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Milford April Afternoon Tea Report

22nd April 2023
At our November meeting last year, we had agreed to have a ‘Show and Tell’ session about mobility aids at our meeting yesterday. True to form, we did. Mobility aids were not walking sticks, but attachments for wheelchairs.

Birmingham meeting report

Group Meeting

15th April 2023
It was great to be able to see everybody at our first ‘face to face’ get together since Covid. All 16 of us (including five people who hadn’t been to the Birmingham Support Group Meeting before), enjoyed a super buffet lunch and an informal chatty afternoon.

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Hitchin get together meeting report

Group Meeting

28th January 2023

Twelve of us got together at the Orange Tree pub in Hitchin, Hertfordshire. It was good to see familiar faces as well as members that have returned after a few years. Great to catch up & spend  time with HSP’rs, face to face, after a long wait.

Birmingham Pre-Christmas Lunch

Christmas

26 November 2022
It was great to have 16 people meet up at the Packhorse Pub on Saturday 26th November for a pre-Christmas Lunch and was really lovely to welcome four new members plus partners/friends.

Milford’s November Sunday Afternoon Tea

20 November 2022
With this being the first Sunday Milford meeting since lockdown, there was a lot of catching up to do. Our speaker was Paul Graham, from the Queen Elizabeth Foundation for Disabled People (QEF) Mobility Services.

Scotland Zoom Meeting Report

22nd October 2022
The meeting went ahead despite the muddle of Meta Rejigging of Facebook, and several zoomed including some new. We spent a lot of time talking about rollators, bikes and other rural mobility aids that could cope with tough surfaces as well as what adjustments Motorbility might make.

Colchester Branch Meeting Report

Group Meeting

16th October 2022
We met at Feering Community Centre, near Colchester in Essex on Sunday, 16th October 2022.  Most of us were regular attenders but we were delighted to be joined, for the first time, by one of our members from Cambridge.

The Potato Pants Festival is back!

The 2022 Potato Pants festival is taking place on September 3rd at Cobham Sports and Social club on the outskirts of Wimborne.  It’s a family friendly festival with activities and facilities to entertain the children.  

Zoom for Families with Children & Young People Report

18th May 2022
A lovely group zoom with seven people and everyone happy to introduce themselves. One person had very recently developed hearing difficulties and decided to leave. He said that he’d be very happy to be included in the next meeting.

Home affairs

Welsh Parliament

On the run up to an announcement on the Wales Rare Disease Action Plan, journalist and HSP Support Group member, Phil Parry, discusses the issues faced by those with HSP in an article for The Eye.