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The safety of all customers and event visitors continues to be our number one priority
POSTPONED Earlier this year the Motability Scheme took the decision to reschedule some of the One Big Day events for 2020, due to the concerns over the spread of the coronavirus.
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n order to protect the wellbeing of everyone involved in Motability’s One Big Day programme they have had to postpone some of the earlier events.
The Big Event, Motability’s largest showcase of cars, wheelchair accessible vehicles (WAVs), powered wheelchairs, and scooters, which was due to take place at the NEC, Birmingham on 3-4 July has been postponed. In addition the Northern Ireland One Big Day event scheduled to take place on 6 June 2020 at the Eikon Exhibition Centre and the Exeter One Big Day scheduled to take place on 25 July at Westpoint will no longer go ahead as planned.
to the remaining programme of regional One Big Day events taking place in Harrogate, Peterborough and Edinburgh later this year.” ABOUT THE EVENTS Each of the One Big Day Events offer a regional showcase of cars, adaptations and wheelchair accessible vehicles as well as, scooters and powered wheelchairs. These events offer a great opportunity to talk to the experts about adaptations, to test drive standard and adapted cars, to ask questions and figure out the best option for your driving needs. These events are also a great family day out, with bouncy castles, face painting and free refreshments. UPCOMING EVENTS The One Big Day events that are still scheduled to take place this year are as follows: 15 August – Yorkshire Event Centre, Harrogate 5 September – East of England Arena, Peterborough 19 September – Royal Highland Centre, Edinburgh For the latest updates on The Big Event and the One Big Days, including any further changes to the programme visit motability.co.uk/onebigday. Updates will also be provided on the Motability Scheme Facebook and Twitter channels.
New dates have not yet been announced for the rescheduled events, but Motability will be announcing these on their website and through their social media accounts as soon as they have been confirmed. Motability commented: “The safety of all customers and event visitors continues to be our number one priority and these changes are necessary to best support the health of our customers, Scheme partners and our people. “We are closely monitoring Government guidelines with regards with
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