Users of the “essential lifeline” Shopmobility service in Coatbridge have told how they will be impacted by its forthcoming closure, saying that its loss will “take our independence off us”.
The town’s mobility hub and its sister facility in Motherwell will both shut on October 28 after their operator, the Health and Wellness Hub, announced that it was no longer financially viable to run the service – which costs £64,000 per year and has been losing £5000 per month since April.
Disabled people who hire scooters and wheelchairs from the two centres will stage a protest at the Coatbridge venue next week and are demanding that North Lanarkshire Council resume funding the scheme, as it did before transferring its running to the charity in 2019.
