MKM Building supplies have recently become a corporate partner of The Movement Centre, although they have been supporting our work for the last two years.

We attended the cheque presentation at MKM Building Supplies and were awarded with a donation of £4000.

MKM Building Supplies is the UK’s largest independent builders’ merchant, with 51 branches across England and Scotland in addition to MKM Leisure, a specialist distributor for the caravan and holiday homes industry.

We look forward to working together in 2018!

Thursday 7th December 2017. The Day that Father Christmas took time out of his busy schedule to visit us at The Movement Centre. We were very lucky indeed to have Santa come and visit us at The Movement Centre to give presents to some of the children that attend therapy sessions. A big thank you to Father Christmas for giving up his time, we know just how busy December is for him!

Adults and children alike were excited and shocked to see him but loved being in his company. He brought a little festive cheer (and presents) to everyone at TMC. Santa was quizzed by one little boy, Alfie.

He was asked lots of questions such as- how do you get down the chimney? Where do you go first? Do you visit Never Never Land?

Santa of course had an answer for all of these questions.Again, thank you Santa and we are hoping you had a safe trip back to the North Pole, and hope you visit again next year.

The Movement Centre are delighted to have been awarded a grant of £5000 by Santander.

The money was donated through Santander’s Discovery Grants scheme.

It will be used for sensory equipment. The new equipment will produce a calming environment. It will be used as part of the therapy assessments at The Movement Centre for our specialist therapy, Targeted Training.

A big thank you to Santander for their support!

On Sunday 17^th September, staff and supporters of The Movement Centre were joined by some of the families who have attended the centre, supporters and friends to celebrate 20 years of our specialist therapy, Targeted Training. We were kindly offered the use of Brynkinalt Hall in Chirk, for a celebration event. Also at the event was Tom James MBE, British rower and twice Olympic Gold Champion and patron of The Movement Centre. The day enabled everyone to mark the occasion with a special afternoon tea and entertainment!

We were delighted to get together with so many people to celebrate and we were very lucky to have the event in such a beautiful venue. We are very grateful indeed to Kate, Iain and family at Brynkinalt Hall for their hospitality.

We have so many wonderful friends and supporters, who give up their time to help volunteer and raise funds to enable us to continue our work. We can’t thank them enough and we are very excited for the next 20 years!

The Movement Centre had their inaugural charity golf day sponsored by Club Choice Ireland.

Hosted by Henlle Park Golf Club,our golf day had a first prize of a golfing holiday donated by the sponsors. We were very lucky to have the support of Larry, who works for Club Choice, and he made the trip over here to meet the golfers.

We ordered some good weather for the golf day and considering it was October, the rain stayed away and for the most part was sunny.

We had multiple prizes on offer including longest drive for men and women, and closest to pin men and women. Below is a list of winners

Longest drive men- Ron Pugh, longest drive ladies- Pam Tattersal, closest to pin men- Sam Allen, closest to pin ladies- Viv Davies.

3rd place – Gerallt Davies and Rob Jones

2nd place- Bill Mackenzie and Steve Shum

1st place- Sam Allen and Joshua Davies

 

To see all pictures please visit our Facebook page

 

We will be hosting an interactive workshop on 8th November at The Movement Centre for families who would like to learn more about the EHC (Education, health and care) Plans.

The event is very kindly supported by Lanyon Bowdler & No5 Barristers’ Chambers. It takes place from 10.30am – 2.30pm (registration at 10am) and is FREE to attend. A light lunch is also included. Full details can be found here: The Movement Centre EHC Plans.

You do not have to be a family who attend The Movement Centre for therapy – it is open to all!

Please contact Polly Roberts on 01691 404248 or [email protected] by Friday 27th October if you would like to book a place at the event.

 

Earlier in the year Sarah visited Texas and we wanted to share her story.

The Combined Sections Meeting (CSM) is an annual conference for all American Physiotherapists. The 2017 CSM was held in San Antonio, Texas on 15-18^th February and brought together more than 14,000 professionals from around the nation. There were many presentations throughout the four days by all 18 of American Physical Therapy Association’s (APTA’s) specialty sections.

Sarah, one of our Physiotherapists was asked to present at the conference in February. Sarah said “I was fortunate enough to be invited to present alongside two of my American Colleagues Sandy Saavedra PT MS PhD, Assistant Professor of Physical Therapy at the University of Hartford. Plus, Danielle Bellows PT MHS PCS, Paediatric Clinical Specialist at Connecticut Children’s Medical Center, Hartford.

All three talked the audience through their presentation.

Sarah continued “We gave a presentation on “Targeted Training for head control.” Over 800 professionals attended our presentation which made me a little nervous to say the least. However, feedback after the event was very positive.”

Sarah, whilst in Texas, also had a chance to visit the Exhibit Hall which featured more than 300 companies showcasing the latest and greatest in products and services available to physiotherapy professionals. She also had the opportunity to view posters and to learn about the products, services, and technologies. Sarah stated “It was a great way to enhance my practice”.

It is great that The Movement Centre have these opportunities to spread awareness, so we can help more children.

Vicky, Curtis and Sarah from The Movement Centre attended a awards event on the 6th June for the Shropshire Star’s Cash For Your Community 2017 Campaign. We were delighted to find out that, thanks to our supporters, we came first and received a donation for £5000!

Cash For Four Community, now in its third year, was started when sponsors Enterprise Flex-E-Rent partnered with the Shropshire Star to share out £20,000 among local charities and community groups. We were chosen to be in the top 50 out of 132 organisations that entered. Readers of the Shropshire Star could then vote for their chosen charity or community group by collecting tokens that are printed in the newspaper each week and sending them in with a nomination form.

A huge thank you to everyone who supported us with the campaign and to Enterprise Flex-E-Rent and the Shropshire Star!

Our clinical team were very excited to take part in two days of Makaton Training. Held at The Movement Centre, a number of delegates joined us on the day.

Makaton is a language programme using signs and symbols to help people to communicate. It is designed to support spoken language and the signs and symbols are used with speech, in spoken word order. This can help to provide clues about what someone is saying. Signs can help people who have no speech or whose speech is unclear. Symbols can help people who have limited speech and those who cannot, or prefer not to sign.

Using Makaton in our sessions

We look forward to using Makaton at The Movement Centre. It will be great to be able to communicate with children in the sessions using signs and symbols. You can find out more about how you could learn Makaton on the Makaton Charity website. 

Why not watch Sarah and Curtis from The Movement Centre showing off their Makaton skills in this video?

The Movement Centre is very lucky to have some keen runners who are raising funds for us. 

One brave man is Darren Hall. He took on the tough challenge of completing the London Marathon on Sunday 23^rd April 2017. Darren, who works for Storage King, found himself one of the lucky runners to get a place in the London Marathon this year. He then decided he wanted to raise funds along the way. He finished the marathon in a time of 5 hours 12 minutes and raised over £500, a fantastic amount.

Oswestry Half Marathon

Another event that we have been delighted to be involved in is the inaugural Oswestry Half Marathon held on Sunday 30^th April 2017. We had discounted charity places offered to us by UK RunChat. They were filled by some great local people.

Emily, Jo and Leanne ,from NatWest Bank, are going to take on this challenge. They wanted to support a local charity. They have been fundraising and held cake sales, spinathons, and through a JustGiving page. Also running the Oswestry Half Marathon are 3 Movement Centre staff Polly, Sarah and Curtis.

If you are in the local area come along and cheer all of our runners through the gruelling 13.1 miles.