Tuesday 6 November 2012
Epilepsy Emergency Medication Course
Where: Peterborough
A one-day course for professionals working with children and young people, as well as parents who may be required to administer emergency medication. It is suitable for professionals from a wide range of disciplines such as school nurses, teachers, support workers, carers and many more.
This course has been endorsed by Professor Helen Cross, The Prince of Wales’s Chair of Childhood Epilepsy and the Joint Epilepsy Council.
Thanks to an educational grant from ViroPharma Ltd we are able to offer these courses at a highly subsidised price which includes lunch and a comprehensive delegate pack.
Prices
- £75 per person for public sector and charity organisations
- £120 per person for private sector organisations
The booking form for training courses can be downloaded here.
Monday 26 March 2012
Purple Day / My Purple Pledge
Where: Nationwide
The campaign coincides with Purple Day (26 March 2012), the international day to mark epilepsy awareness and is backed by a series of famous faces including Commonwealth, European and World Champion 400 metre hurdler, Dai Greene. Together we are asking the public and celebrities alike to do something purple and help put a spotlight on epilepsy.
Pledges could range from wearing purple to work or school, baking and selling purple cakes, or even being sponsored to lie in a bath of blackcurrant juice! Anything goes and the quirkier the better!
If organising isn’t your thing, then you can also get Zumba fit in the name of My Purple Pledge, as Young Epilepsy will be hosting a series of purple Zumba events across the UK on 26 March 2012.
Young Epilepsy Ambassador, Dai Greene, said: "My Purple Pledge aims to put epilepsy on the map and make people aware of what it really means. I’m fully behind the campaign and will be pledging purple to help improve the lives of a lot of young people with epilepsy. I’m hoping that as many people as possible will be ‘in the purple’ for the 26th March and help raise desperately needed funds for such a deserving cause."
To register your interest in hosting your own purple fundraiser, or to take part in a purple Zumba near you, call the fundraising team on 01342 831245 or email fundraising@youngepilepsy.org.uk. Don’t forget, you can also keep up to date with all out latest news by following us on Twitter (@purplepledge) and Facebook.
Thursday 10 November 2011
Interview with Young Epilepsy's, James Sommers, on Peterborough FM
James Sommers is the Senior Community Fundraising Manager for Young Epilepsy. He is being interviewed live on the Pleasuredome Pick'n'Mix show by Jeremy Orbell, the Peterborough Fundraising Group co-ordinator, on the community radio station on Peterborough FM.
The show will be broadcast on Thursday 10 November 2011. Tune in by clicking the 'listen live' link at www.peterborough.fm and h
