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Sponsored by Moor International Ltd, Dan’s Fund For Burns was invited to speak at the ISBI/BBA in the session on “How the World Supports Burn Survivors.

Dans Fund donates 8 LPG machines to UK burn centres

Dan’s Fund For Burns donates eight LPG machines to major burn centres across the UK.

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Our latest 2025 newsletter is out in print.  Contact us for a hard copy or go to latest news to enjoy it online.  It's been a busy summer with a Burn Survivor Day out in August and a Scar therapy massage and skin camouflage day in September, in London.  We shortly head to Dubai with our Bali Legends rugby team and are working on filling three golf days next year - Swinley Forest (5th May), Sunningdale Heath (15th May)  and Woking GC (26th June).  Get in touch for booking forms.
What a week we had down in Brighton at the British Burns Association Conference.   The conference was packed full of interesting conversations and Dan's Fund were delighted to have their own stand for the first time, kindly sponsored by Moor Instruments Ltd.
On Thursday 9th Jan 2025, some OTs, Nurses and Prostheists specialists from Burn Services in Preston, Birmingham, Chelmsford and Bristol trained up in Skin Camouflage techniques at The Finishing Touches Group clinic in Haywards Heath. They have also been given a starter kit to kick start their service or replace out of date items. The course  was an online and in person course designed in conjunction with Dan’s Fund For Burns and NHS professionals. Thanks so much to our models of the day Sarah and Sue. Thanks for Dawn at The Finishing Touches group for taking on the mantle of facilitating this course and to Gemma, Marcella, Emma and Mel for the execution. This is giant step forward in improving this important service to burn survivors across the UK and we will be launching another course late June for other Adult Burns NHS staff.
Super excited that our plans for our 13th-15th September burn survivor weekend away in Newcastle is coming together.
Wishing our burn survivors and supporters a very happy new year!  Do you have any new year's resolutions?   One of Polly's (Dan's Fund founder and CEO) is to look after her own burn scars and body more this year.  She has started a course of 6 LPG massage treatment sessions at Chelsea & Westminster Hospital every Wednesday throughout January & February 2024.  She hopes this massage treatment with the LPG machine will relax her tight bands of scarring and reduce pain.  It will also give her the opportunity to assess the machines and understand their worth, with a view to donating some to the major burn centres across the UK.   We're hoping for great results and will update you in due course!
On 19 March 2023, members of the Nottingham Burns Unit social running club called the 'Plod Squad' took part in both the Sherwood Pines half marathon and 10k run choosing to raise funds for Dan's Fund For Burns (DFFB).   The group looked fantastic in their DFFB t-shirts and raised an amazing £2,235 for us!  Thank you so much for your incredible efforts.  Congratulations and well done!
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