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Support Group Meeting – Cambridge – Sunday
10 July 2011
Cambridge’s Rugby Union Football Clubhouse was
again the venue for the 2011 meeting of WDSG-UK, which was
well supported by Group members, their families and friends.
We were particularly pleased to see Allie Johnston and her
mother, who had travelled down from Edinburgh, and Kay Gibbs
and Dr James Dooley. WDSG-UK has strong links with the British
Liver Trust (BLT) and Richard Hall, the Support Group Co-ordinator
there, gave us an introductory talk in the morning about
the work and aims of the Trust. After lunch Dr John Walshe
presented a short historical and insightful account of Wilson’s
disease and its treatment.
A revised constitution for WDSG-UK was submitted to HMRC
last year as part of the Group’s successful application
for charitable status. One of the requirements of the constitution
is to hold an Annual General Meeting and to elect (or re-elect)
a management committee. After Dr Walshe’s talk the
first AGM of WDSG-UK was held. Dr Rupert Purchase reported
on developments over the last year, Valerie Wheater presented
the accounts for 2010/2011, and a management committee was
elected unanimously for the year 2011/2012. A short discussion
about future activities of WDSG-UK then merged with more
specific questions on Wilson’s disease for Drs Walshe
and Dooley, before the meeting closed with the customary
raffle and Group photograph.
Rupert Purchase
July 2011
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