Meet Effie! Effie is an incredibly bright, loving, happy, cheeky and resilient little girl with an immense amount of determination, love of learning, and drive for independence.

Effie is diagnosed with Triplegic Cerebral Palsy, affecting her lower limbs and upper left limb, and ultimately her mobility. Effie strongly relies on various equipment and myself, her mum, to enable her to get around and enjoy all of the things any other 5 year old would. Despite her disability, Effie is continually making strives in all aspects of her development and is progressing all of the time through daily physio and numerous other therapies.

We have created this fundraising page in the hope to attain our own INNOWALK; a remarkable piece of equipment which looks similar to that of a motorised cross trainer. An Innowalk will allow Effie to exercise daily, feel the motion of walking, and build up her muscles and strength to aid in her dream of independence, along with the multitude of other health benefits that come from keeping the body moving in an upright position. Effie has now had two loans of the Innowalk at home for a couple of weeks at a time, she loves the freedom of movement that it gives her and would look forward each day to doing her ‘walking’ seeing how far she can push herself each time. In only two weeks, Effie would walk over 28miles! The difference it made to Effie’s strength and hyperextension at her knees in that short amount of time was outstanding!

As a family we are determined to raise the funds to purchase one for her as we all know how capable she is, and how much she can achieve. Should we be successful, this equipment would grow with her into and throughout adulthood!

https://www.madeformovement.com/en-gb/innowalk

Unfortunately the Innowalk is extremely expensive, having been quoted upwards of £33,000.00. Which is where we are asking for your help, in donations, in sharing our page, and in joining our fundraising campaign.

You can find more frequent updates of Effie’s progress over on my instagram; https://www.instagram.com/ellenamiddleton/

Upcoming Fundraisers;

21st September - Some of the ladies from Kids Planet Henley 1 Coventry are climbing snowdon to raise funds for Effie, these lovely women looked after Effie from the age of 1 for around 18 months at their nursery (then known as Tic Toc) and have very kindly offered their help and support! - https://www.justgiving.com/team/snowdonkphenley1

Through JLR Challenge 2.0, JLR Trailblazers are raising money to support Effie in funding an Innowalk - https://www.justgiving.com/page/treeofhopesupportforeffie