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Medic heads to California to study nutrition for the ill                             FOR ALL YOUR PRINT &
       A surgical registrar from Royal                          “Some patients go home from   DIGITAL REQUIREMENTS
       Wootton Bassett is jetting off to                       hospital with limited support. The   IN WEST SWINDON
       California having been awarded a                        basic tasks such as shopping and
       grant from The Winston Churchill                        cooking can be really difficult after   ARTWORK & DESIGN  •  WEBSITES
       Memorial Trust.                                         a major operation.”             LITHO / DIGITAL PRINTING
        Zoe Barber will be travelling to                        Project Angel Food was set up 25   LARGE FORMAT  •  CANVAS PRINTS
       the USA in October to investigate                       years ago and delivers over 2,000   STATIONERY  •  NCR PADS, AND MORE
       Project Angel Food, which delivers                      nutritious and tasty meals every
       nutritious meals to the critically                      day to nourish people debilitated
       ill in Los Angeles, in order to                         by critical illnesses who would
       teach others the importance of                          otherwise struggle to feed
       nutrition and human contact.                            themselves.
        To mark its 50th anniver-                               Zoe added: “I love cooking and   Unit 101  Basepoint Centre
       sary year as Sir Winston’s living                       really enjoy making meals for my   Rivermead  Swindon  Wilts  SN5 7EX
                                                                                              Telephone: 01793 490490
       legacy, The Winston Churchill                           friends and family. Food is one of   www.mllprint.co.uk
       Memorial Trust has just awarded                         life’s great pleasures that ill peo-
       a record number of 150 Travelling                       ple tend to miss out on because
       Fellowships - investing at least                        cooking for yourself when you are
       £1.34 million in British citizens.                      poorly requires a lot of effort.    D&L Blinds
        Between them the fellows will                           “By providing people with meals,
       travel to 58 countries across six                       we are able to take the pressure
       continents where they will carry                        off and give them more time to
       out a wide range of projects. The                       spend with their loved ones. Good   Quality made to measure
       average length of a fellowship is   West Coast bound Zoe Barber  nutrition is proven to be beneficial   Blinds & Curtains
       six weeks.                                            for treating and preventing illness.”
        Zoe is a surgical registrar at Great   cludes Swindon, Bristol, Cheltenham   Once she has completed her   All types of blinds, supplied and
       Western Hospital and her parents   and Taunton.       fellowship, Zoe’s aim is to set up   fitted by a family run business
       live in Hook, near Royal Wootton   She said: “I applied for the   something similar in the UK. She   Choose from a wide range
       Bassett. She studied medicine at the  fellowship because, while I am able   plans to take a year off from her   of fabrics in the comfort
       University of Oxford, where she was  to make a difference to a small   surgical training to set up a char-  of your own home
       a junior doctor after she graduated.   number of people on a daily basis   ity before resuming her career in   01793 619428 / 07974 380865
        She is now undertaking her higher  in the operating theatre, I want the   October 2016.  email: [email protected]
       surgical training in general surgery   opportunity to make a difference in   www.angelfood.org  www.dandlblinds.co.uk
       in the Severn deanery, which in-  the longer term.                  www.wcmt.org.uk



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