Colchester Branch Meeting Report

Group Meeting

10th April 2022
We met at Feering Community Centre, near Colchester in Essex on Sunday, 10th April for our first face-to-face meeting since October 2019.  It was so good to meet in person again.

Hitchin get together report

Group Meeting

30th April 2022
The Hitchin Get together was held on the 30th April 2022 @ 13.30 @ the Orange Tree pub. It was the first face to face meet up since the pandemic began in 2020.

Milford meeting report – So good!

23rd April 2022
During the afternoon, I heard these words many times. Why? So good to see each other again. So good to be able to chat and share again. So good not to be the only one with a funny walk. This last comment was surprising, but confirms the benefits of meeting with others with the same disability.

Birmingham meeting report

9th April 2022
We would have loved to have had a face-to-face meeting here in Birmingham in April but the meetings are held  in a Day Centre Facility and Covid restrictions still haven’t allowed us to return there as yet. We are hopeful for October.

Calling all people of Wales, Scotland and England…

Some of us will be online to Senedd, Holyrood and Westminster in a virtual reception (replacing the previous physical events). The British Rare Disease Strategy has already been produced and yet has to be ratified by the parliaments of Wales, Scotland and N Ireland.

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SPG 11 and SPG 15 Zoom Meeting Report

26th January 2022
We have a separate meeting for these types of HSP because, although they are very similar to each other, they are very different, in some ways, from other types of Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia.

Milford Zoom Meeting Report

21st November 2021
Catching up with those who usually join us at Milford was a pleasure, plus welcoming a new couple.

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Family chat zoom meeting report

Thursday 18th November 2021

The meetings committee have been wanting to get parents & carers of children, young people & dependant adults with hsp together for a long time.

East Anglia Zoom Meeting Report

11 November 2021
Although face to face meetings are held in Norwich and at Feering, near Colchester, in non-covid times, this zoom gathering was expanded to include the whole of East Anglia.

SPG 11 and SPG 15 Zoom Meeting Report

4 November 2021

You may wonder why we would have a separate meeting for these two types of HSP.  It’s because, although they are very similar to each other, they are very different, in some ways, from other types of Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia.