‘Colon-aid’ the Yeovil District Bowel Cancer Support Group
Minutes of the 9th Support Group Meeting on Friday 20 April 2007 at St Margaret’s in Yeovil
Present
Members attending 18.
Apologies
Apologies were received from 7 members.
Welcome
Apologies
Apologies were received from 7 members.
Welcome
The group was pleased to welcome our guest speaker Paula Bond from Macmillan. There were no new members at this meeting.
Matters Arising
Web site
Rowland reported that the web site had been updated to add a “Colon-aid” poster and a copy of the “Simply Red” Bowel Cancer Awareness Open Day press release.
Toilet Facilities Survey
Maureen and Mike Bragg recently visited Wells and reported that the Union Street Car Park had good facilities. Heather Sutton recommended Oliver’s at Sherborne.
Guest Speaker
Web site
Rowland reported that the web site had been updated to add a “Colon-
Toilet Facilities Survey
Maureen and Mike Bragg recently visited Wells and reported that the Union Street Car Park had good facilities. Heather Sutton recommended Oliver’s at Sherborne.
Guest Speaker
Paula Bond a Community Networks Development Coordinator (CNDC) from Macmillan attended the meeting as guest speaker and gave a presentation about the support that Macmillan can provide to Support Groups. Macmillan’s support coverage of the UK was arranged into regions and Paula covered Region 5 that included the whole of the West Country and extended up to the Midlands. She had over a 180 cancer support groups of various kinds in her region.
The presentation comprised a series of slides with bullet points highlighting the key points of the various training workshops offered free of charge by Macmillan Cancer Support. The following workshops are just some of those that Paula covered:-
The presentation comprised a series of slides with bullet points highlighting the key points of the various training workshops offered free of charge by Macmillan Cancer Support. The following workshops are just some of those that Paula covered:-
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Good Practice In Running A Group included a 2 day workshop Starting Up and Running it Well. Follow up workshops were Publicising your group and Dealing with conflict.
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Introduction to listening and responding was a one day workshop. (See Note below for details of a workshop at Taunton on the 12th June 2007.)
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Communicating with children affected by cancer was a one day workshop.
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Telephone skills was a 1 day workshop giving participants an opportunity to develop their listening and responding skills so as to offer one-
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