ACTION FOR SICK CHILDREN

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To : The Branch Secretary


Dear Colleague

ACTION FOR SICK CHILDREN

Once again we have been asked to bring the work of the above Charity to your attention and to ask Branches to consider making a donation towards this very worthy cause.

Action for Sick Children is the UK’s leading children’s healthcare charity. Since its inception over forty years ago ASC has campaigned tirelessly for improvements to the welfare of young patients in hospitals and in the community, continually highlighting the psycho-social needs of sick children and emphasising the importance of a child-centred approach to all providers of healthcare for children.

The work of the charity includes research, education and training, standard setting and the dissemination of information to sick children and their families. Their expertise and commitment to the attainment of the highest standards in all aspects of child and adolescent healthcare is widely recognised by government, royal colleges and professional bodies.

Registered Charity Number: 296295

Any Branch wishing to make a donation should forward to:

Project Office: 46 Jordangate, Macclesfield SK10 1EW
Tel: 08704 232 387
Email: project.office@actionforsickchildren.org
Web: http://www.actionforsickchildren.org" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[Lounge Lizard]

I'm sure that this is a most commendable cause, as are thousands of other charities, but do union members really pay their subscriptions with the intention, or even knowledge, that some of the money is used to right wrongs other than to do with their employment? If members individually choose to give to that charity that's fine, just as I myself in years past chose to give much of my spare time working for a charity, but I pay my £3.01 a week on the understanding that all of it goes towards the aims and objectives of the CWU and might reconsider membership if this is not the case as suggested here.