Our Calendar of Activities
We run a termly calendar of activities, therapies and social events. Click here to find out more about what we do to help our members and their carers…
Fundraising Events
Your generosity in supporting our events enables us to continue to provide our members with much needed and highly valued post-stroke care and support services.
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SAS is a charity dedicated to helping survivors of strokes regain their confidence and rebuild their lives. We also support their carers.
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We rely on volunteers to help in all our activities, from helping members at our Sudbury centre through to helping organise our fundraising events and raising funds in other ways.
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More private and corporate donations would enable us in our 25th anniversary aim to help more people, in more ways, more of the time.
The SAS logo is based on the naval signal flags meaning ‘I am disabled, communicate with me’ and ‘I wish to communicate with you’. This sums up the essence of what we do.
Our range of therapies and activities offer hope and support to a group of people facing similar challenges.
SAS has one goal which is to enhance the lives of those who have suffered from a stroke.
It is our aim to work on the individual needs of each of our members’ all of whom are stroke survivors and to support the members loved ones with the philosophy a ‘problem shared is a problem halved’.
SAS began in 2001 in a small room at The Bridge Project in Sudbury, Suffolk. Five stroke survivors who had been discharged from the West Suffolk Hospital decided to meet every week having discovered there was little or no support for them in the outside world and these sessions became a lifeline.
It is sad and frustrating that the lack of support to stroke survivors continues nearly a quarter of a century later.
In June 2021 SAS won ‘The Queen’s Award For Voluntary Service’ which was presented by The Lord Lieutenant of Suffolk.
When SAS was formed careful consideration was given to our logo which is made up of nautical flags. The central piece is the red diamond which means ‘I am disabled please communicate with me’ and the blue and yellow squares on either side mean ‘ I wish to communicate with you.’
Flags carefully selected as communication is so important for stroke survivors.
SAS has grown over the years and continues to expand. At our meetings on a Tuesday and Friday there are two speech and language therapists, two physiotherapists and a well being therapists who hold sessions. We are also indebted to over twenty-five volunteers who enable SAS to operate and are totally invaluable.
Social activities are a vital part of SAS. We are regularly joined by guest speakers and our members have enjoyed visits from a wide range of wildlife, including donkeys, owls, and guide dogs. Many board games are also played during our sessions. In recent times a Friday singing group has formed that creates song and laughter, a wonderful combination.
We also arrange a number of trips during the year which are extremely popular, such as; Sailing, local Craft Fairs and Music events.
As well as our sessions on a Tuesday and Friday, on a Wednesday morning SAS has an art club. The members produce a phenomenal quality of work and quite a number have learned to paint with a different hand as a consequence of their stroke.
