Support the road to recovery for Dylan shinkwin

Our lovely Dylan Shinkwin was involved in a serious motorbike accident on the 16th of September 2023 and he has sustained life changing injuries.

Dylan, who is only 20, has suffered a broken spine and he has irreversibly severed his spinal cord, broken his nose and neck as well as multiple other injuries.

He is currently in critical care at the hospital. His injuries are so significant that he is permanently paralysed from the chest down will never be able to walk again. We have a long road ahead of us in terms of Dylan’s pathway to recovery. He is understandably in shock like us all. However, he is still proving what an amazing, kind, and funny young man he is! In fact, he is the one that’s keeping the families spirits up. He has been more positive than we could ever imagine. He even sends selfies!

Our main focus is with Dylan and helping him to come to terms with the reality of the situation. Making him comfortable in hospital and providing him with the equipment and adaptations that he needs to aid his recovery and protect his mental health. This is going to be a very long process consisting of a long stay at hospital, where the family are incurring daily parking costs, he will then need to move to Oswestry where we will need to find accommodation to be able to visit Dylan. Dylan is going to needs all sorts of equipment along his journey and when he eventually leaves hospital, including specialist wheelchairs and physiotherapy and when he can eventually come home the relevant adaptations. We would love for Sarah and Dylan to not have to worry about funding this. Sarah is unable to work currently as she is supporting Dylan, and we don’t want her worrying about supporting Dylan and his younger brother Brandon and sister Sophie financially.

As everyone who knows us will already know, we have such an amazing network that stretches far and wide. Now we are asking for each and every one of you to please help by sharing this go fund me page to help us raise vital funds to aid Dylan’s recovery and to help us be able to support Sarah and Dylan moving forward on what will be a long road.

Whether you know Dylan from growing up in Warwick and Leamington Spa, as the head chef at the unicorn in Warwick, from the Lake District where he has lived for a couple of year with his lovely girlfriend Molly, or even various skate parks and tattoo studios. He is such a well known and loved lad by many, so let’s all come together and make this recovery as successful and stress free as possible.

Any donation with help the family to provide Dylan with the support he needs and would be very much appreciated. We would like to share our thanks to each and every person who has helped in even the smallest gestures because quite honestly, we couldn’t of come this far without your support and the support of the amazing University Hospital Coventry & Warwickshire.