Events March 2010
Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month
Organiser: Ovarian Cancer Action
Website: www.ovarian.org.uk
Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month is an annual health awareness campaign organised by Ovarian Cancer Action. It aims to improve survival rates and help support the women and their families affected by ovarian cancer as well as raise the profile of ovarian cancer among the public and in the media. Discover more at www.ovarian.org.uk.
Leaflets available from leaflets2u
National Bed Month
Organiser: The Sleep Council
Website: www.sleepcouncil.org.uk
Raising awareness events across the UK.
Visit the website for more details.
Great Daffodil Appeal
Organiser: Marie Curie
Website: daffodil.mariecurie.org.uk
Marie Curie is asking everyone to paint the UK yellow this March
by making a donation and wearing a daffodil pin for the Great Daffodil
Appeal. Money raised from the appeal will provide more free nursing
care for people with a terminal illness in their own home and the charity’s
hospices. You can get your daffodil pin from shops in your local
community as well as from one of our volunteer collectors on the streets.
Endometriosis Awareness Week
Organiser: The National Endometriosis Society
Website: www.endometriosis-uk.org
Endometriosis Awareness Week is an annual event which gives women with endometriosis a real focus to raise awareness regionally, nationally and within local communities - and provides an opportunity to raise funds for research into better treatments!
Endometriosis Awareness Week in Europe, Africa, Australasia and South America is 8 - 14 March 2010, and in the United States it is for the entire month of March.
EMAIL US with your activities and they will be included on this page for everyone to join in - and as an inspirations for groups further away! This page will be updated weekly from October 2009 and until the end of March 2010.
Together we can truly make a difference!
Please get involved with your national support organisation! - Whatever you can do really will make a difference!
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No Smoking Day
Organiser: The No Smoking Day campaign
Website: www.nosmokingday.org.uk
No Smoking Day supports smokers who want to quit by raising awareness the Day, and highlighting the many sources of help available for quitters. Events supported across the UK, visit the website for more details http://www.nosmokingday.org.uk/
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World Voice Day
Organiser: The British Voice Association
Website: www.british-voice-association.com
World Voice Day is celebrated annually on 16th April. The idea
began in Brazil and then spread to the USA. The idea is to celebrate
healthy voices and highlight the importance of voice at work and in
society.
