Forward Stories

SIA’s vision is a fulfilled life for everyone affected by spinal cord injury. Here our support coordinator Lisa Boyle, 57,…

When one of the country’s favourite soaps, Coronation Street, decided to run a storyline about a spinal cord injury, they…

It took nine years for Ceri Love to be told the extent of her spinal cord injury following a car…

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…