Sala Comunitaria de Acupuntura

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Financié le 03 / 01 / 2019
Cofinancé!
Accumulé
€ 6.050
Minimal
€ 4.602
Optimal
€ 11.702
114 Cofinanceurs
  • Pour € 10

    Take a break

    Take part in an initiation to Chi Kung class at Ten Wan school! This award is valid for attending a class (Tuesday or Thursday from 6:00 to 8:00 pm) given by the experts of our team. We will send you a (virtual) voucher and you will be able to attend 1 class during the next 12 months.

    > 04 Cofinanceurs
  • Pour € 15

    1 acupuncture session in the community room

    Have you always wanted to try acupuncture but have not been able yet? This prize is for you! Come relax and receive an excellent acupuncture treatment in the comfortable community acupuncture room.

    > 13 Cofinanceurs
  • Pour € 25

    Two for One

    Come and enjoy a session in the community room with a friend and see one of the benefits of working in this way: well-being gets multiplied when it is shared!

    > 07 Cofinanceurs
  • Pour € 30

    Train in Ten Wan

    This award is worth 4 classes of Kung Fu or Chi Kung training in the Ten Wan gym. The classes are suitable for all levels, the hours flexible and you can attend 4 classes during one month.

    > 11 Cofinanceurs
  • Pour € 30

    Massage / Cupping / Moxibustion

    If the needles are not your thing, but you want to improve in health, come to receive a massage, treatment with cupping, or session with moxibustion of 30 minutes by our team.

    > 13 Cofinanceurs
  • Pour € 40

    4 acupuncture sessions

    Is it time to make an investment in your health? Do you have insomnia, muscle pain, digestive problems, anxiety ... 4 sessions can help a lot! We will send you a virtual bonus and you can go to the room to receive 4 sessions when it suits you.

    > 40 Cofinanceurs
  • Pour € 50

    Useful Guide of Tips to Conserve your Health + team photo

    Receive our sincere thanks for supporting this project! We will send you (in digital format) a photo of the team in the community room plus a guide full of healthy changes that you can incorporate into your day to promote your vitality. Small changes have great effects on our health! Learn breathing exercises, dietary changes and habits that will make you strong and healthy.

    > 05 Cofinanceurs
  • Pour € 60

    Choy Lee Fut Keychain

    This reward gives you something unique; a key chain with the Choy Lee Fut Chan family logo handmade in brass! Shipping only in the Iberian Peninsula.

    > 05 Cofinanceurs
  • Pour € 60

    Acupuncture 123

    Are you an acupuncturist that loves Dr. Tan? Support this new community room, propagator of the benefits of our profession, and receive a poster size 420x297 mm in limited edition 4 color print with a map of the 12345 systems of Dr. Tan. (Shipping to Spain included)

    > 02 Cofinanceurs
  • Pour € 70

    Choy Lee Fut key chain + international shipping

    With this prize you will get something unique; a keychain with the Choy Lee Fut Chan family logo handmade in brass! International shipping is included with this award.

    > 01 Cofinanceurs
  • Pour € 80

    What is Traditional Chinese Medicine?

    With this award, participate in an introductory class to Traditional Chinese Medicine! Participate in an enjoyable class, made for people with curiosity to learn another vision of the human body, where we will teach you the basic theory of energetic meridians, yin-yang and 5 elements of Traditional Chinese Medicine. 4 hours divided into 2 face-to-face or online classes. (the class is in spanish)

    > 01 Cofinanceurs
  • Pour € 100

    Useful Guide of Tips to Conserve your Health + photo of the team + video of exercises to do at home

    Receive our sincere thanks for supporting this project! Learn breathing exercises, dietary changes and habits that will make you stronger and healthier. We will send you (in digital format) a photo of the team in the community room + a guide of healthy changes that you can incorporate in your day to promote your vitality + a video of of chi kung exercises that promote a strong back. Little changes have great effects on our health!

    > 05 Cofinanceurs
  • Pour € 200

    Health class for your team

    With this award, we will move to your place of work, home, or wherever you choose, to give your team a 2-hour class on healthy habits for the back. Using small exercises that are easy to incorporate into the day, we will teach you how to eliminate tensions and common pains when work requires us to be seated all day. (this prize is only in Barcelona area)

    > 01 Cofinanceurs

À propos du projet

Help fund the opening of an affordable Community Acupuncture Clinic in Barcelona.

