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LI VES CEO and Medical Director take on 50,000 step challenge to celebrate 50th Anniversary
Lincolnshire charity LIVES is celebrating 50 years of responding to 999 emergencies and helping to save the lives of thousands of patients across the county. To help mark this milestone, LIVES Chief Executive, Nikki Cooke and Medical Director, Dr Simon Topham, are taking on a ‘stroll-a-thon’, aiming to dance 50,000 steps in a day for the ‘Stroll for your LIVES’ event.
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The event, which will take place on Saturday 28th March at Hubberts Bridge Community Centre in Boston, is in collaboration with Boston Jive with founder, Claire Seabrook, also taking on the challenge.
The challenge will involve Nikki, Simon, Claire and anyone who wishes to join them to ‘stroll’ 50,000 steps in a single day. Stroll dancing became popular in the 1950s and is a form of line dancing with no partner needed.
In a 45 minute stroll class you will typically reach about 5,000 steps, so their 50,000 step target will require a full day of dancing.
Nikki Cooke, CEO of LIVES, said: “LIVES turning 50 is such an achievement and something Lincolnshire should be proud to celebrate. LIVES has come a long way since it started in 1970 but the core principles and passion remains the same. Taking on 50,000 steps in a day through stroll dancing is no mean feat but we’re looking forward to having fun and raising awareness of LIVES and the great work our army of Community First Responders and Medics do across Lincolnshire.” Claire Seabrook, founder of Boston Jive, added: “We at Boston Jive are so proud to show our support for LIVES. We are extremely lucky to have this incredible service here in Lincolnshire
and long may it continue! Hopefully our challenge will help raise more awareness as well as raise money for LIVES. We would love everyone to come along and join in, whether it’s one of the smaller challenges, the full 50,000 or for an hour or two of dance. We may ache the next day but I’m sure it will be worth it!”
Are you or someone you know living with a Cancer diagnosis?
A new piece of patient experience work is being carried out to better understand what it’s like for people to live in the community with a cancer diagnosis. We are encouraging the community to share as many personal experiences as possible to influence and improve our local cancer support. This piece of work is supported by the East Midlands Cancer Alliance in partnership with Macmillan and Health Education England, its findings will feed directly into the Lincolnshire Living with and Beyond Cancer project.
How to share your experiences. To understand and support patients, it is vital we talk to those with lived experiences. People might want to tell us they have everything they need in the community, they may tell us they don’t know where to start, or even, that something vital isn’t available where they live. Whatever it is, we want to hear it, and people can share their views by taking the online survey, attending our drop-in sessions or even phoning our office if you want to complete your survey over the phone.
You can find the online survey by entering www. surveymonkey.co.uk/r/communitycancersurvey or
phone into the office on 01205 820892 and ask for ‘cancer survey support’.
You can also complete the survey in person at one of our drop-ins being held 1.30pm-2.30pm and 3.30-4.30pm on Monday 2nd March at Barrat Court. Skegness, and 10.30-11.30am and 12pm-1pm on Friday 6th March at Meadow Close Community Centre, Bourne.
If individuals don’t wish to share their views but need help and support we would ask them to contact their GP Surgery, call 111 or contact Macmillan at www.macmillan.org.uk or 0333 271 9338.
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Since 2013 Healthwatch Lincolnshire has been the charity delivering the Healthwatch Contract in Lincolnshire on behalf of Lincolnshire County Council.
We are really pleased to announce that on 12 August 2019 our charity changed its name to HWLincs. This name change enables us now to be identified in our own right, whilst still keeping the Healthwatch Contract branded and visible to the public we serve.
Sarah Fletcher CEO of HWLincs said, “It was time that we gave our Charity a different identity to the Healthwatch Contract which we have successfully delivered over the last 7 years” Sarah went on to say “we have been and continue to be very proud to deliver Healthwatch Lincolnshire and intend to build on this success”.
As HWLincs we have capacity to deliver customer insight packages, engagement and market testing, bespoke training and much much more to businesses, service commissioners, statutory organisations, charities and others. Alongside this we are keen to deliver other support and services where we identify gaps to Lincolnshire people. We acknowledge and value the good reputation Healthwatch Lincolnshire has helped us achieve over the years and now we are developing our Charity to widen our
reach, share our expertise as well as offering a value for money service. We hope people will look at our website www.hwlincs.co.uk and be interested in the work we have done, and then keep coming back to talk about opportunities for us to work with them.
Jerry Green Dog Rescue welcomes new ‘Ambassadog’ to the team
Jerry Green Dog Rescue has teamed up with the coolest Chihuahua in town to raise awareness about the dog’s they have available and how you can support the charity.
Chewie, who is a 2-year-old Instagram influencer by day and snuggle bunny by night, has decided with support from his Mum Mina, to help out his furry friends at his local centre in Nottingham and those in the charities 4 other centres by spreading the word about what the charity does, how to adopt a rescue dog, their events and much more.
Mina said: “We’re really excited to work with Jerry Green Dog Rescue! It means a lot to myself and Chewie to support our local community and if we can do that by helping rescue dogs find their forever homes then we are on board.
“Chewie has over 60,000 followers on his Instagram page and has hundreds of fans from across the world – so we hope that our influence
will not only raise awareness about the charity and the services they offer, but will also raise the vital funds they need to continue the great work they do.”
Charlotte Todd, Marketing Coordinator for Jerry Green Dog Rescue said: “We cannot wait to work alongside Mina and Chewie – their influence and support will really help put our centres on the map and promote the other services we offer like our grooming, training at some of our centres and the paddock hire we have available at all of our centres.”
Not only will Chewie be helping the charity through his online presence, he is also going to be attending the charities large events and will be trying out some of their services. You can keep up to date on what he is up to and how he is supporting the rescue on the Jerry Green Dog Rescue channels and on Chewie’s own accounts. Follow them both using the handles below:
