Category: Footsteps Foundation

Well done to all the children who have just completed the first 3-week session of the year! The year is off to a flying start with therapy sessions getting booked up fast and many sessions for 2016 full. Please see if you are eligible for a grant from Footsteps Foundation. Fill in grant forms for your therapy sessions and Footsteps Foundation can pay up to 90% of the cost.

Winners of our summer raffle, kindly drawn for us by Ethel from our local Co-op, are:

1st prize       Kelly Peart

2nd prize    Janice Bain

3rd prize    Tracey Christie

Wittfest 2015 run by The Plough Inn at Long Wittenham has raised an incredible £1003 for Footsteps. This will fund around 20 hours of therapy at The Footsteps Centre. Huge thanks to the organisers

Andy, Pete Angus and Julian will be cycling 185 miles in aid of Footsteps Foundation next weekend. Come along and show your support while you do the weekly shop at Sainsburys Heyford-Hill!

Between the hours of 10am-4pm, the four cyclists will attempt to ride 185 miles in just 6 hours on static bikes in the foyer of Sainsbury’s Heyford Hill.

185 miles is the target which represents the 185 three-week intensive therapy sessions which were funded by Footsteps Foundation in 2014.

Three of the challengers are fathers of disabled children that benefit from Footsteps therapy and the other is the husband of the Footsteps Centre Manager.

They would appreciate the support and donations of the general public on Saturday 21st March. Challenging events like these are difficult but extra motivation comes from knowing that you are supporting disabled children, by funding much-needed physiotherapy.

GOOD LUCK BOYS!

If you can’t show your support in person but would like to make a donation towards the dad’s fundraising efforts, please make a donation at https://www.justgiving.com/footstepsfoundation/

Seven-year old Harry recently attended his second three-week session at Footsteps. It appears that this alone wasn’t a big enough challenge as Harry decided to use his session to do a sponsored walk and raise money for HABIT, a charity set up to fund physiotherapy for Harry and other children in the future.

He counted all the steps which he took on the treadmill while in the ‘Spider’, and his friends and family pledged him money per step. At the end of the three weeks, Harry achieved an incredible 1891 steps and the money is still coming in.

Harry’s mum Hilary says: “It has not only motivated him to really work hard right at that point of the daily session when he has reached his limit, but has also helped to set us well on our way to raising the money for his next session later in the year. Harry’s sponsored walk has been the first event of what we hope will be many to continually raise funds to pay for at least two sessions a year and if the fundraising goes well we hope to be able to provide grants for equipment to other children in our locality with brain injuries.”

WELL DONE HARRY!