It's All About People Champions Event

Wednesday 23 September

For our Champion of the Day today we are going a bit over the top and celebrating 13 of them!! 

Today we held an IAAP Champions event as part of our Personalised Care Week celebrations.  We were kindly gifted a room at St Barnabas Wellbeing Centre in Louth and we had a really wonderful session.  All 13 of the Champions are being celebrated today for making the time to attend the session, for being fully absorbed in all of the activities, for sharing their experiences, for talking about the barriers and realities, for sharing the ripples of being a Champion, for helping us put together a list of what is needed for real co-production to happen, and for reminding us and themselves ‘why they care’! 

We were also lucky enough to have David Thomas bring his ‘The Quite Fight: Into the Light: Faces of Prostate Cancer’ exhibition to share with the group.  The Champions enjoyed hearing from David about his own experiences, seeing the beautiful portraits and reading about people’s lives.  Thank you so much to David. 

So our huge thanks goes out to all 13 of our Champions who attended the session today:

Georgia Collins, Laura Lomax, Lucy Twigg, Michelle Webb, Andy Senyszyn, Rachael Jones, Megan Firmstone, Sarah Edwards, Ruth Taylor, Andrea Warboys, Jennie Goacher, Iryna Balabine and Betty Berthebaud. 

Thank you for your input, feedback and involvement, both today and going forward. 

Some of the feedback from today’s session:

Thankyou!! Feel so comfortable, chilled and enjoyed it. Thanks so much

Loved all the stories heard today thank you

Love being part of a team that share the same views and pushing for change.

Great opportunities to meet and network between different services, finding out what works well and what doesn't.