 and no barriers that joins us in the studio. So, Johnny, it's a bit of a departure for you, I suppose. You used to do in, you know, in the physio and there was an association before Neil stepped aside, is that correct? Yeah, so for a number of years we've been operating the No Barriers Foundation from the Thitubjib and up in the mountaintop there. No Barriers essentially is for neuro rehab. So anybody that has a disability, whether it's a physical disability or intellectual disability, we have specialist equipment and specialist team of staff up there that can help people rehabilitate and continue to exercise and train when they're in the community and those can vary from people with spinal cord injuries or brain injury or stroke or MS or Parkinson's disease amongst other things. And then we can teach them, you know, the exercises they can do and keep them fit and strong and continue to exercise. Now, we were lucky enough to be operating from that gym facility over the last number of years. More recently we've been trying to, I suppose, work to create a sustainable model going forwards and this is going to be the only gym if it's kind in the country. But basically the charity and a not-for-profit capacity is going to be operating the gym facility so that anybody can go in, pay their gym membership as normal. They can attend circuit classes or strength and conditioning classes or train by themselves and they know that the money that they're contributing in their gym membership helps to go towards something bigger within the community so they can train side by side with someone who maybe has a spinal injury or brain injury or stroke and that it's all done in a very inclusive capacity. It's a unique model. Yeah, it's a unique model. I suppose the inclusion aspect of it is very important to us. So those that might need a wee bit more attention with maybe a few members of staff that are coming in to train, it's very important that they don't feel like they're in a hospital setting. They're training side by side with someone else who might be just in the cross trainer or in the doing a circuit class or anything like that. So it's about a quality and just creating I suppose a good framework for anybody regardless of where you're at in terms of your current health to be able to just exercise and train side by side with each other. And that is important for inclusion because if you have a disability you don't want to be in a... A lot of people wouldn't want to be in a separate room and feel that they're isolated. Why not train and push yourself side by side with others? Yeah, and it's a social aspect too. We can see day by day you see people creating friendships and chatting and if no barriers wasn't there, these interactions wouldn't be taking place. We run an inclusive wheelchair accessible training class as well and the class might run for an hour, but people sit and have coffee for an hour afterwards and it's the time in the week where they're out of the house and socialising and it's nice to see those kind of friendships form in the gym as well. For someone who just maybe goes along to the gym or goes along to the occasional class you know we might overlook how important it is for someone with a disability not just the exercise but the social aspect of it and you know you outlined it very well there. Yeah yeah the feedback you know when it takes time to build up the courage for a lot of people that might be in this situation particularly if there was any sort of trauma involved so if there was a car accident or a fall or anything which might have had created a spinal injury or brain injury or if someone suddenly got a stroke you know your life changes really overnight and within a couple of months you can go from having what used to be kind of your day-to-day activities and lifestyle to suddenly you know maybe feeling a bit conscious about leaving the house if the way that you're walking has differed slightly now or you might be in a wheelchair or on crutches so it takes time to build up that confidence and I think no barriers as much about that as anything else is that it's about getting people involved in exercise and giving people the feeling of you know having control of their life again and getting that confidence back and just I suppose not identifying with their injury as much just you know I suppose seeing what they can do and you know again it's that exposure and in small steps to just being out and chatting to people and being in a comfortable environment that's supportive and using exercise as a medium for it so no barriers fitness will still continue as fit hub was you know the regular gym and regular classes and all the rest but it will be side by side with the specialist rehab that you offer yeah so it's all owned by the foundation so under our charity number any revenue on either side is all you know going into the charity and the I suppose the gym you know will operate as a gym as well so anybody that wants to lift weights or do cardio or train or attend classes whether it's yoga pilates circuit training they can go in and pay their memberships and classes yeah so it operates as a gym as normal but you know they might be when they're in training they might see somebody with physios or needing a bit of extra help and they know that the money that they're paying for their exercise is helping to contribute to the bigger picture and because it typically it'll cost you know a huge amount more for those that might need physios with them or a little bit of extra help or walking in the robotic suits we have typically that it costs a huge amount more to to operate that so the the operating of the gym will help to subsidize you know that side of things and subsidize because you mentioned subsidize how it's going to be my next question it'll take more perhaps than the money that might be generated from the gym to to keep no barriers yeah we have to do a huge amount of fund raise in every year um we have to i suppose that there's a huge amount of paperwork and applying for grants and different things to balance the books so like we yeah i mean we typically try to operate so that it it ends up costing about 10 to 20 percent um of what it would normally cost in a private setting to offer these types of services and you know we try and uh i suppose generate a lot of revenue like i said from just uh fundraising and grant applications and seeing where we can make it as cheap as we possibly can for those that need the service to to get it what you offer at no barriers it's unique in the county and unique to sort of this corner of the country uh it's unique in the country generally yeah so it's this is the only facility kind of operating of its kind in ireland at the minute and even the types of services we offer in euro rehab a lot of the time um you know people need to travel to other countries within europe or the uk to get this type of physio so um you know people traveling long distances to come and use that well prior to no barriers setting up now we would have patients that might have had to travel to spain or germany or england to to get use of the robotic suits that we currently have yeah yeah yeah so we're just trying to build things now and get it going so that you know we would love down the line where people from different kind of parts of ireland or even different countries within europe and the uk are coming to donnie gall um to get this type of treatment so the open day tomorrow um yeah so we're open so between 12 and 2 we kind of have a drop-in whereby anybody that's uh interested in any way you know in the services whether it's on the euro rehab side of things or on the gym side of things um we'll have all the staff there and we'll have light refreshments and anyone wants to pop in can just have a chat to us we can give you a tour around the facility um explain a wee bit more about who we are and what we do um yeah and just have a chat so anybody that's in any way interested we'd love to have you up um everyone's more than welcome very good and even if you're just interested in a regular gym or regular glasses feel free to pop in as well yeah 100 and you'll know even that the money you're given uh you know contributes to something bigger yeah okay all right johnny the best look with it thanks for coming in cheers thank you john