*** Vee Dub Charity Calendar 2018 ***

It’s that time of year again we have been planning our annual charity calendar and we are absolutely delighted that this year all proceeds will be donated to a lovely young lady who has a huge passion for all things VW.

Many of you will have seen the posts all over Facebook where people have been sending cards, gifts and even arranging a meet to help make Scarlett Taylor-Blundells 7th birthday a day to remember.

Well here at Vee Dub we were touched by everyones kindness and thought with the help of our customers, fans and the general VW community we could also give Scarlett a gift to remember.

Scarlett suffered HIE during and after labour leaving her brain starved from Oxygen for a prolonged period of time leaving her with quadriplegic cerebral epilepsy, visual impairment, severe dystonia all of which leave her requiring tube feeding, being non-mobile, non-verbal and life limited.

Scarlett’s mum Asha says she is her little miracle “Scarlett shouldn’t have survived birth, we were told she wouldn’t make it but she has and has gone through so much in her little 7 years from operations, seizures, chest infections, ventilation etc and still shows us every day what a tough cookie she is.  Scarlett is loved by everyone and her smile lights up a room, she has an infectious laugh and really is our own little miracle!”

So come on everyone, lets get behind this and make it amazing for Scarlett, she wants a VW Transporter bed and with your help we can make this happen!

You can order your Vee Dub 2018 charity calendar here >

Thanks guys and hope you can all get behind this great cause.

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You may remember that way back in November 2016 we launched a charity calendar in aid of Teenage Cancer Trust and we did it by supporting a team of VW enthusiasts who were trecking across India in battered old jeeps doing something called ‘The Dumball Rally’ (think Cannonball run but without Burt Reynolds or proper cars).

Well the guys have completed the rally and in the process, with your help, raised over £9,000 to date, a truly staggering amount and on behalf of The ‘A’ Team (and ourselves of course)  would like to thank each and every one of you who bought a calendar and supported this great cause, the response from you guys was amazing and as well as the money raised through the calendars the awareness of you guys commenting and sharing this on Facebook helped their donations too!

Again, thank you all from ourselves and Derek, Paul, Dan and Steve of The 2017 Dumball Rally ‘A’ Team!!!

The ‘A’ Team are still accepting donations on their Just Giving page here if you wish to donate > 

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We spoke with Andrew Pursell, a 36 year old petrolhead and a lover of VW Transporters.

Andrew had a successful career as an area manager even though he was born with a condition called Scoliosis, which is a curving of the spine and was told throughout his life it would never affect him.

Unfortunately for Andrew, when he hit his 30’s he started to suffer immense pain walking and even just standing straight and was told he would have to have his spine re-built, which he was told was an operation that had never been done on this scale in the UK before, and only twice Worldwide.

There was a 50/50 chance of success but Andrew decided he had to give it a go and so 4 years ago Andrew had the operation but unfortunately it was unsuccessful, 2 further attempts again were unsuccessful and after 3 operations Andrew was left paralysed from the waist down.

Andrew thought his driving days were over, which for an avid petrolhead was devastating but he found out about a scheme called Motability and got in touch with them to see how they could help, I was told I would need a van due to having an electric wheelchair and expected to receive an ugly looking van (even though I was grateful for anything I got) and was amazed when I took delivery of a T5 Transporter Shuttle fitted with electric barn doors, a tail-lift and a system that allows me to drive my wheelchair in, fix it and transfer to the drivers seat with ease, and all configured so I can drive with only my hands.

Andrew was amazed, this was changing his life!!!

Andrew continues the story, “I was totally amazed and wanted to make other disabled people aware of these type of adaptions and controls and to bring it to the publics attention and I thought the best way to do this was to modify my T5 so it stands out as a one-of-a-kind and gets attention at all the shows and events I plan to attend.  I want to encourage people to look inside and see that it is for a wheelchair user like me and can still be driven with no legs or feet being used.

The World is all about making disabled people feel less like outsiders and more included in society and I am taking my van to all the national VW shows and hope I can raise awareness for disabled people including war heroes so they can see they don’t have to give up on their freedom just because they are disabled”.

Andrew is hoping to set up a charity in the near future to use his experiences to raise awareness, give advice and point people in the right direction and get them talking to people who can help.

Lots of businesses have been supportive of Andrew and he is very grateful for all the help he is receiving, Andrew says “As anyone who loves their van or car knows modifying it costs a lot of money and I am still needing help with mine but to date lots of amazing companies in the Vee Dub scene have helped me massively and I am really appreciative of this and would like to thank Vibe Audio, Team Dynamics, GTE Custom Vans, R and R Autosports and of course Vee Dub Transporters for all their help and generosity.  I would love people to come on this journey with me and I have set up a Facebook page to show the progress with my van modifications and would love people to like the page and share it with their friends, the more awareness I can get the more I can help other people with disabilities get out on the roads again”.

You can follow Andrews progress on Facebook here: https://www.facebook.com/Transportermodified/

We think Andrews story is inspiring and think it is amazing that he wants to give his time and energy to educate other disabled people about what help they can get through schemes like Motability.

Good luck Andrew with your journey and we hope to see updates soon!

The team at Vee Dub Transporters

Reference: http://www.rentco.com.au/.

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