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THIS YEAR IS OUR 30TH BIRTHDAY & WHAT IS A BIRTHDAY WITHOUT CAKE!

We have been busy planning ways to celebrate our 30th Birthday this year - one idea we're all excited about is a Baking Challenge! The office team will be making all sorts of cakes and baked goods to sell and raise vital funds - could you…
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Travel Insurance

We are pleased to announce that following a period where our Travel Insurance provider was unable to quote, this service is now up & running again. Please read on for more information about our insurance provider or access our Travel Insurance…
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Wellbeing Services – We value your feedback

As part of ongoing assessment and improvement of our services and to meet demand, we recently added a second, female Counsellor to our Wellbeing Support service. Both of our counsellors have congenital heart disease which helps to better understand…
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Hearts Together 2023 Speaker Liza Morton

Liza will be speaking at our Hearts Together 2023 event in Newcastle Liza Morton, PhD, Clinical Psychology, is a Chartered and Registered Counselling Psychologist and a Lecturer in Applied Psychology at Glasgow Caledonian University. As…
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30 reasons to join us in our 30th year!

It's FREE to sign up as a Friend - see our 30 reasons to join us as and access our resources It's 2 years since we launched our Membership scheme - in that time we have been pleased to welcome so many CHD patients, families and Healthcare Professionals…
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Social  & Other Media

Take a look at our videos, interviews & social media posts. If you would like more information about us, wish to share our work or perhaps done something amazing in the CHD community that you would like to share, please fill out our contact form. We would love to hear from you!

 Neil Hunting’s radio interview on running the London Marathon for The Somerville Foundation with Jon Wright – BBC Suffolk – 18 August 21. Listen Here. Donate to Neil’s fundraiser here.

Our very own Helen Taylor talks to Jon Wright on BBC Suffolk about running for The Somerville Foundation. Listen Here.

Chris Byland (Radio Producer) on The Somerville Foundation – Listen Here

Somerville Foundation Roger Black – Radio 4 Appeal – Listen Here

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  • Read our 2019 interview with Roger Black
  • Listen to what a normal resting heart sounds like