Before I started attending Creative Threads, I was completely isolated due to severe anxiety and agoraphobia. Just opening the door would send a chill down my spine; I could not pass the doorstep.

The group has truly been a lifeline for me. It stopped me feeling and being isolated, and if I don’t come here, I don’t come out.

As my confidence grew, I took a massive step and started volunteering to help lead a new weekly session. This has been life-changing. I find it so much easier to talk to people, and I have made loads of friends who I even visit outside the group.

My confidence has improved so much in this safe space. I feel more like my old self—what my life was like before. Now, I even go to another craft group and was able to help fundraise at my granddaughter’s school!

I hope to continue volunteering and building on my confidence and trying new things. Thank you so much.

Thank you for the helping getting PIP. I have tried 5 times before with others helping and always failed. I have now been awarded Standard Rate Care and Mobility. I am going to get some carpets as need not been able to afford any in my home with my back payment and if there is any left I am going to have it re-paint. This will make huge difference.

Massive thank you for all the help you have given me over the last 12 months . Your help has given me peace of mind when I was feeling anxious and overwhelmed.  You have also helped  me to put my affairs in order.  I had concerns regarding myself, my husband and sister which have now through your help been put to rest.

The advice you have given regarding benefits has also given me peace of mind regarding our financial situation.  At this time in my life all these matters were very important and I can now move forward without concerns or worry.

I thoroughly enjoy the sewing sessions you do at Maltby where I have made many new friends. Overall the work you do has had a very positive impact on my life for which I am very grateful.

No, you are the brilliant one!. I wouldn’t have gotten there without your guidance…. Thank you so much.

Just so nice to be with like minded friends. I haven’t got any family & I need company & something worthwhile to do.

I just wanted to thank you for all your help you have been amazing while I am at my lowest. I would not have any idea how to go through all the forms understand them without your help and would not be able to deal with all the paperwork without your guidance and knowing you are always a message away when I need help

Active Independence has given me the confidence to go on and face the future – Actively and Independently.

We would just like to say how grateful we are to Active Independence. My advocate visited us on two occasions to help us apply for Attendance Allowance and Council Tax discount on my husband’s behalf. We are sure we would not have been successful without her help and she was so lovely, yet professional, guiding us through the process. We think it is so important that this organisation receives the funding to enable it to keep on helping so many people like us. An extremely valuable service for the community, long may it continue!

My advocate has helped me so much in getting attendance allowance and a blue badge, after being turned down for both in the past. She showed me how to compose my letters and since then have received both blue badge and attendance allowance and I will be eternally grateful for both, as I am still recovering from my treatment at Weston park. My blue badge has been particularly helpful and she is a lovely lady who I can easily talk to.

You’ve been brilliant, just the person I’ve been looking for. Thanks so much for your advice. You have been more help then anyone else I have spoken to

Thankyou so much for being one of our partners we simply could not deliver on this contract without you and I value all that your staff bring – Kate Davis CEO (Crossroads)

Thank you again, to all you ladies, for your kindness, hard work and generosity.  Debbie from Young People at Heart (collection of quilts)

Got my PIP Renewal decision back – no phone call. I have been awarded until July 2027. Thank you for your help

I’m surprised how quickly my Attendance Allowance came through. Thank you so much for all your help, it has been amazing.

All excellent, Jackie is so welcoming and sessions are easy and relaxed. Very inclusive. Thank you active independence and Jackie xx

Thank you so much for bringing me today. I have been stuck in the house since November and this is the first time I have spoken to other people since then. It has been lovely, I can’t thank you enough, you all have been so welcoming and lovely. I know have something to look forward to again.

I really don’t know how to thank you enough because I received a letter today and I got full amount for AA. Thank you so much.

We are overjoyed. Our PIP decision has been overturned at tribunal and have been awarded enhanced rate daily living and mobility and nearly £10,000 backpay. Thank you so much to our advocate who has supporting throughout the whole process.

I do not have to worry about money anymore, I can now concentrate on getting better (cancer). All this good fortune was all down to my advocate and Active Independence. I can’t thank you enough, your help is much appreciated.

Thank you for being my guiding light throughout this PIP process – you are an absolute STAR

Fantastic – incredible amount of benefits brought into the town – and more not counted. Thanks for another amazing year’s service delivery from you and your team.

I have worked with Active Independence since starting my role as a Link Worker at Rotherham Central North PCN, I find the service and support that they offer exceptional and have had nothing but fantastic comments from those patients and their families that I have referred. Active Independence are a service I can totally rely on to give the best support possible to my patients, and not only that, I find there knowledge ands support for myself as a Link Worker outstanding. They have always gone over and above, and for this, I am eternally grateful to all of the staff.

Following over turning PIP at Tribunal and being awarded Enhanced Daily Living and Mobility for an indefinite period….Thank you for all your help, I could not have done this without you, so many times I nearly threw in the towel. I am so overjoyed I won’t have to skimp on my gas and electric anymore; I might even go on holiday to Skegness with the back payment. I have ordered a mobility scooter and she plans to get out more. I promised me I will try and have more fun now!

Thank you for all your support – my parents are going to now buy a recliner sofa with the £3000 backpay and also buy equipment that will help my dad as his memory is getting worse due to the dementia e.g. talking clock with date and reclining kettle

Jo was a wonderful, thank you for sorting my application for Pension Credit