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INSPIRE went to the races at Salisbury Racecourse on 28th June and raised £1000!
Gina Mangan, winning jockey at the INSPIRE Salisbury races on 28th June, with Trustee Chris Prentice and INSPIRE Director, Stephen Croft
Tue 2 May Salisbury Market Stall*
Please contact the office if you are available to help on the stall.
Many thanks
Helen
01722 336262 Ext 2465
events@inspire-foundation.org.uk
4. REHAB RHYTHM
REHAB RHYTHM Repetitive Movements with Nerve Stimulation ‘Strengthening Residual Pathways’
PI: Prof Stuart Baker Location: Newcastle University and Institute of Neurosciences, Kolkata, India
Duration/Dates/Cost: 38 months Jan 2024 – Apr 2027 Total project costs £239,610
ABSTRACT
This project will develop a new protocol to strengthen connections between the brain and spinal cord. This involves asking people to make repetitive movements in time to an auditory beat. We use the highly regular and predictable nature of such movements to time electrical stimulation of a nerve accurately. By doing this repeatedly, connections are strengthened. In this project, we will use studies in healthy people to optimise this protocol. We will then implement the best protocol in a portable device which can be used at home. Finally, we will test whether this device can improve hand and arm function when it is used by people with cervical spinal cord injury. If successful, the result will be a low cost, simple new therapy to improve the ability to perform activities of daily living.
OUTCOME
At the end of this project, if successful we will have optimised the new protocol, revealed the underlying mechanisms, and proven a functional benefit to people with SCI. We expect to patent the protocol soon. We will thus have everything needed to partner with a company to commercialise the device, or start a spinout company. This will enable people with SCI to buy devices directly, which is a feasible way to disseminate the approach quickly given the expected low device cost. Eventually, we hope that the technology will be included in standard NHS care pathways. The SCI community will benefit from improved hand and arm function, with a treatment that does not involve drugs (and hence has no side effects), and can be delivered in the home environment.
REHAB RHYTHM Newcastle University and INK India Jan 24
Dr Stephen Duckworth* OBE, PhD, MSc, LRCP, MRCS, FDSRCS
With a background in medicine and academia, Dr Stephen Duckworth has worked in a wide array of strategic level positions in Industry, Government, the FTSE, international consultancy and services to improve life chances for disabled people. During his time as Director of Serco, he led the ‘Welfare to Work’ team helping disadvantaged people returning to work. He has been responsible for large budgets and was Board Member on the Olympic Delivery Authority with a budget of £9.2 billion. Stephen sustained a C3/C4 spinal cord injury in 1981 with some residual use of his right arm. He is married to Rose and they have four sons; their family home is ten miles from Salisbury. He became a Trustee of the INSPIRE Foundation in 2015.
Sat 1 Aug Wilton Horse Trials 2015
The INSPIRE Foundation will again be running its information gazebo at the Wilton Horse Trials on Saturday 1st August from 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Further details are at http://www.wiltonhorsetrials.co.uk/.
Volunteers Needed. If you would like to come and support the event or help raise funds, find us at the INSPIRE gazebo or better still call first. If you are definitely able to help for any part of the day, please telephone the office 01722 336262 Ext 2465. Thank you.
Merchandise Price List
INSPIRE Foundation – Items for sale
- We have an agreed arrangement with our supplier to order and collect completed items on behalf of our INSPIRE Foundation members. This keeps prices to the minimum and saves time when putting though an order!
- Please note the prices shown, include VAT at 20% and Standard 2nd class Postage.
- If you cannot find what you are looking for, please call us.
| Sweatshirts. Available in 16 different colours with embroidered INSPIRE logo | £16.00 |
| Colours: white, bottle green, light grey, bright red, dark red, sky blue, royal blue, burgundy, jade, grey, purple, yellow, black and gold. |
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| Sizes: To fit all chest sizes 36 to 48 |
| Polo Shirts available in 11 different colours with embroidered INSPIRE logo | £15.00 |
| Colours: white, black, yellow, jade, purple, dark blue,royal blue, sky blue, bottle green, burgundy, red, light grey and gold. |
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| Sizes: To fit all chest sizes 36 to 48 |
| Fleece with full zipin 7 different colours with embroidered INSPIRE logo | £21.00 |
| Colours: bottle green, royal blue, dark blue, charcoal, dark red, black and burgundy | |
| Sizes: To fit chest sizes 36/38, 38/40, 42/44, 46/48. |
| Fleece with ¼ zip in 6 different colours with embroidered INSPIRE logo | £19.50 |
| Colours: green, navy blue, blue violet, charcoal, red and black | |
| Sizes: To fit chest sizes 37 to 52 |
| Baseball Cap with embroidered INSPIRE logo and one size fits all! | £6.00 |
Colours Options:
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Please note: These examples are illustrative only. For further information about any item please call The INSPIRE Foundation 01722 336262 Ext 2465 where you can place your order when ready. Alternatively our supplier Embroidery Unlimited has a wide range of products on which they can include the INSPIRE logo. Visit their on line catalogue at: www.embroideryunlimited.co.uk
Badg Champion
Badg Champion
Badg works three days of the week in the Spinal Rehabilitation Centre primarily as an "Assistive Technologist" which basically means he helps newly spinal injured patients get to grips with mobile phones tablets and IT in general without using their hands. He also has a small role in Patient Education which is a weekly series of presentations to the patients on key areas of living life with a spinal injury. Outside of these three days he does some web development work and IT consultancy for various companies in the area. Of his non-hospital work, he always says that a consultant is a guy who can read the manual faster than the customer!
