TO say thank you to Megan Baker House for helping their children learn to walk two parents are taking on fundraising challenges.

Lisa Fairbrass and Gig Jones are both asking for sponsorship to raise money for the Megan Baker House [MBH] Project Chrysalis Appeal.

The appeal is run by the Hereford Times and aims to raise £35,000 by June 2018.

MBH is a charity providing free Conductive Education Services at its centre in Moreton Eye just outside Leominster and at other locations in the region through its Break Out sessions.

Their services are for children, teenagers and adults with special educational needs and physical disabilities such as cerebral palsy, head injury, stroke, dyspraxia and early on-set Parkinson's disease.

Lisa has a son called Ryan who attends MBH once a week. She has decided to undertake a skydive on May 26 to help raise money for the appeal.

She said: “My son Ryan has spastic diplegia cerebral palsy and attends MBH once a week. He was first diagnosed at 15 months old and started his regular visits to MBH two months later.

"After eight months, he took his first ever independent steps – four of them – you can’t imagine what an amazing day that was.”

A few months later, Ryan took 40 independent steps and now aged three and a half, he is walking independently, although still a little wobbly.

Another parent who is stepping up to the plate for MBH is Gig Jones whose son Jack attends MBH weekly and like Ryan, it was his sessions at MBH that saw him take his first ever independent step and his sessions continue to help him with his walking.

Gig is undertaking a sponsored bike ride for MBH on March 31, starting in Bewdley, following the Severn Walkway to Stourport and then along the canal tow path to Kidderminster where Jack and his brother, Daniel, will join the ride up to Wolverley and then back to Bewdley. It’s between 20 and 25 miles.

To pledge donations to support Lisa and Gig you can donate through www.justgiving.com/campaigns/charity/meganbakerhouse/projectchrysalis or call the charity on 01568 616179.

Chief executive Lee Gough said: "Conductive Education is not a cure for the problems these youngsters live with day to day.

"It is a way of teaching them how to overcome at least some of their disabilities and over the years has delivered stunning results for many children that have been written off by traditional medicine."

To find out more about the charity visit www.meganbakerhouse.org.uk or contact Lee Gough on 01568 616 179, or email zoe@meganbakerhouse.org.uk.