We will be trying to place our new A4 hospital poster in eye clinics where uveitis is treated, so people who have a diagnosis of Birdshot can contact us for information and support.

If you want to make sure that the eye clinic you attend displays the poster, we would be grateful if you could write to us at Birdshot@live.co.uk with the name and address of your clinic/eye hospital and the name of your consultant.  We want to make sure we get the posters to the right person.  Alternatively, if you would like to take the poster in yourself, write to us at Birdshot@live.co.uk and we will send you copies.  There is also a version in  yellow and black.

Please help us to spread the word.

Once again our thanks must go to  David Bethell,   (our logo designer) , who has designed this striking poster for us.  We are very grateful for his valuable contribution in helping to get BUS and Birdshot better known.

The printers,  Docuprint Limited,  have very kindly agreed to sponsor the costs of our first leaflet and we are extremely grateful to them for this generosity.  We would particularly like to thank Sarah Thompson my account manager who managed the leaflet from start to finish.    This is a really helpful and useful form of support and we are truly grateful for it in this economically difficult climate.

We hope to be distributing the leaflet to birdshot patients via hospital  eye clinics.  Please do get in touch with us if you would like us to send you a supply or you know anyone who would like to receive a copy.  Our email address is  birdshot@live.co.uk.

Annie

Postscript

Here is a link that takes you to a copy of the BUS leaflet which you can print.

Easy Fund-Raising

This is an easy on-line  way to help raise money for Uveitis Information Group.  Retailers such as Amazon, Next, Argos, John Lewis, Comet, iTunes, eBay or HMV, give money when you shop-online via Easy-Fundraising.  All you need to do is  to sign up for free to raise money while you shop!Have you heard about easyfundraising yet? It’s the easiest way to help raise money for Uveitis Information Group.

So how does it work? You shop directly with the retailer as you would normally, but if you sign up to http://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/uig for free and use the links on the easyfundraising site to take you to the retailer, then a percentage of whatever you spend comes directly to us at no extra cost to yourself. So if you spend £100 with M&S online, we get £5 cashback from your purchase; £100 spent with Amazon raises £2.50 for us, £100 with WH Smith puts £2.00 in our pocket, and so on. easyfundraising have over 2,000 retailers on their site, and some of the donations can be as much as 15% of your purchase.

This service is FREE to use, and what’s more, joining easyfundraising will give you access to hundreds of exclusive discounts and voucher codes, so not only will you be helping us, you’ll be saving money yourself.

And that’s not the only way to raise money. Are you one of the 6.4m people that use a search engine every day? If so then why not raise money for Uveitis Information Group while you search?

http://uig.easysearch.org.uk combines the results of several search engines such as Yahoo!, Bing and Ask to ensure you can always find what you’re looking for. But the fantastic thing is that EVERY TIME you search, half a penny is raised for Uveitis Information Group. That’s right – you don’t even have to buy anything!

We have recently signed up to the Giving Machine  so that you can make donations on-line while you shop.  Its easy – you just have to register and choose Uveitis Information Group as the charity that you support.

You can now generate free cash donations for Uveitis Information Group (BUS’s affiliated charity)  every time you shop online.

The Giving Machine

It will not cost you anything extra – the online shop pays the donation on your behalf. Just go to www.TheGivingMachine.co.uk :

• JOIN as a shopper/giver
• CHOOSE to support Uveitis Information Group
• REMEMBER to shop at TheGivingMachine every time you buy online

TheGivingMachine™ You Shop, They Give.