Today is #GivingTuesdayNow a global day of unity and giving in response to Coronavirus. A day where we can recognise, celebrate and give thanks for the incredible outpouring of compassion we have witnessed. We are continuing to support our members throughout this global pandemic #TogetherInIsolation Today, we are asking people to share a message of…
At SIA, we place the needs of spinal cord injured (SCI) people front and centre of everything we do. Whilst we and our families thank the NHS for offering us the chance to rebuild our lives after injury or diagnosis, we’re also deeply concerned that SCI people, along with others with long-term health conditions, continue…
As the 70th Anniversary of the NHS approaches, many of us – whether spinal cord injured (SCI) people ourselves or our loved ones – remember the debt of gratitude we have towards the NHS. With quiet dedication and great skill, our surgeons, nurses and other health professionals have put many of us back together again…
If you had asked me a couple of years ago how the fight for equal rights for disabled people was going I would probably have said “Slowly, but inexorably moving in the right direction”. However today the same enquiry would probably elicit a very different response. I believe that a political climate has developed where…
If you are a wheelchair user, unlike the song when you only have three wheels on your wagon, you don’t keep rolling along – even if you are be chased by Cherokees! If you require a new wheelchair chair or an urgent repair on your old chair and rely on your local NHS wheelchair service…
When I first became spinal cord injured way back in 1985, it went without saying that my working days were over even though I was only 26. At the time I was working as an Assistant Green Keeper on a golf course and all I had ever done was physical work. Educationally I had been…
