TVDNY

Formed in May 2005 - launched in November 2006 - TVDNY became a registered charity in May 2007 - number 1119043. From the first day, Trustees made a commitment to share knowledge and help create learning networks across the region,

We:

• Initiate bi-annual conferences as a means of involving service-users to influence regional issues
• Offer community placements for Durham University - medical students attend some of the clinics, support groups and branches in the region and shadow the charity Co-ordinator to learn about service user perspectives. In May 2011, the students will have an opportunity to shadow a social worker within Middlesbrough Borough Council
• Initiated a post-graduate student prize for excellence and initiative in Health or Social Care at Teesside University to improve standards of evidence based practice
• Have been commissioned by the region's PCT's to provide an information dissemination service 2009-2011
• Have established a multi-neuro Peer Support Group in Bishop Auckland
• Working with partners from University of Teesside, secured funding for two pilot projects to assess the viability of a larget project across the NE and for service-users and carers to assess the potential research materials.  In March 2011, a funding bid to the NIHR Research for Patient Benefit Programme is pending.

As an Alliance of 'neurological' charity representatives, university lecturers, Independent sector allied professionals, service-users and carers covering seven Primary Care Trusts and 1.4million people, we have unique insight into non-medical perspectives that impact on everyday life with a neurological injury, condition or impairment.