There has been a STROKE CLUB of some sort or other in Wigan for some years and, to the best of our knowledge it has never had a plan or a programme of activities/events and consequently, has seen its attendance dwindle to as low as two people.

In the year 2000 however, the group was revitalised by a group of like minded people getting together, forming an active management committee and putting together a constitution and a business plan. on the strength of this it was awarded a start up grant from the Coalfield Challenge Trust to encourage it to grow and we were on our way.

It all sounds very simple just to write down the start of the group in a couple of paragraphs. I can assure you it was much more difficult than that. There were many meetings/discussions/ arguments even, but when we got that first grant of I think £1000 it felt like we had won the lottery.

The group used to meet in the early days in the small boardroom at Sunshine house (max seating number of 12 people) as the group grew, we graduated into the main hall which seated about 50 people and having outgrown that we currently meet at St Mary’s Church Hall, Lower Ince.

Since those early days, we have grown into what you see today, but we still keep to the core values that we set out with which are listed in our constitution.

We currently employ a number of people to help run various projects throughout the group and the cost of employing is funded by various Lottery grants, donations and our own fund raising activities.

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