Breathe Easy Glenfield is a support group for people affected by lung conditions including their friends, family and carers. Find out more about Breathe Easy.
Where?
The Education Centre, Glenfield Hospital, Groby Road, Glenfield, Leicester, LE3 9QP.
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Please contact the Midlands office before going to your first meeting by telephoning 0116 249 5780 or emailing midlands@blf-uk.org. They will give you the group's contact details so that you can check the meeting is on.
More about the group
World COPD Day
Members of Breathe Easy Glenfield celebrated World COPD Day with their annual bric-a-brack sale at Glenfield Hospital. The beautiful hand made wooden ornaments and baby clothes were very popular, as was the tombola. Members managed to raise £524.52, and spoke to several people who expressed an interest in joining the group.
BOFAA Winner
Congratulations to BE Glenfield for winning the Midlands Gold Star Breath of Fresh Air Award for Outstanding Contributions to BLF Projects. Over the course of the year, the group donated £2,650 to support research projects and the BLF Nurses scheme. Peter Taylor, BE Glenfield's Chair, collected the certificate from Jeremy Bacon, Midlands Support and Development Mangager, at the Loughborough network meeting.
BE Week
BE Glenfield recently organised a stand at Glenfield hospital for Breathe Easy Week. Members sold items hand-crafted from wood, they had a bric-a-brac, and tombola. The group raised £300 and spoke to visitors about lung health and the Breathe Easy group.
Pat Brickly also organised an awareness-raising stand at Beaumont Leys Shopping Centre. Pat was joined by Dhiraj Vara and Caroline Jadowski from Glenfield Hospital Respiratory Physiology Department, Noreen from the Smoking Cessation team, Amandeep Dhaliwal, Kelly Edwards, Gemma McCarthy and Katy Wagg from Glenfield Pulmonary Rehab and Catie Harvey from the British Lung Foundation. The team spoke about lung health and many shoppers chose to undertake breathing tests.
Awareness Day
BE Glenfield held their 'Huff & Puff' awareness day at Leicester's Beumont Leys Shopping Centre, where they were joined by Smoking Cessation, Respiratory Physiology, a respiratory research team, and members of the pulmonary rehab team. Lung function tests were performed on 40 members of the public and group members spoke to a lot of people, including some potential new group members.
Breathe Easy Week
Once again BE Glenfield held their annual Bric-a-Brac sale in the reception area of Glenfield 
Hospital, Leicester. Along with a tombola stall, they sold donated items, hand made wooden bowls and vases and held a plant and flower sale outside, with the help of their scare-crow lady, who was very kindly made by a group member’s family.The group did very well and raised over £600.
World COPD Day
Ahead of World COPD Day, Breathe Easy Glenfield held a Bric-a-Brac stall on 11 November in the reception area of Glenfield Hospital. Group members donated many items to sell, including some beautiful wooden bowls and vases that had been handcrafted! As the Bric-a-Brac took place on Remembrance Day, a two-minute silence was held at 11am. £578.43 was raised in total!
The group have also recently purchased 90 patient information booklets for Glenfield Hospital. One 
will be put by every bed on the main respiratory wards. The booklets have been produced to improve communication between staff, patients and relatives. They contain useful information relating to the ward environment, nursing and medical staff, hospital services, standards patients can expect, and discharge information. They also give patients and relatives the opportunity to leave feedback so that services can be improved. The folders are very cost effective as individual sheets can be replaced if changes occur, rather than having to reprint the whole booklet. They can also be wiped clean so do not pose an infection control risk. Below, group members are pictured holding the booklets with Matron Judith Evans at their World COPD Day bric-a-brac event.
