Cerebral Palsy Cymru

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We would like to say a huge thank you to Martin Jones and Christopher Crawley for organising a fundraising event and raffle at Risca Rugby club last weekend!

Together, they raised an amazing total of £405!

Have you got your tickets for our Better Start Ball?🥂

Don’t miss out on a glamourous evening of delicious food, fabulous entertainment and fundraising to support our early intervention service Better Start, Better Future!

Tickets are £80pp or £800 for a table of 10.

To book single tickets, please click the link below.

To book a table of 10, please email [email protected]

A big thank you to Slater and Gordon Lawyers - UK for being our headline sponsor for the event and for their continued support for our early intervention service.

https://www.cerebralpalsycymru.org/events/better-start-ball

Last month, we hosted the practical sessions for the EiSMART Infant Course.

Our children’s centre was full of smiles and it was incredible to see what the families and participating therapists could achieve together in just three days!

Ruby and Travis (pictured) learned to sit with less support when playing on the floor, and Ruby enjoyed her first tastes of solid foods.

We hope that the course participants enjoyed their time with us, and we look forward to starting the next EiSMART Infant Course in October.

⭐ Limited time offer for our Private Therapy Service in partnership with Slater and Gordon Lawyers - UK⭐

Our new Private Therapy Service allows families with children aged 2 and over the choice to continue to access our specialist therapy and support after graduating from Better Start, Better Future. It also opens our services up to young people and adults living with cerebral palsy without having to wait for a referral from their local health board.

We are delighted to announce that we are partnering with Slater & Gordon Lawyers to offer our families a special discounted rate on new private therapy bookings.

⭐ Slater & Gordon Package A For children who have received therapy from us within the last year: A 5-session block of Therapy (5 x 45 min) - £312.50 (reduced from £625)

⭐Slater & Gordon Package B For children who we haven’t treated for over a year: An Initial consultation plus 4-session block of therapy (1hr + 4 x45 min) - £417.50 (reduced from £835)

These packages are available with immediate effect, and bookings must be made by 1st October 2024.

For more information, please visit:
https://www.cerebralpalsycymru.org/get-support/private-therapy-service/information-for-parents-and-carers

The High Sheriff of South Glamorgan 2024, Mrs Janey Howell, is organising a fantastic Garden Tea Party in support of Cerebral Palsy Cymru and her other nominated charities on the 8th of September. We hope to see you there for an afternoon of delicious cake, tea, sandwiches and live music!

To find out more, please visit:
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To book your tickets, please click the following link: PayPal.Me/YourHighSheriff

We warmly invite you to join us at our centre for our Family Fun Fiesta!

⭐Meet furry friends and reptiles with The Nearly Wild Show 🐍

⭐Get photographs with princesses and superheroes from Make a Smile - Cardiff🦸‍♂️

⭐Listen to live performances of family favourites🎵

⭐Get creative with our variety of arts and crafts activities🎨

Tickets are £3 each for adults and children, and under 2s can join in the fun for free!

Click the link below to get your tickets now:
https://www.cerebralpalsycymru.org/events/family-fun-fiesta

This event is kindly sponsored by Irwin Mitchell.

🎉🎈Celebrating 12 years at Crwys Road!🎈🎉

Today marks the 12th anniversary of our Crwys Road charity shop opening!

We are incredibly proud of all the achievements this shop has made over the years. A heartfelt thank you to all our amazing shop volunteers and to everyone who has ever donated!

To celebrate this special day, we will be offering 20% off all items in store. This offer is valid only today at our Crwys Road charity shop (03/08/2024), so make sure to visit and grab some great bargains!

⭐ Limited time offer for our Private Therapy Service in partnership with Slater and Gordon Lawyers - UK ⭐

We are delighted to announce that we are partnering with Slater & Gordon Lawyers to offer our families a special discounted rate on new private therapy bookings.

Thanks to their support, we are now able to offer the following packages at a specially discounted rate:

⭐ Slater & Gordon Package A For children who have received therapy from us within the last year: A 5-session block of Therapy (5 x 45 min) - £312.50 (reduced from £625)

⭐Slater & Gordon Package B For children who we haven’t treated for over a year: An Initial consultation plus 4-session block of therapy (1hr + 4 x45 min) - £417.50 (reduced from £835)

These packages are available with immediate effect, and bookings must be made by 1st October 2024.

