Hear from the people we’ve helped

FARMER Les Goldhawk has spent around 45 years working on his family farm doing all manner of arduous tasks. 

Lorraine Dawkins has always been extremely active. From athletics when younger to netball, badminton and dancing ever since, she’s always enjoyed keeping fit and having fun. 

IT was a vet rather than a doctor who helped keen golfer Nick Gregg fix his painful knees.

When Nick, 60, felt a ‘ping’ in his right knee while playing golf about 18 months ago, he feared he might finally have to undergo knee replacement surgery. He’d been avoiding it for more than a decade as he knew there was a slow recovery time.

As she had lived with significant knee pain for most of her adult life – mostly managed by using painkillers and inflammatory medications – this was becoming reality as the misery of constant discomfort in her knee started to outweigh the joy she felt when dancing.

“I’m only in my early 60s, I’ve got four grandchildren who I like to play with and I’m too young to spend the rest of my life sitting down and having to give up going to the gym!”