Durham University Paediatrics Society
Launch of Mission Christmas
What did you ask Santa for this Christmas?
1 in three children in Teesside live in poverty and won’t get a Christmas.
Durham Paediatrics Society are asking you to buy one extra present this year- a gift to give to disadvantaged children to make their Christmas morning.
We need gifts and shoeboxes for children aged 0-18 years. If you’d prefer to give cash instead that’s great too! If you would like to get involved don't hesitate to get in touch! We would love your support.
Birth of the Paediatric Society!
After much discussion with Newcastle Paediatrics we have decided to launch a sister society here at Queens Campus.
This is a super exciting time for us and everyone is going to work hard to make this a massive success!
The New exec have been elected and the results are as follows-
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President- Jonny Humby
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Chairman- Liam Arnot
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Secretary- Iona Cutforth
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Treasurer- Julian Laverty
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Newcastle Rep- Matty Hughes
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Promotions Officer- Lauren Dickinson
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Fundraising and Charities- Jonny Russ
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Teddy Bear- Kathy Bell
We are all super excited to get Durham Paediatrics Society off to a flying start :)
Love xxx
October 2013
We chose to run a Cake Sale in order to raise some money for three children's charities and to also raise awareness of the society to other students on Campus and gaige interest.
The sale went amazing with the campus raising £210.40. Thank you to everyone who bought, donated and baked cakes. Your hard work and kindness will give three charities some much needed money.
The three charities we supported in the Bake Sale were Butterwick Hospice, Teenage Cancer Trust and Zoe's Place.
Thanks Again everyone and good job!!! x
November 2013
Charities
Durham Paediatrics Society are very proud to announce the charities they will be supporting for the next year!
These will be Zoe's Place, a children's hospice in Middlesbrough, and Daisy Chain, a place providing respite care for Children with autism within the Teesside area. Find out more about them on our Fundraising page!
Both are extremely worthy causes and we are very proud to be supporting them 2013-2014.
December 2013
October 2014
New Exec
Second elections of the year done and we now have a full committe:
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President - James Farenden
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Chairman - Hannah Marsden
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Secretary - Lily Doyle
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Treasurer - Iona Cutforth
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Charities and Fundraising - Emma Curtis
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Promotions - Beth Deutsch
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Teddy Bear Hospital Co-ordinator - Mary Broughton
We also have a Teddy Bear Hospital Sub-committee:
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Bronach NíChraiftígh
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Jess Whitney
Charities
Massive thank you to everyone who came along to buy a cake at our first fundraiser of the year, we raised an amazing £120.50!!!
November 2014
Mission Christmas Launch
It's nearly Christmas which means sharing everything we can with local kids living in Poverty. We're working with TFM radio on their Cash for Kids Mission Christmas Appeal.
So far you guys have been so generous with donations and we're up to a total of £180 !!!
What's been raised so far?
£36
Formative
Revision Night
£76
John Snow
Mulled Wine
Reception
£61.26
College Dining
Collections
£30
Other
Donations
Special thanks to Molly, Katie and Tasha for their generous donations of money and presents :)
Our 'pick a disney character' game has got off to a brilliant start too - we're up to £23 so far. Please keep this up for the next 2 weeks of term everyone, we really want to reach our target of £250!
The money will be split with approximately £150 going on toys to add to all those donated, and £100 going to buy specialist equipment for children with a learning disbility.
Teddy Bear Hospital
We've been really busy so far getting Teddy Bear Hospital properly up and running.
Mary, Jess and Bronach organised 4 sessions for KS1 pupils at Tilery Primary School, Stockton and Acre Rigg Infant School, Peterlee. Thanks so much to all our volunteer Teddy Bear Doctors who came along, we've had so much positive feedback from the schools about how much fun the children have!
December 2014
Mission Christmas Appeal 2014
We've been really busy with the disney character game and final collections. A massive thank you to every single person who has contributed for your generosity, in particular Matt and Emma for the extra gifts.
Together we have managed to raise (drum roll please) ...
... £264.77!!!
PaedSoc fun ... build a tower of toys :)
Emma with the poster for the disney character competition
February 2015
MedSoc's Got Talent
We had another fabulous fundraiser at MedSoc's Got Talent! All of the popcorn and brownies went in the end and we managed to raise £51 !!
Again, our huge thanks to everyone who contributed either by making brownies or buying the treats :)
Teddy Bear Hospital
We've now had a lot of successful sessions, with positive feedback from the all the teachers and children. Recently, we've managed to get the pharmacy students integrated with a fabulous first session at Breckon Hill. We've also been back to Redhouse School in Norton, and tried out a double-sized session with some extra stations about asthma, bones, and food digestion.
After a massively successfull talk last year (Children Born with Half a Heart), Dr Michael Griksaitis was very kind to come back and speak to us again, this time regarding the journey into Paediatrics, and the various pathways which your career could follow. After a little break we then went through some Paediatric trauma cases, in particular Paediatric hangings.
It was an incredibly interesting session with a brilliant turn out, we hope you all enjoyed teh evening and it was an indication of all the brilliant talks to follow next year!
Finally, our thanks go to Michael for taking an evening out to come and speak to us again.
NUPS Conference
The 28th February saw a small group of us travelling up to Newcastle University for their 3rd annual Paediatrics Conference. This was the second year we have attended and it was very informative about what we can do to get into a career in Paediatrics.
The talks included:
- An intro to Paeds
- Training Pathways
- Audits
- Speciality Talks (A+E, cardiothoracic, neuro...)