For more information, please visit: http://www.cerebralpalsycymru.org/get-support/private-therapy-service/information-for-parents-and-carers

We had a wonderful time in our beach themed Better Start Together play group last earlier on this month! 🏖️

We started off the session with singing and signing to introduce ourselves before taking turns to roll a beach ball back and forth.

After this, we played with a parachute, stimulating the feeling of wind on our faces.

To finish off the session, we took turns picking up toy ducks from a bowl of water and experimented with free play in water and sand stations!

We would like to say a big congratulations and thank you to the incredible Andrei, who has raised £1571.77, by climbing the equivalent of the Empire State Building’s 102 floors!

Described by his parents as a ‘true fighter and an inspiration', Andrei was told by doctors that he would never walk independently, but he refused to accept this. Now at 11, Andrei can sustain over 20 steps and even manage turns!

Andrei chose to support us as he attended our centre when he was younger and wanted to help make a difference!

Did you miss out on our Better Start Ball in 2023?🥂

Don’t worry - our 2024 Ball promises to be even more spectacular! ✨

Join us on the 18th of October for a glamorous evening with delicious food and fabulous entertainment.

Tickets are £80pp or £800 for a table of 10.

To book single tickets, please click the link below or visit our website. To book a table of 10, please email [email protected]

https://www.cerebralpalsycymru.org/events/better-start-ball

We would like to say a huge thank you to Alan Cross and Steve Curtis from The Stags Golf Society, who have raised an incredible £3,350 for us with their charity golf day at Whitchurch Golf Club earlier this month! ⛳

On Monday, Alan visited us at our children’s centre so we could celebrate the fantastic amount of money they raised for us together.

We are so grateful for the support from The Stags Golf Society, their fundraising will help us to continue making a difference to children and families across Wales living with cerebral palsy!

July marks Disability Pride Month!

You may be familiar with the Disability Pride Flag, but do you know what the different colours represent?

❤️ Red represents physical disabilities.

💛 Gold represents neurodiversity.

🤍 White stands for non-visible and undiagnosed disabilities.

💙 Blue represents emotional and psychiatric disabilities.

💚 Green stands for sensory disabilities.

🖤 The black background of the flag commemorates and mourns disabled people who’ve died due to ableism, violence, negligence, su***de and illness.

Join us at our centre for our Family Fun Fiesta event on the 21st of September! 🎶🦸‍♂️

This event is perfect for all the family!

Enjoy dressing up, meeting animals, listening to live music, getting pictures with your favourite princesses and superheroes and getting creative with our arts & crafts activities!

We will also have a range of sweet treats, hot snacks and beverages for all!

Click the link below to book your tickets:
https://www.cerebralpalsycymru.org/events/family-fun-fiesta

🚗Throwback to last month when we joined our friends at the annual South Wales Classic Car Club show!🚗

We would like to say a big thank you to the South Wales Classic Car Club Show for inviting us once again to the event, and for their continued support.

Did you know that over the past 30 years, they have raised an incredible £110,000 for us?

We would also like to thank our Volunteer Ambassador, Lindsay Doyle, and our Llanishen shop volunteer, Joe, for joining us at the event.

July marks Disability Pride Month!

Disability Pride Month is an event that was created to raise awareness of disabilities and encourage positive conversations around disability.

To learn more about cerebral palsy, and how it affects individuals, visit the link below: https://www.cerebralpalsycymru.org/about-cerebral-palsy/what-is-cerebral-palsy

We would like to say a big thank you to Scope for inviting us to their Disability Pride Month event at the Senedd today.

It was a wonderful opportunity to learn more about Disability Pride Month, and hear from important organisations including Shiny Happy People, Pedal Power Cardiff, Rubicon Dance, South Wales Police, Wild Rhythm and Scope’s Youth Community Collective and Youth Panel.

We would like to say a huge thank you to this amazing bunch of fundraisers from North Wales Fire and Rescue Service / Gwasanaeth Tân ac Achub Gogledd Cymru who walked 18 miles from Rhyl to Llandudno in full firefighter gear and BA on their backs to raise money for us and many other fantastic charities!

So far, the group have raised over £1,300 for us! llongyfarchiadau a diolch yn fawr iawn!

⭐️ Fundraising Friday ⭐️

We would like to say a HUGE thank you to Stephen Bailey who raised an amazing £1,600 by completing a sponsored silence at work.

