Tennis coach ‘serves’ Christian charity and claims world record

Middlesex tennis coach, Danny Sitton, recently battled through exhaustion and pain to raise £2500 for Integr8 – the disability youth programme of Through the Roof, and at the same time claimed an unofficial world record for tennis coaching of 32 hours non-stop. The event took place at the LTA’s National Tennis ... Read More...

TTR on Facebook

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Ghana 2009 by Lucy Wood

After arriving late last night, today was spent mainly sorting through all the wheelchairs and mobility aids.  They were already colour-coded into sizes.  However, we needed to divide them up into the different distribution days.  Three of the therapists spent some time ... Read More...

Wheels to Uganda

Through the Roof will be sending a Wheels for the World wheelchair distribution team to Uganda in June 2010.  This will be our first time in Uganda, partnering with Non Government Organisation RILD (Response Initiative for Learning Disabilities).

Ethiopia 2009

The team used the the EECMY School for the Deaf in Nekemte as their base for the wheelchair distribution.  In total about 90 people were assessed, provided with wheelchairs or other equipment, given a Bible and prayed with. A highlight was talking with and giving Bibles to some Muslims, including ... Read More...

Kimilili, Kenya 2009

Returning to Kimilili, one of the Wheels team's regular distribution centres, the seven strong Wheels for the World team were encouraged as they saw changes which had greatly contributed to the integration of disabled people into the community. Just one example was a young girl who was unable to walk due ... Read More...

Training in Malawi

By TTR Trustee, John Naudé In the summer Belinda, Samuel and I (and another couple from church) went to Malawi with a missionary organisation called Emmanuel International for the first time.  Belinda and I led the training on leadership and discipleship to church elders.  Being a wheelchair user AND a pastor ... Read More...

How to Fundraise

The Ashtead Fundraising Team  have been extremely successful in raising thousands of pounds over the years for TTR's Wheels for the World programme. In this article you can read ... Read More...

Fundraising Event Case Study

Organising a Fundraising Event Case study of a successful fundraising event by Karen Goodridge ‘Safari Supper’ Before the event Pray. Get a team together to take on the tasks. (Don’t do everything yourself!) Decide what the event is raising money for (eg. To pay towards a Wheels trip or a DCF Holiday). Decide on a date. Ask 2 ... Read More...

Removing Barriers

A well-known Bible story told by Jesus is the parable of the Great Banquet, where we are encouraged to: ‘… go out into the highways and byways and bring in the poor, (sic) the crippled, the blind and the lame…so that my house will be full’.  (Luke 14) God’s house will never ... Read More...