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Black History Month (Forward - Autumn 2025)

1 October 2025

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

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Something Wicked - interview with Marissa Bode (Forward - Autumn 2025)

20 September 2025

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

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Power in Words (Forward - Autumn 2025)

15 September 2025

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

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Ceramic Sisters (Forward - Autumn 2025)

10 September 2025

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

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Colin's walk to the top of Roseberry Topping

9 July 2025

In 2021, Colin Phipps, 59, from Scarborough was told he would likely never walk again after sustaining a spinal cord…

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Scarborough man told he may never walk again to climb Roseberry Topping for charity

27 June 2025

A Scarborough man who was told he may never walk again is to climb Roseberry Topping to raise funds for…

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Katty’s PIP appeal success thanks to SIA support

13 May 2025

Katty King-Coulling (39) from Maidenhead sustained a spinal cord injury in 2018 that has left her with debilitating chronic pain….

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In memory of my husband

23 April 2025

SIA member Kate Griffin recently got in touch with us following the sad passing of her husband Graham to say…

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Share your story with the media

28 March 2025

If you face injustice and/or want to educate the public on the realities of living with a spinal cord injury,…

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An interview with the directors of Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story

31 October 2024

Peter Ettedgui, director and screenwriter, and Ian Bonhôte, director and producer, sat down and spoke to SIA about their film “Super/Man:…

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A review of Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story by Martin Hibbert

31 October 2024

Our vice president Martin Hibbert gives his review on the Christopher Reeve film out in cinemas from Friday 1 November…

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Q&A with Super/Man film researcher Ella Beaumont

31 October 2024

With the UK release of Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story, Spinal Injuries Association sat down with Ella Beaumont (29), who…

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