This Is What Legacy Looks Like
Nick Wilson turned 50 on 14 July 2026. Not with a party. With a powerchair, two trails, and a mission to change what’s possible for disabled people in the county he calls home.
50at50 Northamptonshire is not a fundraising campaign with a catchy hashtag. It is a practical, lasting act. Two Quantum Outback all-terrain powerchairs – one at Delapré Abbey in the south of the county, one at Stanwick Lakes in the north – permanently available for any disabled person, wheelchair user, elderly visitor, or anyone who struggles with mobility to borrow and use freely. No booking fees. No conditions. Just access.
This is the first project of its kind in Northamptonshire. That matters. Because right now, in 2026, there are thousands of people in this county who can drive past Delapré Abbey every day of their lives and never set foot – never set wheels – on those 500 acres of ancient parkland. There are families who’ve watched the kids and grandkids race off down the trails at Stanwick Lakes while they wait near the café, again. Not because they don’t want to go. Because the ground won’t let them.
That ends here.
Nick knows this from the inside. He’s a disabled war veteran and powerchair user who has been navigating inaccessible spaces his entire adult life – and pushing back against them. He’s the first person to complete a solo ascent of Yr Wyddfa (Snowdon) in an all-terrain powerchair. He’s clocked over 25 million video views showing the world what accessibility really looks like when you’re the one who needs it. He does not talk about access from the sidelines. He lives it.
Northamptonshire is his home county. This project starts here – but it was always designed to go further. If two chairs, in two venues, across one county can demonstrate what genuine outdoor access looks like for disabled people? That’s a blueprint. That’s something worth rolling out nationally.
This is your chance to be part of something that outlasts a campaign. Something real. Something that will still be changing lives five, ten, twenty years from now.
Come on in. The ground is roll-ready.
Delapré Abbey
Nine Hundred Years, Finally Open to Everyone
Picture this: you’ve driven past Delapré Abbey your whole life. Maybe you grew up nearby. Maybe you’ve watched other people walk those grounds, and you’ve thought – one day. But one day never came, because your wheelchair can’t handle the terrain. The gates were always open. The ground was not.
That changes now.
Delapré Abbey sits on the southern edge of Northampton – 500 acres of sweeping parkland, eight acres of formal and ornamental gardens, and nine hundred years of history pressing up through the soil. This is the site of the Battle of Northampton in 1460, one of the decisive engagements of the Wars of the Roses, fought on a registered historic battlefield. It was founded in 1145 as a Cluniac nunnery by Simon de Senlis, Earl of Northampton. It is, without question, one of the most significant and beautiful places in the county.
Standard wheelchairs cannot navigate this terrain. They were never designed to. The Quantum Outback was.
The chair being permanently stationed at Delapré Abbey will change what this place actually means for disabled people. It means:
- Rolling through 500 acres of parkland that have been inaccessible to powerchair and manual wheelchair users until now – the sweeping grounds, the open space, the sky.
- Exploring a registered historic battlefield by wheelchair – something that has simply never been possible before. That is not a small thing. That is history becoming genuinely open.
- Family visits where everyone moves together – grandparents, parents, kids, all of them, out across the grounds at the same time. No-one staying behind. No-one watching from a bench while everyone else goes.
- A genuine connection with the natural world for people living with MS, cerebral palsy, spinal injuries, and the tens of thousands of people in Northamptonshire who are elderly or recovering from surgery – for whom outdoors has shrunk to whatever’s within about ten metres of a car park.
- A gateway to longer journeys – along the Nene Way, into the wider washlands, through heritage and nature combined.
One chair. Permanently stationed. Free to borrow.
Nine hundred years of history – and this is the moment it finally becomes accessible to everyone.
Proper job.
Stanwick Lakes
Get Into the Wild, Not Just the Edges of It
You know the feeling. You arrive somewhere beautiful, the path runs out, and the real place – the lake itself, the deep trail through the reed beds, where the herons actually are – is just beyond where you can reach. You get the car park view. Everyone else gets the view.
That’s over at Stanwick Lakes.
750 acres of wetland nature reserve in the north of the county, near Rushden and Wellingborough. Walking trails. Cycling paths. A 6km River Nene loop. Sculptures of local wildlife around the reserve. Wildlife so good that people come specifically to spot it. A proper adventure playground, zip line, water play. A place families come to breathe. To reset. One of Northamptonshire’s genuine natural treasures.
And for too many disabled people? The café, the maintained paths right at the entrance, and the view from the edge.
