Motivation & Co.

Meet the West Midlands Team

"Hello there! I’m Jane Royden and along with my co-owner David Hart, we operate the Motivation & Co. service in the West Midlands (WM) area. From originally qualifying as a meteorologist (yes still happy to share a weather forecast from time to time), I worked in IT and project and change management in the not-for-profit sectors. I was privileged to be involved in setting up the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy’s, ‘Physio Works’ Programme, which majors on falls prevention as a key intervention for improving the quality of life for the elderly and also positively impacting heath service budgets. "

"Already understanding the benefits of falls prevention, I came across Motivation & Co. by chance and the rest ‘was history’ as they say. From my personal experience of visiting my mother and other elderly relatives in care homes, over a 20 year period, the potential to make a real positive difference to people’s lives on an everyday basis, was abundantly clear."

"Initially observing my colleagues at Motivation & Co. deliver sessions was in itself motivational. To see the participants’ energy and engagement increase over just an hour was both inspiring and poignant. I wished this had been something my relatives might have benefitted from, and yet here was an opportunity to make a difference for others."

"If you would like to see this service in your care home or day centre, we start off with a demonstration class which is at a discounted rate. The purpose of the demonstration class allows you to view the class, meet us and see for yourselves the response we get from your residents. If you would like more information, please call me. Thank you for taking the time to visit the WM area page."

About Motivation & Co. West Midlands

Motivation & Co. West Midlands provides specialist recreation and motivation classes for the elderly. Our classes are carried out in Nursing and Residential Homes and have been designed to help residents maintain or improve their emotional and physical well-being.

The benefits to the Care Home are that you are working in partnership with a National Award winning UK company with a proven track record of success, supported by committed and trained Therapists who are fully engaged in our company ethos through continuous training and development.

What is a taster session?

Trying us out by way of a taster session gives you the opportunity to see what we are about and what wedo and more importantly the effect we have on your residents.

The taster sessions are always the same theme (colour) as with this theme, we can quickly adjust dependant on the abilities of your clients without them knowing that we are raising or lowering the delivery level.

All the Motivation & Co. Class materials are specifically designed and produced by the company making it unique to us. Motivation & Co. is fully researched, evidence based and a national Award winning UK company.

What happens after your taster session?

Following the taster session we leave you a couple of days to digest and get feedback from staff and residents to evaluate if this is something you would wish to use on a regular basis. We will contact you to get feedback as you know your residents better than us to see if you had a good response or not.

If you do choose to come on board you will receive a welcome pack and will be booked in either weekly, fortnightly or four weekly same day & time. Each home is different as to how often they have us.

You will also receive an activities task sheet each month form head office via e-mail – these are all evidence based stating what you are working on and made so that they can be implemented without having to go out and buy items to make this activity.

We also hold an activity co-ordinators training day once a year in your area working in partnership with you as part of your team.

We are fully researched by Leeds University and we have developed a Dementia falls prevention programme for the NHS Hertfordshire, we are a registered training centre and all our Motivational Therapists are DBS checked and fully insured.

Our residents are our #1 priority

• Motivation and Co are one off the best to do armchair exercise and quiz with dementia and residential clients. I thoroughly recommend them as they are friendly and kind with all our residents. They are very patient and caring. They also go out of their way to ensure that everyone can join in.

  Carole Brown

• Motivation & Co visit our Home once a month and the Residents look forward to their visit. They are highly entertaining with their sing a longs, games and quizzes, to mention a few. It is not too physical for our Residents and extremely enjoyable.

  Jackie Hodgkinson