The Foundations Recent Activities

In 2000, the Dyspraxia Foundation:

• Answered 7000 telephone calls
• Sent out 3000 information packs
• Sold 3000 specialist books
• Supported our membership of more than 2000
• Provided information and support to 34 local and adult groups and to 29 telephone contacts
• Welcomed Catherine Bailey, international model and wife of photographer David Bailey as our president
• Organised the Foundation's and the adult group's AGMs, attended by 150 in total
• Held a two-day conference for 130 professionals
• Exhibited at seven conferences and exhibitions
• Published two issues of Midline and two interim newsletters; two issues of Focus for adults, and two teen newsletters
• Published two specialist newsletters
• Published Living with Dyspraxia, book for adults
• Helped to organise the family fun day in Nottingham
• Contacted local education officers on behalf of parents and children
• Provided information to the media - resulting in at lest 20 articles and mentions of dyspraxia
• Employed two full-time and two part-time staff in our Hitchin office
• Appointed a part-time fundraiser