National Eczema Week 13-21 September 2008 – Hold a hand for eczema
National Eczema Week is now over for another year and a host of events took place across the UK to promote eczema and raised funds for the charity. Our thanks to everyone who got involved as the Week was a great success - and we thought visitors to the site would like a pictorial guide to what took place and where. Click on each thumbnail for a larger image.
The Mayor of Harpenden and Margaret Cox, Chief Executive of the National Eczema Society both attended an event organised by Pierre Fabre Dermatologie who were launching new emollient Dexeryl - where members of the public were invited to put their own mark on National Eczema Week in the form of their painted hand prints on the board above.
   
Information Days
Information Days were held at the Whittington, Whipps Cross and Royal Derbyshire Infirmary Hospitals.
  
Pictured from left to right are Dr Jane Watts (Chairman of the NES) with Dr Sahota, Consultant Dermatologist at Whipps Cross Hospital, East London. Next is Margaret Cox, Chief Executive of the National Eczema Society, with Lucy Reeves, Clinical Nurse Specialist in Dermatology, at the Whittington Hospital, North London. Finally, Sue Baker of the Derby Support Group at the Derbyshire Royal Infirmary.
Fundraisers
A number of events went ahead aimed at raising money by holding local initiatives. Jade Pickard went to work in pyjamas and Sue Evans, pictured with her daughter Lucie, did a sponsored walk across the Forth Bridge. Margaret Cox and John Fuller from the Society did a collection at Finchley Road tube in North London then cheered on Justin Missingham’s 40th swim at Parliament Hill Fields lido.
   
The row of photos below starts with a Toga Party & Quiz Night in Botus Fleming, Cornwall - followed by the obligatory pie supper! In the centre are Avril Vora, Belinda Davies and Sue Mays who attended the West Surrey and north-East Hants group’s annual Wrapaganza in Guildford. Next is James Vincent - taken before he headed off to climb Kilimanjaro and lastly Helen Lovegrove’s pyjama party and Christmas card sale.
   
*Jade Pickard photo courtesy of Cambridge Evening Newspapers Ltd
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