Celebrating achievements on Spinal Cord Injury Awareness Day
Today (15 May) is Spinal Cord Injuries Awareness Day. Every year, spinal cord injury charities come together to hold the event, to celebrate the day and raise money.
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Enable Asks… Frank Gardner
Journalist Frank Gardner has lived an exceptional life and overcome many adversities, in today’s Enable Asks, Frank discusses adapting to lockdown.
HRH The Princess Royal praises determination of people living with spinal cord injury
HRH The Princess Royal, the Royal Patron of the Spinal Injuries Association (SIA) has sent a message of support to everyone affected by a spinal cord injury and the charities providing support.
Understanding spinal cord injury
A spinal cord injury has a life-long effect on the body, but information is often technical and confusing. Easy-to-understand information can help you understand what a spinal cord injury is, and how it will affect you or a loved one.
Delays and high costs faced by wheelchair users
Spinal injury charity Back Up has today published a new report detailing how people choose, use and fund a wheelchair – and it’s shown than…
Charity celebrates achievements of spinal cord injured community
A variety of charity supporters headed to Birmingham to help celebrate the achievements of people in the spinal cord injured community at the Spinal Injuries…
Supporting friends and families this Spinal Cord Injuries Awareness Day
Every eight hours someone is told the news that they are permanently paralysed as result of spinal cord damage. Spinal cord injury is life changing…
Charity launches campaign championing specialist care for spinal cord injured people
The Spinal Injuries Association, a national charity supporting spinal cord injured people and their families, is launching a new campaign in Parliament today. The charity…
Ten
April marked a very significant milestone for columnist Tim Rushby-Smith. Here, he looks back on a decade of spinal cord injury The first of April…
Ex-soldier wins two national awards
Student and ex-soldier, Gareth Thomas, was awarded twice at the national Spinal Injuries Association’s awards ceremony. The annual ceremony is a glittering charity event that…
One in three with paralysis not supported in return to work
44% IN SURVEY NOT ENCOURAGED TO CONSIDER WORK AFTER DISABILITY – AS GOVERNMENT ANNOUNCES REVIEW OF EMPLOYMENT SUPPORT FOR DISABLED A third of people who…
Aspire’s research finds massive shortfall in accessible housing in the UK
Research by Aspire, a national charity that provides practical help to people who have been paralysed by Spinal Cord Injury, has found that there is…
Joining the dots to independence – Back Up empowers wheelchair users through social media campaign
Back Up, a charity dedicated to transforming lives following paralysis, has today launched Join the Dots, a brand new social media campaign to encourage wheelchair…