Read All About It!
Welcome to the Summer edition of our Newsletter and after a slightly wet start to the season back in June, it looks like we are full steam ahead!
It’s been a great few months for the team as we have been ‘out & about’ meeting people around the country. We even left these shores and got a very warm welcome from the Isle of Wight Association for Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus who were celebrating their 50th year! This charity is of special interest to Nicola as her daughter Faith had these conditions, and it was really encouraging to see local professionals coming together to learn more about them. If you would like a visit from a member of the MyLiferaft team to explain how MyLiferaft could help support your community or organisation, then please get in contact with us.
Disabled Children’s Partnership (DCP)
Families with disabled children are struggling because of a lack of Government funding. The DCP and The Sun Newspaper have set up a campaign demanding that the Government ‘give back’ a £434 million cut in funding. This equates to a daily shortfall of £1.2 million to support disabled children and their families living their best lives. In turn, families are incurring ever greater costs for health and social care for their children, and disabled children are missing out on the funding they need.
We have signed up to support the Give It Back campaign, and it would be great if you could as well. To find out more, click here. Thank you.
Real Life Stories
Some of you may already be aware that the founder of MyLiferaft was herself a parent-carer. Based on her experiences supporting her daughter Faith, who had multiple and complex care needs, Nicola knew there was an easier way to manage and share the information that comes with caring for someone with additional needs. You can read about their story here .
We have also teamed up with Christina Colmer-McHugh, the co-founder of Moodbeam, who was inspired by her 7-year old daughter struggling to deal with a tough situation at school. Christina was left wondering what it would be like to know how her daughter was feeling when she wasn’t with her. She knew that this was a situation not unique to her, but shared by thousands of other parents. Read more about Christina’s story here
Summer Holiday Ideas
Calling all parents in our community – Don’t Panic! The school summer holidays are just a few weeks away and if you are stuck for ideas on how to keep everyone entertained, then look no further than our Resources pages on the MyLiferaft website. Packed with suggestions for all ages and abilities (as well as for all weather types!) you will find something to keep the ‘boredom blues’ away!
Check out our next blog in a few weeks’ time dedicated to helping you solve all your school holiday activity dilemmas – whatever the weather!
New Developments
We’ve been busy working to make MyLiferaft even more useful and intuitive.
When you next log in, visit the Contacts area to see how we’ve improved the ability to find people based on their relationship to you. If you access your account via a mobile phone, you can directly call, WhatsApp or Facetime someone.
In the About Me and Trackers sections you will find that some handy symbols have been added to help identify the different sections.
Stay in Touch!
We love hearing from our MyLiferaft community so if you have something to say, something to share or need some support on using MyLiferaft, then please contact us via:
- Email info@myliferaft.com
- Call us on 03302 231192
- Complete the Contact Us form
Don’t forget that you can also keep up-to-date with all things MyLiferaft via our social media channels.
And Finally….!
To help celebrate all things Summer, we are offering our community an exclusive promotional e-voucher below! Normally costing £120.00, we are offering you a MyLiferaft Premium Account FREE for a year! Just type the code NEWS365 when setting up your account.
Here’s to a long, hot (but not too hot!) Summer!
Regards
Nicola Murgatroyd
CEO & Founder of MyLiferaft
