Trust PA[1] is a UK registered charity working to help those suffering from paralysis as a result of a spinal cord injury (SCI), funding research, as well as the work necessary to convert successful research into properly tested and approved treatments that can be freely available in UK NHS hospitals and across the world.
In its first eight years, Trust PA issued grants totaling over a third of a million pounds.
who, during an away rugby match for Keynsham RFC in September 2001, sustained a SCI leaving him instantly paralysed from the chin down and unable to breathe for himself.
He underwent five months of rehabilitation at a specialist unit at Salisbury District Hospital, but then unexpectedly died from a pulmonary embolism in January 2002, aged 26.
Mountaineer Sir Chris Bonington is Honorary President, and actors Ioan Gruffudd, Matthew Rhys and Neil Jackson are patrons.