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.
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.
