MERU (The Medical Engineering Resource Unit) is a charity working with disabled children. MERU design and develop custom-made equipment for individual children's special needs where no commercial alternative exists.

BWCF helped to fund MERU's Interface Centre over three years from 2003 to 2005. The Centre gives disabled children and young people control through tangible, innovative solutions. Working together with the young person's medical and educational team they design and manufacture switches, joysticks, mice, keyboards and other interface devices. These control devices often bring about a child's first opportunity to independently communicate, learn and be mobile through the use of computers, communication aids and wheelchairs.

One example of this is MERU's e-bug – the only powered wheel chair of its kind in the UK for toddlers. The e-bug design is adapted for each child so that the seating is right for them and they have controls that they can use.

In 2008 BWCF agreed a further three year programme worth £105,000 to help fund the cost of employing an engineer.