The Quantum Outback changes that completely. This chair is designed for exactly the kind of ground Stanwick Lakes actually is – uneven grass, gravel, natural terrain, lakeside edges, woodland margins. Not the polished path near the entrance. The actual reserve.
What the chair at Stanwick Lakes will make possible:
- Access to the wider wetland trails and lakeside paths – the parts of the reserve that go beyond maintained surfaces and into the real landscape.
- Actually getting into the nature reserve – not standing at the edge of it. Bird watching from the right spots. Wildlife encounters that require real terrain capability.
- Family days out where nobody gets left behind at the café while everyone else goes off exploring. Everyone goes. Together.
- Adventure – the kind that reminds you what it actually feels like to be free outdoors. Not managed access. Not ‘you can get this far and no further.’ The real thing.
- A place to properly call your own for wheelchair users who live nearby. Not somewhere you visit once and leave quietly disappointed. Somewhere you come back to, again and again, because it’s yours now too.
Stanwick is wilder, bigger, and more open than anywhere most local disabled people have been able to properly explore. The chair makes it AMAZABLE – not as a word, as a lived experience.
For Northamptonshire Businesses
This Is the One Worth Backing
Let’s be direct: there are a lot of things competing for your sponsorship budget. Most of them offer a logo placement, a line in a press release, and not much else.
This is different.
The 50at50 Northamptonshire project will place two Quantum Outback all-terrain powerchairs – permanently – at Delapré Abbey and Stanwick Lakes. Two of the most-visited natural destinations in the county. Free for any disabled person to borrow and use. The first project of its kind in Northamptonshire.
When you back this, your logo does not go on a banner that comes down in a week. It goes on the chair. It goes on a dedicated web page updated with real stories, real photos, and real impact data from real users – for years. Your brand becomes part of something that genuinely enables people’s lives, not something that sat alongside it in a programme.
What it costs to make this happen
Each chair costs £15,000 to deliver in full – £10,000 for the chair itself, and £5,000 to cover training, ongoing support, and year-one delivery. Two chairs, two venues: £30,000 total. This is a community effort, and businesses can contribute at any level. Designed to be multi-business friendly, multiple sponsors can pool contributions to fund a single chair. Every sponsor is recognised, regardless of level.
Sponsorship Packages
| Package | Amount | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Community Sponsor | £500 | Social media sponsor shout-out (individual post), your logo on the chair’s web journal page, and inclusion in the sponsor thank-you roll. |
| Supporting Sponsor | £1,000 | Everything above, plus a small logo on the chair’s rear box panel (space permitting), inclusion in the handover article and photos (where possible), and an invitation to the handover moment. |
| Partner Sponsor | £2,500 | Everything above, plus a larger logo on the side of the chair, an invitation to the handover ceremony, a business feature video created by Disabled Adventurer and promoted across socials, and an invitation to the end-of-year thank-you gathering. |
| Impact Sponsor | £5,000 | Everything above, plus the option of a talk or training session by Disabled Adventurer, priority positioning on the chair web page, and explicit credit for funding training, support and year-one delivery. |
The web page that keeps giving
Every sponsor gets their logo on a dedicated page – one for the Delapré Abbey chair, one for Stanwick Lakes. But these are not static pages. They are living journals.
As people use the chairs, those pages grow: user stories, milestone moments, thank-you notes from families, photos of people experiencing these venues for the first time, impact data as it accumulates. These pages do not go quiet after the handover ceremony. They build over time – and your brand builds with them.
That means your logo is not seen once. It is seen by every person who visits that page over the next five years or more. Every journalist who writes about the project. Every other business looking at this model. Every disabled person and carer who reads about it before deciding whether to visit. The exposure compounds. It does not expire.
The bigger picture – and why being first here matters
14 million disabled people in the UK represent £274 billion in annual spending power – the Purple Pound. Venues that communicate accessibility properly, that show disabled people they are genuinely welcome, attract more visitors and generate more revenue. That is not a moral argument. That is a commercial reality.
By backing 50at50 Northamptonshire, your business is associating itself with the first project of this kind in the county – a model already being looked at with a view to national rollout. You are not buying an ad. You are funding a tangible piece of infrastructure that enables real people to access real places.
Nick Wilson’s reach is growing – 25M+ views in 2025, active audiences on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube, and TikTok. When he talks about this project, people listen. When he introduces the businesses that made it happen, people notice.
Ready to be part of it?
Email info@disabledadventurer.com to discuss any sponsorship level or ask any questions. No hard sell. Just a conversation about something worth doing.