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42 The Link Magazine • April 2000
Prospect to affirm life at Living Well Experience
A big fund raising event in aid of the The cost is £2 and 50p for children. The
Prospect Hospice will encourage all par- entry to the ramble is £2.50 and partici-
ticipants to seek out a healthier lifestyle. pants will be asked to raise sponsorship.
Taking place on Saturday 29 April be-
money raised will go towards the
BELVOIR tween 10am and 5pm at the Crofts Sports # e ¢ £1.8 million annual running costs of thee
Centre in Old Town, the day will have Prospect Hospice.
Call for advice on: three main components: Ann Wilkins,headoffundraisingatPros-
• A sponsored ramble on the Ridgeway: ^° l pect said the Living Well Experience will
• Letting your home a 6 or 10 mile walk from Croft onto be a fun event with something for everyone
• Buy to let and let to buy the Ridgeway and back y to take part in. "The day will emphasise
• An org anic farmers market healthy living and celebrating life in aid of
• Rent, legal & household the Prospect Hospice."
offering healthy produce dill Carter, coordinat-
insurance services • For more information on taking part or
Exhibition, demonstrations and ing complimentary for details of attractions, pickup a leaflet in
• Free internet advertising participation with complimentary health event at Liza- one of the five Prospect shops in Swindon,
and listing in our health practitioners. ing Well Experience or call Ann Wilkins on 815142.
nationwide branches
• Service individually • Bra walkers could raise over 10k
tailored to your Well over 100 women have ex- If they all take part £10,000 will
requirements pressed interest in 'Walking the be raised from entry fees. It could
OPEN EVENING Walk' in aid of Breakthrough be a lot more as one woman has
• Free information pack been promised £300 in sponsor-
& 1st Anniversary Celebration Breast Cancer as a result of articles
on request in The Link. ship according to team organiser
presenting
Property to rent 'Cutting, Colouring, The Swindon Twin Peaks team, Eunice Salmon, left. "The interest
has been incredible. The Link arti-
as they have
Call for details Creating!' called them- cles must have generated over 100
Light refreshments & drinks selves, are now calls. The information has spread
Tel: 01793 601631 Raffle in aid of practising for all over Swindon."
Breast Cancer Care the overnight Groups of women are preparing
Check out our wiebsite @ Wednesday 1 2th April, marathon walk for the walk and entries have now
www.beivoirgroup.com 7.30pm r on the streets of closed. Eunice is encouraging
I Westcott Place, Swindon A London on 14 women and girls who have missed
E-mail:
Booking essential May wearing out on the London walk to take
[email protected]
their bras. part in the Lydiard event below.
Race for Life • Sunday 14 May
from 5 kilometre walkffun run exclusively for women around
Lydiard Park to raise money for Imperial Cancer Research Fund
Pick up a leaflet at Link Centre or call Nikki Green
41510 Free training sessions organised by the Swindon Lifestyle Unit
at Swindon Council leisure services on 466526
Beginners Walking Sundays 2 April to 7 May 10.30am
Beginners Runners Tuesdays 21 March to 9 May 7pm
Call 511033 to book a place.

Be a sole supporter on UK Trainer Day: 7 April
I NTERIOR
Buy a special tag for £1 and wear your trainers to school or work on UK
DESIGN Trainer Day in aid of Imperial Cancer Research Fund. Call the charity
hotline on 0870 162 1622 or Nikki Green on 4 66526.
for
Marathon runners raise cash for kidney centre
Twenty five runners from BT will be taking
part in the London marathon on 16 April
including Terry Dixon, right, from West Swin-
don, Simon Riley from Cricklade and Ahmed "`"
al Sudane from the town centre who will be
raising money for the new Swindon kidney 7"
dialysis unit which opened in January.
The centre came about after a hard fought
campaign during which 63,000 people signed
a petition.
Although the Wiltshire Health Authority
agreed to support the opening of the unit, the
full capital cost of providing this facility and
all its equipment was left to the Swindon
Kidney Patients' Association.
To date some £180,000 has been donated but ongoing fundraising is
needed to buy more equipment so that more patients who are diag-
nosed with chronic renal failure can be treated.
To boost Terry and his colleagues, send cheques payable to Swindon
Kidney Patients Association, to Terry Dixon, British Telecom, ppDO05
North Star House, North Star Avenue, Swindon SN2 IBS. Tel: 544409.