We are delighted to announce that Aspire and Spinal Injuries Association (SIA) have been awarded a joint funding grant of £486,176 from the National Lottery Community Fund.  This vital funding, granted for the next three years, will enable Aspire to expand our Welfare Benefits Advice team and further support our Accessible Housing and Housing Advice services. 

For SIA it will fund their advocacy and campaigns work, targeting their efforts to influence and improve policies that are important to the spinal injury community, while at the same time advocating on behalf of individuals to access the care and support they deserve. 
With this funding and our partnership with SIA, both charities will together help ensure that no one with a spinal cord injury has to face the challenges of the cost of living crisis alone. 

Nik Hartley OBE, Chief Executive of SIA said:

“It is hard to overstate how groundbreaking this collaboration is.  SIA believes that all people affected by spinal cord injury, whoever they are and wherever they live, should be able to find and access the best advice, support and representation for any challenge or barrier they face, for any need, at any time in their life after spinal cord injury. This collaboration means our members will not just be accessing SIA’s services but seamlessly access the vital, life-saving support and representation from Aspire’s dedicated, expert welfare benefits and housing teams.”

Brian Carlin, Chief Executive of Aspire said:

“We are delighted to have been successful in our collaboration with SIA to receive this funding.  By enabling Aspire to expand our Welfare Benefits Advice team and further support our Housing Programme this grant means that, together with SIA, we will be able to support more spinal injured people move from injury to independence.”

As two of the leading spinal cord injury charities, SIA and Aspire’s services together can address the urgent needs of people with spinal cord injury. With this funding and through our partnership we aim to ensure that no one with a spinal cord injury has to face the challenges of the cost of living crisis alone.

The National Lottery Community Fund distributes over £600m a year to communities across the UK, raised by players of The National Lottery.

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