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Children & Young People's Stories | Parent Stories | Parents | Young People |

Awareness Week 2018: Shirley-ann and Beth’s story

10 May 2018

Speaking to Beth, now ten-years-old, it’s clear that being born with a cleft has not held her back. She speaks cheerfully about school and is excited to tell her story. “I’m fine to talk about it at school if people ask,” she explains. “I don’t worry about explaining everything. I just tell them ‘this is something I was born with’.”

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Awareness Week 2018: Q&A with Kenny

9 May 2018

Looking back at my own experiences, having had a lot of speech therapy myself, I can see the benefit that that’s had for me in being able to communicate and feel much more confident about myself. It’s not until you can’t do these things that you really realise how much the general population kind of take that for granted and I wanted to be able to help other people to find their voice as well.

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Parents | Your Stories |

Awareness Week 2018: Katie’s Story

8 May 2018

"One of the toughest things about having a child with cleft is knowing that when they are under one year old you will have to take them into a hospital to have surgery. They will have to have general anaesthetic, to endure hours on the operating table..[i]t is a real challenge for you as a new parent, and something that we wouldn’t wish on anyone."

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Diagnosis | Feeding | Parent Stories | Your Stories |

Awareness Week 2018: Hannah’s Story

7 May 2018

In the corner of the room with all the machines of tiny babies beeping, the nurses chatting in the background, the only people in the room are me and my amazing little boy.

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Diagnosis | Parent Stories | Your Stories |

Awareness Week 2018: Louise’s Story

4 May 2018

My husband and close family were amazing and were such a good support network, but nothing could help with my worrying. I hated my pregnancy, hated everything about it. I couldn't get excited about anything...I was very worried what others were going to think and whether they would blame us. I couldn’t tell anyone how I truly felt as I didn't think anyone understood.

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Fundraising Stories |

#FundraisingFriday: Big thanks to the Norwood School!

3 May 2018

CLAPA are celebrating this #FundraisingFriday by saying a huge thank you to the Norwood School for their amazing fundraising efforts.

Fundraising Stories | Fundraising: Runs |

#FundraisingFriday: Stephen’s Story

19 Apr 2018

A huge thank you to Stephen for raising an incredible £1,105 for CLAPA! He got in touch to explain why supporting CLAPA means so much to him. 

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Fundraising Stories | Fundraising: Challenges |

#FundraisingFriday: Ryan’s Story

12 Apr 2018

Ryan has raised an amazing £815 for CLAPA including gift aid. He got in touch to explain why CLAPA was his charity of choice.