Supporting Stroke Survivors their families & carers in Amber Valley Derbyshire
Lottery Funding
National Lottery Funding 2020/21
National Lottery Funding 2020/21
AVSG
Supporting Stroke survivors
in Amber Valley
Thanks to National Lottery Community Funding we are able to introduce a new varied program for 2020 of activity sessions along with our Usual entertainers and speaker
mix. The activities with vary from, Art, Clay modelling Indoor curling, traditional board games, Nintendo Wii games and Large screen Tv quiz shows. It is design to appeal to a wider age range of stroke survivors, in particular working age!
We feel there are lots of working age stroke survivors both working and non-working out there, that are struggling with living life after stroke. We hope to show them there is somewhere for them to connect with other survivors and together we can learn to live better lives after stroke, knowing there are people who understand what we are each going through.
National Lottery Funding 2023/24
National Lottery Funding 2023/24
AVSG
Continuing to help Improving
Mental Health and Wellbeing
For Stroke Survivors, their families & carers.
In Amber Valley!
Thanks to National Lottery Community Funding for a second time, this time of £10,000, we can carry on the important task of helping improve the mental health and wellbeing our members. This started because of the lockdown's we have all endured over the last eighteen months and has seriously affected everyone's mental health and general wellbeing.
Once restrictions were slowly eased and we were able to resume our regular face to face meetings, we decided to focus on getting people out and about via group day trips. Since July we have squeezed in four outings, and on each one the predominant features were laughter and chatter. Faces were beaming with delight and happiness, so the inside must have been happy too.
With this in mind we decided to focus our 2022/23 program on the continued improvement of mental health and wellbeing, so, are planning on doing more outings we would normally do. Having seen the huge benefit people got form our outings in 2021, it was clear this was the way forward and fits in with our main objective as a small charity, which, quoting our constitution:
C. Objects. The Charity's objects are to relieve persons suffering from stroke by the provision of support advice and recreational facilities to such persons and their carers, in the interests of social welfare so that their conditions of life may be improved.
Obviously, taking this further can include mental health and wellbeing. We cannot thank players of the national lottery enough for helping support local organizations such as us. Without this vital financial support, we would not be able to undertake the program of support that means so much to each and every one of our group, it's executive committee and trustees.
THANK YOU!