Our 2013 AGM is booked for the 1st June at Chester Zoo. We’d love to see you there for our short meeting and then into the zoo to see some real monkeys! See our events page for more information.
Chester Zoo AGM
Pulse Oximetry Screening ePetition
Have you signed the ePetition to roll out Pulse Oximetry screening for all newborns in the UK yet? If not, please do so now:
http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/37286
CHF CLN/Specialist Nurse Survey
The CHF are compiling a report about good practice and also what families find useful from their Cardiac Liaison Nurses to ensure everyone can benefit from these forms of support in future.
If you could spare some time to assist by submitting your experiences then please follow this link to their online survey.
2013 CLN Survey: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dHVBTDhzX1RpdW5KX2FaVmZaWWdyZFE6MQ.
If you have any further questions, please contact the CHF:
Web: www.chfed.org.uk
Facebook:www.facebook.com/chfed
Twitter:@chfed
Car Window Stickers
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Would you like one of our car window stickers? They’re 21cm x 6cm and clingy rather than sticky so can be removed if you need to. Email us your name and address and how many you would like (up to 3) and we’ll get them in the post to you. While stocks last, UK only.
Swimming and Picnic
We’ve an event coming up. Join us for swimming and a picnic at Halewood Leisure Centre on the 20th January. We have the pool to ourselves for this inflatable session. Bring a picnic for afterwards, as you’ll certainly have burned up lots of those Christmas calories. This trip is free to our members but you must book your place. Read more…
Manchester Meeting
The Manchester support group will be meeting on Wednesday 9th January at the Children’s Hospital. We’ll be there from 7pm in the Costa Coffee – then go upstairs to ward 85 and say hello to any families who might be on the ward. We’d love to see you there.
Liverpool Branch Meeting
Our first branch meeting for 2013 will take place this Thursday at 7.30pm in Ronald McDonald House. Look forward to seeing you there.
Panto
On Friday 14th December we went to the Pantomime courtesy of Barclays. It was Cinderella at the Empire theatre. What a fantastic show it was, the families really loved it and the kids thoroughly enjoyed it. The setting was truly magical and we had lots of fun joining in. I was close to tears myself when they brought that beautiful carriage on stage (I want one!).
My nephews Matt and Will were there and they were screaming and shouting and
nearly off their chairs wanting to be heard, the laughter and their faces was a
picture in itself. We had a little girl who kept asking why she couldn’t go on stage, maybe in a few years she will be on stage entertaining us.
Thank you Lee and all at Barclays.
Alder Hey Christmas Party
On Sunday 9th December we had our annual Christmas Party at Alder Hey’s 01 clinic. This year we had a Magician in to entertain the children. Those that
watched him said he was magic, they enjoyed him and even participated in some of the magic. The magician also made balloon shapes for children too. Some of the children played in the soft play area in the clinic.
We had new families come along to join in the fun, some of them joined the Association on the day – so we hope you enjoyed your first Christmas party with us.
After the Magician we had our party food and then we had a visit from Santa. Santa had a busy time and had all the children wanting a present from him, it was just as well he brought a full sack of goodies to make sure each child received a present. We had babies from just a few weeks old to teenagers.
Thank you Dad. You know what you did and you were a big hit! Same again next year????
View Slideshow One, Slideshow Two.
Christmas Bingo
My friend Joanne, who is a big supporter of CHA, asked her work if we could hold a charity prize bingo there. Joanne works for the local council at Stadt Moers and we were able to use their facilities. Joanne advertised this and we got a great response and also the possibility of holding more there in the future.
Thank you to Joanne for organising and Gordon for allowing us to hold a prize bingo a Stadt Moers. We appreciate your continued support.