Finding Your Feet: a cornerstone in the amputee community
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- Published: 20th August 2024
Finding Your Feet discuss their work and what it means to them to be nominated for the Self Management in the Community Award.
One of the nominees for this year’s Self Management in the Community Award is Finding Your Feet. Finding Your Feet (FYF) is a Scotland-wide charity, dedicated to supporting amputees, those born with limb loss, and their families. FYF offers a range of free social and physical activities and services, enhancing physical and mental well-being. Their initiatives include tailored support plans to encourage self-management, peer support hospital visits, and social inclusion projects to foster regular community engagement. With over 1,000 ‘Troopers’ (amputee service users), FYF empowers those facing lifelong conditions, fostering resilience and recovery. Their innovative and impactful work makes FYF a cornerstone in supporting the amputee community across Scotland.
What difference has your work made to your service users lives?
Every day, Finding Your Feet encourages an Amputee out of isolation and poor mental health into a group setting of peer friends offering motivation and independence. This gives them the confidence to reclaim their lives and do things that were important to them before, like getting active, swimming and going to the gym. We also encourage service users to try new things, like the guy who had never flown before, who came on a plane with us to London to the quiz show, Eggheads. They then become the peers supporters and pass on the help.
What does it mean to you to be nominated for this award?
For us to know that someone has recognised the hard work we do and the difference it makes as Scotland’s only nationwide amputee charity really compensates for a lot of the hard times we had when we couldn’t get grants or donations and struggled to pay fair wages.
Thank you for highlighting our cause, but also for showing the country what amputees are capable of.
After losing her hands and feet to sepsis in 2013, Cor Hutton set up Finding Your Feet to offer support to amputees in all stages of their life and journey. In addition to Finding Your Feet being nominated for the Self Management in the Community award, Cor has been nominated for the Self Management Champion award. Hear what she has to say about what it means to her to be nominated:
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