His colleagues and friends at ACT Training were very generous with their donations and Stephen managed to successfully stay quiet for 4 hours! 🤐

Stephen was thrilled with the amount of money he managed to raise and is already thinking about next years fundraiser! 🤫

🥂 Tickets for our Better Start Ball are now on sale! 🥂

Join us on Friday 18th October at The Parkgate Hotel for a very special evening of delicious food, fabulous entertainment and fundraising to support our early intervention service Better Start, Better Future.

Tickets are £80pp or £800 for a table of 10.

To book single tickets, please visit https://www.cerebralpalsycymru.org/events/better-start-ball

To book a table of 10, please email [email protected]

We would like to say a huge thank you to Slater and Gordon Lawyers - UK for being the headline sponsor for the event and for their continued support for our early intervention service.

🎟️Tickets for our Family Fun Fiesta are now on sale! 🥳

Join us for an afternoon full of family fun activities, delicious food and musical entertainment 🎶

Tickets are £3 each for adults and children, and under 2s can join in the fun for free!

Click here to book your tickets 👇
https://www.cerebralpalsycymru.org/events/family-fun-fiesta

Thank you to Irwin Mitchell for sponsoring this event.

We can't wait to see you all there! 🤗

On Tuesday, we welcomed Rotary Club of Cardiff, Llanishen to our children's centre to see our Eye Gaze system in action.

Llanishen Rotary Club kindly gifted this eye gaze system to us earlier this year, and it will make a huge difference to the children attending our children's centre who have more complex needs.

"Some children who attend our children's centre use their eyes as the most effective way to communicate" explains Helen, our Speech & Language Therapist. "However this is a skill which requires practise. The provision of the eye gaze unit has been very much welcomed to replace our outdated machines. The iPad and eye gaze camera is much more portable than our old systems and it's portable so it can be used in our children's centre or taken on outreach to support children in single consultation blocks. Thank you Llanishen Rotary Club for helping us give these children a voice."

We would like to say an enormous thank you to Brian who recently completed a sky dive to raise over £1,000 for us! 🪂

Harri, pictured here with Brian, has been accessing our specialist early intervention service ‘Better Start Better Future’ since the start of the year, and regularly attends our ‘Better Start Together’ play group.

Brian wanted to do something memorable for his 80th birthday, and decided to fundraise at the same time to say thank you for the support that Harri and his family have received from us over the past year.

Diolch by fawr iawn Brian!

Check out the video from his sky dive in the comments below! 👇 🪂

We would like to say a big thank you to our friends at blue self storage for inviting us to their Summer BBQ Networking event last Friday!

It was a wonderful evening of meeting other businesses and enjoying delicious food!

Thank you to everyone at blue self storage for your continued support! 💙

🌟Tickets are officially available for our Family Fun Fiesta!🌟

Get dressed up and join us for lots of family fun at our children’s centre on the 21st of September!

🎶 Enjoy live performances of family favourites.

🎨 Get involved with arts and crafts, suitable for all ages and abilities!

🧁 Indulge with some delicious food and sweet treats!

Book tickets via the link below so we can ensure there's enough fun for all!
https://www.cerebralpalsycymru.org/events/family-fun-fiesta

🌟Fundraising Friday!🌟

We would like to say a massive thank you to David Hughes, who organised a football fundraiser with MAN v FAT, and raised a fantastic £364.43!

David decided to fundraise for us after his friends daughter, Ava, recently attended our children’s centre for therapy.

It was wonderful to welcome them to our children’s centre and congratulate them in person on their fantastic fundraising efforts!

🧸 Our Whitchurch charity shop is in need of donations🧩

If you’ve recently done a spring clean, or are thinking of doing a summer spruce, please consider donating your pre-loved toys and bric-a-brac to our Whitchurch shop!

📍 2 Merthyr Rd, Cardiff CF14 1DG

⭐ New family fun event! ⭐

We would like to warmly invite all our friends, families and supporters to our Family Fun Fiesta! 🥳

Join us at our children’s centre for an afternoon of family fun, live music, dressing up, kids crafts and delicious food!

📅 Saturday 21st September

📍 Cerebral Palsy Cymru, 1 The Courtyard, 73 Ty Glas Avenue, Llanishen, CF14 5DX

🕑 14:00 - 16:30PM

This event is kindly sponsored by Irwin Mitchell

To book tickets, please click the link below:
https://www.cerebralpalsycymru.org/events/family-fun-fiesta