Community Impact
How we've made a difference
Helping researchers to reclaim their time
23598000
Total awarded funding, where Movement for Hope have contributed to the grant-writing and/or the PPIE strategy in the last 3 years
Training and Bespoke Services
Our Research Support Impact
We support and train students on topics of disability and the principals of involving and engaging patients and public in research and co-designing for people with mobility challenges. We also provide a range of services to principal investigators.
Patient and Public Involvement
Backed By Research
Tiered learning backed by peer-reviewed research methods
For five years running, we've trained junior and senior Fellows in co-design and public engagement. The Fellowship programme is an intensive one to three-year training, where we teach research and science students (approximately 15-20 students) from all backgrounds. In a tiered learning programme, Senior Fellows teach Junior Fellows about co-design and co-production in research to enable high-impact outcomes. They continue to build their CV with transferable skills and they advance their current knowledge and skills with: senior leadership development, committee-based teamwork, time management, high-level organisation, rapport building, and specialist skills such as post-production and digital marketing.
Fellowship Programme
As a part of our Research Support objectives, we train students in collaborative and creative patient/public involvement and engagement
Intensive Public Engagement Training
Tiered Learning
Co-Design
Co-production
Develop
Implement
& Measure
Leadership
CV development
Transferable skills
Enhancing the curriculum
New STEM perspectives
New ways to engage
354
people who have received adaptive equipment support
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“Movement for Hope have helped sponsor me and partly pay for the lightweight scooter that I use now. I was finding it so difficult to lift my old one [due to muscle weakness caused Motor Neurone Disease]. As a photographer, it’s helped me to continue to take photographs. I’m able to utilise being in a scooter to my photographic advantage…MND can come creeping up on anyone, but whatever setback someone might have in life, it’s always possible to turn things around, give something back, and to end up feeling like a successful human being all over again.” – Miles Pilling
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Since purchasing the new scooter, within one year, Miles has exhibited his artwork independently and with Movement for Hope in several exhibitions and worked with a neurologist and a dancer to share his life experiences and work with a public audience of over 400 people to raise awareness.
Training and Bespoke Services
Our Adaptive-equipment and Technology Impact
We support the development and supply of innovative adaptive equipment and technology that is not easily accessible or available through the NHS or government funding to ease everyday challenges of living with a neurological condition or disability
Movement for Hope helped Chris to make his new home’s bathroom, fully wheelchair accessible with a new sliding door and rails to grant easy entry and functionality.
Movement for Hope helped Chris to make his new home’s bathroom, fully wheelchair accessible with a new sliding door and rails to grant easy entry and functionality.
Design for (Dis)ability Programme
Two years of supporting engineering students learn how to develop prototypes for people with mobility challenges by talking to the patients and learning about the conditions they are developing for
Awareness and public engagement events
Our Awareness-education Impact
We increase awareness and knowledge of disabling conditions and research on these types of illnesses using effective high-impact methods and events that are backed by over six years of research and data.
PROVEN METHODS
we use quantification and evaluation methods developed by academic researchers
How we impacted our audience
Who is in our audience
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Researchers / medical staff
Patients / Public
2000
2017 Audience Attendance / Footprint
49
Male attendees
51
Female attendees
Internationally and Nationally Recognised by Leaders in Research
”A highly thought-provoking evening, filled with performances and academic talks about neurological disorders, that successfully combined complex neurological ideas with innovative technologies and live performances.
The Lancet Neurologya world-leading clinical neurology journal