54 PRIVATE HIRE AND TAXI MONTHLY


JANUARY 2009 UNSUNG HEROES


TEESIDE CABBIES SCALE GREAT HEIGHTS FOR WORTHY CAUSE


Taxi drivers teamed up for a gruelling charity event in aid of a special young man.


The eight cabbies pushed and pulled wheelchair - user Stephen Prisk up Eston Nab.


And the money they raised will go to the special school Stephen attends, Priory Woods at Netherfields.


The arduous fundraiser was the brainchild of


cabbie Tim Fisher, whose girlfriend Susan Prisk is Stephen’s mum. Stephen, 16, can’t walk or talk and has a life- limiting mix of conditions, including cerebral palsy, epilepsy and coeliac disease. But he has such a joyful approach to life, Tim reckoned he’d be over the moon to get up Eston Nab. Tim, 42, of Creekwood, Thorntree, said: “From getting up


in the morning to going to bed at night, Stephen’s a cheeky chappy who never stops laughing.


“The only downside is he gets up at 4am every day, so me and Susan have to take it in turns to do the early mornings”, Tim told the Teeside Evening Gazette. “When I take him to his gran’s, we drive past the hills and he always looks up at them.


SCALING THE HEIGHTS Picture courtesy of the Evening Gazette, Middlesbrough


That’s what gave me the idea, to see if we could get him up there because I was sure he wanted to go. “We were going to do it on our own but then we thought, why not take him with us?”


CLIMBING ESTON NAB Picture courtesy of the Evening Gazette, Middlesbrough


Joining Tim on Sun- day’s push were fellow taxi drivers Gary Hall, Stephen Boddy, Michael Saunders, Stan John- ston, Philip Evans, Peter Binns and James Fryett.


But with Stephen weighing 10 stone and the wheelchair not exactly light, the lads knew they were in for anything but an easy Sunday morning. Tim said: “It was harder than we thought it would be. For about 400 yards, we had to carry the chair with Stephen in it because there was so much mud and so many puddles. “But Stephen loved it,


especially op the way up - he laughed all the way. “He was a bit more wary on the way down, because we had to tip the wheelchair to keep his feet out of the mud. “But it was something out of the ordinary and it’s nice to give some- thing back to the school that’s given Stephen such fantastic support.” To donate, call Tim on 07706 550494.


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