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Home-Start, the UK’s leading family support charity, will benefit from a BBC Lifeline appeal to be presented by former Coronation Street and Bad Girls star, Debra Stephenson, on 20th July on BBC1.

Home-Start provides a unique service for families - recruiting and training volunteers to support parents with at least one child under the age of five in their own home. Home-Start supports nearly 35,000 families and over 71,000 children each year. Almost 16,000 volunteers visit families in their own homes – parents support other parents in a variety of situations including isolation, bereavement, multiple births, illness or disability, or those who are just finding parenting a struggle.

Home-Start East Fife is based in St Andrews and is one of the 340 local Home-Start schemes that will be sharing the proceeds of the Lifeline appeal. Home-Start East Fife has supported around 600 families with 1,200 children since its inception in 1987. Lifeline is the BBC's monthly television charity appeal programme which has helped raised money for and increased the profile of hundreds of charities across the UK. There have been more than 250 appeals so far and almost £6m has been raised for charities.

Home-start’s BBC Lifeline appeal will be broadcast on Sunday 20th July on BBC1 at 4.05pm. Lifeline is transmitted monthly on BBC1 on Sundays and repeated the following Wednesday on BBC2, between 1pm and 2pm. (Check TV listings for precise times as slots do change).

Conference - Complaints Handling, Patient Feedback and Public Involvement: the new NHS management challenge - Thursday 11th September 2008, Hilton Grosvenor Hotel, Edinburgh. Dr Ian McKee MSP, Parliamentary Liaison Officer to the Cabinet Secretayr for health and Wellbeing of the Scottish Governent. To book your place telephone 0131 556 1500 or email mail@mackayhanna.com

Glenrothes & North East Fife CHP - Health Improvement Training Programme - August 2008 - March 09. A hard copy of the programme is now available at VONEF, with access to an online format available at www.healthyfife.net.

Kinharvie - Institute of facilitation are runnin the following one day seminars - Cost £110

• How to Manage When Everything's a Priority - Tue 16 sept 08
• How to Manage your Boss - Wed 29 Oct 08
• How Good Managers become Great Managers - Tue 25 Nov 2008

Further information and booking email: info@Kinharvie.org.uk or visit their website: www.Kinharvie.org.uk

Writing a Business Plan - The course is a three-hour one and is being delivered by The Tool Factory, a London firm which specialises in business planning and has written Business Plan Writer software which may also be of interest.

The training will take place in The Gateway in North Methven Street, Perth on Thursday 25th September and will be delivered twice, from 10am until 1pm and between 2pm and 5pm. The course is designed for voluntary organisations, community groups and social enterprises.

The course fee is £40 per person, including refreshments. This fee must be paid in advance by organisations, and be received by our CVS Administrator, Anna Fraser, by Friday 12th September at the latest. People should indicate their preference for the morning or afternoon session.

If you would like more information about this please contact Anna by telephone at 01738 567076 or by e-mail at afraser@pkavs.org.uk.“

Cancer Network Fife - is a local charity working to ensure that cancer support is available throughout the region. It works closely with voluntary and statutory agencies, including NHS Fife, Fife Council, Maggies and Macmillan Welfare Benefits.

A diagnosis of cancer can be extremely stressful. Patients and their families may feel overwhelmed - how you react is not something you can plan for and feelings can change day to day. Often, it's easier to talk through difficult issues with someone outside your circle of close family and friends. Volunteers at Cancer Network Fife can offer one-to-one support in one of the comfortable outreach centres or in the client's own home.

Support workers are fully trained and may have personal experience of issues faced by cancer patients and their families.

Cancer can affect more than just physical health. Cancer Network Fife understands that having a significant illness can place an added burden associated with practical issues - finance, transport, home help etc. CNF can provide clients with information about available services, arranging appointments as appropriate or investigating service provision on the client's behalf.

Patients, their families, friends and carers can access free and confidential services by calling CNF's head office on 01337 832668; by email mail@cancernetworkfife.org.uk; or via the online form on the CNF website www.cancernetworkfife.org.uk You can be visited at home, at a mutually agreed venue, or at your nearest outreach centre. The Network has centres in four locations across Fife - Ladybank, Anstruther, Buckhaven and Dunfermline.