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Welcome to the Terence Mills Trust
The Terence Mills Trust was set up by Adrian Mills and his family in memory of his father Terence Mills, who selflessly gave up his job and his time to help Adrian through his rehabilitation after a spinal injury. Adrian now lives in West Sussex where he runs the Trust, and spends a lot of his time giving motivational talks and coaching, training individuals in health and paralympic sports.
Due to an extreme sports accident in 1989, Adrian was left a T7 Paraplegic and is now confined to a wheelchair. Through his efforts in Wheelchair sports and education, Adrian has built up the charity through years of hard work and learning what is needed by people who like himself have had accidents and injuries that have left them less able. Being the first person to complete a sports Science degree in a wheelchair here in the UK, Adrian has gone on to complete an MA in Health Promotion and now is training to become a teacher. He is also a wheelchair tennis and basketball coach and has qualifications in many other subjects including reflexology and business coaching. Having visited the sunny shores of West Africa Adrian decided to try and help some of the people with disabilities in Africa and is now bringing mobility to hundreds of people with a disability in Africa by recycling unwanted wheelchairs from Britain.
The Trust has a vision to provide Rehabilitation and Regeneration throughout the world, with plans to help developing countries in West Africa through Community based Rehabilitation programmes and by providing them with equipment and facilities. The Trust hopes to do this by developing links with other large UK based charities like Wheels for the World- DFID- ADD- Motivation- and the VSO to help people with disabilities eventually become self-sufficient and build their own wheelchairs on the West Coast of Africa.
The ‘Wheels for Africa Appeal’ was started to help provide Health and Mobility to people with a disability in Africa. It was evident that disabled people in Africa were not only seen as a minority group but, through superstition and stigma, some were being totally ignored.
The benefit of making someone mobile improves their chances of survival and provides the opportunity of a healthy life and possible job prospects. This is seen not just as a health benefit but also as a social benefit, allowing that person to be no longer an outcast or excluded from their community. They can play an active role in their society and hopefully have a voice that will allow other disabled people to have equal opportunities and equal rights the same as an able bodied person. Facilities for Disabled Persons Organisations are often the hardest hit when it comes to cut-backs and withdrawal of Government money, so unfortunately they suffer doubly.
The vision of the Trust is to work towards having a Complementary Therapy Centre to offer support and care for those individuals and families going through rehabilitation. The Trust would also like to work towards offering play, sports and recreational therapies to the local community, to increase the awareness of natural healing and help to improve the individual’s self confidence, self esteem and sense of wellbeing.
The Trust would also like to provide information and up-to-date research into progressive rehabilitation, complementary therapies and healing.
