A new bedsit for disabled children has opened at the Freddie Farmer Foundation physiotherapy centre to allow travelling families to stay onsite.

Freddie Farmer is a teenager boy from Hayes with cerebral palsy.

His foundation was started in 2011 to raise money to open a specialised physiotherapy centre in Bromley for children with cerebral palsy and serious mobility issues.

This was inspired after Freddie’s family travelled 100 miles three times a year for intensive physiotherapy.

The centre opened on Elliot Road in Bromley in May 2015 with just one physiotherapist.

It has proved a big success and a new bedsit has now been welcomed.

The bedsit is called 'Stuart’s Dormy House' in memory of charity ambassador Stuart Spicer who died last year.

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It is designed for families with a disabled child who travel from all over the UK to access the facility.

Charity centre manage, Karen Smith, said: "Stuart was one of life’s all round good, kind and generous people and we were so very lucky to have him as our friend.

"It was great to see so many people gather to remember Stuart and all the good work he has done for the Foundation and to celebrate the opening of our new centre bedsit, which we opened in his name."

Karen added: "Disabled children need a lot of specialist equipment and as some of our families travel a long way, it is not always possible for them to bring all that they need for their stay.

"The new bedsit will supply everything they need to help them while they are here."

The Freddie Farmer Foundation physiotherapy centre supports children aged 3-16 and is the only independent centre of its kind in the south east of England.