News - August
Order your free National Eczema Week Poster - 26/8/09
The National Eczema Society now have new posters available to promote National Eczema Week 2009 as well as spreading the message about our Helpline - 0800 089 1122 and the support we can offer those with eczema.
Put up a poster in your local GP surgery, hospital, pharmacist or shop...
If you’d like to support National Eczema Week 2009, all you need to do is to email the Society at info@eczema.org for a free poster.
Please supply your name, email or tel and a UK postal address together with how many posters you think you’ll need - a quick and easy way of supporting us in your local area! For more information about this year’s National Eczema Week, just click HERE.
Just Bike 2009 - 10/8/09
Looking for your next big challenge?
Following on from the success of Just Walk, leading worldwide event organizer, Across the Divide, has unveiled a brand new UK challenge – Just Bike.
Taking place on Saturday 3rd October at Coate Water Country Park, near Swindon, Just Bike offers participants a choice of two routes – 50km or 100km – both of which wind their way through the stunning English countryside.
The routes are mixed terrain and mountain bikes are therefore essential. Both distances will challenge participants and a certain level of fitness and pre-event training are required.
Across the Divide will provide meals, drinks, snacks, medical support, bike support – including pick up vehicles and mechanics – and full event facilities on the day. You will also receive an exclusive event t-shirt.
An event fee is payable by all participants – £55 for the 50km route and £65 for the 100km route – however every penny raised through sponsorship goes directly to the National Eczema Society. For further information visit www.just-bike.co.uk or call 01460 30456
Raising the Society’s profile in North Wales - 3/8/09
‘When the rise in eczema sufferers, to five million, collides with an economic crisis, the Chairman’s sobering report in the spring issue of Exchange should not have been a shock. But it was!’
Long-term supporter Barbara James has therefore been canvassing support through her book Itching to Climb (see the December 2008 issue of Exchange). In particular, Assembly Member Mark Isherwood – Shadow Minister for Social Justice, Equality and Housing – has written to the Assembly Commissioner, William Graham AM, with regards to the possibility of copies of the book being sold in Assembly shops.
Chairman of Gwynedd Health Board, Dr Lyndon Miles, has also responded to Barbara’s enquiry regarding National Eczema Society posters in GP surgeries with a resounding ‘I can see no reason why this could not happen’!
Finally, to mark National Eczema Week, Barbara has organised three events at local hospitals, which have all been made possible by the invaluable help of members of staff. On Monday 21 September Eleanor Burnham, Assembly Member for Wrexham, will be visiting Maelor Hospital; Thursday 24 September will see Margaret Cox travel to Glan Clwyd Hospital; and the week will be rounded off by a visit by Alan Ffred Jones, Assembly Member for Arfon, to Ysbyty Gwynedd on Friday 25 September.
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