This year, the North West and North Wales gathering was at Formby National Trust, where we got to have a picnic lunch, walk around the famous pinewoods- den building and completing a nature scavenger hunt, and to top a fantastic day off, we had had an ice cream from the van at the end! Thankfully, the…
In 2022, as we celebrate our 25th year of Caring Matters Now, we would love to see as many people as possible helping us to raise the essential funds that we need to be able to continue to provide support to families affected by CMN for another 25 years, and more. Could you join us in STEPPING UP FOR CMN by taking on a ’25’ Challenge?
Following the huge success of our HOW DO YOU C ME NOW? photographic exhibition in 2019 and the release of our HOW DO YOU C ME NOW? photographic book in 2020, this year we are continuing to build upon the momentum of raising global awareness of CMN by launching our first HOW DO YOU C ME NOW? professional film, featuring the life story of an adult member living with CMN, Cheryl Shaw.
After a challenging couple of years, with large events being cancelled and postponed, we were so excited to finally see the London Marathon going ahead, and on 3rd October 2021, we had 13 people take part in the London Marathon & Virtual London Marathon in support of Caring Matters Now.
“My wonderful sister Rachel has done so much fundraising for Caring Matters Now. She’s ran the Belfast Marathan, the London marathon, she’s jumped out of the sky… she’s much more brave than me! Where she has run two whole marathons, I have ran a leg! Whenever the London to Paris cycle was announced as a…
Teens O2 Challenge Written by Hannah Cree, Support Pathway Practitioner Pretty soon into my role as Support Pathway Coordinator, I heard about the Teens Challenge at ‘Up at the o2.’ This sounded like a real challenge for our teens and one that would require courage! I knew I wanted to support our teens on the…
Thanks to all of our Young Ambassadors who attended our Communications and Social Media Training Workshop on Tuesday 31st August.
As I’m sure all parents of children with CMN feel, it was a shock when Arizona was born with a large birth mark on her back. Although our midwifery and paediatric teams were fantastic, they hadn’t seen CMN before and were unsure of what it was. We were eventually referred to Caring Matters Now and…
Our annual conference took place on Friday 7th May – Sunday 9th May. During the 3-day conference we hosted 16 online events via zoom, catering for 598 members. Every family and individual who registered to attend the conference received a welcome pack in the post, which include event goodies for the specific events they were…
Are you living with CMN aged 11-17 years? If so, we would love you to take part in a new research study the Centre for Appearance Resarch has launched called TABI (Teen Appearance and Body Image) which aims to explore young people’s experience of appearance and body image using an online survey.
