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Rob Smith
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Active Hands is a small family-owned business based in Earlswood, Solihull. We manufacture high-quality disability gripping aids for those with disabilities affecting their grip such as Spinal Cord Injury, Stroke, Cerebral Palsy and more.
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The Active Hands Co Ltd

Our mission is to help people achieve more active and inclusive lives – giving them independent access to a variety of activities that would be impossible without Active Hands gripping aids. We pride ourselves in working with those with hand functions across a wide spectrum of disabilities and activity levels from Paralympic gold medal winners to leisure gardeners and from injured military personnel to small children. We know from our own experience how frustrating a lack of hand function can be. Hopefully with Active Hands helping you, you can overcome many of those frustrations enabling you to do activities that you previously thought were impossible.

For our director, Rob, it was hard to come to terms with the restricted movement in his lower body after a climbing accident as a student but he began to realise that it was actually the frustration of having very poor function and strength in his hands that restricted his life much more. Although he was able to find suitable equipment to overcome my mobility issue, he just could not find anything that enabled him to overcome his grip problems. Activities that were easy before his injury were now completely unavailable to him as his hand function would not allow him to do them. It was at this point that he began designing gripping aids to enable him to grasp hold of his independence again. He began working with his mum on her sewing machine to try and solve some of these gripping issues. After a number of prototypes and some experimentation and testing with different methods, materials and designs they came up with the basic designs which have developed into the core of the Active Hands Gripping aids we sell today.

In 2008 Active Hands became a Limited Company and we now sell direct to end users all over the world via our website and through resellers in other countries all around the world.

We are still a family owned and run business and we pride ourselves in the quality of our products, our knowledge of the issues faced by those with grip problems and our customer service.

Our General Purpose gripping aid was our first product. It is the most versatile of our products and can be used for gripping objects in the gym; outdoors, such as for kayaking or biking; in the house (for cleaning and doing DIY); in the garden and kitchen; and for activities such as snooker or holding Nintendo Wii controllers. New uses for our gripping aids are being discovered all the time.

PROVENANCE

Our products were originally made by outworkers in South East England. Our brilliant outworkers still make a lot of our products, but Techneopro in Cornwall has taken over our most popular products to keep up with increasing demand.

We source many of the components including the webbing, velcro, and buckles and rings from UK companies (some of which manufacture the actual items UK some may source from outside). The neoprene is sourced by Techneopro from China. However all production from raw materials onward is within the UK either from Techneopro or from the ladies working from home.

All products Made in the UK
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Rob Smith
The Active Hands Co., Unit 4 Rumbush Farm
Earlswood, Solihull
West Midlands
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B94 5LW