Reflections on 2019
Sally Bromley
As well as wishing a very Happy New Year to you all, I’d like to share a few
reflections on the year just ended:
- Paul spread his humour across the country with his one man show
- Kevin has raised awareness of research at conferences
- Nigel and Kevin attended the Kyoto World Parkinson’s Conference
- David has got people finding out about PD through his pub quizzes
- Finding 12 volunteers to facilitate our August discussion meeting reveals the close ties we have developed with people interested in Parkinson’s
- Kit has raised funds and informed his Huntercombe Golf Club about living with PD as the Charity of the Year
- More people have got involved with Expert Patient Tutor where patients inform Y5 medics about our neurological condition
- Members put on the Great Gatsby Ball
- Members have supported In Control by Design, a set of workshops with members of a lab, the Pitt Rivers Museum and members of Oxford and Banbury branches working together
- Martin and Mark have raised awareness of the branch through the North Oxford Rotary where our Branch is Charity of the Year
- Ian and Diana are facilitators for First Steps
- Ian has spoken to other branches of the benefits of First Steps
- Martin has encouraged more people to go on visits and to join in events, and has organised an enjoyable holiday to Holme Lacy in October
- Kevin is on the research committee at Cure Parkinson’s Trust and also he is co editor of Clinical Trials Highlights at Journal of Parkinson’s Disease
- Kit has fostered links at the Art Cafe in Whitchurch on Thames
- Nigel arranges a picnic at Blenheim and Kit the BBQ at Wytham.
- More members are involved in research as volunteers
- I have delivered presentations to various groups over the year
- I’ve wrangled with PUK re First Steps and I think this is resolved...
- I was patient rep on an Oxfordshire CCG Project to report on services for PwP
- First Steps is reaching people across the country
- We have made stronger links with Age UK Oxfordshire, and continue to subsidise exercise classes run by their Generation Games service
- and there have been countless fundraising activities and events run by members
This is an impressive list and we should be proud of our work and all that we have achieved.
