Blog
We produce a weekly blog to share what we’ve been up to, stories from the rare disease world, interesting info on our projects, and more.
Every week we put our fingertips to keyboards to bring you, our community, stories of what we’ve been up to, things we’ve found interesting, and updates from our projects. Released every Friday, our blog is also regularly written by guests who openly share their experiences. We hope you enjoy reading our little instalments!
If you would like to share your own story on our blog, please contact Blayne, our Marketing and Engagement Manager: [email protected]
Rare Disease Week
It has been an exciting and slightly frantic week for the Findacure team, and for everyone in the rare disease world. The build up to Rare Disease Day has been high paced, with events and announcements galore, all with the aim of raising more awareness of rare disease...
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Speaker Spotlight – Drug Repurposing for Rare Diseases 2020
With our annual conference, Drug Repurposing for Rare Diseases, just over a week away, things are getting busy in the office. We are preparing delegate packs, writing talks, and chatting to our venue and speakers to make sure the event is our best ever. Earlier this...
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Leading a rare patient group
Our latest workshop on the 22nd January focused on the topic of leadership within a rare patient group. We all know that leadership is a skill we should be very aware of and try to be good at but sometimes it’s hard to know how to start thinking about your own leadership skills. In a patient group context when employees and volunteers are often busy with other things, leaders don’t always have time to reflect on and improve their practice.
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Rare Disease Day 2020: Worldwide, Strong and Proud
There’s only a month to go until Rare Disease Day 2020 and this year’s theme focuses on re-framing rare, to show people that rare is more common than they might think and although rare diseases pose everyday challenges for patients they also foster the...
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Speaker Spotlight – Drug Repurposing for Rare Diseases 2020
The whole Findacure team are starting to get excited as our annual conference, Drug Repurposing for Rare Diseases, is less than a month away. Having just released our shiny new conference website with loads of information about the upcoming event, we thought that this...
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The winning Student Voice
The Student Voice Prize 2019 proved to be our most popular yet. We received more entries than ever before, from 19 different universities in 6 different countries. The standard was high as ever and all of the judges were very impressed with the quality of the entries…
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2020 vision
My supply of mince pies is finally exhausted, which can only mean one thing - the new year is upon us. As we have returned to our desks at Findacure HQ this week, we have all been turning our thoughts to the year ahead. What will 2020 bring for Findacure and the rare...
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Looking back at 2019 – a year of change for Findacure
It has been a big year at Findacure HQ. As we prepare to close the office for Christmas, it is hard not to look back at a rather eventful 2019 with a mixture of disbelief and a pride: disbelief that half the things that happened actually occurred this year, and pride...
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Storytelling for patient groups
On Wednesday 27th November, the 2019 peer mentoring cohort met in London to attend a training session led by Findacure trustee Andy Milligan, which focused on branding, marketing and how small charities can get their stories heard. Often when we hear the phrase...
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Diving into drug repurposing
While we have dedicated a lot of time to running our annual conference to showcase excellence in the field, there has been less emphasis on educating the patient community. We thought that it was about time this changed, so on Tuesday 5th November we partnered with the MCDS-Therapy project to host our Diving into Drug Repurposing workshop at White and Case in London. This day-long event aimed to help patient organisations understand:
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Meet Sophie, our new Trustee!
In this week's blog, we'd like to introduce you to Sophie Costello, Director and CEO of Costello Medical, and one of our two newly appointed Trustees! Hi Sophie, what made you decide to become a trustee? I have been aware of Findacure and the charity’s great work for...
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Meet our new Fundraising Manager, Laura!
We’re so excited to introduce our new Fundraising Manager, Laura Thompson-Harper, who joined the Findacure team this week! Find out more about Laura
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