Thalidomide victim, and night club comedian Gary Skyner is launching a new charity aimed at assisting people who have lost limbs either through congenital deformity or trauma during their lives.
"CLIMBS" will be launched with the support from Ricky Tomlinson, best known for his starring role on the BBC sitcom “The Royle Family”; TV medium Derek Acorah
and Derek Hatton, radio presenter and former Deputy Leader of Liverpool City Council.
The current leader of Liverpool City Council, Warren Bradley will present a donation to CLIMBS - Congenital Limbless and Impaired Mobility Benevolent Society - to the new charity of fifty replica Penny Lane Street Signs and fifty Strawberry Fields Signs.
The significance in this figure is that it is the fiftieth anniversary of the first victim to be born affected by the Thalidomide drug.
It is hoped that Sir Paul McCartney and hopefully Ringo Starr, the two remaining Beatles, will autograph the signs to raise thousands of pounds which is
urgently needed due to the fact that the Government has never paid compensation the remaining 457 UK victims of thalidomide.
At a launch event on 23rd June Ricky Tomlinson, Derek Acorah and Derek Hatton will speak and appeal directly to the Prime Minister, The Rt Hon. Gordon Brown
MP and the newly appointed Minister for Health, The Rt Hon. Andy Burnham MP to apologise in writing to every Thalidomide Victim and their families and
also recognise the need for meaningful compensation.
Said Gary: "To date the UK Government have not done a single thing to relieve the undoubted suffering of those born without limbs as a
direct result of the drug that the UK Government licensed and recommended to GPs to prescribe to the unsuspecting public.
"CLIMBS aims to provide assistance in establishing or enhancing personal independence for people residing in the United Kingdom who have congenital absence or impairment of one or more limbs or who have suffered the loss of one or more limbs as a result of traumatic injuries. It will also work to raise awareness of these conditions."
The objectives of CLIMBS are:-
1. Providing advice to the Beneficiaries, including advice on how to obtain information
relevant to their needs.
2. Providing monetary grants to the Beneficiaries (including assistance with travelling
expenses in cases of need e.g. hospital visits, important social or community events.
3. Providing equipment to the Beneficiaries (e.g. mobility and care aids, adaptive and
assistive equipment and technology).
4. Assisting Beneficiaries to set up or develop a business or to gain remunerative
employment, in order to facilitate economic independence.
5. Promoting and raising the awareness of the problems associated with the absence
of impairment of limbs using whatever means are appropriate.
6. Providing advice and support to those people who are assisting the Beneficiaries in
any area of their social or health care.
7. Acting in whatever way may be appropriate in support of the Beneficiaries, to
improve their quality of life.
8. Notwithstanding the restriction for support of beneficiaries to those who are
resident in the United Kingdom, to develop and maintain contacts with other
individuals and organisations elsewhere in the world the purpose of assisting the
achievement of the aims and objectives of CLIMBS for its own beneficiary group.
This may involve sharing information and ideas that may be of mutual benefit with
other such individuals and organisations.
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