Working collaboratively with our campaigning partners
Our campaign’s manager, Dave Bracher, gives an update on our most recent collaborative working with two of our campaigning partner Two of our campaigning partners, the Inequalities in Health Alliance...
View ArticleWhat Matters – the latest blog from our CEO
As we launch the findings from our What Matters survey and conversations with over 400 spinal cord injured people, our CEO, Nik Hartley OBE, summarises what the report has revealed and highlights the...
View ArticleHow can this be? Read our CEO’s response to our new report
It’s not often I’m left speechless, but today’s (17 Nov 2021) news that people with a spinal cord injury are three time more likely to consider committing suicide than the rest of the population, has...
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MAC report brings light at the end of the tunnel
I hope by now you’ve heard the very good news! After a campaign by SIA, the Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) which advises the Home Office has recommended to the government that they introduce...
View ArticleWho cares?
Nik Hartley writes about why we have pushed for care workers to be eligible for the fast-track Health and Care Visa and added to the Shortage Occupation List. You couldn’t get fuel in the autumn; you...
View ArticleIntimacy in later life
Most of us know relationships are ever-changing and not always easy. Here, Joy Sinclair, Ageing Well Consultant, shares advice on maintaining intimacy in your later years. When you’ve been together for...
View ArticlePara-Pride and Prejudice
Some LGBTQ+ people who were ‘out’ before sustaining their SCI can feel as if they face new layers of discrimination – leaving them at best excluded from the scene and at worst back in the closet, says...
View ArticleMen and sex after SCI
Here our SCI specialist nurse Damian Smith covers some of the more common questions asked specifically by men. Will my injury affect my sexual function? If yours is a complete spinal cord injury than...
View ArticleWomen and sex after SCI
Will I be able to have sex again? Yes, you will! It’s likely to be different and you might have to learn new ways and means. Sensations might be different and you’ll need to think about preparing in...
View ArticleSex after SCI – Q&A with our specialist nurses
Too often, there can be a stigma around talking about sex after SCI – spinal centres do provide educational opportunities for newly injured people to learn about sex after SCI, but those rehabilitating...
View ArticleChanging and adapting – David’s story
When David began enjoying nights out again after his spinal cord injury, he feared letting things get too far with women he met. If attention came my way I’d respond, but in the back of my mind I’d be...
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Sharing your personal mountains
Everyday mountains faced by spinal cord injured people is the theme for this year’s Spinal Cord Injury Awareness Day (SCIAD) We asked our members and the spinal cord injured community to share their...
View ArticleClaire’s experience of the Superhero Triathlon
Claire Martin, our chair of trustees, sustained an L3 incomplete injury when an undiagnosed tumour haemorrhaged during giving birth to her son in 2019. She decided to take part in the Superhero...
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SIA Healthcare – new team member
We’re delighted that Gavin Walker has joined the SIA Healthcare team as our new outreach relationship manager. We met up with him and got to know him over five revealing questions. What are your...
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Martin’s Mountain: Q&A with Martin and wife Gabby
Northern bloody-mindedness. That’s how the acclaimed poet Tony Walsh described the stuff Martin Hibbert was made of after taking on the challenge of climbing Africa’s highest mountain, Mt. Kilimanjaro...
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Getting to know our SIA Trustees
Our Board of Trustees are the people who share ultimate responsibility for governing SIA and directing how it’s managed and run. With a legal responsibility to make sure SIA carries out its purposes...
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From injured to cycling 100 miles: This is Mike’s story
Mike Ashton was barely able to lift a 1kg weight after his spinal cord injury three years ago – this year he cycled 100 miles… When Mike Ashton cycled over the finish line of the RideLondon 100 event...
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World Mental Health Day 2022 | The spies of life
World Mental Health Day is an international day for global mental health education, awareness and advocacy against social stigma. To raise further awareness on World Mental Health Day, our Counselling...
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My journey from spinal cord injury to scrum | Gavin Walker
With the Rugby World Championship just around the corner, Paralympic Gold Medallist, Gavin Walker MBE , tells us how wheelchair rugby helped him rebuild his life. Following a fall on some wet decking...
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Stop the Pressure Day 2022 – your stories
On Thursday 17 November we’re talking about all things pressure ulcers as part of international Stop the Pressure Day 2022 Here are some of the stories that people have kindly shared with us about...
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