Page 32 - link magazine

Kathryn Rachel Gale Making a
MAFHP MCFHP
Gater FOOT HEALTH PROFESSIONAL difference
CLINIC & HOME VISITS AVAILABLE
MCFHP MAFHP Volunteers Week at the beginning provides a hub of information
Specialist foot care treating: of June was an annual celebration where you can find out how to get
• Corns / Callus
Registered member of the British of the fantastic unpaid contribution involved in volunteering opportuni-
Association of Foot Health Professionals • Cracked heels
• Fungal nails of millions of people across the UK ties in the town.
■ Treat your feet at the Foot Health Clinic • Verrucas to make their communities better For details call 01793 420557 or
■ Corns, callous, cracked heels, nail • Diabetic foot care places. email: info@swindonvolunteers.
infections, verrucae, nail care and • Specialised nail cut & file Volunteers are needed all year org.uk
foot massage. • Ingrowing & thickened nails round to keep hundreds of organis- The staff are available to callers
■ Professional care in a relaxed and • Cream & foot massage ations going, often providing at 1 John Street, Swindon between
friendly setting. Registered member of the British essential local services at a 11am and 3pm, Monday to Friday.
■ Gift vouchers available Association of Foot Health Professionals neighbourhood level. All the volunteer placements are
Call Kathryn: 07789 542282 07878 033992 Volunteer Centre Swindon available to view at www.do-it.org
Basepoint Centre, West Swindon SN5 7EX www.solespa-swindon.co.uk
Oakhurst clinic • FREE PARKING
Swindon CAB is looking for vol- training and support.
unteers to fill a range roles. People For details and to arrange an

PAINFUL FEET? Affordable Personal who can spare 10 hours a week and informal chat, call 01793 402106,
Care for Your Feet want to give something back to mail: [email protected].
Mrs Lesley Taylor their community are welcomed. org.uk or call into Sanford House,
MCFHP, MAFHP, MIIR, MAR Treatments: In return CAB offers full, ongoing College Street, Swindon SN1 1QH
Nail cutting
Corns, Calluses, (feet & hands) The Ashington Way Surgery Patients Participation Group has purchased
Verrucas, Nail deformities & an examination couch, as well as a pulsemeter that can be used on house
Thick Nail or ingrowing toenails calls and a narrow wheelchair to help patients access rooms in the former
Ingrowing Toenails Nail infections showhome where the surgery in Westlea is located.
Verrucae treatment
The money was raised largely from book sales in the waiting room.
Call Freephone Corns & callus treatment
0808 108 8545 Diabetic foot care
or 01793 849914 Contact Joan Schofield MCFHP MAFHP
07763 908167
Clinic at: 113 High Street Hours to suit your busy lives
Royal Wootton Bassett www.healthy-happy-feet.co.uk

Healthcare assistant Alison Kembrey with Mary Morgan and Brian
Tallboy with, front, group chair Tony Kirby trying out the wheelchair

Could you be a Swindon Foodbank centurion?

Swindon Foodbank is sider gift aiding your
looking for 100 people donation as Swindon
willing to donate just Foodbank will be able
£10 per month via to claim back the tax
standing order as a you have paid. This
much needed financial represents another
contribution to help £2,800 if 100 people
keep their wheels on the road. become contributors.
The charity also has to maintain In fact you can give any amount
storage space, an office and that you feel able. Find the standing
distribution centres through which order and gift aid forms at: www.
food donations reach clients. swindonfoodbank.co.uk/donate
A hundred people committing Alternatively set up your own
£120 a year means over £14,000 for standing order online via your
the charity. The hard fact is money bank, but send the gift aid form to
in the bank is just as important as Foodbank.
food donations when it comes to For help contact Norma Bates on
ensuring that Swindon Foodbank 01793 978045 or email: norma.
can continue to meet the needs of [email protected]
those in food crisis. Find our more at:
If you are a UK taxpayer con- www.swindonfoodbank.co.uk
32 swindonlink.com n July 2015