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Bridging the gapHow CLIC Sargent Nurses help children spend more time at home and less time in hospital Page 6
CLIC Sargent is Tesco Charity of the Year 2010!
New home to open in London
The importance of an up-to-date Will
Your CLIC Sargent Spring 2010
Northern Irelandwww.clicsargent.org.uk
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Welcome to Your CLIC Sargent
Could you be this year’s champions?
This year contestants will be competing once
again for first place in two of CLIC Sargent’s most
challenging events.
70 Wild Miles
70 Wild Miles is a 47-mile cycle, 10-mile kayak and
13-mile run. Last year Gerry Murphy won the solo event
in 5 hours 20 minutes. The winning team on the day
was Dog Leap, with an impressive time of 5 hours 6
minutes. This year’s event will take place on 22 May.
Dragon Boat Race
Last year’s Dragon Boat Race winners were the team
from Bombardier. This year’s event will take place on
13 June on the River Lagan. Could you recruit friends or
colleagues to get a team of 12-17 people together and
win the crown?
If either of these events sounds like your
type of challenge, please call us on 0289 072 5780
for more details.
What an exciting start it’s been to 2010. We
are pleased to announce that CLIC Sargent is
Tesco Charity of the Year 2010. So you will
see CLIC Sargent featured in stores across
the UK – read more later in this newsletter.
Watch out for over 600 people running for
CLIC Sargent at the Virgin London Marathon
on 25th April, where we are the official
charity partner.
You’ll read about how important your
everyday support is too – from raising money
in your own community to taking part in an
event. Every penny does count… and
there are new events listed on the back
cover, which we hope you’ll be able to join
this year. Or maybe you’ve got some great
fundraising ideas of your own!
Your ongoing support will underpin our work
for children and young people with cancer
and their families in 2010. And you can see
just how much it means in this newsletter.
Thank you so much for helping our vital
work continue.
The team from Dog Leap accept their prize for first place in the team event for 70 Wild Miles.
Members of the Bombardier team, winners of last year’s Dragon Boat Race
Fundraising challenges for 2010
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We are delighted to announce that CLIC Sargent is Tesco
Charity of the Year 2010. This partnership aims to raise £5
million to help fund children’s specialist cancer nurses across the
UK, so that children with cancer can spend more time at home.
Throughout the year, you’ll see our posters around Tesco stores
– and keep a look out for special product promotions donating
a proportion of sales to CLIC Sargent – it’s a great way to support us while shopping for special
Tesco greetings cards, Tesco in-car air fresheners, Orla Kiely bags for life and Canterbury Jack
beer. Tesco Bank will also make a donation every time someone uses a cash machine at Tesco.
And on 10 and 11 December there will be a collection for CLIC Sargent outside every Tesco store.
We need you to help us raise £200,000 by taking part in these national bucket collection days at
your local store.
To get involved or find out more visit www.clicsargent-tesco.org.uk or call CLIC Sargent’s
Tesco hotline on 08701 221 221.
CLIC Sargent is Tesco Charity of the Year 2010!
Virgin London MarathonWatch out for CLIC Sargent at the Virgin
London Marathon on 25th April. We’ve
over 600 runners, including some famous
celebrity faces!
Running for CLIC Sargent will be TV’s
Lorraine Kelly and Jessie Wallace
and Formula 1’s Eddie Jordan.
Updated look for CLIC SargentYou may have noticed that this
is one of the first items printed
with our updated brand. Why
the change? It’s to make it
easier for our service users and
supporters to see who we are,
and what we do.
This work was done in-house at
CLIC Sargent, involving children
and young people.
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Many children with cancer feel less afraid if
they understand their illness and treatment.
And the same is true for their sisters,
brothers and friends.
As Lymphoma is the third main type of
cancer in children, we have expanded our
series of popular storybooks with Tom has
Lymphoma.
We’ve also recorded audio-books of Lucy has
a Tumour and Mary has a Brain Tumour, read
by CLIC Sargent patron and actor Duncan
Pow. Duncan says
“I’m delighted to be
involved in such a
worthwhile project –
these will enable more
children to understand
these types of cancer;
teachers can play them in a
school assembly for example.”
See more at www.clicsargent.org.uk/
publicationsandresources
New home to open in LondonOur ninth Home from Home – Paul’s House
– will open later this year. With 15 family
rooms, four lounges and three kitchens, it’s
our biggest home yet.
It’s welcome news for families who have a
child being treated at the nearby University
College Hospital. Over 65% live more than
one hour away, so parents and siblings are
making long journeys or staying in B&Bs
simply to be together at this difficult time.
Having Paul’s House, somewhere to stay
close by for free, will make a huge
difference. Keep up to date at
www.clicsargent.org.uk/paulshouse
“I can’t imagine how we’d have coped without Billy’s House”Since opening to families in July,
Billy’s House in Nottingham has
accommodated 35 families who have
a child being treated at the nearby
Queen’s Medical Centre.
