From riding her pony to walking the dogs, seven-year-old Issy Rose loves to be outside but her wheelchair is not designed for the great outdoors.

The little girl has quadriplegia, a severe form of cerebral palsy, and hopes a new all-terrain wheelchair will stop her from getting stuck in the mud.

A group of friends from Knightsplace Farm Equestrian Centre, Cobham, where Issy keeps her pony, Dolly, are hoping to raise the £9,800 needed for the new chair.

It would mean she would be able to collect Dolly from the field, take the dogs for walks and go on the wood tracks at Center Parcs on family holidays with mum Tracey, dad Keith, and brothers George, eight, and Samuel, 17.

As well as being all-terrain, the chair can also climb a couple of steps and will be able to go up a ramp into the back of the family car.

Fundraiser Kerrie Owen, 45, from Gravesend, said: “It’s a lot of money we’ve got to raise but the wheelchair is going to be amazing for her.

“She’ll be able to go in the woods and on the beach.”

Alongside her husband, Mark Owen, and friends Rick Mulholland, Roy Thomas, Luke Thomas, Toby Pedler and Ian Duckerang, she will be taking on the Snowden Ranger Path on Saturday, March 25.

The eight-mile walk will take about six hours and ascend 937m to the peak of the mountain.

At the moment, Issy has a standard electric wheelchair which was supplied by the NHS, but her mum says it does not suit her daughter’s lifestyle.

The 33-year-old said: “If you’re living in town and don’t go out much, it’s fine but she wants to go for walks with the dogs.

“It’s a lot of money we’ve got to raise but the wheelchair is going to be amazing for her" Kerrie Owen

“She likes being out and about. She hates to be indoors.

“When we’re at the stables with it, it gets stuck in the mud.

“She can’t go in the field to get her pony. She has to wait by the gate.

“It affects her independence. If it doesn’t work, she gets very upset.”

Issy, who lives in Rochester, was born three months early and soon developed numerous issues, leaving one side of her brain unable to work properly.

This affects her speech and she struggles to eat and drink, and has problems walking and sitting.

But her condition does not stop her enjoying lessons at Twydall Primary School, where she uses a special keyboard to help her write.

Mrs Rose said her current chair was very heavy and hard to manoeuvre, and in the three years Issy has had the chair, she has crashed three times and has needed six wheel changes.