Funding

Members Donations

A voluntary donation of £5-00 (from March 2009) is requested from members attending each physiotherapy and Hydrotherapy session. These monies are used to meet Group expenditures, which include the payments to the physiotherapists for their time in attending the sessions each week, the purchase of items of equipment used in the gym and the pool, as well as administrative postage and stationery and where possible the subsidy of course fees for physiotherapists attending specialist Ankylosing Spondylitis training courses.

Standing Orders

Members are encouraged to make these donations on a monthly basis by Standing Order to the Groups Building Society account. This process minimises the administrative procedure of collecting money each session and has been taken up by many members keen to support the Group by providing it with a regular income. It also attracts a discount compared to paying cash at each session. Those members paying by Standing Order pay only £20.00 per month (From March 2009) regardless of the number of sessions in any one month. If you would like to support the Group in this way then please ask me for a form. For students and the unemployed we ask a nominal donation of £1.00 per session, but should you feel unable to make any donation, then you are still very welcome to attend. The important thing, for you is to attend the sessions. On weeks when the Group has a Hydrotherapy session, the hire of the Hydrotherapy pool is met by from the Branch funds and so for £5-00, a Hydrotherapy session supervised by two qualified physiotherapists represents great value. No donation is required by a new member on their first visit, so do come along and join in. You’ll enjoy it, and it’ll do you good, and soon you’ll wonder how you did without it.