Trina is a print and web designer. She says, “I got rheumatoid arthritis when I was 19. The hydrotherapy pool at my local hospital is fantastic, but is threatened with closure. One of the things about arthritis is that, if you’re having a flare-up, you kind of sit rigidly and everything’s in pain. In hydrotherapy, you’ve got really warm water and it gives you the freedom to move about. It’s a pain relief in itself. They pinned up on the noticeboard a list of public pools that people could use instead. A member of our group visited all of those pools and found it was impossible for disabled people to make use of them. There were steps going down into them, there were no handrails, there were no hoists, the changing rooms were totally unsuitable, the water was too cold. It’s just nonsense.”