MARIE CURIE CANCER CARE provides high quality nursing, totally free to give terminally ill people the choice of dying at home supported by their families.

A Marie Curie Nurse provides specific care, such as giving medications and treatments and monitoring their effectiveness. Because the Marie Curie Nurse is in the home for several hours at a time, she can give the patient’s regular carer (usually family members) the chance to take a break from caring.

This service is provided free of charge, 365 days of the year and 24 hours a day. A Marie Curie Nurse is requested into a patient’s home via the District Nurse or a GP referral. Marie Curie Nurses tend to be requested at the latter stage of the cancer journey.

For information please call the Fundraising Office tel. 0115 9382626
or email: sue.rowlett@mariecurie.org.uk

Visit the website: http://www.mariecurie.org.uk

CARLTON DIGBY SCHOOL admits pupils from Nottingham city and the surrounding suburbs and villages. It caters for pupils from five years of age to eighteen, all of whom have disabilities that preclude them from mainstream education.

A number of the pupils have disabilities that require a wheel chair and a specially adapted mini-bus for transportation.

Whilst the education authority provides this transportation to and from the school, the school itself has to provide the transportation for all the educational and extra-curricula activities that are essential for the children’s education and development.

The mini-bus currently used is eleven years old and in need of replacement. The Rotary Club want to raise £29,000 to replace this mini-bus, in order that some of Nottingham’s disabled children can enjoy the quality of life and education often taken for granted by children without disabilities.