Every day another four people are told they may never walk again.
Spinal cord injury is unique. One minute you are devouring life, the next you are paralysed and in a wheelchair. There is no period of transition, no preventative medicine, no warning, no time to prepare – your life is turned upside down.
Aspire is a charity that works with people with spinal cord injury to create opportunity, choice and independence. Their national services and programmes include adapted housing for people leaving hospital if houses aren’t yet accessible, specialists computer equipment, independent living officers who provide direct support and advice for people recently injured and the Human Needs Fund which people can apply to for funding for specialist equipment. Aspire ensures that everyone with a spinal cord injury has the opportunity to live an independent and fulfilled life.
So every penny raised through the Aspire Channel Swim will help them to continue their work.