Breathe Easy Darlington is a support group for people affected by lung 
conditions including their friends, family and carers. Find out more about Breathe Easy.
Where?
The Copper Beech
Neasham Road
Darlington
DL1 4DH
View a map of the venue location.
For more information contact the North Regional Office: 0191 263 0276
Meetings and activities in 2012
- 16 May - Quiz (Premier at Morton Park)
- 20 June - Geoff Ashton (ex fireman)
- 18 July - Tom Nutt – ‘A career in Customs and Excise’
- 15 August - Joyce Crawford – amusing poetry and limericks
- 19 September - Social
- 17 October - Carol Edwards, florist from Elm Ridge, will give a demonstration on making Christmas table floral decorations followed by preserves by Barbara Beveridge, from Leazes Farm
- 21 November - Chris Lloyd, Deputy Editor & Political Editor of Northern Echo will give his talk Darlington: First Among Equals (light-hearted historical anecdotes)
BLF Active held at:
BoxFit Gym & Fitness Studio
Banks Road
Darlinton
DL1 1YB
Date: Every Wednesday of the month except the third Wednesday.
Cost: £3 each (£1 carers) per session.
On Saturday 10 March, Breathe Easy Darlington held a fundraising evening at The Cleveland Bridge Club, who kindly donated the venue. Some 100 members of the group and their guests danced to the amazing band, Musical Time Machine, and as well as enjoying a Pie and Pea supper and raffle. £470 was raised from an excellent event organised by group member Mrs M Cave.
Over recent months, the group has been raising money to buy Pulse Oximeters for the Paediatric Unit at Darlington Memorial Hospital. The Pulse Oximeters can both diagnose serious illness and can warn if oxygen levels are dangerously high in newborn babies. A proportion of the money raised by Breathe Easy Darlington also goes towards research into respiratory disease and towards the running costs of the group.
Darlington Fundraiser
Margaret Cave, group member, organised a stall through Darlington City Council at their free Monday market to help raise funds for Breathe Easy Darlington and the BLF. Members and non-members contributed with cakes, biscuits, savouries and books and Margaret’s husband Arthur and daughter Laura (who took a day off work to help) manned the stall throughout the day. Thanks to the generosity of everyone who helped, a total of £281 was raised and it was a very successful day.
More about the group
Breathe Easy Darlington had a great ‘charabanc’ day out on in July to Hardwick 
Park, stopping for an enjoyable lunch at the Dun Cow Inn, Sedgefield. Many thanks go to the Rotary Club of Darlington for providing the cost of the bus. Last year BE Darlington voted to donate the funds they raised to lung research and the BLF North Regional office were delighted to receive a whopping £4,000 which will help fund vital research and will be awarded through the BLF Research grant programme. For more information on research funded by the BLF and BE groups visit the BLF website.