Budget Infrastructure Minimal Optimal
Furniture construction
Cost of the construction and installation (by a local carpenter) of the furniture necessary to comply with regulations of the confidential patient data base.
€ 800
Instalation of an external door
This cost is for installing a door that will isolate the acupuncture room from the weather. The actual door is insufficient.
€ 1.000
Instalation of a air purification sistem
This cost is for the installation of a smoke extractor that will permit us to use the wide range of techniques available in TCM while maintaining optimum air quality.
€ 650
Soundproofing Material
Creating a calm environment in the community room is essential. This cost is for the materials necessary to isolate the wall that communicates with the gym and to soundproof the pipes that pass through the room. This expense counts only the material, in order to lower costs we would do the labor.
€ 1.250
Electricity Improvement
This cost is to change the electrical installation of the room in order to work comfortably.
€ 170
Furniture for the organizing the space
This cost is for the construction of furniture for storage of clinic material: stoves, blankets, reference material.
€ 400
Optimum objective commission
Additional expenses derived from the crowdfunding production through the Goteo.org platform and additional expenses of the bank commissions in case of reaching the optimum.
€ 300
False ceiling instalation
This cost is for the installation of a false ceiling in the community room to cover the pipes and other elements that pass through the room. This cost is additional, although for both soundproofing and for air conditioning, it is an important aspect.
€ 1.200
Air conditioning
This expense is for installing air conditioning in the large room with adequate capacity for the space.
€ 1.000
Budget Tâche Minimal Optimal
Publicity and advertising material
Cost of creating marketing and sales elements necessary for advertising the project: corporate image, digital platform development, printing of labels, leaflets, and marketing material.
€ 332
Commissions
Additional expenses derived from the crowdfunding production through the Goteo.org platform and additional expenses from bank commissions.
€ 300
Promotion of our services
An average investment of € 50 per month will be necessary to promote our service and reach new users through social networks. This amount corresponds to the investment required for one year.
€ 600
Labor
This cost is for hiring the labor of the renovation work in the room. If we get to the optimum amount asked for, we would hire experts to do the work in the room. If not, we will do the jobs with the help of collaborators.
€ 2.500
Budget Matériel Minimal Optimal
Uniforms
Cost of buying clothing for the team
€ 100
Additional material for the well-being in the room
A fundamental aspect of the room is the comfort, this expense is related to the necessary material for it: musical equipment, curtains to divide areas, doors that allow natural light in the room.
€ 500
Clinic Acupuncture material
This cost is for an investment in the material necessary to do acupuncture during the first 6 months.
€ 600
Total € 4.602 € 11.702
Indispensable
Optionnel

Informations générales

With this project we want to finance the renovation necesary to offer a community acupuncture service in a center where we currently work with Traditional Chinese Medicine.

Community service
Acupuncture is a therapy able to address common health problems and is has high esteem by the general public but unfortunately, because it is in the private health sector, it's use is restricted to the users purchasing capacity.
It forms part of the Traditional Chinese Medicine sistem which encompasses health in its broad sense (physical, emotional and psychic), and as such, is a perfect complement to alleviate symptoms difficult to treat in our current medical sistem.

The Community Acupuncture room that we want to open will have a different format to the usual one that will help eliminate barriers that prevent people who could benefit from this therapy from using it.

The community room is different in its working format because:

  1. Offers the treatments in a comfortable shared space that allows the costs of consultation to be reduced without compromising the quality of the service provided.
  2. Uses a flexible price scale (€15-30) where the user decides how much they wants to pay without having to give explanations.
  3. It offers very flexible appointments, and the possibility of a drop-in service.
  4. It offers a friendly service that aids it's use by people not accustomed to alternative therapies.
  5. It permits the use of the room accompanied by someone you know, helping to create health advocates in our comunities.

Another important aspect of the project is that it will help to disseminate the benefits of Traditional Chinese Medicine, which although it is increasingly well known, is still wrapped in an air of mystery that limits its use.

