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Breathe Easy Week 2010

Breathe Easy groups across the Midlands region have been busy planning their events for Breathe Easy Week 2010. Planned events are listed below. For more information on any of the events please contact the Midlands Office on 0116 249 5780. You will be very welcome to go along, meet the groups and show your support for Breathe Easy and the British Lung Foundation.

Saturday 5 June

Breathe Easy Ilkeston - stall on Ilkeston Market

Breathe Easy Buxton - stall at Rotary Club Bazaar

Sunday 6 June

Breathe Easy Derby - stall at The Austin 7 Show, Woolaton Park, Nottingham

Monday 7 June

Breathe Easy Mansfield & Ashfield - information stand at Kings Mill Hospital

Tuesday 8 June

Breathe Easy North Nottingham - information stand at Morrisons

Wednesday 9 June

Breathe Easy Glenfield - Bric-a-Brac stall at Glenfield Hospital

Breathe Easy Cannock - Cheese & Wine Party at Chase Leisure Centre

Saturday 12 June

Breathe Easy Birmingham South - Gymathon at the Carrefour Gym

Breathe Easy Walsall - Group Open Day at Pelsall Community Centre

Sunday 13 June

Breathe Easy Nottingham - Garden Party in Bleasby, Notts

Monday 14 June

Breathe Easy Solihull - Information stand and lung function testing at the You Plus Centre, Chemsley Wood Shopping Centre

Tuesday 15 June

Breathe Easy Hinckley & Bosworth - Official Group Launch at St. Francis Community Centre

Wednesday 16 June

Breathe Easy Bassetlaw - Information stand at Bassetlaw Hospital

Breathe Easy Hereford - Tombola stall in Hereford Hospital

Breathe Easy Loughborough - Information stand in Morrisons

Breathe Easy Solihull - Information stand in Solihull Library

Thursday 17 June

Breathe Easy Bassetlaw - Information stand at Bassetlaw Hospital

Breathe Easy Cannock - Golf Tournament and Gala Dinner

Breathe Easy Redditch - Group Birthday Party, Churchill Community Centre

Friday 18 June

Breathe Easy Bassetlaw - Information stand at Bassetlaw Hospital

Breathe Easy Sutton Coldfield - Information stand in the Mall Shopping Centre

Saturday 19 June

Breathe Easy Cannock - Garden Party in Rugeley

Breathe Easy Grantham - Information stand in Morrisons

Breathe Easy Malvern & Worcester - Children's Party at The Railway Club, Worcester

Monday 21 June

Breathe Easy Nottingham West - Information stand in Morrisons

Thursday 24 June

Breathe Easy Birmingham South - Information stand at the BMI Centre

Latest News

View the latest Midlands regional newsletter

Read about Breathe Easy World COPD Day events in the Midlands

New Breathe Easy groups in the Midlands

June 2010 is an exciting month for the Breathe Easy network in the Midlands, as we will open 2 new groups, bringing the total number of groups in the region to 34.

Breathe Easy Lichfield launches on 1 June 2010. Their launch will be attended by the Mayor and Her Majesty’s Lord Lieutenant of Staffordshire.

Breathe Easy Hinckley & Bosworth, who have been meeting since November 2009, will hold their official launch on 15 June 2010, during Breathe Easy week. Their guest speaker will be Jude Smith, Respiratory Nurse Consultant in Leicestershire County and Rutland.

Midlands Regional Network Days - April 2010

The BLF Midlands Office team has recently completed a round of Breathe Easy Network Meetings. Four meetings took place, in Bromsgrove, Coventry, Nottingham and Cannock. In total, 100 Breathe Easy members, representing 23 groups, joined us at the meetings, and we were delighted to be joined by some groups who we have not seen at previous network meetings.

Network meetings provide groups with an excellent opportunity to share ideas and information with each other, and to hear from both regional and national staff from the BLF. We welcomed a different guest speaker at each meeting, and every group had the opportunity to report on their progress. We also held an interactive finance workshop at each meeting, where Breathe Easy members had a set of finance challenges to work on as teams.

Feedback from the round of meetings has been excellent and we hope to organise more later in the year – watch this space for details.

Midlands Regional Networking Event Autumn 2009

At the end of September we hosted 3 Network Meetings in the Midlands, which gave local Breathe Easy Groups a chance to swap news and information. 20 groups attended the meetings in total and were able to share their experiences and to learn from those of others. At each meeting we heard a presentation from a ‘Gold Star’ Breathe Easy performer, as well as from a BLF guest speaker.

On Tuesday 22 we were at Rainworth Village Hall in Rainworth, Mansfield where Breathe Easy Cannock gave a presentation on their fantastic fundraising successes. Many members from other groups reported that they thoroughly enjoyed hearing about BE Cannock’s activities and were able to gain some valuable ideas from them. Molly Jackson from the BLF Nurses Programme was our guest speaker and talked about the brilliant work of the BLF nurses.

On Thursday 24 we were at the BRITE Centre in Braunstone, Leicester and Breathe Easy Cannock kindly delivered their fundraising presentation again to the groups who attended this meeting. Paul Fredericks, the Director of Support Services, came up from London to give an overview of the BLF Support Services and the ongoing strategic review.

Finally, we visited Stourport Community Centre in Stourport-on-Severn on Friday 25. The Breathe Easy Speaker was Ian Black from Breathe Easy Solihul, who spoke about his award-winning newsletter. Honorary Medical Director Naomi Eiser was the BLF guest speaker and gave a talk about the BLF’s current research projects and recent donations.

Network Meeting

Midlands region's first BLF Nurses

Pictured below are the Midlands region's first BLF Nurses at their stand in Sainsburys in Kimberley, Nottingham for World COPD Day, where they carried out lung function tests. From left to right: Debbie Hollier, Eve Eliott and Alison Sutherland.

BLF Nurses