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FUNDRAISING AND NEWS
We attended the Community Fun Day in Kings Heath in August. Thank you to the Mayor of Northampton Councillor Paul Joyce and Mayoress Mylissa for stopping by to pick up some of our leaflets.
Chris Duff, Lorraine Booty and Sue Jobbins were pleased
to welcome Sarah Bool [pictured], MP for South Northamptonshire to the William and Patricia Venton Centre in September. Lucy Rigby, MP for Northampton North also visited us in Northampton in August. Both MPs came to discuss how the recent changes to the Winter Fuel Payment will affect local older people. We are keen to find ways to improve the take-up of Pension Credit and other financial support that people might be missing out on.
Our information stall spent the day
at the Kettering General Hospital
and Northampton General Hospital Governors’ Health Awareness Event
in Swansgate shopping centre in Wellingborough in August. It was good to meet older shoppers who ventured in to find out about the services provided by local charities. NHS staff were on hand to sign them up for bowel cancer, cardiac risk checks and aorta aneurysm screening (the latter especially for men 65+). NHS Transformation Programme Manager Jayne Chambers [pictured] said “Supporting people with dementia is a subject very close to my heart.”
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