Mobility Trust's history Mobility Trust was founded in 1972 to develop special road vehicles for severely disabled people, building on the work of the electronic laboratories at the National Spinal Injuries Centre, Stoke Mandeville Hospital. Roger Jefcoate, deputy director there for ten years, was a founder of our charity and remains as honorary adviser and a very active Vice-President. Since then the need has changed from the development of new mobility aids to funding them. We now concentrate on providing powered wheelchairs and scooters for severely disabled children and adults who cannot obtain them through statutory sources or purchase such equipment themselves. Our role We feel it is essential that all disabled people be given the chance to attain their own potential for independence through mobility. We are the only charity providing such broad support, regardless of age or cause of disability. We give direct help to disabled people, covering all the disabling diseases we have all heard of and many more obscure but devastating ones.