Fifth Scouts fundraiser for Kidney Research

Members of the Fifth Ballymena Scout Group took part in a Charity Bag Pack in Tescos just before Christmas and decided to donate part of what they raised to charity.
By The Newsroom
Published 26th Mar 2019, 10:30 BST
Members of the Fifth Ballymena Scout Group travelled to the City Hospital to present the £508 they raised in a Charity Bag Pack in Tescos for The Northern Ireland Kidney Research Fund.Members of the Fifth Ballymena Scout Group travelled to the City Hospital to present the £508 they raised in a Charity Bag Pack in Tescos for The Northern Ireland Kidney Research Fund.
Members of the Fifth Ballymena Scout Group travelled to the City Hospital to present the £508 they raised in a Charity Bag Pack in Tescos for The Northern Ireland Kidney Research Fund.

They chose The Northern Ireland Kidney Research Fund as one of their Leaders had undergone a kidney transplant.

Scouts, along with Leader Andy Clarke, travelled to the City Hospital to present the cheque for £508 to representatives of the Fund.

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The NI Kidney Research Fund aims to raise funds to: Support and promote research into the causes, prevention and possible cures for kidney disease; provide specialised equipment for research and advances in treatment of kidney diseases unavailable from the National Health Service; to increase public awareness of kidney disease and the success of modern treatment; and, to promote the National Organ Donor Register.

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