The Maria Watt Birmingham Foundation
The Maria Watt Birmingham Foundation for Childhood and Teenage Leukaemia, registered charity number 1118733 is a small, local charity dedicated to supporting the needs of children and teenagers with leukaemia. It has been established by Maria’s family as a means of raising awareness of leukaemia and other cancers in children, teenagers and young adults.
The charity also provides support to youngsters suffering with cancer and is currently supporting teh building of the new teenage cancer trust unit at Birmingham Children’s Hospital, whilst raising vital funding for research in to the causes of leukaemia in children and young adults.
The link details for the private forum are www.mwbleukaemia.forumup.co.uk but it can be accessed by clicking on the links in the main site.
The charity has set up a private forum for use by teenagers and young adults, this forum requires registration to ensure privacy and moderators will ask questions before allowing any access to it. The forum is designed to help youngsters discuss thoughts and feelings about their diagnosis, and also for them to offer help, advice and support to each other. There is a section for them to ask questions-maybe questions they don’t want to ask outright. We need young people to test the forum and make suggestions as to what they want the forum to consist of. This is there own private space. At the moment it is very basic, which is deliberate, as we feel that this is their space and want their input into it. We have a team of volunteer moderators ready and willing to moderate the forum and enable it to move forward.
