Our aim is to provide advice, support, relief and/or treatment for anyone suffering serious injury or disability
How You Can Help
- Simply book your next holiday with Charitable Travel and tell us you want to support The Matt Hampson Foundation. The charity will then benefit from the free donation you can make as part of the booking process. To read more about how this works, head to our ‘About us‘ page.
- If you want to make a donation to The Matt Hampson Foundation and you are not booking a holiday, click here to visit their website.
- Visit matthampsonfoundation.org to sign up to newsletters, and follow the The Matt Hampson Foundation social media pages, and help spread the word.
How You Can Help
How You Can Help
- Simply book your next holiday with Charitable Travel and tell us you want to support The Matt Hampson Foundation. The charity will then benefit from the free donation you can make as part of the booking process. To read more about how this works, head to our ‘About us‘ page.
- If you want to make a donation to The Matt Hampson Foundation and you are not booking a holiday, click here to visit their website.
- Visit matthampsonfoundation.org to sign up to newsletters, and follow the The Matt Hampson Foundation social media pages, and help spread the word.
- Simply book your next holiday with Charitable Travel and tell us you want to support The Matt Hampson Foundation. The charity will then benefit from the free donation you can make as part of the booking process. To read more about how this works, head to our ‘About us‘ page.
- If you want to make a donation to The Matt Hampson Foundation and you are not booking a holiday, click here to visit their website.
- Visit matthampsonfoundation.org to sign up to newsletters, and follow the The Matt Hampson Foundation social media pages, and help spread the word.
The Matt Hampson Foundation inspires and supports young people seriously injured through sport through its Get Busy Living Centre in rural Leicestershire. The centre provides expert physiotherapy, specialist personal training, support, mentoring and advice to people suffering a life-changing injury.
The centre’s doors were opened in 2018 and is the brainchild of founder and ex-England and Leicester Tigers rugby player Matt Hampson, who himself experienced a life-changing injury in 2005 leaving him paralysed from the neck down, aged just 20.
Building a sense of community is central to the Matt Hampson Foundation. In the aftermath of an incident which leads to a life-changing injury most people and their families feel isolated with an overwhelming sense of loss for what has been taken away from them.
By becoming part of the community that Matt has created, beneficiaries of the Foundation are able to draw on the experience and knowledge of people who have been on the same journey. They develop the tools and skills they need to move on as they start to rebuild their lives. The centre becomes a place where they can feel normal again and be part of a strong and active social scene as they retrain themselves to focus on what they can do – not what they can’t. It’s a really special place.
Eventually beneficiaries progress to the point where they become the ones providing the support to others. This in itself is a huge part of their rehabilitation and being able to help others provides a real sense of purpose and identity.
The Foundation helps people get busy living again after a life-changing injury – whether it’s helping them get back into sport or supporting them in adapting to their new life.
Get in touch
Get Busy Living Centre, Twyford Road, Burrough-on-the-Hill, Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, LE14 2JR
Telephone: 01664 454155
Email: [email protected]
Registered Charity No. 1139823
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