Visit to Salts Manufacturing Centre

West Riding IA are organising a visit for members to Salts manufacturing centre in Birmingham on 17th October 2012. It is a chance to see how products are made, distributed and some of the latest innovations. It will be a full day trip leaving from Leeds City Centre around 8am and returning about 6pm. Cost of the trip is free and lunch is provided. You are welcome to bring one guest with you.

To book on this trip please either call Sarah on 07531 816275 or email her at sarah.stevens@iasupport.org.

Our next social evening will be held on Thursday 3rd May 2012 at 7.30pm, Bridget’s Room, The Victoria Pub, Great George Street, Leeds LS1 3DL. Non members are welcome including friends and family and your first drink will be free. If you want to find out more details about our social evenings please contact Sarah on 07531 816275.

Open Days 2012

19th April - Salts Open day, 10am – 2pm, Best Western Monkbar Hotel, York, YO31 7JA

28th April and 29th September - Coffee Morning for those local to Bradford and surrounding area, 10am-12pm, Bradford Cancer Support Centre, BD9 6DA

21st September - St Mary’s Hospital are hosting a Stoma and Continence Patient Awareness Day from 10am until 2.30pm at St Chad’s Parish Centre, Far Headingley, Leeds, LS16 5JT. There will be exhibitions, workshops and refreshments available. Please contact St Mary’s Hospital Continence, Urology and Colorectal Service on 0113 3055138 if you would like to attend.

West Riding IA are offering free membership to new members for the current calendar year. For further information please contact Sarah Stevens 07531 816275 (Chair) or David Minto 07531 816479 (Secretary).

Other Young IA events (Non-IA)

Breakaway Weekends

BREAKAWAY weekend are organised for children aged between 4 and 18 (and their parents) by people who have knowledge and experience of living with a bowel or bladder diversion.

Further details about Breakaway and thier next event can be found here: click here or you can e-mail: breakaway@tiscali.co.uk or phone Julie on 07939 690311.

If you are interested in attending, a bursary may be available from West Riding IA to help fund a Breakaway weekend. Please contact Sarah on 07531 816275 for more details on how to apply for this.

Please let us know if you are interested in doing any fundraising for by contacting David Minto on 07531 816479. We can organise for you a justgiving website, sponsorship forms and IA running vests. We would greatly appreciate any fundraising you can do for us and we will publish details of your event in the local newsletter.

To raise funds for us from the comfort of your own home, you can use this Easy search link click here as your search engine (instead of Google) and for every search you complete West Riding IA receive a payment (small amount each time but they all add up!). It costs you nothing to carry out the search.

If you are shopping online please also consider shopping through this link. A small percentage of your total spend will be donated to West Riding IA. This does not incur any additional costs for you.

Many thanks in advance from the committee.