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ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING - 2010

Saturday October 16th 2010

at 2.00pm

The Hi - Tide Inn, Macworth Road, Porthcawl

Directions
From M4. Come off motorway at J37 onto the A4229 and head towards Porthcawl. At the 1st, 2nd and 3rd roundabouts, stay on the A4229. At the next roundabout, take the 2nd exit onto the A4106 towards the Eastern Promanade. At the next roundabout, take the 1st exit left onto Promenade. At next roundabout, take 2nd exit onto New Road. At the next roundabout, take 2nd exit onto MACWORTH ROAD. At the bottom of the road turn left into Hi-Tide car park.

Guest speakers this year will be:-

Dr. Dai Lloyd, Plaid Cymru AM. Chairman of the Cross Party Kidney Group.

Mr. Chris Gibbons, Vascular Surgeon. Morriston Hospital, Swansea

Free tea will be provided

Raffle prizes would be greatly appreciated

HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE !

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"Selling organ shouldn't be a criminal offence"

says Professor Martin Wilkinson. Keele University

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Art on Dialysis

The Art on Dialysis programme supports patients at the Renal Annexe in Morriston Hospital. It has been running since October 2008, funded by the Renal Patients Trust Fund. Whilst undergoing dialysis, using only one hand, patients make pictures with a variety of materials including pencil, charcoal, pastel and watercolour. They are often inspired by famous works of art but also copy from books and magazines and sometimes simply use their own imagination. During the summer 2009 we asked patients and staff to complete a questionnaire to evaluate the project and the results were very positive so continued funding has been approved until July 2010.
Exhibition 9th-19th March at Swansea Grand Theatre
“Art on Dialysis” - an exhibition of work produced by the patients is on show in the White Room Gallery, Swansea Grand Theatre from March 9th to the 19th. The private viewing was opened by Welsh BAFTA award winning actress Margaret John who was presented with a picture painted by patient Gerald Saunders, and to whom we offer a big “Thank You”. As World Kidney Day is 11th March the press coverage of the exhibition will help to raise awareness of the lack of organ donors in Wales, encouraging people to join the organ donor register and help to save lives.

If you would like to know more about the exhibition or my work, please email me at sarahgriffin@village.greenisp.org.

BREAKING NEWS

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Assembly to push 'opt-out' organ donor system in Wales

John Reever has been elected as Acting Chair until the AGM in October

Three-way transplant brings hope

New dialysis services in Gwynedd beginning.

Professional development programme to improve organ donation.

Funding for new lab and equipment to treat kidney patients in North Wales

SHOW AT THE NEW TREDEGAR CLUB - MARCH 5th 2010 - Robert Kendrick

The charity show held at New Tredegar Rugby Club on the 5th of March was a great success the entertainment on the night was provided by two local singers Tania and Wayne Skin, who also did the show for me last year. This year I was also lucky enough to get a band to play they were called the Rock-Its and came from Cardiff and they certainly rocked the night away and proved to be very popular with the audience keeping them on their feet dancing the night away.
There were twelve very nice raffle prizes on the night including a signed T-Shirt/Cd/Photo from Sir Tom Jones and a signed T-Shirt/Photo from the Stereophonics.
We also held an auction for a signed Welsh rugby ball and the highest bid was £225. The total raised on the night came to a very respectable £1372 and more hopefully some more people answering my plea for more people to register as organ donors.