to produce delicious reasonably priced food.
The opening hours are Tuesday to Friday 10am to 3pm and to become a member just fill in a form available at the centre free of charge.
Willow Tree Café
BDDA are able to provide room hire within the centre. There are three rooms available of different size and which may be put to a variety of general or specific uses from meetings and presentations to medical and therapeutic treatments.
Room Hire
Iris Telford Room Seats 20-40
Rate £7.50 per hour
Available in a number of seating configurations
Small Meeting Room
Seats 12-15
Rate £6.00 per hour.
Available in a number of seating configurations
Therapy Room
Small, light, airy room with an electric bed, suitable for a range of treatments including chiropody, homeopathy, massage, counseling etc.
Rate £5.00 per hour.
For further details please contact Shirley Waters on 01229 432599 or call into the centre.
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BDDA
71-77 School Street
Barrow-in-Furness
Cumbria
LA14 1EJ
Centre Opening Times
Tuesday to Friday
10:00am - 3:00pm
Telephone Lines Open
Monday to Friday
9:00am - 5:00pm