The BBC’s Repair Shop sees a wide range of items brought through its doors, but a man from Whitehill presented a unique challenge when he took in his 10-year-old powerchair to pass on to the next generation.

Whitehill’s Bobby Williams, now retired from powerchair football, had an illustrious career and was part of the first UK team to win the Powerchair European Cup. He is now moving into coaching and wants to give new players the chance to take up the sport without the daunting cost of buying a chair.

Mr Williams said: “They approached my team, Aspire PFC, to see if we needed anything fixing. As I had the oldest powerchair, they asked if I would like it repaired, so I went on the show.

“I wanted to fix it because I know from my own experience how hard it is to raise the money for a chair. I was really lucky — my family raised money through a charity golf tournament and other fundraising efforts to get me the chair I needed.”

Mr Williams first got into the sport after trying to play football with able-bodied children.

He said: “I always loved football and tried to play despite my disability, no matter how hard it was.”

Mr Williams has Duchenne muscular dystrophy, a progressive genetic muscle-wasting disease that primarily affects boys and is caused by a mutation preventing the production of dystrophin.

He said he was fascinated by the work of Dominic Chinea.

Mr Williams said: “It was amazing. I was surprised when they took off the motors and looked at the gearbox that the chair was working at all. It was filled with all kinds of stuff.

“It made me realise I maybe didn’t take care of my powerchair and maintain it as well as I should have.”