News
News and updates from across every CLAPA region
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Parent Stories | Your Stories |
Things Can Only Get Better
From the first contact, CLAPA have supported me giving me advice and reassurance through my ante-natal tests, the birth, the many appointments and subsequent surgeries my baby had to undergo and the difficult learning curve of feeding a cleft baby. I don’t think I could have got through it without them and I know my son, now an adult, still enjoys interacting with the CLAPA community via social media.
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Fundraising Stories | Fundraising: Community |
#FundraisingFriday: Sponsored Walkers
It’s #FundraisingFriday and we are super excited to announce our Sponsored Walks taking place around the UK for Cleft Lip And Palate Association Awareness Week this May. As many of you will know, these walks provide a fantastic chance to raise money and awareness, but also the opportunity to meet other members of the CLAPA community.
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Fundraising: Community |
Sponsored Walks 2016
This year's Awareness Week runs from 7th-14th May, but Sponsored Walks take place during the entire month. Find your local Sponsored Walk and sign up here!
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Volunteering Opportunities |
CLAPA Branch Annual General Meetings
AGMs are a great way to learn more about your local CLAPA Branch and to put yourself forward to volunteer in any capacity. Find out where and when your Branch is holding their AGM here.
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Fundraising Stories | Fundraising: Community |
#NotQuiteFundraisingFriday: An Eggscellent Idea
SE Controls had a cracking time this weekend, doing some eggscellent fundraising and making some eggsquisite film references.
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Fundraising Stories | Fundraising: Skydives |
#FundraisingFriday: Lewis Ryan
It's #FundraisingFriday and today we want to take some time to thank Lewis Ryan, who just can't stop fundraising! This year he is going to be taking on a tandem skydive in June AND has organised a fundraising dinner on 11 April at The Wickhambrook Greyhound & Twenty One in Suffolk.
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Fundraising Stories | Fundraising: Community | Fundraising: Cycling |
#FundraisingFriday: Crossroads Truck & Bus Ltd and Hartshorne Motor Services Lt
With Spring just around the corner, wouldn’t it be just great to organise a fun day out of the office with your colleagues?
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Diagnosis | Research Advertisements |
Research: Expecting a baby with a cleft: Attachment, Mindfulness and self-compassion
A study is being conducted looking into the experiences of women expecting a baby. The study is for both women expecting a baby with a cleft lip and women who are expecting a baby without a cleft lip.
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NHS Cleft Services | Scotland Surgical Services Review |
Public Consultation Meetings – Surgical Services in Scotland Review
As part of the review of Cleft Surgical Services in Scotland and the proposed change to the way these are delivered, three public consultation meetings will be held throughout the country. You are invited to attend and give your opinion on the proposed changes to the service.
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NHS Cleft Services | Young People |
Young people should be ‘at the heart’ of decisions about moving into adult care
New guidance issued by NICE states that young people moving from children's to adult's services should be placed at the heart of decisions about their care.
