Thanks to Poppy Appeal supporters
Editor News editor Assistant news editor After your item in the June 15 edition about my resignation as Poppy Appeal Organiser for Maidstone may I, please, be allowed to make a slight adjustment?
A spokesperson for RBL quoted that I had raised “thousands of pounds”; this should read hundreds of thousands of pounds because, I estimate, a half to three quarters of a million pounds has been raised.
None of this would have been possible without the enormous support I received from drivers, collectors and money counters so a very big thank you to them all and I am sorry it has ended like this. Maureen Jopson via email Senior reporter that one in eight people will develop chronic kidney disease which can affect their general health and may ultimately mean they might need dialysis or a transplant in order to stay alive. The average time waiting for a kidney on the transplant list is three years and there are almost 30,000 people on dialysis in the UK, a treatment that leaves patients hooked up to machines for hours at a time for several days every week, which has a knock-on impact on their ability to study, work, socialise and ultimately live their lives to the full. Patients constantly tell us that greater awareness of kidney disease and the impact it can have on their lives would be lifechanging for them, which is why we’re calling on your readers to become kidney aware by visiting www.kidneycareuk.org. We are here to ensure that no one in Kent has to face kidney disease alone. Paddy Tabor MVO Chief Executive, Kidney Care UK, Alton, Hampshire