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SPECIALIST BED IS ‘LIFE-SAVER’ SAYS FAMILY
February 2021
The emergency loan of a specialist bed for six-year-old Benjamin Cameron has been ‘a life-saver’ say his family. And now they are getting a permanent piece of equipment – all thanks to N...
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FUNDING PLEA FOR SEAT TO STOP MILO CHOKING
January 2019
Disabled nine-year-old Timothy Dickson has taken the final lap of his spacewalk, completing his mission to raise funds for Newlife the charity for disabled and terminally ill children, raising over £...
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FANTASTIC PLASTIC; CARRIER BAG SALES TO HELP FUND SPECIALIST SEATING FOR LITTLE ELEANOR
April 2017
River Island is doing something fantastic with the plastic profits from the sales of carrier bags – funding a range of specialist disability equipment. Tyne and Wear one-year-old Ellie Hewitt is one...
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FUNDING PLEA FOR SEAT TO STOP MILO CHOKING
April 2017
A disabled children’s charity is urgently appealing for the local community to help raise funds for a specialist seat so six-year-old Milo Tommy Browne can sit up without choking. An appeal launched...
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LEYTON CAN NOW TRAVEL IN SAFETY
February 2017
Before receiving a special piece of equipment to keep him safe while travelling, 11-year-old Leyton Copeland was able to free himself from his seatbelt in the car, making journeys very unsafe. But tha...
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THANKS TO FABULOUS FUNDRAISERS JACK CAN SIT IN COMFORT
December 2016
Local heroes and River Island have rallied together and made it possible for 14-year-old Jack Felkin from Erdington in Birmingham get a special seat called a P-Pod. This will be a special Christmas be...
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FANTASTIC PLASTIC . . . CARRIER BAG CASH HELPS FOUR-YEAR-OLD MORGAN FROM NEWCASTLE
December 2016
When you are asked to pay five pence for a carrier bag in a store have you ever wondered what happens to the money? Well, in the case of River Island outlets – like the ones across Tyne and Wear...
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OWEN CAN FINALLY SLEEP IN SAFETY
November 2016
The emergency loan of a specialist bed called a SafeSpace means four-year-old Owen Gallagher from Newcastle Upon Tyne in Tyne and Wear no longer has to sleep in a standard cot with the risk of falling...
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HOIST APPEAL TO HELP ISAAC
August 2016
A simple piece of specialist equipment would enable 14-year-old Isaac Smith to visit his grandparents for the first time in a couple of years and make full use of an all-terrain wheelchair that he has...
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RIVER ISLAND HELPS ADAM GET OUT AND ABOUT
August 2016
With his new mobile hoist, seven-year-old Adam Butterfield from Peterlee, County Durham is able to do more things outside of the family home. Thanks to retail giant River Island and Newlife Foundation...
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