New storybooks – out now
Olivia updateRemember Olivia, the little girl we featured in last year’s
newsletter? At the time we went to print Olivia’s family had
been told that she wouldn’t recover. A year later Olivia is
doing remarkably well. She is back at school and enjoys
riding the bike she got for Christmas. Mum Karen says,
“It’s a joy to see her riding about on it – things were very
different this time last year.”
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In 2009 we introduced EPOS (Electronic Point
of Sale) tills in all CLIC Sargent shops so we
could process Gift Aid and reclaim tax when
we sold goods that had been donated.
Gift Aid is a government scheme which helps
charities boost the value of donations by
28%. Now that we can earn this on
donations of clothes and bric-a-brac that you
bring into our charity shops, we could raise
as much as an extra £100,000 every year for
our work for children with cancer. To help us,
you simply sign up as a Gift Aid donor when
you bring donations to any of our shops.
That’s it!
A good-quality large bag of donated items
can raise £30. However, if this income was
Gift Aided we could benefit from an extra
£8.46 in reclaimed tax. For more information
please visit www.clicsargent.org.uk/
Getinvolved/Shopwithus/GiftAid or call
0117 311 2610.
Gift Aid in shops – £100,000 boost
Shop online – it’s easyThe CLIC Sargent
online shop has
something for
everyone. It’s home
to a wonderful
range of products,
including cards,
stationery, jewellery, toys, and home and
garden items. 100% of the profit helps
children with cancer and their families.
For more information visit
www.clicsargent.org.uk/onlineshop
Visit our eBay shopCheck out CLIC Sargent’s award-
winning eBay shop. There are always
great items at bargain prices, plenty
of ‘buy it now’ prices and auctions to
bid on. For more information visit:
http://stores.shop.ebay.co.uk/ CLIC-Sargent-Shop
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Helping children spend more time at home and less time in hospital
We know that children with cancer want to
be at home as much as possible, doing
normal things like going to school and
spending time with their family and friends.
In March, CLIC Sargent launched a fantastic
new partnership with Tesco that
aims to raise £5 million and
help make this happen.
The money raised will
help fund CLIC Sargent
children’s specialist
cancer nurses across
the UK. Cancer
treatment can last for years
– these nurses will help
children spend more time at home
by co-ordinating all the care they need
when they get there.
Liz Leigh is a CLIC Sargent Nurse in Oxford.
She says, “My role is to bridge the gap
between hospital and home.
“When families leave the safety net of the
hospital it can be a struggle. They need to
remember a huge amount of information
about their child’s care and it can be
emotionally hard.”
“But getting home is so positive and I am
there to provide emotional support as well as
co-ordinating all the specialist care children
need when they get there.”
Liz supports 13-year-old Sophia and her
family, who is having treatment for bone
cancer. Sophia sees Liz as one of the family –
someone to talk to about chemotherapy,
school or anything that is on her mind. She
says, “The best bit about being at home is
being able to go to school again and catch
up with all my friends.”
But not every family has the benefit of
someone like Liz to help them cope and
make sure they get the right support. The
money raised by the Tesco partnership will
make going home possible for more children
with the support of CLIC Sargent children’s
specialist cancer nurses.
You can get involved through a range of
product promotions in Tesco stores which
will be donating a proportion of their sales to
the charity. You can also take part in bucket
Thanks to our new partner Tesco
Sophia, age 13
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£5 Means a specialist nurse could spend time with the family of a child with cancer, and explain a simple medical procedure to them.
£50 Means a specialist nurse could coordinate home help for a family whose child is having treatment, arranging for someone to do the shopping or take their other children to school.
£100 We could arrange a visit by a specialist nurse to a child’s school, or their brownies or sports club, to talk to their teachers and friends about what’s happening and how they could help.
£10,000 Means we could help 200 parents to liaise with their employers to ensure their employers understand what is happening and are aware of the parents’ rights to time off work and flexible working hours.
£100,000 1,000 children with cancer could be visited at home by a specialist nurse. This would help their family to feel less isolated and make sure they have everything they need.
“It would be wonderful if everybody could have a CLIC Sargent Nurse like Liz.”Sophia’s dad Graham
collection days and fundraising weeks across
the UK (see page 3).
For more information about promotions and events visit www.clicsargent-tesco.org.uk or call the Tesco hotline on 08701 221 221.
Liz, Sophia’s nurse
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“My CLIC Sargent youth development worker was there for me from diagnosis and helped me get moving and stay positive. It’s really important to receive this kind of support so you can get back to your normal life once treatment finishes. Hopefully this report will help more people receive the kind of support I did.”
More Than My IllnessCLIC Sargent will shortly publish a follow-up to last year’s
More Than My Illness report. It focuses on the challenges
of ensuring effective community-based services and
support for young people aged 16-24 with cancer. Once
the report is published, CLIC Sargent will use the key
recommendations in ongoing campaigning work.
In the words of cancer survivor Adam Matthews:
Working for cancer survivorsThe National Cancer Survivorship Initiative