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The AAW Jones Charitable Trust has donated $50,000 to help save the Physio Pool. This is very large considering the relatively modest size of the trust. The public’s support is crucial for saving the pool. Individual donations from members of the public were coming in every day, and are hugely important. People can help by going to

Chris Rollo has severe cerebral palsy and is braced into his wheelchair. His parents, Joy and Graham, take him for weekly swims as a family outing from his residential care home. The swims offer him a degree of freedom and movement. The family is grateful for the assistance from the staff, who lower him into

Mark Shirley, Physiotherapist and Clinical Manager of Rata South, has been taking his patients to the Dunedin Physio Pool over the past 10-15 years. He estimates that they see about 2,000 to 3,000 people per year at the Pool, which Rata South uses as one of their key rehabilitation tools. They treat a range of

  As is widely reported in the ODT, the Otago PhysioPool Trust aims to raise $1.5 million to save the pool. Caversham Physiotherapy is keen to support and we have organised a FUNdraising Charity Dance. Our audacious goal is to help by raising at least $20,000! 100% of the ticket price is being donated to

Philip Lomas finds out next week whether he will represent his country at the Special Olympics World Summer Games in July. Mr Lomas, of Dunedin, trains at the Otago Therapeutic Physio Pool each week, with up to 40 other Otago Special Olympics members. Mr Lomas, who has autism, has been in the Otago team for

The Otago Therapeutic Pool fundraising campaign received a $100,000 boost this week. The grant was from the Alexander McMillan Trust, which earmarked it for the capital work needed on the historic facility. Launched four weeks ago, the campaign aims to raise $1.5 million, of which $1 million was for capital upgrades. The grant brought the