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Richard Jefferies museum secures £55k News in brief

for arts and heritage project Meet the candidates

Swindon’s community-run Richard at business breakfast
Jefferies Museum is celebrating
after Arts Council England agreed to A series of business breakfast
support a £100,000 programme of events has been launched by
arts and heritage activities. The Swindon and Wiltshire Local
Arts@Jefferies, is an 18-month Enterprise Partnership to meet
arts programme that connects the local candidates contesting
audiences to the museum and the this year’s parliamentary
broader arts. Arts Council England elections.
has agreed to donate £55,000 to get At these sessions candidates
the project going. will be invited to give their
Working with Poetry Swindon, views on a range of topics.
the project will also help provide This will be followed by a Q&A
a permanent home to poetry session, providing those at the
development in Swindon, and help meeting with an opportunity to
to extend this throughout the question the candidates.
community. To register for an event
Hilda Sheehan mainstay of the us to go even further, developing Council, and as part of the new please email - info@swlep.
Swindon Poetry Festival, said: “This local arts and heritage through our project will manage a programme co.uk or call Vanessa Joseph on
is such good news for us. Having a relationships with local services of Arts Awards in local schools. 07584153407.
grant from the Arts Council means such as the Alzheimer’s Society, the The Richard Jefferies Museum, on
we can bring in really good artists Downs Syndrome Society, Mind, the edge of Coate Water Country Book fete stalls now!
and internationally renowned poets local schools, community groups, Park, was originally a farmhouse
and not have to charge the earth.” libraries and galleries. We think that where author and naturalist Richard Friends of Lethbridge Primary
Museum manager Mike arts which respond to this sort of Jefferies was born and raised. School and the 10K Fun Run
Pringle said: “We have only been audience participation grow in new The Museum is now a centre for Committee are joining forces to
developing the museum for a and unexpected ways.” community engagement and the host their annual Summer Fete
relatively short while after taking The museum also has four Arts arts, and contains memorabilia, and Craft Market.
it over from the Council. This helps Awards Advisers, recognised by Arts displays and archive material. The fete, which takes place
Brighter Futures Appeal gets a 10k boost on 24 June, hosts more than 25
stalls, featuring an extensive
range of arts, crafts and food.
Both the fete and the funrun
The Brighter Futures Radiotherapy of Savernake Hospital and the start at 11.00am with the event
Appeal has received another Community for their second
£10,000 boost with a second generous grant towards our closing at 2.30pm.
Anyone interested in
donation from the Friends of Radiotherapy Appeal. having their own stall should
Savernake Hospital and the “Each year almost 700 cancer contact Becky Jackson on
Community. patients from Swindon and north [email protected]
The Friends charity, which is Trudi Granger, Spokesperson for Wiltshire, including Marlborough
funded by donations and legacies the Friends, said: “The Friends are and Pewsey, travel to Oxford for Registration forms for the
from local people, has been delighted to continue to support daily treatment. This gift will help Fun Run are available from
[email protected]
awarding grants to healthcare the Brighter Futures Radiotherapy patients to receive radiotherapy just
projects at Savernake Hospital and Appeal, which will be of such down the road at Great Western
in the Marlborough and Pewsey benefit to patients in our area. Hospital instead of facing a difficult Dig deep into past
area since 1958. “It will make such a difference 70-mile round trip to Oxford.” A free family history event will
The group made their first to have radiotherapy available in Great Western Hospitals NHS be hosted by the Wiltshire Family
donation of £10,000 back in July Swindon, particularly at a time Foundation Trust is working History Society in Steam, the
2015, just after Brighter Futures when patients want to be near to with Oxford University Hospitals museum of the Great Western
launched its appeal to raise £2.9 their families and friends.” Foundation Trust to expand its Railway.
million to fund equipment for a Jane Leighton, Trusts Fundraiser radiotherapy service with a new Present at the event will be
new radiotherapy unit at the Great for Brighter Futures, said: “We facility at the GWH. Find out more family history societies, genealogy
Western Hospital. are so grateful to the Friends at www.brighterfuturesgwh.nhs.uk experts and local history groups
Surgeons use 3D printer to create new hip who will be on hand to provide
advice to visitors. The event
takes place on June 10 between
Pioneering doctors at the Great affair. Most people can be fitted able to use this state-of-the-art
Western Hospital have used 3D with a regular off-the-shelf joint, technology in Swindon and I’m 10am and 3pm. Full details: www.
printing technology to create but it’s not as easy when the extremely pleased that it’s been wiltshirefhs.co.uk
a bespoke hip joint to help patient’s entire hip socket is in able to have such a positive impact Canal Trust talk
a patient walk without pain. completely the wrong place. on this person’s everyday life.”
Dr Adam Brooks, Trauma and “I knew that if we were going The team in Swindon worked Wilts and Berks Canal Trust will
Orthopaedic Consultant, led the to help this person, we would closely with a 3D printing firm be the subject of a talk at the
team in the operating theatre. need to use a joint that had been in Belgium to create the made- next meeting of the Swindon
He explained: “Hip replacements specifically tailored for their to-measure hip joint, with the Osteoporosis Support Group on
are one of the most common individual needs and 3D printing manufacturers using a detailed Friday, 9 June 2017 at 1.30pm at
surgical procedures in the NHS and gave us a way to do just that. X-ray image of the patient’s hip as the Central Community Centre in
are usually a fairly straightforward “It’s fantastic to have been a template. Emlyn Square. Cost: £2.50
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