Progress
March 2011
Income
As of the 22nd March 2011 donations to the Trust and any resulting Gift Aid amounts to £21,623.
Just when we thought that donations were starting to slow down, quite naturally, we have received around £1,800 over the last three months and covering the Christmas period. The donations have come from many personal gifts, a clothes swap event, Christmas card sales and a WI Coffee Morning. Many of these donations attracted Gift Aid which of course adds more than 25% to their value. We thank you all very much and everyone else who continues to give and allows the Trust to fund some of Nancy’s dream.
Expenditure
Most recent expenditure has been on:
The EFT course for 20 health care workers held in January at St. Nicholas’ Hospice, Bury St. Edmunds.
The Lymphoedema Support Workers course for 10 practitioners held in March at St. Luke’s Hospice, Basildon.
For further details of these events please see the ‘Events’ page.
July 2010
Income
As of the 22nd July 2010 donations to the Trust amount to £16,805 plus some Gift Aid benefit still to be collected.
Donations continue to come in and we thank everyone for their support in enabling ever larger pieces of Nancy’s dream to come true.
Expenditure
Earlier in the year Nancy’s Trust funded MLD training for two nurses, one at The Helen Rollason Cancer Support Centre, Chelmsford and the second at St. Peter’s Hospital, Maldon. We are now progressing towards three further MLD training needs, two at St. Luke’s Hospice, Basildon and a further one at The Helen Rollason Cancer Support Centre.
Summary of expenditure since inauguration of the Trust:
Rachel Thurston at St. Helena’s Hospice, Colchester - MLD training, parts 1, 2 and 3
Sheila Smith at St. Peter’s Hospital, Maldon – MLD training
Geoff Bowen at The Helen Rollason Centre, Chelmsford – MLD training
Sara Percival at St. Helena’s Hospice, Colchester – advanced MLD and update training
March 2010
Income
As of the 16th March 2010 donations to the Trust amount to an extraordinary £13,454. We had no idea what would happen when we started this fund in Nancy’s name but this is far beyond our expectations and we have to thank everyone for their support in enabling a small piece of Nancy’s dream to come true.
Expenditure
Committed expenditure this year so far is on the MLD training for two nurses at The Helen Rollason Cancer Support Centre and St. Peter’s Hospital, although we have only just started to make the actual payments.
January 2010
Income
As of the 25th January 2010 donations to the Trust amount to an incredible £12,012.42! We continue to receive donations and we are aware of around a further £1000 of group donations collected before Christmas that has still to find its way to us.
Expenditure
As mentioned elsewhere, we have jointly funded with the Macmillan Trust our first MLD trained lymphoedema nurse and she completed her training in December 2009. Rachel Thurston is a Lymphoedema Nurse at the St. Helena Hospice in Colchester and we are delighted that she passed her final MLD examinations with flying colours and is now able to provide more comprehensive treatment to her lymphoedema patients.
October 2009
Income
As of the 18th October 2009 the Trust stands at an amazing £10,610.22! We continue to receive donations from individuals, some of whom have set up regular gifts into the Trust, various shops and public places such as the Toppesfield village shop and the Castle Hedingham and Yeldham surgeries.
Expenditure
We have met with senior staff at St. Helena's Hospice in Colchester and the Helen Rollason Centre in Chelmsford and we expect to be able to fund nurse's MLD training in both of those establishments. However, these things take time to organise and we cannot expect those institutions to be able to organise existing or new staff training without significant internal planning. We expect to be in a position to announce some specific training being undertaken by named members of staff at both St. Helena's and Helen Rollason in the New Year and we very much look forward to that. Such generous donations need to be put to good use as soon as possible!