Each year a proportion of our carolling collection is donated to a charity. In 2009 £350 was donated to the Warwickshire & Northamptonshire Air Ambulance. In 2010 £810 was do-nated to Cancer Research UK.
LUPUS UK. Unfortunately our cornet player/treasurer Sue Newman is a sufferer of this disease. There is now a local group who state “we are a regional branch of the national charity LUPUS UK. This is a new group which began with an inaugural meeting on 16th September 2009. The purpose of the group is to create a network of lupus sufferers and carers in Northamptonshire who get to know each other and meet regularly to share experiences and ideas in re-spect of „living with lupus‟. There have been 3 group meetings so far and all were very well attended. It is intended to hold 3 meetings a year, Spring, Summer and Autumn. We need to work to raise the awareness of lupus both in the county and throughout the UK. It is astonishing how few people have heard of this disease and that includes some doctors and nurses!”
Please check out their website for further information (& where they have also linked to our website!) www.northantslupusgroup.org.uk
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