ASPIRE

Aspire National Training Centre
Wood Lane
Stanmore
Middlesex
HA7 4AP

Tel: 020 8954 5759
Fax: 020 8420 6352
Web: www.aspire.org.uk
Best time to telephone: normal office hours

Aspire's projects and services have a very simple goal - to provide the practical support needed for people with spinal cord injury, from injury to independence.

• Short-term supported housing
  Provides fully adapted temporary housing for six to nine months, to newly discharged patients from the UK's spinal injury centres.
• Aspire independent living programme

Offers the necessary support, guidance and training of newly required key-life skills, to assist spinally injured people within the UK.
• Assistive computer training

In a funding partnership with the Ian Karten Charitable Trust and the James Tudor Foundation, Aspire provides directly to the UK's spinal injury centres, assistive computer technology assessments and training to patients with high injuries and limited or no-hand movement.
• Aspire human needs fund

Provides spinally injured people with the opportunity to access the most appropriate equipment to meet their lifestyle goals and enable them to live their lives to the full.
• Research

The Aspire Centre for Disability Sciences is committed to excellence in the development of technologies and practises that promote autonomy for people with disabilities, and in particular people with spinal injury.
• FES rowing

Functional Electrical Stimulation (FES) is the artificial activation of targeted paralysed muscle. A stimulator sends electrical pulses to the muscle via special electrodes placed ont eh skin over the targeted muscle. FES rowing offers a choice for individuals with spinal cord injury who would like to adopt an active life style and could play a role in maintaining a higher level of health and fitness.
• Aspire National Training Centre

The Aspire National Training Centre is a fully integrated training centre in Europe for disabled and non-disabled people. Currently, around a third of members are disabled, which compares with a national average of 2-3% in other sports centres. They pro-actively encourage disabled people to join and take part in all activities by subsidising their membership and activity costs.