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Making a will  / setting up a trust for the benefit of a loved one with a learning disability

Are you worried about how your family member with a learning disability will manage financially when you are not around to support them?

Mencap have organised FREE 2 hour seminars for parents and carers, with information and advice provided by a specialist local solicitor.

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The Princess Royal Trust for Carers will be featured on the BBC Lifeline Appeal BBC One, on 19th June.

For over twenty years, BBC Lifeline has helped raise money and increase the profile of hundreds of charities across the UK and abroad.

The appeal will be a unique opportunity to tell people about the work of The Trust and why we need more support for the UK’s unpaid Carers.

You can help the UK’s six million Carers by watching the appeal and telling your family, friends and colleagues to tune in to learn more about the work we do.

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Southwark Day centre for Asylum Seekers are organising a concert featuring a variety of music and musicians on Saturday 18th June to help celebrate refugee week 2011.

The event starts at 6pm with music from 8pm-10pm.

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Superdrug are once again supporting carers and Carers Week by providing 100,000 discount vouchers. Each voucher entitles carers to save 10% at Superdrug in a single transaction, and is valid from 13-30 June 2011.

Click this link to sign up for the voucher. You will also receive a Carers Week Advice & Information booklet and a voucher for a free Carers Pack from Boots.

Are you worried about paying your bills, and how the government spending cuts will affect you ?

Come along and find out about:

What benefits you might be entitled to

• Help with housing costs
• Staying well and healthy
• Help to get back into work or training
• What to do if you have got into difficulties paying your bills
• The services of London Mutual Credit Union- savings and low cost credit

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Adult Learners’ Week, the UK’s longest running learning campaign, celebrates its 20th anniversary this year. The event, which begins on May 14, encourages thousands of adults to give learning a go, whether they simply want to have fun or boost their careers.

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Festival ’51 View Points

Festival ’51 is a chance to get involved in an exciting series of workshops developing a ‘pop up’ exhibition for the Southbank Centre, exploring the Festival of Britain, which took place in 1951.

Take part in a unique heritage training programme and visits, resulting in the curation of a fantastic exhibition which will be displayed in the Royal Festival Hall.

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Each year the Mental Health Foundation uses this week in the calendar to work with people and organisations across the UK to help raise awareness of important public mental health issues which are often neglected.

Previous years have seen innovative campaigns raising awareness of topics such as ‘Fear and Anxiety’ and ‘Loneliness.’ The theme this year is Sleep.

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Kings College Hospital (KCH) have launched a new service. The Integrated Care Pilot (ICP) aims to truly involve the people it aims to benefit by defining a better way for primary, secondary, social and community care to work together effectively, for the benefit of patients and the people who care for them.

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King’s is holding elections to its Board of Governors in June 2011 – we want local people to get involved and to stand for Governor.

Vote for your representative: In June 2011, King’s will be asking members to elect 24 representatives to the King’s Board of Governors.  To vote for your representative in the elections, you’ll need to be a Member of King’s.  You can join today by contacting our Membership team on 020 3299 8888 or email kch-tr.members@nhs.net.  Please see the attached flyer for more details.

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