My son Oscar was born in August 2012 with a complete unilateral cleft lip and palate. I live in South Bucks and jointly run the Surrey and Greater London Happy Faces group as Oscar is under the care of GOSH.
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South East England
This area includes Greater London as well as Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Parts of Hertfordshire, Hampshire, Isle of Wight, Kent, Oxfordshire, Surrey, and Sussex. Contact: southeast@clapa.com
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Local CLAPA Groups
Contact South East England Regional Coordinator Cherry LeRoy at southeast@clapa.com to find out more about setting up a group in the region.
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Bucks & Beds Branch
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Great Ormond Street Branch (GOSH)
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Kent Branch
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South London and Surrey Branch (SLASB)
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Cleft Teams
There are three main Cleft Services in this region - North Thames, which is led by Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) and covers the north of the river, South Thames, which is led by Guy's Hospital and covers south of the river, and the Spires Cleft Service which is based in Oxford and Salisbury.
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Great Ormond Street Hospital (North Thames Cleft Service)
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John Radcliffe Hospital (Spires Cleft team)
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Salisbury District Hospital (Spires Cleft team)
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St Thomas Hospital (South Thames Cleft Service)
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Parent contacts
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Claire Brown
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Clare Lomasney
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Emma Harman
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Peer contacts
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Andrew
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Be
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Eleanor
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Latest area news
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01 Nov 2018
Photoshoot for Ladybeard and Dazed: Applications ASAP
The team at Ladybeard have been asked to do an Instagram takeover for Dazed Beauty , Dazed magazine's beauty platform, next week and they want to showcase diverse forms of beauty by using their feature to celebrate people with visible differences. If you'd be interested in taking part, they'd love to hear from you ASAP.
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20 Sep 2018
#PortraitPositive: Beth & Olivia’s Stories
Portrait Positive is a groundbreaking project to challenge ideas of beauty. 16 models with a visible difference, including several born with a cleft, had their portraits taken by world-renown photographer Rankin and were featured on Steven Tai's catwalk for London Fashion Week 2018.
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14 Aug 2018
3D Photography for Cleft: Participants Wanted
A group of researchers and healthcare profressionals are putting together a new information leaflet about 3D Photography for cleft patients.
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Latest area events
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12 Jan 2019 10:00 - 12 Jan 2019 15:30
Young People's Poetry and Puppets Activity Day
It's time to embrace your creativity with CLAPA! Please join us this January to try your hand at puppet-making and poetry! Have fun together finding weird and wonderful phrases to create your own poem collages.
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9 Mar 2019 11:00 - 9 Mar 2019 17:00
Volunteer Development Day - London
This development day is annual training for new and existing Parent Supporters, Peer Supporters, Happy Faces Coordinators and Adult Meet-Up Coordinators.
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