Modern Mobility celebrated their 14th anniversary in August 2011, including over 8 years at Fosse Park shopping centre.
Situated just by the side door entrance to British Home Stores, our shop offers unrestricted parking space for visitors wishing to look into the huge range of mobility aids we offer, or even simply to hire a wheelchair or electric scooter for use on their Fosse Park shopping expedition.
Despite our contemporary name, we are extremely proud to be so well known for our old fashioned family business style, honest and straightforward with no gimmicks. We care a great deal about our customers and their disabilities and requirements, it's precisely the reason for our flawless reputation.
We will always, without fail, advise you on what is right for you - not us. Take a look at our service page to get an idea of why so many people also choose Modern Mobility to take care of their ongoing and longer term necessities.
To read information about our individual family members, please click on their photographs below.
Name: Julie Potter.
Position: Proprietor .
Length of service: from August 1997 .
Interests: Reading, news & current affairs, history, cookery, music, photography, rabble rousing .
General: Julie founded Modern Mobility in 1997, initially in Burbage, followed by large premises in Sapcote before moving the business to Fosse Park in April 2003. She now takes sole charge of our business strategy, finances and marketing. Julie is passionately involved in several lobbying groups, from disabled rights and health issues to occasionally even lobbying parliament with the Federation of Small Businesses. This is quite possibly why she is known as the rabble rouser! Julie also manages to make some time for mentoring young people in business. Whatever time is left is usually spent catching up on news and current affairs and spending time with friends & family .
Name: Graham Brown.
Position: Senior Adviser .
Length of service: from April 2004 .
Interests: Music, astronomy, scuba diving, swimming & rowing, food (eating it!), walking in the Lake District .
General: Graham is a fully qualified service engineer with thirty years experience. Prior to joining Modern Mobility, he travelled the world servicing, installing and teaching operational techniques on high tech machinery for aerospace and automotive companies. Graham is also a specialist wheelchair assessor and is qualified to prescribe extremely precise product suitability for any individual. In his very limited spare time, Graham can be found either eating as usual.....or happily viewing the galaxy through his extremely large telescope - that is on the odd occasion when we have clear enough skies! His favourite type of holiday involves either scuba diving or walking in the Lake District, particularly Penrith .
Name: Simon Hunter.
Position: Service Engineer .
Length of service: from September 2009 .
Interests: Movies, motorbikes, cars, body building at the gym, learning to cook! .
General: Simon is our primary Service Engineer and he is quite the perfectionist in his work. Prior to joining us, he serviced and repaired motorbikes for many years in his home city of York. Lucky for us, we managed to coax him down to join us in Leicestershire where he has very successfully made a new home and life for himself. Simon has completed a great many technical training courses with several of our manufacturers and has developed a wealth of knowledge about all of our products and services. He is known for his great sense of humour and conversation and all of our customers love him .
Name: Conrad Callender.
Position: General Manager .
Length of service: from April 2006 .
Interests: Reading, movies, motorbikes, cars, keeping fit, the stock market .
General: You can always rely on Conrad for his efficiency, organisational skills and helpfulness. He is extremely adept at managing our Fosse Park premises. Conrad has completed an extensive range of technical training courses and knows just about all there is to know about mobility products and services! He is also a specialist wheelchair assessor and is qualified to prescribe extremely precise product suitability for any individual. On a rare week's holiday, Conrad and his family like to visit different parts of Britain - despite the weather .
Name: Alex Healy.
Position: Business Trainee .
Length of service: from July 2011 .
Interests: Reading, movies, comedy series, health & fitness, computers, socialising with friends, cooking .
General: Alex is the newest and youngest addition to our family at only 19 years old. He joined us in July 2011, after completing his full time education with an impressive seven GCSEs, three AS levels and a high grade business A2 level. We are helping him start on his career path by training him in all aspects of the running of a family business, together with a good grounding in all of our mobility products and services. We are frequently complimented on Alex's kindness, maturity, politeness and willingness to help .
Name: Hilary Blackmore.
Position: Administrator .
Length of service: from February 2005 .
Interests: Reading, travel, history, cookery, cycling, health & fitness, charity duties .
General: Having been with us part time since 2005, we can't really imagine life without Hilary! She is loyal, organised, professional and extremely thoughtful, taking care of our admin as well as our customers. Now her children have grown up and gone to work and university, Hilary finally has a little more time to enjoy her own interests. A few of these are mentioned above, but luckily she can now also spare the time to occasionally accompany her husband on his business trips, enjoying the tourist sights in Europe. Hilary has even cycled across Italy (from West to East of course) for charity .
Name: Sue Mutton.
Position: Customer Spokesperson .
Length of service: from August 1999 .
Interests: Reading, news & current affairs, exploring Britain, exploring her gorgeous new iPad .
General: Sue became a victim of Polio as a little girl and has been completely wheelchair bound since 1993. Despite experiencing what must have been monumental difficulties throughout her life, she is without doubt the happiest, kindest, sweetest lady that any of us have ever known. Sue is also incredibly honest and rational, which is precisely why we have her as a 'Customer Spokesperson'. This means that Sue tries out and tests any new products, advises us on services, suggests ideas and improvements, tells us what she likes and dislikes, etc etc. This enables us to always have invaluable first hand knowledge of our disabled customers' perspectives and needs .
Name: Tracy Warren.
Length of service: from May 2003 .
Interests: Living in a hectic social whirl, friends, TV, sport, fashion, shopping, the list is endless .
General: Along with Sue, Tracy is also a 'Customer Spokesperson' for us. Despite having been unable to walk from an early age, Tracy is one of the most manically busy and active people we've ever encountered, even combining work with bringing up her young son single handedly. This wheelchair bound young lady is bubbly and hilarious and there's just no stopping her! For details of Tracy's telly stardom, have a browse through our news page......... .