Update 11th December
We had an email from Jess at Medical Detection dogs thanking us and giving an updated total!
I wanted to let you know that with the donations that came in on the day of your visit from the members, purchases of our merchandise and the donation you made with members ticket prices, the event raised and unbelievable £1,274.49!
That is a huge amount of money to us and to give you a perspective of the difference it would make, it will support one of our partnerships for a whole year!
Thank you from the bottom of all of our hearts for your support and please pass our thanks onto all the members that visited with you.
Gill Bland writes
"Area 15 had an extremely successful mid-week day out at Medical Detection Dogs www.medicaldetectiondogs.org.uk
Photo Album Medical Detection Dogs & Oselli
Claire, Jane, Sue and all the staff and volunteers made our large group very welcome.
The incredible work done by this charity cannot be understated. We were delighted to make a donation of £380 from the 38 people who attended.
There was not a dry eye in the room when Geoff shared his life experiences with us, and explained how life changing it was for him to be paired with Charlie. Geoff is one of almost 80 people currently whose lives are transformed by the support by medical alert assistance dogs.
A fascinating demonstration by Willow and her trainers Mark and Claire showed the other aspect of this charity’s work of bio detection. The important work done on detection of diseases early by intelligent dogs is ground breaking and confirmed to us that we are the inferior race by a nostril!!!
Lunch was provided by The Bell at Winslow with their award winning pies, thoroughly recommended.
We ended the day with a visit to Oseli www.oseli.com David Eales the owner kindly showed us round and talked through the history of Oseli and David’s time at Aston Martin in Newport Pagnell, and the range of services they offer"