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The Scout Holiday Homes Trust has been providing holidays for any family with special needs since it started in 1969.

The Scout Holiday Homes Trust is a registered charity, and provides self-catering holiday accommodation in a welcoming family environment for any family or group who has a member with special needs, families with elderly or frail members, people with any special needs with their carers, single parent families, and low income families - in fact any family in which the quality of life is diminished by a physical or mental disability, infirmity or misfortune.

All the Trust's caravans and chalets are wheelchair accessible. They have a purpose-built ramp, and the unit doors - inside as well as the outside - are wide enough to allow access for all standard-size manual wheelchairs. There is sufficient room inside the accommodation to allow for a wheelchair to get alongside the bed, the toilet, the meal table, the shower, and to be able to move freely in most areas. The Trust now has one caravan with a wheel-in shower.

The Trust has units in Northumberland, Yorkshire, Norfolk, Essex, Sussex, Hampshire, Dorset, Devon, Cornwall, Somerset and North and South Wales - all on fully commercial holiday parks such as British Holidays and Haven (both now owned by Bourne Leisure) and Hoburne. These parks have superb facilities, as well as daytime and evening entertainment - at the very least all our holiday parks have a grocery shop, take-away, restaurant, bar, swimming pool, children's playground, and launderette.

The Trust aims to provide a family holiday that can be enjoyed by every single member of the family or group. The Scout Holiday Homes Trust was founded on the basis that, often, the carer needs the break as much as the cared for and the holiday is all the more beneficial when enjoyed within the bounds of the whole family. The self-catering ensures that everyone can get up and go to bed, have meals and enjoy the surroundings at any time and in any way the holidaymaker chooses. And when there is someone in the family with a special need, it may even be essential.

Everyone should be able to benefit from a break from the normal routine, and none more so than a family or a group in need, or with a frail relative to care for, or perhaps a parent struggling alone to provide a good home and upbringing for the children. Families like these can have difficulty in finding somewhere welcoming for a holiday at an affordable price. The Scout Holiday Homes Trust gives its holidaymakers the freedom and opportunity to get away from everyday pressures and enjoy a wide range of on-the-spot facilities.

And making the holidaymakers feel completely at home, is the Trust's Local Management Teams. Giving their time voluntarily, they are on hand in an emergency and may well greet the guests on arrival - having a cup of tea ready and flowers on the table.