Ability Bow
Health
We need funds to offer exercise and well-being activities to frail/isolated older people for mobility, independence and social contact.
About this cause
We're a local charity supporting people with disabilities or complex long-term health conditions to keep fit in our specialist community gym. We strive to remove all barriers to exercise through innovative one-to-one personal training sessions with our highly qualified Instructors. Our aim is to massively increase disabled people's independence by becoming fitter, more self-confident and resilient. We help set fitness goals and work towards helping people help themselves. People regain lost mobility and strength and experience enormous improvements in their quality of life. The disabilities or health conditions we work with include; MS, Stroke, Spinal or Head Injuries, Parkinson's Disease, Mental Illness, Cerebral Palsy, Cardiac, Cancer, HIV. We put the ability back into disability.
How this cause brings people in the community together
We want to work with older people who are at risk of falls or who have had a stroke and provide one-to-one or group exercise sessions and a social group. Raising awareness of stroke and falls, and building resilience for those at risk, helps local older people to live more independent lives, relying less on family and the community.