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Jeanette Hawkins
@childcancerwork.bsky.social
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Happy, content & grateful person. Mom, wife. Love 🌳🚐 🏞️ 🇬🇧Ex-QARANC. Chief Nurse @CCLGUK & @YLvsC. Trustee @Supershoes. All views my own. 🎗️
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cclguk.bsky.social
Today, we’re launching #ChildCancerSmart alongside campaign ambassador @dramirkhangp.bsky.social - an evidence-based public and professional awareness campaign to improve #EarlyDiagnosis of cancer in children and teenagers aged up to 18 🩵🎗️

Find out more at cclg.org.uk/childcancers...
August 7, 2025 at 12:15 PM
childcancerwork.bsky.social
Evidence based guidance to help families and professions consider when it might be childhood cancer (a disease where the symptoms may be a bit vague and like lots of other routine childhood illness).
cclguk.bsky.social CCLG: The Children & Young People’s Cancer Association @cclguk.bsky.social · Aug 8
We want #HealthcareProfessionals to consider the question: 'Could it be cancer?'

If a child has 3 persistent symptoms, 3 GP visits, or 3 weeks of unexplained symptoms, it might be time to call your local on-call paediatrician 📞

cclg.org.uk/childcancers...

#ChildCancerSmart
August 9, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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ashleyballgamble.bsky.social
Looking forward to bringing together our professional community at our #CCLG2025 next week: The UK's main (and best, obviously!) CYP cancer event for professionals, with learning, sharing, networking and sparking new ideas and collaborations...
cclguk.bsky.social CCLG: The Children & Young People’s Cancer Association @cclguk.bsky.social · Mar 17
📢🌟 The #CCLG2025 Annual Conference returns March 24-25 at Birmingham's ICC! Over 700 delegates are coming together for two days of essential updates on best practices and cutting-edge research in childhood, teenage and young adult cancer.

More info and programme:
UK children and young people’s cancer experts come together for CCLG Annual Conference
CCLG: The Children & Young People’s Cancer Association hosts its Annual Conference next week (March 24-25), bringing together experts from across the childhood, teenage and young adult cancer communit...
www.cclg.org.uk
March 17, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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cclguk.bsky.social
We can't wait to welcome delegates to our biggest-ever annual conference next week in Birmingham!

We've got an ambitious programme of talks, workshops and more, packed with valuable insights on treatment, care and research. See you there! 👋🤩

bit.ly/4hs4bPR

#CCLG2025
UK children and young people’s cancer experts come together for CCLG Annual Conference
CCLG: The Children & Young People’s Cancer Association hosts its Annual Conference next week (March 24-25), bringing together experts from across the childhood, teenage and young adult cancer communit...
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March 21, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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littleprincesses.bsky.social
We will be at #CCLG2025 today and tomorrow. Please do come over to our stand and say hello if you are also attending!
March 24, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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We know how difficult accessing welfare benefits is for children and young people with cancer, which is why the system desperately needs to change. While we await further news on what changes may be to come, read our latest statement and more about our new benefits research here: ow.ly/uFqh50Vi8WB
A graphic image with text that reads: 'The system isn't working, and something needs to change. Whatever is to come, it must provide the support children and young people with cancer need, when they need it. - Helen Gravestock, Director of Policy, Communications and Voice - Young Lives vs Cancer.'
March 14, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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oncologynewstoday.co.uk/leading-canc...
Leading cancer organisations unite memberships to further improve treatment and care for children and young people - Oncology Today
Two leading organisations for professionals and researchers working in children and young people's cancer have merged their memberships to form a new body which will bring together experts to achieve ...
oncologynewstoday.co.uk
March 14, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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Shocking new data on the deaths of children linked to temporary accommodation. Unthinkable and avoidable suffering. My quote in pic, full story (£) here:
www.thetimes.com/article/3a3b...
January 28, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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Ella's is a London based charity working with women who have survived trafficking and sexual exploitation. They're looking for a Safeguarding Trustee, they'd love hear from people who have benefitted from a service like Ella’s.

