Matt from Your Herefordshire was invited to the Hereford Cycle track at Halo Leisure Centre today to come and meet the participants taking part in a biathlon event to raise money for brain injury survivors.
The Adapted Cycling Group is a new neurorehabilitation intervention designed to support those who have experienced an Acquired Brain Injury. The group helps brain injury survivors address and manage difficulties such as poor balance, limb weakness, low mood, anxiety, social isolation, and confidence.
Family members and carers also benefit from attending the group, as it helps build a support network, meet other families that are experiencing similar difficulties, and combat the effects of social isolation that come with caring for someone with a brain injury.
All money raised will go back into the group, such as buying new adapted bikes, purchasing equipment, or hiring the cycling track at Halo.
Matt spoke to Kate Ankers from the Acquired Brain Injury Team from Wye Valley NHS Trust who told us “We have nearly raised around £1,500 which is a fantastic amount, it was really good to see everyone come together to celebrate the fantastic money raising achievements. We work together with Halo on this joint venture to support brain injury patients within Herefordshire and the surrounding area”
You can donate here -> Bob Schermer is fundraising for WYE VALLEY NHS TRUST UMBRELLA CHARITY (justgiving.com)
Matt also spoke to Elliot Evans who is a keen supporter of the Wye Valley NHS Trust, he took part in plenty of laps around the cycling track. He told us “I am taking part in events over a 6 month period, raising money for the MRI Department at the Hereford County Hospital, for a MRI-friendly wheelchair, this would allow people with mobility issues, such as myself to be transferred to the MRI scanner bed from their mobility aids, which aren’t able to go into the scanning room, due to the strong magnetic field, that’s created by the scanner, as the magnet is always switched on”
Elliot added “In addition, they also have patients who are either bedbound in hospital, or, the patient might be an outpatient, but has to be laying flat due to their condition, or that they’re also bedbound for whatever their reasons may be. So, any additional donations will go towards as a specialist mobile bed that will allow patients to be transferred from their hospital bed or transport, to be taken to and from the scanner safely on a bed, that is made specially to cope with the strong magnetic field of the MRI scanner”
You can donate here -> Elliot Evans is fundraising for WYE VALLEY NHS TRUST UMBRELLA CHARITY (justgiving.com)
