National Lottery funding to expand NROL

SameYou is delighted to have been awarded £219,859 in funding from The National Lottery Community Fund, the largest funder of community activity in the UK. 

SameYou will use this funding to expand on the success of their Neuro Rehabilitation Online (NROL) programme with East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust (ELHT) and the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan), which will see the scheme rolled out through Lancashire and South Cumbria.

The National Lottery funding will enable more people who’ve had a stroke or have other neurological conditions to receive online one-to-one and group specialist neurorehabilitation to ensure they can continue their recovery once they leave hospital.

The county wide scheme will involve physiotherapists, occupational therapists, psychologists, speech and language therapists and medical and assistant practitioners from ELHT, Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust, University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust and Blackpool teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

National Lottery players raise over £30 million a week for good causes across the UK. The National Lottery Community Fund distributes a share of this to projects to support people and communities to prosper and thrive.   

Jenny Clarke, Co-Founder & CEO, SameYou said: “The provision of neurorehabilitation after brain injury doesn't meet the urgent need. Group tele-rehab has been proven to add capacity and reach people who are underserved. The expansion of this scheme would not have been possible without the National Lottery funding. This grant means that we can continue our work with UCLan and ELHT to support more people and help them take back their places in their families, communities and society after a brain injury. This will make a big difference to people’s lives.”  

Louise Connell, NROL Project lead, UCLan Professor of Allied Health Neurorehabilitation & Stroke said: “I’m absolutely delighted the scheme is being rolled out to help more people who’ve had a stroke or have other neurological conditions throughout the region. Therapy services are continuing the process of restoration post-Covid and there is a need to understand the learning from online rehabilitation to determine its place in the future. It’s anticipated this will be a hybrid model of face-to-face and virtual input which will allow a greater intensity of therapy to be delivered to more people and in a more convenient way.”

During the pandemic, in 2020 alone, The National Lottery Community Fund distributed almost £1 billion to charities and community organisations across the UK.  

To find out more visit www.TNLCommunityFund.org.uk