- Communication Skills
- Ethics
After a very quiet January (we felt it was wise to stop annoying you all with notifications after the craziness of Mission Christmas!) PaedSoc were back in force in February - we've had more Teddy Bear Hospital sessions, (doing our first ever double-sized workshop with 60 kids!), as well as taking a bus to the Newcastle University Paediatrics Conference, a fundraiser at MedSoc's Got Talent, and hosting our first talk of the year.
Baby Steps ... How to Kick Start Your Career in Paediatrics
Michael Griksaitis
April 2015
New Exec
The new exec have been chosen for the next academic year, these are:
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President - Shanvir Mann
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Secretary - Lily Wray
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Treasurer - Akanksha Goyal
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Charities and Fundraising - Abbie Layton
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Promotions - Ali Atkinson
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Teddy Bear Hospital Co-ordinator - Jess Whitney
We also decided on this years two main charities which are actively involved in the care of children around the Teeside Area, these are Eastern Ravens and The Children's Society.
We are all super excited and look forward to running paedsoc for next year! We already have some good plans taking place!
May 2015
MedSoc Day
We had an excellent first fundraiser at MedSoc Day! This included selling sweets, doing face painting and we managed to make a total of £42.05! Thank you to everyone who came along and contributed!
June 2015
QC Sports Varsity
We had another wonderful fundraiser at QC Varsity where we managed to get £33.59! This time we sold sweets and cakes and would like to thank everyone from Snow and Stevo who came along and helped fundraise!
This has helped bring our total for this year up to £75.64!
We look forward to fundraising next year and hope everyone has an amazing summer!
October 2015
Queens Campus Freshers Fair & New Exec Member
We are pleased to announce that our new chairperson is Gemma Williams! We look forward to working with her this year!
We also had fun meeting all of this years freshers and look forward to working with them this year!
November 2015
Paedsoc does Park Run, Teddy Bear Hospital Sub Comittee and Formative Revision - Mission Christmas start!
Our new first year teddy bear hospital sub comittee members are Alex Ghahramani and Ellie Simmons! We look forward to working with them this year! We are pleased to say that Teddy Bear Hospital has kicked off to a good start at Tilery and St Claires primary schools.
We had two Saturday fundraisers joint with the Tees Barriage Park Run. Even though it chucked it down on one of the days it was a successful event and we would like to thank Park Run for letting us fundraise and thank everyone who came along and helped us raise £218.33!
We sold food and drinks during the formative revision night and would like to thank all the freshers that helped us start raising money for Mission Christmas 2015 by spending £20.29!
December 2015
Mission Christmas and Children's Palliative Care Talk
We would like to apologise for all the pestering for Mission Christmas but we are so pleased to say we have raised an amazing total of £322.60!! Thank you to everyone who donated and took part in the various fundraising activities. We did a disney character sale to both staff and students, a cake sale which raised a fantastic £64.95 and Christmas jumper day!
This has contributed to the total raised by the charity this year of £2,160,000 which has gone to help 40,987 deprived children in the North East!
We also held our first talk of this year - 'Children's Palliative Care: what does this involve and what role does Zoë's Place Baby Hospice in Middlesbrough have?' by Zoe's Place, (exploring the demand, delivery and development of paediatric palliative care focusing on the under 5’s). We would like to thank everyone that came along and thank Zoe's place for coming and doing a talk for us.
Lastly we hope you all have a lovely Christmas and see you all in the New Year!
January, February & March 2016
Fundraing, Hospital Experience, Teddy Bear Hospital
After a very busy start to January paedsoc got up and running again!
We have taken the time to organise hospital experience at James Cook in paediatrics which we hope will be a success and continue in the future! We have managed to also secure a grant from Durham to help with the running of next years Paedsoc!
Teddy bear hospital has been going well, and after covering all schools done in the past we are now looking at even more to visit!
Fundraising this term has included a cake sale (raising £78.37), Medsoc's got Talent refreshments (raising 43.40) and a raffle making the overall total for this year £818.45!! We would like to thank everyone that has been involved with Paedsoc this year helping us to achieve this! With mission christmas this means we have an excellent £247.93 to donate to each charity (The Children's Society and Eastern Ravens).
Talks that have gone on this term include:
- Neonatal Care by Dr Mithiesh
- Paedatric First Aid by Olivia Bengey
- Paediatric Intensive Care and Transport
and Career Infomation - Dr Michael Griksaitis.
We would like to give a special thankyou to Dr Griksaitis for coming back after a wonderful talk last year and partaking with ACE week.
Our News
November 2016
Bake Sale
After a busy start to the new academic year, PaedSoc was back and kicked off the year with a massive bake sale!
From flapjacks to rice crispy cakes to chocolate cake, everyone was spoiled for choice.
A massive thank you to everyone who visited our stall and bought a cake or made a donation - we managed to raise a grand total of... £104.83!!!
December 2016
Second Bake Sale of the Year
Following the success of our previous bake sale, we were back in the Waterside with our second of the academic year, except this time the theme was chocolate cake and more chocolate cake!
Another massive thank you to everyone who visited us and sampled our delicious cakes - we managed to raise another £74.37 for our charities!
Christmas Jumper Day!
December 2016 saw the last Christmas period with both a first and second year of Medical Students at Queen's Campus so we teamed up with the staff to take a final group photograph together to celebrate our last Christmas together! Throughout the day we were also collecting donations, and managed to raise £69.14!!!!
Thank you to everyone who donated!
