Latest news and blogs

Read the latest news from Back Up to find out what we’re up to across the country. We also have a dedicated blog with amazing stories from people of all ages with a spinal cord injury and their families, as well as the volunteers, staff, professionals and fundraisers who support them.

For media enquiries, comment and interviews, please call 020 8875 6773 to speak to our communications team. Alternatively email media@backuptrust.org.uk. We monitor these inboxes both in and out of hours.

World Spinal Cord Injury Day | Mary’s story

For World Spinal Cord Injury Day this year, we're proposing a theme of #YesWeCan to ...

5 September 2017

World Spinal Cord Injury Day | Luke’s story

For World Spinal Cord Injury Day this year, we're proposing a theme of #YesWeCan to ...

5 September 2017

Volunteer Spotlight – Alan Bowen

We’re thrilled to announce that our August volunteer of the month is Alan Bowen. He ...

7 August 2017

Huge congratulations to our Ride 100 team

Last Sunday, our amazing Ride 100 team of 13 participants - including Back ...

2 August 2017

Rich’s story: Becoming a wheelchair skills trainer

In 2009, Rich was on an exciting holiday in Cyprus with a group of close ...

2 August 2017

Shelley’s story: Becoming an occupational therapist

On Friday 15th November 2013, I was driving to work as usual. It was a ...

2 August 2017

Katy’s story: A new beginning

In October 2005, I was working as a primary school teacher.  One day, I was ...

2 August 2017

Sarah Bryan takes over as Back Up’s new CEO

We’re pleased to announce that Sarah Bryan has officially begun her tenure as the new ...

24 July 2017

Back Up Fest | Thank you!

We just wanted to say a huge thank you to everyone who got involved in ...

21 July 2017

Thank you to our 2017 Snowdon Push team!

After an amazing weekend at the beginning of July, we wanted to say a huge ...

11 July 2017