The Get Busy Living Centre Is Ready to Go
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UPDATE THE GET BUSY LIVING CENTRE IS FULLY UP AND RUNNING! This has completely changed the direction and focus of the Foundation. It has enabled us to support more beneficiaries and their families to find a direction in their lives. Instead of just giving our beneficiaries financial THE GET BUSY LIVING help towards individual pieces of equipment, we are now able to get people together to talk CENTRE IS READY TO GO... and share experiences. THE GET BUSY LIVING CENTRE WILL BE OFFICALLY OPENED BY The centre has far exceeded all MATT HAMPSON AND PATRON MIKE TINDALL ON 2ND OCTOBER 2018 of our expectations and we are changing lives on a daily basis. The Get Busy Living Centre benefit from the advice of is located in the heart of those who understand their The next phase for our charity the beautiful Leicestershire unique challenges. With the is to finish off the garden and countryside. This idyllic rural opportunity to be assigned finally officially open the centre. location provides the perfect a mentor who has been Josie our physio is the newest setting for the home of the affected by a similar injury addition to the MHF team. Matt Hampson Foundation. the Centre provides an She has become a great asset to the Foundation The construction of the Get environment where people and has fitted in the team Busy Living (GBL) Centre has are inspired and supported to perfectly. She completely been a long held personal ensure that they Get gets what the Foundation is ambition of Matt’s and is Busy Living! all about and has become a the culmination of years of The Centre is also a place to crucial component of the MH planning, dedication and relax and enjoy the space, Foundation machine. Josie endeavour. The Centre is comfort and views that this has enabled us to improve the Foundation’s focal point amazing facility and location our beneficiaries physical well where people affected by life enjoys. The big screen TV’s being which has given us an changing injuries can make in the social area regularly extra dimension to what we use of the state of the art show sporting events or Hampson Foundation the GBL can offer people. rehabilitation facilities, meet movies and there is often Centre provides a positive and Through knowledge and fellow beneficiaries and relax supportive environment in a Foundation Ambassador, in peaceful surroundings. Trustee or Patron making a guidance we aim to empower which people who have been our beneficiaries and give them Built on the site of an old visit. The Foundation also affected by a life changing the tools to find a purpose. aircraft hangar the GBL injury can focus on their regularly hosts themed events Centre nestles in the rolling which are hosted by guest We are all very excited about future. This is the place where the future prospects of our landscape of Burrough- people come to identify and speakers and attended by on-the-Hill near to Melton beneficiaries, Ambassadors, new centre and how many work towards what they can more people it will allow us to Mowbray, Leicestershire. and will achieve, to share their donors, partners and friends of the Foundation. help and make an impression Built as the heart for the Matt personal experiences and on their lives! FORGET WHAT YOU THINK YOU KNOW ABOUT SUPERHEROES I NEED TO TELL YOU A SECRET... SUPERHEROES CAN’T FLY... IN FACT MOST OF THE ONES YOU MEET AT THE GET BUSY LIVING CENTRE CAN’T EVEN WALK. It is nigh on impossible to What’s clearly emerging even visit the Centre and not feel before the Get Busy Living compelled to re-evaluate Centre is officially open is that your personal perceptions it isn’t just somewhere for of what constitutes strength, disabled people to visit to gain wealth and success. Feeling inspiration and strength. It is obliged to undertake some somewhere where anybody self-reflection like this tends can go to be inspired and to only occur when something motivated. The opportunity special has happened such to go somewhere where you as being in the presence are challenged to re-calibrate of truly remarkable people. what you perceive ability, Here’s another secret, the Matt disability and courage to be is Hampson Foundation’s Get one that can benefit so many Busy Living Centre is full to the people. Visiting the Centre is a rafters with real superheroes truly empowering experience. and not one of them wears a Matt’s dream of a place for cape or tights. people who have suffered life When you spend time at the changing injuries to convene Centre and the more true in order to support each other superheroes you meet the and to focus on what can be