Merlin Ms Centre

Our Day Respite users are very creative. Some beautiful flower arrangements were made during this craft session. #merlinrespite

There are lots of different ways you can FUN-draise for Merlin and we love sharing your unique stories! A huge thank you to Sharon Parsons and her family for decorating her house this Christmas and by doing so, raising £222.22 for our wonderful charity. Thank you to everyone who visited and especially to those who stopped to donate.

We have just had the cutest visitor (No not our Ellie) but Rolo whose dad is using the Sensory room. Rolo went and met all the service user to give them some much needed dog therapy

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Respite had great fun playing darts earlier in the week to win Billy's star prize.

With this lovely Cornish mizzle we want to know who has a sunshine holiday booked?

Collecting and cycling for Merlin MS Centre today in Tescos Truro is our wonderful supporter Jason! This year Jason is cycling from John O Groats to Landsend as well as Vietnam to Cambodia, all to raise awareness and funds for our charity. https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/Ja son-Forristal…

I know we posted this just before Christmas, but as our volunteers are so amazing we thought we would share it again.

Join us for a night of horse racing! https://www.facebook.com/events/247805036 115563/

Oxygen therapy may offer the following benefits. For further information on how oxygen therapy could benefit you, please contact the oxygen team who will be happy to help and advise you. Please keep an eye out for future posts from the oxygen department, focusing on different conditions and how oxygen therapy helps.

Kath Smith our Consultant OT and expert in Sensory Integration Therapy is running a course to support the development of our respite staff. We are offering 12 additional places for others to attend. This workshop is suitable for people working with progressive and deteriorating conditions including for dementia and memory services, MS Services as well as for those working in more acute services; Traumatic Brain Injury Services including Stroke and Rehabilitation. https://sensoryproject.org/…/sensory-co nnections-for-neuro…/

January isn’t even over and we are already planning for Christmas. Fundraising Manager Ellie and Fundraising Volunteer Carey took a visit to St Austell Brewery earlier this week and we are delighted to say that they will be hosting a winter fair at the Visitor Centre this year in aid of Merlin MS Centre. Due to the expected popularity of this event we are already taking bookings for stalls. Please contact Ellie Pitt on 01726 885530 or elliepitt@merlinmscentre.org.uk

Its our 10th year and one of the activities organised by our Day Respite is name the bear. Why not pop in and have a go. #merlinrespite

Bookings now open for our Pamper Day! Contact Tania to book your space. Phone 01726 885530 or email tania@merlinmscentre.org.uk https://www.facebook.com/events/679037259 160115/

Food & Drink – Unique Gifts – Handmade Crafts – Raffle plus Easter Egg Hunt & activities for Children

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do physio here, staff are friendly and give a good service

Wonderful place with fantastic staff! As an MS sufferer the Merlin Centre is invaluable to me.

The Merlin is a fabulous place to go with amazing staff and volunteers, everyone is very friendly and never bothered if you ask what feels to be a very trivial question. It's a great place to go for seeing other clients, whatever your health issue, and meeting like minded people.

Such an amazing inspirational place/charity to work for :-)

On the occaisions I have visited the Centre I have always found everybody friendly and helpful. I try to regularly attend the Outreach classes in Hayle and really enjoy both sessions and find the social aspect as important as the physical aspect. Thank you ladies for giving me a positive action for Wednesdays. :)

I attended as part of the SWIMS project. It is a wonderful spacious place with calming views friendly staff/volunteers. The facilities are clean and numerous. I have enquired about the Oxygen Therapy as I understand it has brought benefit to an MS colleague. Treatment can be used by MS sufferers, stroke patients and many more. We are so lucky to have this jewel in Cornwall.

At the moment I use Merlin, for HBO, Physiotherapy, Neurological (FES) and Counselling. These I started as I tried to improve my ability to return to work with MS, however I met new friends, also I achieved personal improvement in my health and wellbeing. Meeting these fellow companions in their struggle, I always see and hear from everyone the smiles and laughter. Plus with the support and help from the volunteers and staff I too smile and laugh. Thank you Merlin.

A wonderful place to go, make friends and meet lots of new people who really understand how you feel! Staff are friendly and helpful. I just love it.

A very welcoming, positive place to be. We are so very lucky to have the Merlin Centre to use in this county. I have travelled alot and used many other hyperbaric oxygen tanks, from the Orkney Isles in Scotland, Southern Ireland and many other places in between but none of them compare to the facillities we have here at Hew-was-water. Very blessed. Together we will fight and conquer our dragons.XX

A truly amazing place, full of wonderful people!

A marvellous facility in Cornwall with very dedicated and caring staff.

The Merlin Staff, particularly the physio team are extremely helpful and supportive. The other Centre users are friendly and welcoming. I was disappointed in not being able to help with arranging an art auction. False promises should never be offered. However, over all a good place!