WANTED!
Adventurous people throughout the UK to do something like this...
for FREE!
Help us raise funds by making an exhilirating 10,000 feet freefall parachute jump. No experience is required and if you raise the minimum amount of sponsorship you will get to jump for FREE!
For a free information pack call
01909 544999
Looking for a less exhilirating challenge?
Thornbridge Hall in the Derbyshire Peak District
Saturday 5th June 2010
4km or 10km walk/run
BBQ and drinks (optional)
Contact 01909 544999 for an information pack
Hi all
As I’m sure you all know, I am organising a National Skydive Weekend in April 2010 to raise money for the National Kidney Federation and I would like to ask whether you would be willing to support the event by helping to recruit willing volunteers to make the leap! The most popular jump is the tandem skydive and the minimum sponsorship is £395 – if the participant raises at least £395, they do the jump for free. If every KPA recruited just one person who would like to do a skydive, you would help us raise over £8000 to help us continue providing help, support and advice to patients.
I hope you can help and if you would like a poster(s) to display please let me know. If you do know of anyone, please pass on the telephone number 01909 544999 or my email details and I will send them an information pack.
Participants can do the skydive on 24th or 25th April at any one of 26 locations across the UK.
Jenny
Jenny Wing
National Kidney Federation
National Kidney Federation
Tel: 01909 544999
Fax: 01909 481723
Parachute Jump
Martyn Parker raises £3,240.15 with freefall parachute jump
Well done Martyn. A real high flyer!
Nat West
Thank you to Dionne for nominating our charity in November to receive £1020.81, which was later matched by Nat West with £1000.00 in December, making a grand total of £2020.81. So a huge thank you very much to Dionne and her colleagues at Nat West.
Charity Auction
The Charity auction at Bishops Tachbrook on 1st November raised £774 to be split between WHKPA and Air Ambulance
This was great fun and a worthwhile afternoon out.
Well done Hilda and friends for all your hard work.
Scales
On behalf of the renal
technologists, I would like to send thanks for the recent, generous funding of equipment
for our department.
Several weeks ago you were kind enough to purchase 3 calibrated Jadever JKH balances at a cost of £282. We have now taken delivery of these and are already putting them to good use. One of the most important calibrations that we perform on our haemodialysis equipment is that of fluid removal accuracy. This ensures that when the nurse programs the equipment to remove an amount of fluid the machine achieves the desired dry weight for the patient. Up until now the renal technologists have used various measuring cylinders to determine this volume. Usually only accurate to around 5ml of fluid, this has been the tried and tested method ever since the renal unit opened.
These new scales give an accuracy of 1gram, equal to about 1mililitre of fluid removal. During use, the fluid removed is displayed digitally on the scale, allowing the exact figure to be entered during calibration.
Overall, these scales will provide a great addition to our 'toolbox' allowing more accurate, consistent monitoring and calibration of our equipment.
Attached is a photograph of Steve, one of the technical team, with a set of scales.
Many thanks
G.Watson
Garry Watson
Renal Technologist UHCW NHS Trust
If you have any old records of any era you would like to sell to me and donate the money to the KPA.
Give me JOE a ring on Warwick 01926 774094 or email me at joe.grainger@ntlworld.com
I will pay 15p
per single and 25p per LP
Joe Grainger
USED POSTAGE STAMPS
Vivienne collects, and raises money, from used postage stamps.
E-mail the webmaster if you can help: info@whkpa.org.uk
RECENT DONATIONS
Martyn Parker 3,240.15, Bravissimo, Leamington £250.00, Elsaida Gordon £100.00, Jephson Housing ("dress down" day), £26.00, Mrs Kingshot, Dublin £30.00, Rugby Jobcentreplus (instead of sending Christmas cards) £100.00, Trent Valley Club (Price family) £820.00, Edward Amey £20.00, Mr Baldwin £490.00, Gill Hillyard, cake making proceeds £75.00, Hilda Leonard, proceeds from Hilda's Auction £387.00, Nat West £2020.00, Mr Baldwin's 60th birthday £500.00, Barford CC - due to Michael's weight loss £650.00, In memory of Jim Barlcombe £310.00, Mr Bradbury - collecting box £13.04, In memory of David Burditt £20.00, Audrey Cooper - donation £50.00, Carol Hudson - donation £25.00, Hilda leonard - donation £20.00, Sue Newman - donation £10.00, Price family £600.00, In memory of Stanley Ross £160.00, In memory of Peter Whewell £65.00, World Kidney Day - collection £100.60, Mike Bradbury, collecting box donation £13.04, J Deeley in memory of Edward Babb £100.00, Theo Eck, coins saved in a large whisky bottle £39.00, Elizabeth Minty £20, Stamps £17.00, In memory of Peter Whewell £540.00, Andrew & Lesley Davies £79.00, Trent Valley House WMC & Institute (Sheila Price and family) £781.00, Indian race night £1250.00.
Thanks to everyone who has donated during the past year and who has remembered us when people have passed away.
RECENT PURCHASES
10 bag warmers for CAPD patients £2350.50
Tracksuits for Transplant Games athletes (From Transplant Games Fund) £677.13
New Haemodialysis chairs at a cost of £10,185.96
3 scales, calibrated Jadever JKH balances for the Renal technologists
6 Heat pads for the dialysis unit
6ft Christmas tree and decorations for the renal ward
A cheque for £3400.00 was given to Dr Zehnder for research work taking place in Warwick University.
3 electric heat pads for Nuneaton Unit
12 blood pressure monitors for CAPD patients
Wheelchair scales and cushions for Rugby Unit £3866.38
Dynamap for Transplant Clinic £1312.50
Television for isolation room at George Elliot Unit