About Aspire

Aspire’s services include:

• Short-term supported housing
Provides fully adapted temporary housing for six to nine months, to newly discharged patients from the UK’s spinal injury centres.

• Aspire Independent Living Programme
Offers the necessary support, guidance and training of newly required key-life skills, to assist spinally injured people within the UK.

• Assistive computer training
In a funding partnership with the Ian Karten Charitable Trust and the James Tudor Foundation, Aspire provides directly to the UK’s spinal injury centres, assistive computer technology assessments and training to patients with high injuries and limited or no-hand movement.

• Aspire Human Needs Fund
Provides spinally injured people with the opportunity to access the most appropriate equipment to meet their lifestyle goals and enable them to live their lives to the full.

• Research
The Aspire Centre for Disability Sciences is committed to excellence in the development of technologies and practises that promote autonomy for people with disabilities, and in particular people with spinal injury.

• Aspire National Training Centre
The Aspire National Training Centre is the first fully integrated Training Centre in Europe for disabled and non-disabled people. Currently, around a third of our members are disabled, which compares with a national average of 2-3% in other sports centres. We pro-actively encourage disabled people to join and take part in all activities by subsidising their membership and activity costs.