PDSG Contacts PDSG Committee Members, primary contacts and regional contacts.

When we started the PDSG we were small in numbers, but it has grown. We now have over 1,000 members and send over 500 newsletters. Initially we sent with the newsletter a list of people willing to be contacted so that new members and anybody wanting a chat could look in the list and find somebody geographically near them. However, the list got so long we couldn’t afford the postage or printing. So it was suggested that we divide the country into areas (see map). A kind volunteer from each region has agreed to be the contact person (CP).

If you are willing to be contacted could you phone the CP responsible for your area and let them know. The CP will keep details of your name, phone number, the town where you live and the illness, which concerns you most. Then as people wish to talk they will phone the CP who will put them in contact with somebody nearby.

We will also record your agreement on the central database – just in case the number 7 bus gets the CP and the CP’s list. We will try this scheme for six months (starting from November 2000) and hopefully will be able to arrange more CPs so that we can make the areas smaller. In particular. Mrs. Simmonds needs help in Scotland. I am aiming for three regions, Islands, Highlands and Lowlands (the three areas of malt whisky).

So please phone your contact person. If somebody phones you, the idea is that they should talk just as much as you do, that way you can both share some of your burdens. I was always amused by an elderly aunt living in the North of Scotland who summed up friendship as being allowed to bore somebody as much as they bored you! Contacts are the same in as much that there should, if possible, be an equal exchange.

Penelope

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