Shopmobility

 Shopmobility units at Sovereign Centre, Boscombe and Castlepoint, Castle Lane.
Shopmobility provides assistance to those with mobility problems to assist with shopping or any other business in and around Boscombe and Castle Lane. The service offers a short term loan of a wheelchair (powered or manual) or a powered scooter. Long loans can be taken, subject to availability, please contact the units for prices. Clients do not need to be registered disabled and the service is available for use by both young and old who have mobility problems, whether the result of permanent or temporary disablement, age, accident or illness.

Castlepoint shopmobility: annual membership costs £7.50 with a charge of £2 for each rental thereafter. Alternatively, visitors may pay a daily fee of £4 for either a powered vehicle or a manual wheelchair.

Both units are open Monday – Saturday from 1000am to 4pm. The Boscombe Shopmobility unit can be found in the lower ground car park at the Sovereign Centre and the Castlepoint Shopmobility unit is located at the Castlepoint shopping centre on the lower ground car park at the end of aisle 11. For any more information please telephone Dave Parsons on 01202 399700 or Alison Morrison on 01202 598295.

Boscombe shopmobility fees: annual membership costs £20 + £1 daily usage fee. Alternatively, visitors may pay a daily fee of £4.00 for a powered vehicle or a manual wheelchair.