Articles Tagged ‘Priority’
I decided to do a typical style of update in terms of daily happenings but in an overarching manner. It has been known the car and my health have been under par for a while. The update of the moment is I am being admitted to the respiratory unit in hospital tomorrow to x-ray my bad lung and run some tests to see why I am still not clearing the infection. I am ok in myself but a little fed up with this and just want to be better, fingers crossed we get things moving tomorrow.
The broader area I want to discuss is easier with the back story. Those who have read my blogs and know me personally will know …
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Having been off for 2 weeks with a nasty chest infection, a broken car and generally a bit stressed I am back at work and back on the road.
I met with Andy of Andy’s Kars at his garage in Bar Hill on Saturday. He has been working on my vans adaptations in the positive sense through the past weeks of trauma. Not only has he sorted my car after the ongoing problems he is an amazing guy generally. While he runs a garage he also does a lot more. In working with disadvantaged kids he helps them to take responsibility for overcoming their ‘challenges’ as he calls them. While it was amazing to meet Andy and see the great work …
Read all of My aspirations; Aiming high!
Guess what??!! The car broke down again last night. The same problem as last time, no battery and just wouldn’t start. I think quite rightly I have ranted on this recurring subject. However I promised myself these posts would not let me get too down or angry but explain the positives of the trials and tribulations I go through. The quick update is that it has gone to a different garage who I hope will sort this once and for all by the end of the week. Taxis to get to work until then.
What I do want to do is an overarching blog on transport bouncing off of an interesting book I’m reading. Its by Ben Elton and called …
Read all of The car broke down again, and other transport stresses
So I have had a new car since early August due to my older van being too large, uneconomical and the new Motability scheme being recommended. The benefit of the new scheme is that I receive a new car, adapted for me to drive, with insurance and servicing covered too. This was in return for a nominal up-front fee (varying with the financial means test carried out) and foregoing the mobility part of my monthly government money (paid due to the known extra costs of being disabled).
The financial assessment and adapting of the car was smooth, unlike 6 years ago when getting my first van. Historically the paperwork and preparation was so time draining it put people off even looking. …
Read all of The trouble with Motability!
In March 2009 The Priority Trust made a grant of £30,596 to provide mobility equipment to seven children as requested by Newlife Foundation. As of the 15 September 2009 is that all equipment has been delivered. Priority and Newlife are working together to develop feedback on the impact the equipment is having on the children’s lives and this has been received from six of the seven families involved. More updates will follow as information is received, but here are the stories so far:
Imaan is 5 year old girl living in the west of England who has a diagnosis of global developmental delay, microcephaly and epilepsy. She has profound learning disabilities and is unable to communicate verbally. She has disturbed sleep …
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Keira, a three-year old girl has recently been provided with her first powerchair, with the help of Priority. The SnapDragon powerchair, made with her specific requirements in mind will help her develop and be as independent as possible.
In September 2008, when the Occupational Therapist from Dragonmobility first met Keira at the request of Keira’s OT, she was shy, withdrawn and clinging. She had undergone a lot of medical interventions in her short life, and at the age of 2 had a natural tendency to cry and ask for cuddles when presented with anything new.
Keira has an undiagnosed neuromuscular condition which causes severe weakness, particularly in …
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As a wheelchair user and also a young, single woman it is easy for me to blame my insecurities about men and relationships on my disability. It has taken me a long time to discover that, just as I have equal opportunities in the rest of my life – I can be educated, work, live where I want, drive a car, drink alcohol, even break the law if I want to – I can also experience the exciting world of relationships just like anyone else.
In fact, unlike all the other things, human relationships are almost the only element of life that cannot be affected by disability – every human has the capacity to love and be loved.
I don’t mean that …
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Like most children, my childhood is filled with happy memories. Most of which are of playing with my brother and our friends in the garden, keeping goal in five-a-side football matches or even just going for a ‘walk’ with my mum to the shops.
To be blunt, none of these would have been possible without my powered wheelchair and the freedom it provided. Receiving my first power chair was life changing. Moving unaided was mind-boggling. Finally I felt I could join in and feel more ‘normal’ than ever before. Looking back over this fondly nostalgic period, I think that the gift of liberty, the chair provided was fundamental to my future successes.
I arrived in London in July 2000, after graduating from …
Read all of Why I decided to establish Priority
From the very start, the key to Priority’s success was developing a network of influential supporters to help us grow. We started with some of Kieran’s contacts and asked them to help us broaden our support.
To recognise this invaluable support and demonstrate the success we have had in attracting some of the best people in business we have formed the Priority Advisory Board. By joining, the members of this board are demonstrating their implicit support for the cause and the efforts of the trust and will help us to secure wider interest.
Priority is delighted to welcome David Blood, Max Burt, Glenn Earle, Stanley Fink, Stephen Holowesko, Peter Sutherland, John Thornton and Peter Weinberg as founder members of the Priority Advisory …
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May 2008 – Working on the noisy, frenetic trading desk at Goldman, Sachs & Co.’s London offices on Fleet Street earlier this decade, Kieran Prior and John Yeatts, two bright and ambitious 20-somethings from very different worlds, became close friends. Prior, a gregarious, wisecracking proprietary trader from the gritty outer suburbs of Manchester, took a liking to the soft-spoken Yeatts, a first-year financial analyst and native of Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Though Prior, then 23, was just a year older than Yeatts when they met in 2002, he enjoyed dispensing practical advice, teasing the American about his Saturday night dates and taking him out for pints of beer after work.
Yeatts returned the favor. …
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