BECOME A PROUD VOLUNTEER

All charities have dedicated volunteers, who give willing of their time to help support a cause that is close to their heart. Could you give just a few hours of your time to help breast cancer patients and their families? We are not asking everyone to run a marathon or abseil from the Forth Rail Bridge, although we are delighted to say that we do have volunteers signed up for both of these events.
If you can bake, sew, knit, dance, cycle, run, walk or get get muddy, bag pack, make tea, sell raffle tickets or donate or help collect raffle and
tombola prizes, host a stall, join our fun fundraising quizzes, or even just come along to events to cheer and help support the charity, there is
something for everyone and we need all of you.

Whether you want to volunteer to take part in one of our fundraising events, volunteer a few hours to help out with the team, or donate baking or prizes to our events, get in touch. Keep an eye on our calendar of events and let us know what you would like to get involved with.
Or if you would like to organise your own fundraising event, maybe a coffee morning or a cheese and wine evening or you want to do something more energetic, a sponsored walk, run, swim or cycle or anything else you can think of, get in touch and we will help support you and come along on the day if we can, to cheer you on. If you have any fundraising ideas you think we might be interested in, let us know.
We will have volunteer get togethers to get you fully informed in what we are doing and what we want to achieve to help breast cancer patients and their families.
Get in touch, email:

info@breastfriendsandfamily.co.uk

Volunteers

Audrey

Volunteering for Breast Friends and Family brings me a meaningful purpose beyond words. It feels like family. Breast Friends and Family is a game changer for me in my ever changing journey.

Avril

Being part of this amazing group of Breast Friends and family has given me the confidence to chat openly to fellow warriors who understand the importance of sharing our individual cancer experiences. I admire each and every one of my Breast Friends for their courage, passion, enthusiasm and determination to live life to the full whilst on their new journey. The group meetings lifts your spirits on every occasion and you leave with a spring in your step. Have made some amazing new friends that l wouldn’t otherwise have met so I am grateful of this.

Carrie

Although all our stories are different, the one thing we’ll always have in common (aside from the cancer) is the incredible support of such a wonderful charity, it’s trustees and volunteers. I have loved meeting and getting to know so many incredible ladies.

Gail

I was reluctant at first to go to the support group from my own anxieties but when I went I’m so glad I did. It has given me a place to talk, to lovely ladies that has been through same treatment or similar as me and just listen to me and hearing about their journey too. I’ve made some really great friends from this group and I am forever grateful for all the support they have provided to me.

Julie

I enjoy coming along to the Sunday morning Support Group Get Togethers to make the teas and coffees and watch this group of amazing women support each other. It’s truly heart-warming to see a lady tentatively come in for ”just five minutes” only to end up staying the whole time and then come back again and again.

Karen

Breast friends means support during and well after treatment. Finding that other ladies share the same feelings and experiences, you are not alone. Making new friendships which will last.

Kayla

I am very proud to help out this amazing charity. I would have loved to have had them around when I was diagnosed. Our local community are extremely fortune to have the help and support available.

Lorraine

Breast Friends and Family made me feel special on the days of my treatments with their very well thought out bags. The first support group meeting I was a bit nervous but Hazel welcomed me and Julie offered me coffee! I felt comfortable chatting to the other girls that I can happily call my friends that understand the rollercoaster of the cancer journey the good the bad but most of all the fun.

Nadia

Breast Friends and Family is like a little community of great friends who are always there to support you, no matter what you need.

Pauline

Breast Friends means talking, laughing and sharing worries and experiences with the most amazing women I have ever met.

Rhona

Knowing that there are women in the same or similar situation as you who are willing to share their experiences is invaluable. The opportunity to meet regularly whether it’s to talk about a particular situation or just have a blether has really help me navigate the muddy waters that cancer gives you.

Wendy

I became involved with the charity through friends who had benefitted from the excellent support they give to patients during and after their treatment. I can only thank everyone for making me so welcome. I have taken part in a few fundraising events that have taken me well out my comfort zone but do it as I am so inspired by a wonderful bunch of ladies.

CRAFTY CRAFTERS

We are a group of some 20 like minded ladies who meet three times a week in the East Calder Partnership Centre; some ladies come just once a week whilst others come two or even three times.

The crafts we enjoy include knitting, crocheting, quilting and cross stitch, to name a few. We are of various levels of experience and ages and all of us are happy to swap ideas and help each other when we hit on a problem or get stuck with a project.

In addition to our own projects, we get involved in supporting worthwhile charities and organisations. We work with Project Linus UK, making quilts and blankets which are given mainly to children who stay long term in hospital; and other organisations such as Women’s Aid.

Having contacts as St John’s Hospital, we have been asked to make syringe driver bags for the Oncology unit and baby quilts, blankets and hats for the Neonatal unit. Another major project for us was supplying material for and making the heart shaped pillows for distribution to ladies who had undergone surgery for breast cancer, this was under the umbrella of Bosom Buds of Scotland.

A charity we are pleased to have recently become involved with is Breast Friends and Family who support those going through a breast cancer diagnosis and treatment, at St John’s Hospital in Livingston. Breast Friends and Family have also taken over the role of supplying the heart shaped cushions to breast cancer patients. We are looking forward to a long working relationship with this worthwhile charity.