October 2025 - Community Children’s Physiotherapy Mile End Hospital

Anna Wright applied for a grant for some funding towards prizes and snacks for a children’s physio group to take place over the summer holidays.  The scheme aimed to target children with conditions such as cerebral palsy whose families often lack confidence in attending holiday clubs. The physio team wanted to make the sessions fun and provide drinks, snacks and small prizes. One group was to run for primary school children and one for secondary school age. Friends were very pleased to receive the application - the first from children’s physiotherapy - and funded the cost of snacks, drinks, prizes, footballs and a football goal to a total of £200.

Anna has now been in touch with a lovely letter thanking Friends for all the support for their team  and the local community. The sessions had run - the first time for 8 years. Each group had 10 children so 20 in total were invited. Each child was offered 2 sessions a week for 3 weeks as part of a group. There were warm up exercises, mat exercises, obstacle courses and football activities. They stopped half way through for a drink and snack and at the end each child got stickers and a reward chart and at the last session certificates and prizes were given out.

Anna has provided feedback from some of the parents in their own words:

My daughter enjoyed it very much and can jump with much more courage than before. She herself told me to come to the programme, “Dad, come on it’s getting late!”

"My child enjoyed the session. He prefers the group session rather than individual."

"Everything is going very good."

"He is better than before."

"The sessions have worked really well with my son, his legs are much stronger, it’s evident when he goes up the stairs."

"If you do regularly it’s better for children. I think we should do very often."

Anna Wright