NHS staff in North Cumbria will be walking the 84-mile length of Hadrian’s Wall to raise money to support a local community mental health football group.
The football group is run by the Carlisle United Community Sports Trust, supported by SHINE fund part of Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust (CNTW).
The SHINE fund helps to provide those extra things that make a huge difference to patients using CNTW’s services. All money raised by this walk will go to the football group as a donation from SHINE, in recognition of the support it offers to people the Trust supports.
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A wide range of staff from six wards (at the Carleton Clinic in Carlisle, and West Cumberland Hospital in Whitehaven), and the teams who support them – including domestics, estates staff, allied health professionals, receptionists, administrators, and senior managers – will be walking sections of Hadrian’s Wall.
They are hoping to complete the full length in three days.
The staff all work on wards which provide assessment, support and treatment for people with dementia, mental health problems, and learning disabilities across North Cumbria.
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