Aspire offers a range of career opportunities, including lifeguards and gym staff in the Aspire National Training Centre, specialist support staff for our projects and dedicated fundraisers in the fundraising team.

It’s a hugely exciting time to be at Aspire; our Housing Programme is undergoing rapid expansion, InstructAbility is in the first year of a three-year nationwide rollout and Fundraising income has grown year on year, allowing us to do ever more to support people who have been paralysed by Spinal Cord Injury.

In light of our numerous recent successes, and with a strong desire to build on them in the coming years, we are now looking to strengthen our Trustee Board. Our Trustees are an integral part of the Charity, overseeing our plans and progress but also offering knowledge, enthusiasm and support to key members of staff. We are particularly looking for new Trustees with experience in the following areas:

• Media/PR
• Campaigning/Public Affairs
• Finance
• Law (Charity/Company Law)
• Marketing
• Fundraising

Trustees are required to attend four Board Meetings a year, with the option to join specific Committees or Projects.

If you would be interested in helping take Aspire forward, please download the job description, complete an application form and return to to Tasha Webster, Director of Operations, Aspire, Wood Lane, Stanmore, Middlesex, HA7 4AP or tasha.webster@aspire.org.uk.

The Aspire Assistive Technology programme provides access to computers and training for people with a spinal cord injury whilst they are in rehabilitation in a Spinal Injury Centres.

We are looking for two types of volunteers to help on the programme.

Computer Administration and Support
We are looking for volunteers who can help maintain and administer the computers that are used on the programme. A good aptitude for IT is required as well as the ability to work accurately to instructions to keep the computers in the best possible working order. These roles are based at Stanmore, but working remotely is also a possibility.

You should be able to commit around 8 hours per month, but times can be flexible. 

Assistive Technology Trainers
Our volunteer trainers work with patients in the Spinal Injury Centres helping them to regain access to a computer following injury. Training and support is given to patients as they learn how to use a computer using any special access equipment that is required.

The training is delivered at one of the Spinal Injury Centres. These are located at Stanmore, Stoke Mandeville, Salisbury, Wakefield, Sheffield, Southport, Cardiff and Belfast. Volunteers will need to be able to travel to the centre and usually commit to one 2-3 hour afternoon or morning session per week.

Vacancies currently exist at the following centres: Oswestry, Stoke Mandeville, Sheffield and Salisbury, but if you are interested in volunteering at any one of the centres please contact us for further information. 

For both positions training will be given and travel expenses reimbursed.

For more information please contact Andrew Kell, Assistive Technology Manager by email andrew.kell@aspire.org.uk or by telephone, 020 8420 6732.