Future Youth Project
52 Dumpton Park Road
Ramsgate
Kent
CT11 7JR
www.futureyouthproject.com
info@futureyouthproject.com
Registred charity number 1152193
Future Youth Project (FYP) takes people on physical and emotional journeys.
Over the last 10 years we have taken volunteers to visit orphanages (for both children and disabled adults) and collaborated with them on creative projects. Often these trips are aboard our FYP bus and the volunteers in some cases have never had the chance to volunteer before, or in other cases never been abroad before.
In one state-run institution for men and boys with disabilities, in a remote part of South Eastern Ukraine we witnessed particular need. So, in “Kalinovka”, we set up a classroom with activities for all the men and boys. Previously they had no facilities for learning and developing and had simply spent all hours of their days with nothing to do which had led to institutionalised behaviours such as rocking, self-harming and bullying.
Our ‘educator’ taught the men and boys to sew, sing, play and in some cases read and write which changed the atmosphere from one of fear and neglect to a much happier one.
In 2019 Kalinvoka was suddenly closed, sending the men to 5 different far-flung institutions, breaking long-term friendships (most have no family) and causing huge distress. We have spent the last year tracking down the men and boys and are in the process of developing a project which will see a mobile art-therapist set up class rooms in each of the institutions and help the men with their creativity and learning once again.
National Hereditary Breast Cancer Helpline
N H B C H Warehouse
71 Storforth Lane Trading Estate
Hasland
CHESTERFIELD
S41 0QZ
https://www.breastcancergenetics.co.uk/
canhelp@btopenworld.com
Registered charity number 1150183
The National Hereditary Breast Cancer Helpline was founded in 1996 by Wendy Watson, at a time when little or nothing was generally known about Hereditary Breast Cancer.
Wendy held the first Hereditary Breast Cancer Awareness week to mark the launch of the helpline. This was warmly received by the whole genetic community and supported by the late Princess Diana (click the letter to the right to read). Two genes had at that time been found which, if faulty, conferred around an 80-90% breast cancer risk.
The main aim of the helpline was to ensure that those worried about their family history had access to full information on all the options currently available, referrals where appropriate, and full peer support for whatever option was chosen. Most importantly that those affected had the opportunity to make informed choices. It is also an important role of the helpline to reassure those worrying unnecessarily. To that end the Helpline has been enormously successful, given the feedback over this past 19 years.
From the outset one of the main problems was inequity of service. The Helpline was instrumental in bringing the ‘Management of women at risk’ to the attention of the DoH and in 2006 guidelines were developed and announced by NICE, with representation and approval from the Helpline. The Helpline has also been involved with the current moratorium on ‘Genetic testing and insurance’, and was also active in alerting the government to the worrying situation of the gene patent, which, if allowed to go forward, would have made genetic testing prohibitively expensive for the NHS, thus costing lives.
The Helpline is manned as near as possible 24 hours per day, every day, although an answering service is always available. To date many thousands of calls have been taken worldwide and Wendy has given numerous talks internationally. In 2001 Wendy was called upon to help advise on the launch of a similar incentive in the USA.
Our ‘educator’ taught the men and boys to sew, sing, play and in some cases read and write which changed the atmosphere from one of fear and neglect to a much happier one.
In 2019 Kalinvoka was suddenly closed, sending the men to 5 different far-flung institutions, breaking long-term friendships (most have no family) and causing huge distress. We have spent the last year tracking down the men and boys and are in the process of developing a project which will see a mobile art-therapist set up class rooms in each of the institutions and help the men with their creativity and learning once again.
Future Youth Project
52 Dumpton Park Road
Ramsgate
Kent
CT11 7JR
www.futureyouthproject.com
info@futureyouthproject.com
Registred charity number 1152193
Future Youth Project (FYP) takes people on physical and emotional journeys.
Over the last 10 years we have taken volunteers to visit orphanages (for both children and disabled adults) and collaborated with them on creative projects. Often these trips are aboard our FYP bus and the volunteers in some cases have never had the chance to volunteer before, or in other cases never been abroad before.
In one state-run institution for men and boys with disabilities, in a remote part of South Eastern Ukraine we witnessed particular need. So, in “Kalinovka”, we set up a classroom with activities for all the men and boys. Previously they had no facilities for learning and developing and had simply spent all hours of their days with nothing to do which had led to institutionalised behaviours such as rocking, self-harming and bullying.
From the outset one of the main problems was inequity of service. The Helpline was instrumental in bringing the ‘Management of women at risk’ to the attention of the DoH and in 2006 guidelines were developed and announced by NICE, with representation and approval from the Helpline. The Helpline has also been involved with the current moratorium on ‘Genetic testing and insurance’, and was also active in alerting the government to the worrying situation of the gene patent, which, if allowed to go forward, would have made genetic testing prohibitively expensive for the NHS, thus costing lives.
The Helpline is manned as near as possible 24 hours per day, every day, although an answering service is always available. To date many thousands of calls have been taken worldwide and Wendy has given numerous talks internationally. In 2001 Wendy was called upon to help advise on the launch of a similar incentive in the USA.
National Hereditary Breast Cancer Helpline
N H B C H Warehouse
71 Storforth Lane Trading Estate
Hasland
CHESTERFIELD
S41 0QZ
www.breastcancergenetics.co.uk
canhelp@btopenworld.com
Registered charity number 1150183
The National Hereditary Breast Cancer Helpline was founded in 1996 by Wendy Watson, at a time when little or nothing was generally known about Hereditary Breast Cancer.
Wendy held the first Hereditary Breast Cancer Awareness week to mark the launch of the helpline. This was warmly received by the whole genetic community and supported by the late Princess Diana (click the letter to the right to read). Two genes had at that time been found which, if faulty, conferred around an 80-90% breast cancer risk.
The main aim of the helpline was to ensure that those worried about their family history had access to full information on all the options currently available, referrals where appropriate, and full peer support for whatever option was chosen. Most importantly that those affected had the opportunity to make informed choices. It is also an important role of the helpline to reassure those worrying unnecessarily. To that end the Helpline has been enormously successful, given the feedback over this past 19 years.
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