During the week of the 17th-21st July, Maddie, one of our Young Ambassadors joined us for work experience. Throughout her week with us, Maddie had the opportunity to get involved in many aspects of charity life and put new skills into practice including public speaking, journal writing and producing a ‘walk-through’ of the website. Opportunity to…
Meet Anna “By being true to myself, I created a welcoming space for others to be themselves too.” My name is Anna, I am 15 years old, and I was born with CMN. My CMN covers my whole right arm and hand as well as that, I have multiple large naevi on my back and…
It’s a long way to Tipperary! Or is it? As we were planning our annual support event for Dublin Zoo in October this year, we had a brainwave to host another gathering somewhere else in the country. Ireland’s not that big and with our positive “sure it’ll be grand!” attitude, we embarked on hosting two…
Following the success of our Ireland Regional Gathering to Tayto Park last year, we wanted to choose another venue which would have lots of activities to offer for our members and their families. Jungle NI offered a multi activity package with the opportunity to challenge a Rodeo Bull, bounce on bungee trampolines, pedal on the…
We had a great time at the NW and N Wales regional gathering at Farmer Ted’s in April. The children had plenty of things to do, from shows, tractor rides, petting the animals, slides, outdoor play areas, maze, jumping pillows, etc. The weather was very kind to us and we all gathered for a lovely…
This News Article was written by our South East Regional Contact, Diane. Earlier this month I had the honour of representing Caring Matters Now on our stand at the British Association of Dermatologists (BAD) Annual Conference in Liverpool. For three days, professionals whose daily work revolves around all matters skin-related came to the ACC, Liverpool…
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…
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…
