# INTERACT STROKE SUPPORT

## Details

- **Country:** England &amp; Wales
- **Charity number:** 1080046
- **Other names:** INTERACT READING SERVICE, INTERACT READING SERVICE - SUPPORTING STROKE RECOVERY
- **Status:** Registered
- **Legal form:** Charitable company
- **Company number:** [03910122](https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/03910122)
- **Registered:** March 28, 2000
- **Register:** https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/en/charity-search/?p_p_id=uk_gov_ccew_onereg_charitydetails_web_portlet_CharityDetailsPortlet&amp;p_p_lifecycle=0&amp;p_p_state=maximized&amp;p_p_mode=view&amp;_uk_gov_ccew_onereg_charitydetails_web_portlet_CharityDetailsPortlet_regId=1080046


## Contact

- **Address:** InterAct Stroke Support, Unit 303.3 Almond Studios, Biscuit Factory Business Complex, 100 Drummond Road
- **Postcode:** SE16 4DG
- **Phone:** 020 3886 1028
- **Email:** info@interactstroke.org
- **Website:** www.interactstrokesupport.org



## Activities

**Objects:** THE RELIEF OF PEOPLE IN SICKNESS OR DISTRESS BY THE PROVISION OF THE SPOKEN WORD IN A VARIETY OF FORMS WHICH MAY INCLUDE THE PROVISION OF A READING SERVICE

**Activities:** InterAct Stroke Support takes professional actors into hospitals and stroke clubs to read and interact with stroke survivors. This interaction alleviates boredom, depression and stimulates the brain, thus helping rehabilitation &amp; recovery.Post stroke depression is common and neural stimulation has been shown to help the brain &quot;adaptively rewire&quot; finding new routes from A to B.




## Classification

- **How:** Provides Human Resources, Provides Services
- **What:** The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Disability, Arts/culture/heritage/science
- **Who:** Elderly/old People, People With Disabilities, Other Defined Groups



## Geography

- **Area of benefit:** NATIONAL
- Northern Ireland
- Scotland
- Birmingham City
- Bristol City
- Cardiff
- East Sussex
- Manchester City
- Newcastle Upon Tyne City
- Oldham
- West Sussex
- Throughout London





## Trustees

| Name | Role | Appointed |
|---|---|---|
| **IAN TALBOT OBE** | Chair |  |
| CHRISTOPHER JOHN RAVENSCROFT |  |  |
| Clive Mark Rowe |  | May 28, 2026 |
| Dr Anthony Rudd CBE |  | Feb. 21, 2020 |
| Dr Marion Walker MBE |  | Sept. 30, 2021 |
| EDMUND JOSHUA HUBBARD |  |  |
| John Stephen Ridley |  | May 28, 2026 |
| Jonathan McDonnell |  | Feb. 21, 2020 |
| LEAH JANICE SOWDEN |  |  |




