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Newsletter January 2019

WELCOME TO COPES – 2019 Wishes for a very Happy and Healthy New Year to you all. Our Big Night Out We are returning to the Roslin Beach Hotel for our Dinner Dance on April 25th. It’s a wonderful evening of delicious food, a few drinks, a raffle, disco and lots of [...]

Newsletter December 2018

2018. A GREAT YEAR! We’ve had a busy year at COPES with several spectacular events and some major fundraising initiatives. The highly successful Dinner Dance; the Wellbeing Day; the Football Match; the link with a local charity - Ambulance Transfers; the Family Fun Day; the raffles, sales and tombola; the Coffee Mornings; the Afternoon [...]

Newsletter November 2018

COPES IN NOVEMBER We hope to see you at the November Coffee Morning, in the Women’s Clinic at Southend Hospital. It’s a drop-in event running between 10.00 and 13.00. Relaxation, raffle, fun, support, therapy and more... Some Dates for your Diary Cream Tea at the Cliffs. 20th December at 2.00 p.m. for [...]

Newsletter September 2018

COPES IN SEPTEMBER Happy Returns Thanks so much for the hospitality of the staff in the Oncology Clinic for letting us use the clinic for the last few months. However, we’re very pleased to be back in the Women’s Clinic at the Nightingale Centre, round the back of the hospital. Thanks to the staff [...]

Newsletter August 2018

COPES IN AUGUST Your Committee News All the work done by the COPES Committee is done on a purely voluntary basis. We work closely with the hospital staff, Mr Razvi, Ms Kolomainen and the CNS team  particularly, as well as the hospital management. Meetings are held 4 times yearly from 6-8 pm. The planning [...]

Newsletter July 2018

COPES IN JULY Welcome to our new members, many of whom joined us in June after the Health and Wellbeing Day in late May. It’s great that you have joined us but we’re sorry that you need to! (if you see what we mean..). FABULOUS FOOTBALLERS! Our sincere thanks to James Bess and [...]

Ambulance Transfers

At our June Coffee Morning, we were delighted to welcome Elliot Smith from Ambulance Transfers, who told us about a great new scheme. In return for a joint project of the sharing of info across social media, his company have agreed to give COPES a donation. We are jointly spreading awareness of COPES and [...]

Newsletter June 2018

COPES IN JUNE We wish to pay tribute here to all those who support the work of COPES. The hospital staff and committee members, of course but also those who run the raffle, donate raffle prizes, go to businesses asking for raffle prizes, find new helpers to provide speakers, services and therapies. People like, [...]

Opening of the Tranquillity Room

TRANQUILLITY ROOM OPENED. COPES has been raising money for several years to fund the refurbishment of a room where patients can go to hear their diagnosis, the results of their treatments and their prognosis. In the past this was done in a mainly surgical or clinical setting. When we asked our members what sort [...]

More news on the Venezia Applicator

COPES SPONSORS GROUNDBREAKING NEW EQUIPMENT AT SOUTHEND HOSPITAL We were so happy to be invited to the installation of a magnificent new piece of equipment, the Venezia Applicator, in the Brachytherapy Suite. The whole project was joint-funded with other charities but COPES donated for the Venezia Applicator (below) This innovative device is only available [...]

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