Fund Raising total so for 2009 is £63,666.

Charity raising for 2009.

The LCC has supported various charities during 2009 (detail). Our two main chosen charities are Combat Stress and ISIS. Please help us raise as much for these charities as possible by visiting our justgiving pages:

http://www.justgiving.com/lcc-combatstress

http://www.justgiving.com/lcc-isis

The main charity raising event for 2009:

LCC cycled from Lands End to John O’Groats in June 2009. A team of 14 LCC riders each completed the 1,000 miles in 8 days. The riders funded all the costs themselves so that all money raised went to charity.

Combat Stress

Founded in 1919, the Society is the only charity specialising in the treatment of service-related mental illness. Their Mission is to provide effective clinical treatment and welfare support to veterans of the British Armed Forces and Merchant Navy who suffer from mental health problems attributable in whole or part to their service, in order to enable them to maximise their mental, physical and social capabilities.

Intervention is based on the assessed psychological, social and welfare needs of the individual. Clinical interventions range from brief therapy to chronic disease management. A multidisciplinary, holistic approach is taken with the aim of helping Veterans to maximise their mental, physical and social capabilities through short-term residential clinical treatment, respite care and welfare support services in the community.

On discharge Servicemen and women and particularly those returning from active service will require considerable support in their quest to adjust to life outside of the military, particularly where they have been traumatised in the course of their service. The Society continues to receive calls from many Veterans who were discharged long before the current deployment to Iraq and Afghanistan.

ISIS

ISIS is a charitable trust based in Bermuda. Their mission is to make a positive difference to children in the developing world, through Health and Education programmes in Uganda and Nepal..

LCC is supporting a neo-natal intensive care unit (NICU) project at the Kiwoku Hospital, Uganda. This hospital was founded in 1987 and is a 25 acre facility treating over 45,000 outpatients per year and 6,300 in-patients. Facilities include health checkups, maternity, paediatricians, rehabilitation, dental, eye care, diabetes clinic and nutrition programmes. The community based care department assists people with HIV / AIDS

The NICU project will increase the number of Neo-natal beds from 14 to 26. Improve facilities including infection control and isolation and equipment for pre-term and full term babies. Increase staffing and training for NICU staff. The cost of this project is $200,000 to complete and so far $100,000 worth of funding is in place. This funding supports the costs on the building, medical equipment and furnishings. ISIS and Kiwoku hope the additional $100,000 will be raised by LCC and other supporters.

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