MACE
Liquid Therapy was a registered service provider for the MACE project, which is supported by the European Union’s INTERREG VA Programme during 2022 and 2023. The project aimed support vulnerable children and their families who are most at risk from a range of challenges and difficulties in their lives, by identifying, intervening early and providing nurturing and support within their own homes and communities on a cross border basis. The project is being managed jointly by the CAWT Partnership and TUSLA (the Child and Family Agency)
Irish Gap Year
Each year Liquid Therapy partners with Irish Gap Year, a Gap Year Association accredited program provider, and provides a series of programmes working together to offer our surfers a surfing Big Brother or Big Sister. The programmes work with the GAP year volunteer programme creating a unique experience for all involved. Our programmes focus on positive mental health through activity and social interactions.
RETHINK Ireland
Liquid Therapy, supported by the HeadStart Fund 2023-2026, will expand its Mental Health and Well-Being Programmes to reach more groups in the Bundoran, Ballyshannon, and Donegal Town areas. The project will deliver 18 mental health and wellbeing programmes over 3 years to schools and organisations, developing new partnerships in the education and youth sectors. The HeadStart Fund is a three-year fund created by Rethink Ireland in collaboration with the Z Zurich Foundation and the HSE.
ISTO
In addition, Liquid Therapy is a member of ISTO, the International Surf Therapy Organization. ISTO is a collective of the world’s leading surf therapy practitioners, clinicians, researchers, and influencers working together to advance understanding in the sector through research. ISTO is an information hub for surf therapy prescriptions and a place for sharing in the practitioner community.
BLUESURFEST
During Autumn 2023, a selected group of “blue communities” from France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, and Spain, will host a series of European Blue Surf Festivals. The festivals will combine sporting activities, cultural events and educational seminars. Blue Surf Festivals as well as promoting inclusion, sustainability and surf culture, aim to further develop and promote the work of the INCLUSEA Network on developing common European adaptive surf methodologies. BLUESURFEST is a pan European project which is co-financed by the Erasmus + Sport Programme.
Sport Ireland
Liquid Therapy was a recipient of Sport Ireland’s Innovation for Sports Inclusion Funding in 2023. Sport Ireland’s Innovation funding aims to foster connections between the sports industry and knowledge organisations, with the ultimate goal of increasing participation in sports. The project was delivered in collaboration with Donegal, Sligo and Leitrim Sports Partnership with support from the ‘Dormant Accounts Fund’.
The Evaluation Report can be accessed here: Surf Therapy Evaluation
