The Stroke Association acts as an umbrella organisation for stroke clubs, offering valuable advice on issues ranging from finance to fundraising, and with 473 known clubs across England, with 323 affiliated to us already there has been a necessity for us to begin to adopt a more strategic approach. We appointed a National Stroke Club-Co-ordinator in May 2006, which demonstrates our commitment to this work, and to ensure that we continue to build relationships on a more local level we need to create three Regional Stroke Club Co-ordinator posts, one in each of our English regions (North, South and East). A stroke club is somewhere that people can find information, share experiences and support each other, try new activities or resume favourite pastimes with new friends. Stroke clubs can be a real lifesaver and are as different as the people who attend. Some may have just a few people getting together for a cup of tea; others have over a 100 members taking part in everything from art to board games, holidays, outings, photography, swimming and quizzes. Some also provide physiotherapy and speech therapy services, communication support and community reintegration activities. The project aims to provide a more comprehensive service to all those affected by stroke. In addition to offering a higher quality of service to all stroke clubs, we plan to set up 10 new groups each year across a broad range of activities (e.g. communication support, exercise, art and gardening). We will also identify 9 groups in the first year of the project that currently don’t reflect the diversity of their community and would like to. We would then work with these groups on a diversity development plan, with the aim of recruiting 5 new members per group from the local community. The identified groups would be able to share good practice at the National Stroke Club Conference in the final year of the project.