We had a very special birthday celebration last week at Cheddle Lodge! It was our resident Gareth’s 60th birthday. We were planning to take Gareth to Disneyland Paris for his big day but of course due to the pandemic this sadly wasn’t possible for this year. We were delighted however to throw a ‘lockdown’ party […]
News from Supportability
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Golf Day Cancellation
After careful consideration and following discussions with Heaton Moor Golf Club, our main sponsors for the event (ACS) and taking into account current guidance in place regarding Covid-19, we’ve have had to make the very difficult and disappointing to decision to cancel this year’s annual golf day due to take place in September. This would […]
Sue Stern shares her poems about her daughter who had Cerebral Palsy
We’re delighted to have more to share with you from author Sue Stern. For those of you who haven’t read Sue’s work here before, she’s the author of the book, The Child Who Spoke With Her Eyes. In Sue’s own words ‘the story of our beautiful, charismatic daughter, Vanessa, who had cerebral palsy, but who […]
Katie Holmes returns with her latest blog – Catwalks, School and my opinion about the Coronavirus…
We’re delighted to have Katie’s latest blog to share with you. For those of you who don’t know Katie, she’s 13, has Cerebral Palsy and shares her heart warming experiences in her blogs. Over to you Katie… Hello everyone! I hope everybody is doing well! Today’s blog is going to be all about how 2020 […]
Author Sue Stern Shares her Howard Lovy interview
We’re delighted to have more to share from Sue Stern, author of ‘The Child Who Spoke With Her Eyes’. This month Sue has kindly shared a podcast interview she had with US editor and writer Howard Lovy called – ‘Inspirational Indie Authors: Sue Stern’s Memoir of Her Daughter’s Life With Cerebral Palsy is Also the […]
Katie’s latest blog – Why do people always stare at us?
We’re absolutely delighted to feature Katie’s latest blog ‘Why do people always stare at us?’ Katie Holmes is 13 and writes about her life and experiences of living with Cerebral Palsy. Over to you Katie… Hey Everyone! Today’s blog is all about why people have to stare. Do not get me wrong, staring is normal, […]
Para-cycling World Champion Katie Toft writes about living with Cerebral Palsy
Katie is a 5 time Para-cycling World Champion for the C1 class, in 2018 she won gold for the individual pursuit in Rio. In August 2018, she then took a clean sweep of the medals in her class at the Para-cycling Road World Championships in Italy – gold in both the Individual Road Time Trial […]
Free will writing service during Will Week – 2nd – 6th March
Get peace of mind whilst helping to support a great local charity. Supportability and Harold Stock Solicitors are working together to offer a free will writing service for simple wills. As the Solicitors are giving up their time freely, they have asked that you make a small donation to us. (The suggested minimum donation is […]
Author Sue Stern’s first blog for Supportability
We are delighted to feature Sue Stern on our website, not only a writer, but also a mother to Vanessa – The Child Who Spoke With Her Eyes – here Sue will be giving us an insight into her life and experience as a mother to Vanessa, living with Cerebral Palsy during her short life. […]
Volunteer of the Year 2019
We’re absolutely delighted to announce that our Volunteer of Year 2019 is Vivien Heighway. Viv has voluntarily helped Supportability organise the annual Golf Day for the past 6 years. She provides support, guidance and very useful knowledge to help make it the success it is today. The tireless help and support we receive from our […]
