The Back-Up Trust

Jessica House
Red Lion Square
191 Wandsworth High Street
SW18 4LS

Tel: 020 8875 1805
Fax: 020 8870 3619
Web: www.backuptrust.org.uk

The Back-Up Trust is a national charity that supports people with spinal cord injury. They run a variety of services that encourage self-confidence, independence and motivation following a traumatic life changing incident resulting in spinal cord injury. they also support friends, families and colleagues of all those who are affected to encourage integration and promote disability awareness and collaboration. Services include:

• Wheelchair Skills - Back-Up’s spinally injured volunteers run 3-hour sessions in the majority of spinal centres across the UK. These are aimed to give in-patients the skills and confidence to use their wheelchair across all terrains; including ramps, step and curbs.
• Courses - Back-Up runs a range of courses for spinally injured participants and able bodied volunteers ‘buddies’ to experience a variety of different activities amid a social week. The courses range from one day, a weekend or are a week long and run throughout the summer and winter months varying from waterskiing to multi-activity weeks to the city challenge in Edinburgh.
• Mentoring - the mentoring programme is designed specifically to benefit people with SCI who feel they would like to receive regular 1-2-1 advice and support on arrange of subjects from a peer. All mentors are spinally injured with a range of experiences so that they can try to find the best match for you whether you're newly injured or have been for many years.
• Under 18? - Back-Up has a team who run a variety of services catered especially for those who are spinally injured and able-bodied. Check their Youth Programme pages on the website to find out more.