DEMAND is a registered charity, with its HQ in Hertfordshire. Founded in 1980 to address the, considerable, needs of severely disabled children and adults. DEMAND (Design and Manufacture for Disability) creates bespoke technical solutions to everyday, and less commonplace, living challenges that are encountered by our clients. We are in receipt of no public sector grant aid and rely on voluntary income. DEMAND opened a second branch in Yorkshire in May 2006. This location is near to the “M62 corridor” and places us in the close proximity of major population centres in Yorkshire, Lancashire and the whole of the North of England. We have made considerable progress, in our first year, having already completed 46 projects across the region, from Northumberland to Derbyshire and Liverpool to York with a further 30 in progress. We fill a gap in the market and meet the daily needs of disabled people that cannot be met by mainstream manufacturers. Usual commercial considerations and market forces mean that manufacturers and designers only operate where there is a significant and wide spread demand. It is, invariably, the case that it is uneconomic to produce ‘one off’ solutions for people who often have multiple disabilities. However, that is the real and pressing need that DEMAND seeks to meet. Our move into Yorkshire has been facilitated, in part, by a three-year grant from a major Charitable Trust. Unprecedented demand for our service has more than justified our decision to expand. We now wish to take the next step forward and ‘roll out’ our specialist provision to other parts of the UK, initially in Scotland, where we have already completed several projects. Scottish Government statistics confirm that there are 1,000,000 disabled people (20% of the population) in the country and that 44% of them live in large urban areas. DEMAND hopes to replicate its successful and life enhancing model in the ‘M8 Corridor’ between Edinburgh and Glasgow. We estimate that this will need an investment of £ 2,000,000 over the next five years.