less interested you are in achieved has become a reality. finding out how their lives By achieving his dream he were changed. The somewhat has also inadvertently created It is somewhere where anybody GET BUSY can go to be LIVING LEGACY inspired and DRIVEWAY motivated TREE. The Matt Hampson morbid interest in knowing a place that can be so much Foundation is pleased to how someone came to require more for so many people. The offer you an opportunity for the use of a wheelchair, for Centre can and will impact you to purchase your very example, involves looking positively on the lives of all of own legacy driveway tree. back and that isn’t something those who visit, including mere Each tree gets its own cast these people do. For people mortals who are able to walk iron plaque. Once ordered, like Matt, Darrel and the through the door. you’ll receive a certificate, ever growing number of as proof of purchase If you would like to visit the and your plaque will be Foundation beneficiaries it’s Centre to check out the all about looking forward to produced. Maximum 50 facilities then please contact characters including spaces. the future with laser like x-ray [email protected]. vision that Superman would For more information on be envious of. The incidents It is a perfect venue for how to order your Legacy that caused their life changing corporate development and driveway tree contact injuries are in fact of relatively team building days and we Louis at the Get Busy little significance. What is of can build bespoke packages Living Centre. considerable significance is specific to your needs. This how these amazing individuals could include inspirational have reacted, developed and talks from Matt or one of the AVAILABLE TO ORDER grown since the incidents that Foundations beneficiaries or Ambassadors. TO ORDER CONTACT changed their lives. NOW £1,000 [email protected] THE ANNUAL MIKE TINDALL CELEBRITY GOLF CLASSIC 2018 THE ANNUAL MIKE TINDALL CELEBRITY GOLF DAY TOOK PLACE ON FRIDAY 19TH MAY AT THE BELFRY HOTEL AND ONCE AGAIN IT WAS A HUGE SUCCESS. Patron of the Foundation Mike Page who was joined by many Tindall was joined by wife Zara, of the stars including Ronan Peter and Autumn Phillips Keating, a duet by Thom and a host of their celebrity Evans and Ben Foden and an friends including Ronan amazing auction by the one Keating, Jamie Dornan, James and only Jonny Gould. Anderson and Nigel Mansell. The event raised a huge sum event and one we look The sun shone all day on the of money which will be shared forward to each year. Mike is beautiful Brabazon course and between the Foundation and a wonderful Patron and really the Golf was followed by a The Cure Parkinson’s Trust. cares about the work of the gala dinner hosted by Natalie Foundation CEO Tommy Foundation, and this event has Pinkham. The evening featured Cawston commented on the played a big part in getting the entertainment from DNA, Cole day “It’s an absolutely amazing Get Busy Living Centre built.” FOUNDATION TRUSTEE & ADVENTURER JULIAN EVANS SUMMITS DENALI. are supporting this mission, including the UK’s largest care providers Caring Homes Group and BUPA, as well as Runwood Homes, Care UK, Avery Healthcare Group, Maria Mallaband, Hadrian Healthcare, Barchester, Hallmark Care Homes and Halebourne Group. Julian has raised another £60,000 with this expedition, for the The Matt Hampson Foundation and Foundation CEO Tommy Cawston commented “Julian is a very pro active Trustee, the money FOUNDATION TRUSTEE & ADVENTURER JULIAN EVANS he raises allows us to help our RECENTLY SUMMITED ONE OF THE WORLD’S MOST ever increasing number of beneficiaries.” ISOLATED MOUNTAINS – MOUNT DENALI IN ALASKA. Julian said: “It’s about testing Julian (45), who lives in So far the nine challenges have yourself. Outdoor endurance of completing the True Great Easton, north-east of only been completed by 15 events and expeditions have Adventurers Grand Slam.” Market Harborough, is looking people. He said: “I have been brought me an immense to become one of the few a long-term supporter of The His achievements so far amount of satisfaction. Being people to complete the True Matt Hampson Foundation include climbing Europe’s able to conquer some of the Adventurers Grand Slam, a and now very proud to be highest mountain, Mount world’s greatest exploration challenge to reach the North a Trustee. It is constantly Elbrus and a trek to the North challenges whilst raising and South pole and climb the in my thoughts as I try to Col at Mount Everest. money for valuable causes Seven Summits (the highest raise awareness for the issue Julian has a long list of close to my heart is very peak on every continent).