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The Irish Wheelchair Association is still accepting used clothes and shoes for recycling. Bags can be dropped off at IWA Centre in Logmore Monday to Friday. Your support helps maintain services in Erris in these difficult times.

The Irish Wheelchair Foundation (IWA) was founded in 1960 by a small group of wheelchair users committed to improving the lives of people with physical disabilities in Ireland. Today there are 20,000 members and more than 2,000 staff, as well as many volunteers who are dedicated to enhancing the community-based organisation.

The Irish Wheelchair Association is having an open day in the new resource and outreach centre in Logmore Belmullet on Wednesday September 19 in order to afford the community a chance to come and see the new centre. Everyone is welcome from 2pm to 5pm.

NUI Galway’s 11th annual volunteering fair will take place on Wednesday September 26 in the Bailey Allen Hall, from 1pm to 5pm, with more than 2,000 students, staff, and members of the general public expected to attend.

If you would like to become a ‘Runaway Bride’ and get a chance to wear your wedding dress once again and show it off to the world, now is your chance. You are invited to dust the cobwebs off the most expensive dress in your wardrobe and participate in a fundraising walk while raising funds for local hospice/ palliative care services and the Irish Wheelchair Association.

If you would like to become a ‘Runaway Bride’ and get a chance to wear your wedding dress once again and show it off to the world, now is your chance. You are invited to dust the cobwebs off the most expensive dress in your wardrobe and participate in a fundraising walk while raising funds for local hospice/ palliative care services and the Irish Wheelchair Association.

Everybody no matter what age has some non-motorised wheels, so why not get out your wheels and get together with your family and friends and join in the fun by Making Tracks for the Irish Wheelchair Association.

They are hardly what you might call the proverbial boy racer, with more than a quarter of a million mobility scooters on British roads, the number of them here in Ireland has grown. But despite having a top speed of just eight miles per hour, Mayo County Council has become so concerned about the potential for accidents involving mobility scooter drivers, it has decided to offer free training lessons.

The Erris branch of the Irish Wheelchair Association is holding its annual family BBQ on Saturday June 23 at the Gateway Leisureplex.

The Irish Wheelchair Association, Mayo will be holding its annual church gate collections on June 17 in Newport, July 7 and 8 in Belmullet, September 15 and 16 in Westport, October 6 and 7 in Mulranny and Achill. Collections for the rest of the county will take place over the weekend of June 23 and 24.