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Welcome to the KCH Limb Reconstruction Trust Web Site
Our Mission
The purpose of this Trust is to improve the level of support given to patients undergoing treatment in the Limb Reconstruction
Unit of King's College Hospital. See our Charity Aims
The board of Trustees is already established, and we meet at least four times a year. To become a beneficiary, you
only need to become a patient!
We are however looking for patients and relatives of patients who are intersted in developing this Charitable organisation.
We would hope to be able to establish a network of 'Friends' of the KLRT.
As well as supporting the activities of the charity, we would like the 'Friends' to help us shape the organisation by
suggesting new activities. We would also be grateful for a network of patients or ex-patients and their relatives who
would be able to offer support to new patients, giving advice or insight as required.
It would be good, for example, to have someone who is coming to the end of their treatment or has completed treatment
to offer tips of how they survived the experience of long, complex or difficult treatment, to someone about to start their
treatment.
Thank you!
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| X Ray of a left arm with Ilizarov frame to transport bone |
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Organization News
We heard on the 25th of May 2007 that we have been granted charitable status and our registration number is:
1119378
We are a not-for-profit organisation, run by unpaid Trustees, and are currently arranging fund-raising events to establish a secure financial base for the Trust.
News
Our AGM will be held on the 10th March 2008 at 18.30 in the Orthopaedic
Dept, King's College Hospital
We are currently applying for a giftaid number so that any donations
by UK taxpayers can be augmented by tax relief from the government
We will then apply for membership of justgiving.com
We are delighted that Karen Sherris has taken on the role of Clerk to
the Board, and has done so with great gusto! She has helped enormously already with fundraising and awareness. She has also,
very graciously, decided to donate proceeds from her elegant designer candles to the KLRT! Please
check out her website www.karensdesignercandles.com
The King's magazine Healthy Living will run a feature on our charity
in the next issue!
We are hopeful that we will be able to make our instructional DVD over
the next few months (with the help of the guys at www.outtakes.co.uk), which we wish to make freely available on this website
King's College Hospital are looking at funding another Limb Reconstruction nurse
which will help with education and support of our patients further away from King's and may help to reduce journeys up to
King's / reduce length of stay in King's
Fundraising is progressing well, and with generous donations from The Willow
Tree Trust, we now have resources of more than £30 000.
We will be launching a raffle next month with great prizes including
an enormous teddy bear, digital camera, wine, and others!
We will be present, with a stand, at the King's Open day on the 6th of
July, to raise awareness of our work. We will use this opportunity to do the draw for the raffle too!
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