Save our hydrotherapy service!
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My name is Cath Mather and I am an experienced Occupational Therapist with a specialism in Hydrotherapy.
For some time I have provided hydro services to a variety of individuals.
The hydro service is a lifeline for numerous people who are suffering and recovering from conditions such as MS, Arthritis, Depression and anxiety, Stroke, Head Injury, and others. Some people attend for advice and physical input, others benefit just from accessing the warm water itself.
Hydrotherapy is notoriously difficult to access through health services. It is generally underfunded, resulting I suspect from a lack of understanding of its great value. Demand is such, that through the NHS patients are usually offered a short course of hydro (6 weeks approx) just once a year.
However, for this intervention to be truly effective, it should be regular, and ongoing.
The service I (and others) have provided has enabled numerous people to access a hydrotherapy pool on an ongoing weekly basis. Individuals attending have gained strength, flexibility, pain relief, comfort and relaxation, confidence, friendships and more.
Unfortunately, I have been advised that from the end of July 2016, there are no longer funds able to cover the costs of running this vital service.
There are so very many people that this service closure has the potential to disadvantage. Please help me to keep the service running. I am fundraising to pay for the hire of a hydrotherapy pool for 30 weeks (around the length of an academic year). The pool we have used for many years is situated within a school, and as such is only available during term time.
The cost of the pool hire, at just 2 hours weekly is £150 per week. This means that the total cost of pool hire for an academic year is £4,500 and therefore this is the amount I hope to raise. My priority is ensuring that the pool continues to be available to those people that so desperately need it.
Please help if you feel you can. Thank you on behalf of so very many worthy folks.
For some time I have provided hydro services to a variety of individuals.
The hydro service is a lifeline for numerous people who are suffering and recovering from conditions such as MS, Arthritis, Depression and anxiety, Stroke, Head Injury, and others. Some people attend for advice and physical input, others benefit just from accessing the warm water itself.
Hydrotherapy is notoriously difficult to access through health services. It is generally underfunded, resulting I suspect from a lack of understanding of its great value. Demand is such, that through the NHS patients are usually offered a short course of hydro (6 weeks approx) just once a year.
However, for this intervention to be truly effective, it should be regular, and ongoing.
The service I (and others) have provided has enabled numerous people to access a hydrotherapy pool on an ongoing weekly basis. Individuals attending have gained strength, flexibility, pain relief, comfort and relaxation, confidence, friendships and more.
Unfortunately, I have been advised that from the end of July 2016, there are no longer funds able to cover the costs of running this vital service.
There are so very many people that this service closure has the potential to disadvantage. Please help me to keep the service running. I am fundraising to pay for the hire of a hydrotherapy pool for 30 weeks (around the length of an academic year). The pool we have used for many years is situated within a school, and as such is only available during term time.
The cost of the pool hire, at just 2 hours weekly is £150 per week. This means that the total cost of pool hire for an academic year is £4,500 and therefore this is the amount I hope to raise. My priority is ensuring that the pool continues to be available to those people that so desperately need it.
Please help if you feel you can. Thank you on behalf of so very many worthy folks.
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Cath Darling
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