The Veterans’ Foundation has awarded a grant of £25,000 to Care for Veterans to support the organisation’s physiotherapy costs.
Most residents at Worthing-based Care for Veterans are wheelchair users. The charity works with them to maintain or improve their strength and build independence through physiotherapy-led activities, such as group cycling sessions.
The charity runs almost 200 cycling sessions a month using wheelchair-adapted bikes and supervised by a rehabilitation assistant. The bikes allow for cycling of the arms or legs with the ability to adjust the resistance. This means the cycling experience is targeted to help them achieve their individual goals.
Care for Veterans CEO, Peter Inkpen, said: "We would like to express our sincere thanks to all those at the Veterans’ Foundation for choosing to support our charity. The impact that their generosity has had here in our home is enormous. They have helped our veterans to feel stronger – both physically and mentally”.
The charity has offered long-term, respite, rehabilitative and palliative care services to disabled veterans and their families since 1919.
It receives no government help and must raise £1.5 million to continue the provision of these vital care services.
The Veterans’ Foundation is one of the country’s leading military charities. It was set up in 2016 to raise funds to help charities provide vital support to the armed forces community across the UK.
Veterans’ Foundation, Grants Manager, Louise Buchanan, said: “We were delighted to be able to support this worthy cause, knowing that the funds go to help veterans with a variety of needs. Care For Veterans’ support makes a real difference to their beneficiaries’ lives.”
