We therefore pride ourselves on working closely with spinal cord injury charities to help
support the wider community. One of the charities we support closely is the Back Up Trust.
The Back Up Trust offer a mentoring service to people and their families who have been
affected by a spinal cord injury. Back Up’s mentoring service links people with a spinal cord
injury and their family members to volunteer mentors.
Back Up mentors either have a spinal cord injury, or are family members – parents, partners,
siblings or children – of people with a spinal cord injury. They have all been trained by
clinical psychologists to effectively support others using listening skills, action planning and
goal setting.
Mentoring is available to people of all ages, all over the UK. It’s not just for people adjusting
to a new spinal cord injury, it could have happened some time ago. Mentors offer both
practical advice and support with emotional issues.
For several years, Aspire Law have sponsored this service because we know how crucial
and invaluable it is to families who have a loved one who is newly injured. It can provide
early guidance to the family, and then to the individual when they are ready to access this
support.
Many of our clients and their families have benefitted from this support over the years so it is
fantastic to see service users discuss their experiences.
If you or a loved one are interested in being supported in this way, you can register your
request through Mentorloop. Anyone can refer someone for this service if the person would
like this to happen. Or you can self-refer if you have a spinal cord injury.
How Aspire Law can help
Our highly experienced team of specialist lawyers deal with only serious spinal cord injury
claims – rather than minor accident and whiplash claims. This in-depth specialist focus,
coupled with our team’s collective wealth of experience, allows us to work through complex
and high-value spinal cord injury cases better than anyone else. Get in touch with us today
to learn more.
