Scotland News
News and updates from across every CLAPA region
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Adult Stories | Appearance | Children & Young People's Stories | Young People | Your Stories |
From Cleft Clinic to Catwalk
Jennifer, who was born with a bilateral cleft lip and partial cleft palate 18 years ago joined two others in modelling designer, Jasper Conran jeans.
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Fundraising: Community |
CLAPA’s Work in Scotland Receives £200k Funding Boost!
The BIG Lottery Fund will award CLAPA nearly £200,000 for our work in Scotland after a successful bid.
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Fundraising Stories |
CLAPA Named ‘Charity of the Year’
CLAPA has been named Charity of the Year by the Artemis Charitable Foundation, and has recieved an incredible £25,000!
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Volunteering Opportunities |
Volunteer with us!
Volunteering has always been at the heart of CLAPA with hundreds of volunteers generously offering their time and skills in support of our work. We are always keen to expand the CLAPA community and recruit new volunteers, so if this is something that you may be interested in, please do get in touch.
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Publications |
CLAPA News 2014
It’s the 25th issue of CLAPA News, and we’ve packed more into this year’s magazine than ever before!
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Information on Special Education Needs
In April 2013, the government changed the way that funding is provided to schools. This did not change the responsibilities schools and local authorities have towards children with special educational needs (SEN), just the ways in which this will be dealt with. Changes to the way special educational provision is provided will be implemented in September 2014 and will be phased in gradually.
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Fundraising Stories | Fundraising: Challenges |
Catch Carol’s Christmas Catchphrase For CLAPA!
Once again the lovely Carol Vorderman will be trying to win some cash for CLAPA over the festive season. Carol will appear on ITV1's "Celebrity Catchphrase" Christmas special on the 29th December at 7 pm. Fingers crossed she will get lucky!
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A Fond Farewell
After twelve years at CLAPA, we gave a fond farewell to Deputy CEO Sue Carroll at a small gathering this week attended by past and present CLAPA staff as well as Trustees.
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Fundraising Stories | Fundraising: Runs |
World Champion
Bailey Walsh was born April 2003 with a cleft lip and palate. Since the age of three, Bailey has studied a mix of Tae Kwon Do, Kick Boxing and Kung Fu and has excelled in these to a competitive level.
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Cleft Lip and Palate |
Disney’s The Lone Ranger and The Portayal of Cleft Lip
We’re extremely disappointed to see that Disney are once again cashing in on prejudice by giving their villain in the upcoming Lone Ranger film a very visible prosthetic cleft lip as part of his ‘look’ as an evil, sinister character. Not only is this incredibly lazy storytelling, it’s also sending a deeply harmful message that will impact the 90,000 people that were born with a cleft in the UK as well as others worldwide.