His association with the INSPIRE Foundation started in 1993 as a result of falling off the steps when trimming the hedge and spending some time at the Salisbury spinal centre. He sustained an incomplete C6/C7 spinal cord injury. Badg is a frequent virtual visitor to the INSPIRE offices where he is also on call to assist with IT issues and training of the resident staff.
Badg lives with his wife near Wimborne and is a regular caravan user, quiz master, cooks a bit, races a remote controlled yacht weekly and follows Formula 1 Motor Racing.
Conflicts of Interest
INSPIRE FOUNDATION CONFLICT OF INTEREST STATEMENT
This policy statement relates to all individuals who are associated with the Inspire Foundation and includes:
- Patrons
- The Board of Trustees
- The National Scientific Committee
- Miscellaneous committee members
- Volunteers
- Staff employees
- Applicants who have submitted proposals for funding
The reputation enjoyed by AMRC members with the research community and the public is because of their ability to show a transparent system of distribution of funds which is both fair and balanced. It is therefore incumbent the INSPIRE Foundation, being an AMRC member to ensure that the peer review process is free from any undue influences.
Everyone, to whom this policy is directed, must declare an interest if they, as individuals or as a representative of an organisation or group, are likely to gain either financially from their relationship with the INSPIRE Foundation, or would be in a position in which they could influence a judgement which might benefit them. Such individuals should declare an interest and absent themselves from the Committee’s deliberations. They should not communicate with any member of the Committee before, during or after the discussion or conference relating to the relevant application until they have been formally informed by the Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Chairman of the relevant committee or the Executive Director of the decision of the Committee. In the case of an applicant, it is possible that an individual who has declared an interest might be invited into the room where their application is being discussed for the sole purpose of answering questions put by members of the Committee who are seeking clarification. After the question and answer period, the individual is to leave the room.
All policy documents, proposals and the identity of external referees must remain confidential and should not be disclosed to anyone outside the Committee.
Pippa Giles
Pippa Giles
Pippa joined the INSPIRE Foundation in 2017 as the Accounts and Membership Manager for the Charity.
Pippa has a degree in Biology and Geography and started her professional life teaching biology and human biology in a technical college. She retrained as a rural chartered surveyor working as a valuer for the Inland Revenue, as a consultant in compulsory purchase on the Channel Tunnel Rail Link in Kent and finally for Natural England as the national lead for one of their grant schemes for managers of Sites of Special Scientific Interest.
Pippa is married to Martin, a chartered building surveyor, and has two grown up children (a son and a daughter). She is a volunteer for English Heritage at Stonehenge and runs the bakery at the monthly Woodford Valley Kitchen Garden Market and Café to fund raise for the valley community. She has an eclectic mix of interests which includes learning any new craft, choral singing, gardening and anything archaeological.
Email: office@inspire-foundation.org.uk
Lorna McGregor
Lorna joined the small staff at the INSPIRE Foundation in the summer of 2013, with a background in project management, event planning and administration. Previously she worked in Wiltshire and Dorset for a conference and events company and latterly for two charities, one planning scientific expedition overseas and the other building primary schools in East Africa. These appointments enabled her to travel widely including to Uganda, Bolivia, Mongolia, the Philippines and Borneo.
Prior to 2001 Lorna had a successful career in the Army, serving both in the UK and on a number of occasions overseas. Her varied appointments ranged from working in the marketing department of the Army’s Recruiting Organisation, managing into service a complete new range of Army women’s uniforms, to monitoring the integration of soldiers of the armed wing of the African National Congress into a new South African National Defence Force.
Within the INSPIRE Foundation, Lorna helps organise fundraising events and public relations and coordinates the important part played by our wonderful Volunteers.
Lorna McGregor –
Events & Public Relations
Rory Steevenson
Rory Steevenson
After a full career in the infantry, including four operational tours in the Middle East and three in Northern Ireland, Rory was selected as INSPIRE’s Director (formerly Executive Director) in September 2012. He is responsible for the day to day running of the charity, as well as all fundraising. He is Secretary both to the Board of Trustees and the National Scientific Committee and co-ordinates INSPIRE’s National Research Programme.
From the outset he identified that INSPIRE’s unique selling point was the diversity and quality of its world class scientists. By projecting their ideas to grant making trusts as ‘entirely possible but for the funds’, he identified that grants were available, despite a climate of austerity. He also recognised the need to break out of the ‘Salisbury/Southampton enclave’ and develop a wider footprint by actively encouraging the involvement of new scientists, particularly in Scotland and the North of England. This strategy was recognised by both the Association of Medical Research Charities, which in December 2015 reinstated the charity’s ‘licence to operate’ and the Office of Scottish Charity Regulator, which awarded membership status in November 2018. In turn this led to the establishment of INSPIRE’s ‘London base’ at the prestigious Royal Society of Medicine.
Rory further recognised that INSPIRE’s footprint was more than just science! He coerced ten new Patrons, seven new Trustees and countless members and volunteers, all with their part to play. He has overseen an imaginative array of scientific and awareness activities, both in Salisbury and London at the House of Lords, the Royal Society of Medicine and the Royal College of Anaesthetists. The charity has also raised funds at six major racecourses in the south of England and held receptions in Glasgow and the Channel Islands. Under his direction, INSPIRE has grown beyond recognition and now addresses quality of life issues for the spinal cord injured with bigger, more imaginative and expensive projects, thereby multiplying the National Research Programme from £37,000 to over £1.6 million.
Rory has a home in Salisbury which he occasionally (but not too often) shares with his two grown up sons, Bill and James. His main interests are cooking, DIY, skiing and sailing. He recently rebuilt a small yacht which he keeps near Lymington and is an offshore member of the RNLI. He is a Trustee of the Royal Hampshire Regiment and a member of the Multidisciplinary Association of SCI Professionals.
Email: ntrs@inspire-foundation.org.uk