After hearing about our work and recent activity at Harrow based care home Birchwood Grange, the Canadian news organisation ‘Global News’ featured BAT in a special article about the paddle power of ping pong! With more than 500,000 Canadians living with Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia, which is expected to hit 1 million within […]
Residents and members of the team at Cherry Garth care home at Holmer Green, High Wycombe, inspired by BAT and the Rio fever, have taken up playing ping pong! The care home, which is run by local charity, The Fremantle Trust, has introduced table tennis as a regular activity on the back of BAT and […]
Caring 4 Sussex, a free quarterly magazine packed with interesting features and information for everyone who cares about Sussex and its people, have done a fantastic feature on BAT and the work we’re doing. Aside from our major body of research and ground breaking equipment development, BAT have an innovative arts project…a series of currently […]
Returning to Alzheimer’s Show for our second year, BAT were once again a highlight of the show bringing back our unique drug-free Alzheimer’s Therapy programme and crowd pleasing ping pong robot! Delivering a live appraisal of our specialist therapy table tennis table with Professor Stephen Jackson as part of its on-going development, BAT also welcomed […]
BAT are super proud that one of our key volunteers and biggest advocates has been honoured for his work with the BAT Foundation! Brian Kerr, a ping pong coach and bus driver based at Ash Grove in London, was highly commended by his employer Arriva in their national ‘Making a Difference’ Award last month. Not […]
The BAT Foundation have been working with the BBC on their fantastic new two part documentary ‘How to Stay Young’ which starts tonight at 9pm on BBC One! Angela Rippon and Dr Chris van Tulleken travel the world to investigate the latest experiments and research that could help put the brakes on the ageing process. […]
For the second year running, BLE generously donated floor space to us as they once again supported the BAT Foundation by hosting a table tennis event on a customised table made from LEGO bricks at this year’s show. “The table tennis area at BLE 2014 certainly brought a different dimension to the event, and many […]
As part of the development of our ground breaking DRUG FREE THERAPY table tennis table and equipment, we are working with King’s College London and Table Tennis England to deliver a special accreditation trial. We need 5 volunteers who’ve been diagnosed with early stage Alzheimer’s or Dementia to be part of this unique study and […]
Alzheimer’s Disease Could Have A Drug-Free And Effective Treatment Via Table Tennis As part of their What’s Working series, which profiles inspirational people and organisations who are making a positive contribution to society by finding solutions to the world’s problems, Huffington Post were keen to talk to BAT about our Drug Free Therapy programme. You […]
Care Home Management shares work of BAT to their 20,000 monthly readership! The wonderful Care Home Management magazine were really interested in finding out about BAT and how they can support the table tennis programme in care home facilities in the UK through a full feature about our work in their July/August edition. You can […]
BAT proved to be top stars at 2015 Alzheimer’s Show! The 2015 Alzheimer’s Show saw the unveiling of BAT’s prototype Alzheimer’s Therapy Table, our specialised table specifically designed to enhance the Game’s ability to deliver an even more effective therapeutic experience, and it was a hit with the shows attendees, exhibitor’s, and organisers alike