SEBBY NEEDS YOUR HELP!

After sharing Sebby’s terrible experience at Legoland, we were overwhelmed with how many other families have had similar experiences across a variety of leisure attractions, and how big an issue it is.

We want to make a positive change and increase access, fairness and understanding towards disabled people, which won’t disadvantage able bodied people. As many of you know our MP, Siobhan Baillie is taking our petition to Parliament to have the matter debated. To increase the chance of it going to debate WE NEED YOU to contact your local MP, telling them about the petition and asking for their support. The more MPs we have behind the petition, the stronger our chances are of having it debated. The more people each MP hears from, the better!! Even if you have signed the petition, it is still really important that you let you MP know about the petition, to increase our chances at making a positive future for disabled people.

To make it as easy as possible we’ve put together an email for you, which is below.

This is the link to find your MP https://members.parliament.uk/members/Commons

If you let me know either via Sebby’s adventure or joanna.brett@hotmail.co.uk which MP you have written to, I can let Siobhan know.

Please, please, please, please help us.

Dear XXXX

I am writing to you to raise awareness of a campaign I have been following about a young disabled boy from Stroud who had a terrible experience at a popular theme park.

5-year-old Sebby and his family were visiting a popular theme park in Windsor, as a treat following Sebby’s recovery from 4 operations in 7 months. Whilst attending the theme park, Sebby and his family were told they had to leave his wheelchair and walk three steps, twice, so that he could access an age appropriate ride, in front of everyone in the queue.

Following the poor treatment the family faced at the Park, Sebby’s family posted about the experience on Facebook. They were contacted by a large number of families with disabled children who had faced similar poor experiences when visiting a variety of leisure and activity centres. 

The family were shocked by the amount of correspondence they received in support of the family and subsequently they have set up a petition for fairer access at leisure venues for disabled people, which can be viewed here: https://www.change.org/Sebbys_Adventure .

Sebby’s local MP, Siobhan Baillie will be taking this petition for debate at the Houses of Parliament in November and have put in for a Westminster Hall debate on this matter. I very much hope you will support her in this important issue.

Her office are more than happy to discuss this with you and can be contacted at siobhan.baillie.mp@parliament.uk.

I really hope that I can count on your support to ensure that children with disabilities can access.

My postal address is: XXXX (you need this for the MP to know your are in their area, they often won’t respond without it)

Kind regards,