Northampton Group
Reclaiming lives after Stroke
Update - April 2021
Eventually! Finally! After nearly 12 months the Different Strokes Northampton weekly meetings will be back with you to let you meet up with your friends at Tintern Avenue.
These meetings will take place on Thursdays and alternate Mondays starting at 10.30am. The exact dates for the first meetings are yet to be confirmed but will be published on our website, Facebook and by our text messaging service.
All our regular instructors will be part of the programme to help us on our path to stroke recovery, and hope that some new ones will also join us.
It will be so good to meet old friends and maybe some new ones!
- Jeff Prickett and the whole team.
Eventually! Finally! After nearly 12 months the Different Strokes Northampton weekly meetings will be back with you to let you meet up with your friends at Tintern Avenue.
These meetings will take place on Thursdays and alternate Mondays starting at 10.30am. The exact dates for the first meetings are yet to be confirmed but will be published on our website, Facebook and by our text messaging service.
All our regular instructors will be part of the programme to help us on our path to stroke recovery, and hope that some new ones will also join us.
It will be so good to meet old friends and maybe some new ones!
- Jeff Prickett and the whole team.
For details of our new Zoom meetings every Thursday at 11.00 please visit our News! page from the link below.
STOP PRESS.
BECAUSE OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC OUR MEETINGS ARE SUSPENDED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE.
Details of our weekly sessions will be announced as soon as possible.
PLEASE LOOK OUT FOR UPDATES ON OUR FACEBOOK PAGE, BY TEXT MESSAGES & HERE ON OUR WEBSITE.
BECAUSE OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC OUR MEETINGS ARE SUSPENDED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE.
Details of our weekly sessions will be announced as soon as possible.
PLEASE LOOK OUT FOR UPDATES ON OUR FACEBOOK PAGE, BY TEXT MESSAGES & HERE ON OUR WEBSITE.
We are part of the national charity “Different Strokes” which was set up in 1996 to help (then) “Younger Stroke Survivors”. Today the term "younger" we feel is more accurately described as “active”.
For the website of the national charity please visit :=
For the website of the national charity please visit :=
There are over 40 DS groups across Great Britain offering support with exercise, mobility, speech & communication problems. The charity is run by stroke survivors, their family & friends & this group is the same, being run by those who have first hand experience of stroke.
We meet weekly for 2 hours every Thursday & offer a wide variety of activities including exercise sessions, led by trained instructors. We have speakers on different topics relating to our needs, mostly from health professionals. We also arrange excursions & trips to venues across Northamptonshire & beyond.
We meet weekly for 2 hours every Thursday & offer a wide variety of activities including exercise sessions, led by trained instructors. We have speakers on different topics relating to our needs, mostly from health professionals. We also arrange excursions & trips to venues across Northamptonshire & beyond.
Alongside this, every week we have a drop in cafe where our members have tea or coffee & chat together about how stroke & it’s effects can alter a persons life. - Without any pressure of “feeling different”.
As well as the Thursday meetings, twice a month on Mondays we run “Aphasia Conversations” where we concentrate on speech & communication help for those whose stroke has affected this part of their lives.
It would be good to see you. Jeff Prickett Co-ordinator.
As well as the Thursday meetings, twice a month on Mondays we run “Aphasia Conversations” where we concentrate on speech & communication help for those whose stroke has affected this part of their lives.
It would be good to see you. Jeff Prickett Co-ordinator.
Our first outing of 2018 to Milton Keynes Museum. This group photo was taken in front of the famous "MK concrete snowman"
(it's so the concrete cows have someone to play with!)
(it's so the concrete cows have someone to play with!)
The start of DSN's group walk from Blisworth along the grand Union Canal to Northampton. Organised by Jerry Johnson (centre).
(Jerry Johnson who, along with Genise Turnbull set up the Different Strokes Northampton sadly passed away in 2016.)
A photo of our group & Lauren McMillan's (Resource Co-ordinator of Different Strokes, MK) visit to the group meeting in June 2017.
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Joyce, Doug, Jeff along with Loise of the Co op Oulton Rise Northampton, receiving a cheque from the Co op members Community scheme.
Remember when! A DSN group photo of our visit to Daily Bread Co-operative Bedford Rd. Northampton.
