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Back-up Trust
The Business VillageBroomhill Road
London
SW18 4JQ
Tel: 020 8875 1805
Fax: 020 8870 3619
Web: www.backuptrust.org.uk
Best time to telephone: normal office hours
The Back-Up Trust is a registered charity that aims to enable people with spinal cord injury (SCI) to surpass their aspirations.
Back-Up does this through offering a wide range of day or week long rehabilitation courses to suit a varied range of interests. Each course aims to re-build confidence, motivation and empower people with SCI after a traumatic injury.
In the summer they run multi-activity courses in the Lake District, Kielder and Exmoor. Each offers a number of exciting activities. They have a kayaking course in North Wales, a water skiing course near both London and Rochdale, as well as a sailing course in the Lake District. They also offer a programme of one day taster events in sailing, rowing, flying, and water skiing.
In the winter they run ski courses in France, Sweden and USA. These weeks aim to give tetraplegics and paraplegics a sense of independence. Often travelling abroad for the 1st time since their accident, confidence and new skills are gained that are easily transferred to every day life when back home.
The activities are only one part of what is important during the week. Feedback from courses shows that people learn a great deal from sharing experience with others in the group, picking up useful tips such as wheelchair skills and advice on coping with different aspects of their injury. There is also a strong social side with a mixture of chair users and able bodied buddies. Their participants often make long lasting friendships.
There is much more to Back-Up than meets the eye! People who participate in their programmes range from teenagers to grannies. They also cover the full range of levels of injury. They are interested in enabling people surpass their aspirations in everyday life, and use outdoor pursuits as a way to achieve this, alongside wheelchairs skills training, mentoring and role modelling.
Checked: June 2006
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