#charities
#volunteering

reachvolunteering.org.uk/opp/safeguar...
Safeguarding Trustees
This Trustee/Governor vacancy is based in London, London (Central). Skills required: Governance, Change management. Ella’s’ Board of Trustees is looking for an individual to act as our lead Safeguardi...
reachvolunteering.org.uk
January 29, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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oncodaily.bsky.social
🌍 Become The Second Global OncoThon Changemaker on February 15: Join the Movement! 🎗️

⏰ Nomination Deadline: January 30th, 2025.

👉 Submit your nomination here: shorturl.at/p2SQz

One Day, One Mission, One Global Effort.

#ChildhoodCancer #PediatricCancer #Changemakers #Oncodaily #OncoThon
January 21, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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ekdrake.bsky.social
✅ I started an #AYACSM (Adolescent and Young Adult Cancer Societal Movement) starter pack!

⭐ This is the beginnings of gathering all of us around the globe 🌍 who are involved in #AYACancer work/advocacy

💡 Please share and let me know who you would like to have added!

go.bsky.app/Vfp4JWE
#AYACSM - Adolescent and young adult cancer
Join the conversation
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January 19, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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cclguk.bsky.social
🌟 We're excited to share that the CCLG Ambulatory Care Special Interest Group has developed a practical guide for colleagues nationally interested in developing #AmbulatoryCare services.

Find out more and download the guide at bit.ly/3W6VN0p

@childcancerwork.bsky.social
January 13, 2025 at 9:30 AM
childcancerwork.bsky.social
Beautiful 👇
silverpebble2.bsky.social Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · Jan 9
Recently I missed a couple of weeks of posting my photos here due to really bad mental health but I hope to make up for that.
I design my photos using recent research into the shift in brain activity from fight/flight to rest &relaxation triggered by looking at plants/at something we find beautiful.
An arrangement of spring flowers in various old ink & poison bottles & a tiny old jam jar, including primulas, cowslip, forget me not, anemone blanda, cow parsley leaves, pulmonary, daisies & saxifrage.
January 9, 2025 at 9:01 PM
childcancerwork.bsky.social
#airedaleterriers #dogsofbluesky
#dogsmimicinghumans
January 8, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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annalandre.com
Do you know a UK-based wheelchair user who works in a lab and would be willing to user-test our prototype of what is believed to be the first-ever lab coat adapted for wheelchair users?

Please share far & wide! Interest form: forms.office.com/e/66FhcQjqRT

More info: www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-east/new...
Two photos of Anna, a young white woman using an electric wheelchair, wearing a blue lab coat that fits her well with tables and dry-lab equipment in the background. Text reads: "A team of researchers and designers led by UCL is looking for wheelchair users working in wet lab environments to user-test what is believed to be the first-ever prototype of a lab coat adapted for wheelchair users."
January 7, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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nationaltrust.org.uk
🌱 Organic farming boosts soil health, biodiversity, and cuts carbon emissions.

We’re backing the call for 10% of England’s farmland to go organic, working with farmers to protect landscapes and build a healthier, greener future.
Green groups call for 10% organic farmland target for England
The government should aim for 10% of farmland in England to be organic or risk 'becoming an outlier' within the UK and Ireland.
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January 7, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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ladylaxton.bsky.social
MP Alex Mcintyre has a Bill in Parliament today to give paid leave to victim- survivors of domestic abuse - can only be a good thing. It's a Ten Minute Rule Bill so unlikely to pass but good that the issue is being raised www.bbc.com/news/article... #DomesticAbuse
Gloucester MP's new bill proposes time off for abuse victims
Alex McIntyre is presenting his Bill to MPs for further consideration this week.
www.bbc.com
January 7, 2025 at 9:05 AM
childcancerwork.bsky.social
Yep she was spot on again. Knew snow was coming two days in advance and behaviour changed. She’s very happy today. ❤️ #Airedales #Dogs #WeatherWatchers
Tan and black Airedal dog looking towards the camera, in a garden covered in snow. An Acer wrapped in white garden fleece in the foreground. Tan and black Airedal dog looking towards a tree in a garden covered in snow. An Acer wrapped in white garden fleece in the foreground.
January 5, 2025 at 12:08 PM
childcancerwork.bsky.social
We’re definitely expecting snow. Weather reports can be hit and miss but my Dog is always right - she’s been outside watching the sky and sniffing the air all day - usual pre snow behaviour. Then we’ll get this behaviour … 😂
January 2, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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silverpebble2.bsky.social
Just 5 spots left on my Feb botanical illustration & mental health w'shop

