Upcoming Meeting Town Hall - Marie Curie Cancer Care
- 6 November 2011 09:02135167Press Release..many thanks to Marie Curie Cancer Care and DTC for the information.
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Your Community - Your Choice
Help for Dover, Sandwich and Deal
Marie Curie Cancer Care is holding a meeting to introduce a new project to help the communities of Dover, Sandwich and Deal. On Tuesday 15th November from 7.00 - 8.30 pm., The Dover Town Hall will be the venue for Marie Curie to talk to community members about developing Fundraising Groups in Dover, Sandwich and Deal to raise much needed funds for the Kent Nurse Appeal.
The charity is reaching out to communities throughout Kent and inviting them to learn how they can share in raising funds to increase the amount of totally free nursing care available for the terminally ill. To date, we have successfully established groups in Tunbridge Wells, Whitstable and Medway. It's now the turn of Dover and its neighbours Deal and Sandwich, to have the opportunity to become involved with helping Marie Curie Cancer Care provide more nurses for people wishing to have free end of life care in the privacy of their own home.
Community Fundraising Groups are designed to give supporters the chance to choose how they raise funds whilst remaining securely under the Marie Curie Cancer Care umbrella. Years of experience, together with countless testimonies, constantly reinforce the urgent need to continue the expansion of this unique service.
More nurses will give Marie Curie Cancer Care the ability to offer more people the choice to die in their own home surrounded by their loved ones.
To attend the meeting please call The Kent Team on 01622 688656
For more information see www.mariecurie.org.ukemail: dover7@msn.com - 6 November 2011 09:06135168Just to add this extra info on the background.....
Marie Curie Cancer Care is one of the UK's largest charities. Employing more than 2,700 nurses, doctors and other healthcare professionals, it provided care to more than 31,000 terminally ill patients in the community and in its nine hospices last year, and is the largest provider of hospice beds outside the NHS.
Funding : Around 70 per cent of the charity's income comes from the generous support of thousands of individuals, membership organisations and businesses, with the balance of our funds coming from the NHS.
Marie Curie Nurses: The charity is best known for its network of Marie Curie Nurses working in the community to provide end of life care, totally free for patients in their own homes.email: dover7@msn.com - 6 November 2011 10:36135180Paul.
I will be attending.
I hope to have the "Your NHS-Your Health" Marquee, at next year's Kent Miners Festival.
I would like to give them and any other Charity, the chance to showpiece what great work they are achieving in our communities.
So often, people only learn about these charities and groups, when it's too late.
We all know how stubborn and proud some off our communities can be and by showing them how these special groups of volunteers can be of assistance, can even be a lifeline.
ps. Any Charity or Group, wishing to take part at next year's KMF, 28th August. Aylesham Village Greens, please contact me."My New Year's Resolution, is to try and emulate Marek's level of chilled out, thoughtfulness and humour towards other forumites and not lose my decorum" - 7 November 2011 10:31135294Well done Gary.
Its a delicate topic but these guys do great and need all the support available, especially valuable is enabling people to have their final moments at home.
email: dover7@msn.com