Climb to new heights with coffee
Heather Bird has made it a mission in her life to help the charity Climb to raise funds. Why? It was triggered when her daughter was diagnosed with a condition some 16 years ago and she wanted to help out.
Climb is a national charity which specialises in helping those of all ages – youngsters, adults and families – who suffer or are affected by a metabolic disease. The organisation has a leading UK information service to help advise and educate those who need assistance or explanations about the disorder. The National Information Centre for Metabolic Diseases is designed especially for this purpose. It also works to provide information to professionals on the subject. In addition, Climb invests some of its funds in research programmes to see how the disease can be treated and to help to provide medical services too.
Mrs Bird wants to help to raise funds and recently held a coffee morning in the Ketton Sports Club. The event was a wonderful success and she and her team raised some £500 for the Climb cause. As well as serving coffee, there were other traditional coffee morning ingredients too. For example, there was a bring and buy sale to help the locals to recycle their unwanted goods for a good cause. Together with her granddaughter, Mrs Bird also had a ‘name the doll competition’ to raise money as visitors tried to guess the name of the toy.
The ongoing efforts of those who support the charity are very much welcomed and applauded.