Last year I had the opportunity to attend the BAD conference in Glasgow along with my mum. This was a great opportunity to meet and discuss CMN with dermatology specialist working in our hospitals all over the country. Throughout my day at the conference not only was I able to share my own personal journey…
An introduction to our BIG Weekend From the 7th-9th of July we celebrated our BIG Weekend at Liddington PGL, Swindon, the last time we were able to do this was before the pandemic, in 2019. Due to the Cost-of-Living Crisis we thought carefully about how best to make this event accessible for members and were…
Royal College of Midwives (RCM) and SANDS (Stillbirth and Neonatal Death Charity) Conference Dunsilly Hotel, Antrim, 15th June 2023 Caring Matters Now attended the RCM and SANDS Conference in June 2023. We were able to speak to many midwives and share our Medical Booklet with them, some of whom shared with us that they had…
We had an early start on the Wednesday and had to be at the stand from just after 8am. We were chatting to Midwives from about 8:15am and signing them up to our medical mail list! We were so busy chatting that we barely had time to eat! We had to eat our lunch in…
Hello, I’m Dan. I was born with a nevus located on my trunk and lower back, with a number of smaller satellites all over the rest of my body. My CMN continues to grow, lighten, darken, and change shape as I get older. Over the past few months, I’ve had the pleasure of becoming more…
In January we launched our first Equality Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Focus Group with the aim of reviewing ethnic diversity across our members at Caring Matters Now. Representation of CMN amongst individuals with a darker skin tone is generally poor, in fact dermatologists report that most diagnostic images for skin conditions are on white skin…
Hi. My name is Laura – I am 29 years old and I live in North East Scotland and I was born with CMN on my back (about the size of my mum’s hand at birth). Birth and family life. When I was born my mum remembers thinking that the doctors could have ‘broken the…
We are delighted to announce that our Young Ambassador James has now completed Level 1 of our Young Ambassadors Programme! Congratulations from all of us at Caring Matters Now for completing Level 1 and for all your hard work and determination! James hopes to pursue the Dale Carnegie Course as Level 2 of the programme…
Our lovely new member Krishika shares her story below and aspires to “inspire others to love and accept what they are blessed with.” I was born in India, a land of multi-diverse cultured people. I come from a place where nevus owners are very rare so growing up with CMN was challenging both mentally and…
Our grandson, Elijah, is now 8 years old and has scalp CMN. Ever since we learnt of the charity, we have been wanting to give back to thank them for their support towards families like ours. Over the years I have taken part in several challenges to raise money for Caring Matters Now. In 2016…
