The speaker at the meeting on September 26th was Louise Beach, fund raising manager for The Clatterbridge Cancer Charity. Clatterbridge Hospital on the Wirral serves patients from a large area including most of North Wales, for certain cancer treatments. A total of 27,000 patients were treated at Clatterbridge in the last year, including over 400 from North Wales. The charity has a target of £1.5 million for this year, which will be used to directly benefit patients and their families, and for further research. Louise explained that in the past, money has been used to improve the ambience of rooms used by patients and their relatives and another example is to provide funding for patients’ wigs. The charity also pays for face masks which help with the treatment of tumours on the face with radiotherapy and a gold seed implant which is used to target treatment for prostate cancer. The talk was informative and interesting and Louise answered several questions for the members. More information can be found at www.clatterbridgecc.org.uk.
Here is President Gillian with Louise Beaxh from Clatterbridge Cancer Care.
The evening continued with a performance by Parti Llan, a local singing group of which President Gillian is a member. They entertained the club with both traditional and modern songs in Welsh and English. Parti Llan perform to raise money for charity and their chosen beneficiary this year is Clatterbridge Cancer Charity.
Here is President Gillian singing with Parti Llan.