SOME 12 years on from taking its first steps, a very special charity plans a big move.

Megan Baker House (MBH) wants to take its life-changing conductive education (CE) sessions to a site more clients can reach.

The totally self-funding charity is looking at the Ledbury area as its ideal based on accessibility research.

MBH is currently based at Moreton Eye, near Leominster, offering free CE sessions for children with a range of motor disabilities such as cerebral palsy and dyspraxia.

The offer is to be extended to adults who have suffered a stroke or developed early onset Parkinson’s disease, supplementing statutory services for those with motor disabilities.

MBH chief executive Lee Gough said the new vase ideally needs on-site car parking and at least two classrooms and offices, but all other specialist facilities could be added by the charity.

MBH was set up some 12 years ago in the name of Megan Baker, a four- year-old with cerebral palsy from Ashton, near Leominster, who died in February, 2002.

Megan’s mum Jo began what became MBH in a Bromyard bungalow.

By the time Jo left as leader in 2009, MBH had a barn conversion base at Moreton Eye and an international reputation for excellence in a highly specialist field.

MBH practises conductive education, or CE, a holistic movement-based educational approach for children and adults who have neurological motor difficulties.

Sadly, within a few weeks of opening, Megan died.

MBH is her legacy, and demand for its services – offered without statutory funding – now draws families from all over the UK and abroad.

MBH has just successfully completed a three-year, lottery- funded project called Reach Out that took its services directly into schools.

A successor programme, Step by Step, invites those reached out to inside MBH to see CE, and what it can do, at first hand.

Any ideas for a venue can be passed on to Mrs Gough at lee@meganbakerhouse.org.uk or on 01568 616179.