Forward Stories

SIA’s free support line is often the first port of call for people seeking support and advice after spinal cord…

SIA columnist Ruth Hunt discusses mental health with award-winning journalist and author Melanie Reid MBE. In 2010 journalist Melanie Reid…

In 2017, former rugby player Dani Czernuszka-Watts was left T10 injured after a foul tackle from an opponent. 8 years…

Determination runs in the family: 14 years after Emma Neild sustained a spinal cord injury in a rollercoaster accident, her…

Black History Month takes place in October, but SIA member Ifeanyi Nwokoro asks – to be effective, shouldn’t conversations about…

Wicked movie star Marissa Bode made history last year as the first spinal cord injured actress to play a wheelchair-using…

Award-winning writer, poet and disability activist Bethany Handley, 26, from south Wales believes poetry is a powerful form of activism,…

When artist Emily Kilby, 27, from Hertfordshire, sustained her incomplete SCI caused by Transverse Myelitis she thought she’d have to…

After years spent in a nursing home following his spinal cord injury and mental health issues, Ian Wyllie, decided to…

When Abbie Webb, 32, from Gloucester, had a spinal stroke at home alone, she managed to use her nose to…

SCI wildlife artist John Cressey, 48, from Exeter, shares how he brings animals and birds to life through his extraordinary…

When Tommy Rowlingson takes on the London Marathon in April to raise funds for SIA, it’ll be a pretty special…