I'll teach you:
🌿how to break plants down into simple shapes & add shading
🧠how creative activity shifts brain biochemistry to improve mental health

Earlybird price expires 1 Jan
workshops.emmamitchell.uk/courses/bota...
Nigella, cornflower, Russian sage & sweet pea & my illustrations of them on the opposite page of a sketchbook One of my nature diaries with various late summer finds including feverfew, lavender, fleabane and pignut leaf and my illustration of each next to it on a double page of sketchbook Four winter-flowering species and a sprig of pink snowberry with my illustration of each alongside on some sketchbook paper Summer botanical and other finds from the garden and my walks with my illustrations of them alongside on a double page spread of sketchbook paper
December 27, 2024 at 7:10 PM
childcancerwork.bsky.social
When it’s foggy and miserable out but you make yourself go walking anyway, the nature delivers …. ❤️
Outline of deer on the top of the hill in the Forrest on a foggy day. Trees in winter browns and bronzes. Deer running across the Forrest path on a foggy winter day. Two Airedale dogs on leads in the foreground and a man pointing to the deer. Deer crossing the Forest path in the fog. Winter trees; some evergreen firs, some brown leafless. Grass is mossy green with bronze winter dried bracken. The forest in winter on a foggy day. Stoney pale brown path, edges with mossy green grass with bronze bracken rising on each side of the valley. Tall evergreen firs on the banks. View is uphill. The air is damp and cool. It’s beautiful.
December 27, 2024 at 6:21 PM
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megalightheart.bsky.social
I remember the first time I drew a (heavily guided) realistic flower. Felt like a magic trick.

Definitely interested in this...
silverpebble2.bsky.social Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · Dec 20
My February beginners' botanical illustration & mental health w'shop is now open.

I'll teach you:
✒️🌿How to break plants down into simple shapes & add shading
🧠How time spent creatively improves mental health

Limited spaces. Earlybird price expires 1 Jan:

workshops.emmamitchell.uk/courses/bota...
Cornflower, Nigella Russian sage & sweet peas, all shades of blue & purple on the LH page of a sketch book, with my fountain pen illustrations of them on the RH page One of my nature diaries with various finds: a feather, a pressed leaf of pignut, A sprig of feverfew & dried hydrangea, stems of lavender & a pheasant feather on a sketch book with my detailed drawings of them alongside 4 winter flowering plants: heather, hellebore, winter-flowering cherry and Viburnum tinus and pink snowberry, each on a piece of sketch book paper with my detailed drawings of them alongside A series of nature finds & botanical specimens including Geranium phaeum,a song thrush's egg, empty grove snail shell & wood avens found on walks & in my garden during the summer, with my detailed drawings of them alongside
December 22, 2024 at 11:01 AM
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December 18, 2024 at 11:23 PM
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A positive step closer to protecting some of the most vulnerable children.
ncb.org.uk National Children's Bureau @ncb.org.uk · Dec 17
We welcome the opportunity the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill brings and the commitment to a ‘child-centred government’, while recognising that robust policy change must be paired with proper investment.

Read our full statement: https://buff.ly/3DfXAd4
“The Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill could be a once in a generation opportunity to improve the lives of children and young people. We join the Children’s Charities Coalition in welcoming its potential to transform how we help our most vulnerable children and families, but urge the government show more ambition and to increase investment in key areas such as mental health support and children’s social care and commit to eradicating child poverty."
December 17, 2024 at 7:05 PM
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Me - fending off all meeting requests and emails until 2025
A Little Owl perches on a branch, one talon raised defensively mid-air as if swiping at something unseen. Its wings are spread wide in a flurry of spotted feathers, and its sharp yellow eyes glare with fierce determination—ready to bat away any incoming intrusions. The pose perfectly embodies the fight to keep work at bay... a small but mighty force holding its ground.
December 17, 2024 at 1:22 PM