With the community room we will try to bring this preventive and ecological therapy which has virtually no collateral effects, to people who for lack of knowledge have not yet tried it.

Caractéristiques principales

The objective of this crowdfunding is to finance the renovation of our clinic in order to provide this new acupuntcture service and to fund the publicity of our new service.

Why do we bet on Community Acupuncture?

Price
The usual price of an acupuncture session is €45 requiring a minimum of 1 session per week for 1-2 months to obtain the desired results (sometimes more sessions are advisable). This causes the effectiveness of the therapy to be conditioned by economy.
In the community room, the price per session will be flexible, between 15-30 € according to the capacity of the person using the service, allowing the sessions to have the continuity and duration necessary to effectively solve the problem.

Format
Treatments are provided in a warm and comfortable space where users are in sight of each other. This provides the following benefits:

  • sharing the administrative costs with other people reduces the price of the acupuncture session.
  • is accesible to people who want to learn to take care of their health.
  • Allows patients to share their experience with someone they know.

This working format allows us to increase the effectiveness of the treatments without affecting their quality.

Flexibility
Offering acupuncture as a service to the community means that during the opening hours there are acupuncture professionals available and willing to help you. This allows us to:

  • provide drop-in service.
  • provide online booking and lots of openings
  • Adjust the cost of the treatment.

Viability
This is a viable project that is based on 30 years of experience of community acupuncture cooperatives in the United States and England. Our goal is to offer this model in our community and the resources we have are:

  • A consolidated and experienced team of professionals.
  • A clinic space that is currently active and devoted to Traditional Chinese Medicine.
  • Experience in cooperatives and social movements.

What will we use the money for?
We need to turn a cold and noisy room into a health oasis . For this we must do some renovation works such as:

  • Soundproofing the space.
  • Building furniture to organize the new service.
  • Improve the lighting.
  • Install a door that isolate the space from outside.

The renovations are essential for the startup because the success of the new service depends on the comfort of the room. The minimum amount we ask for in the crowdfunding, is only for the expenses of the materials of the reforms. The maximum price allows us to hire professionals to do the necesary tasks.

Another indispensable aspect to the viability of the project is a solid base of users to maintain a high occupation of the room. Another portion of the budget will be used to make a marketing and advertising campaign during the first year.

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Pourquoi est-ce important

We want to extend the current model of medicine
Our principal motivation is to provide a service that allows acupuncture to be part of everyone's health kit, breaking the barriers that prevent the general population from trying it.
We want health be something that is talked about, so we want to provide a health service where the patient decides how they wants to heal.

We want to create stable employment for acupunctors
Being socially motivated in a society where acupuncture is part of private medicine is complex. The high costs and difficulties of being an autonomous worker, added to the need for continuous education that this profession entails make it difficult to leave the cycle of working to pay the expenses of being able to work.

With this project we seek to create a clinic model with good jobs while offering a quality service to the general community.
We would love to see an acupuncture clinic in each neighborhood!

We want you to come and try acupuncture
We want this project to reach the entire community: acupuncture works, it forms part of preventative health, it's ecological and has no side effects.

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Expérience antérieure et équipe

The people who lead this project, we are also part of a larger team. Ten Wan Center is a school of martial arts and Traditional Chinese Medicine, which has been promoting health locally and internationally for years, and has a broad membership base.

Kevin Albors is an acupuncturist, professor of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Kung Fu and Chi Kung Master . Over the last two years he has been the director of the Mutual Health of Roger de Lluria and is currently in charge of the section of Traditional Chinese Medicine at the Ten Wan Center. Kevin has been planting seeds of health in Barcelona for years and has the support of many future clients for the community room.

Monica Richardson is an acupuncturist, instructor of Kung Fu and Chi Kung, and teacher of preventive health classes. In 2016 she opened a pilot community acupuncture clinic with great success. Monica has been involved in collective and social projects in Barcelona for years, and has experience in communication and project management.

The rest of the team is made up of people who are passionate about health and who are indispensable to the project. They support us in tasks of writing, marketing, advertising, recording and editing videos and a long etcetera that shows us the need to open this community space. Alot of times we repay them with acupuncture treatments :)

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