Taking up the challenge

Taking up the challenge

I had spent much of my childhood in the company of my parents, who were working for spastic children (now better known as people with cerebral palsy). Their aim, as one of the first parent groups, later to be known as SCOPE, was initially to raise money for a treatment centre. Later, because more physiotherapy was offered on the NHS, they changed the focus of their ambition to providing a social centre where people with disabilities could meet on a regular basis...