2006-2007 - British Lung Foundation

Annual Review 2006-2007
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Chairman and CE’s foreward
The British Lung Foundation
Support
Breathe Easy and patient support
Information and publications
BLF Nurses
BLF Active
Change
Campaigns
COPD project
Research
Fundraising
Finance
Trust and corporate supporters
Cover photo: we are very proud to have established BLF nurse posts this year - see pp. 12/13

Chairman and Chief Executive’s foreword
Each year sees progress on a variety of fronts. This year we have managed to get our income
back up over £6 million – a great effort after last year’s drop in legacy income. Similarly, we
have seen growth in a number of areas – BLF Nurses, BLF Active and our Helpline. Each of
these activities has started to take off and flourish in a very satisfactory way.
Our press coverage has increased greatly and we are playing a full part in many of the different
groups which the devolved nations have related to respiratory disease. Respiratory research is
also much more in the central mindset of different funding bodies and our own research is
achieving a considerable amount for the money invested.
This year has seen the end of the Baby Breathe Easy pilot and its evaluation. As a result a
whole new strategy on the provision of services for the parents of children with respiratory
disease is due to begin in 2007/8.
Our COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) project is also fully underway with two
people recruited and another due soon. This project will identify areas of interest in the
forthcoming National Service Framework for COPD and consult widely with different people
and groups as to how best the BLF can engage. There is much to do and, as always, limited
resources with which to act. The corporate plan is now set for the year ahead with the aim of
consolidating the increase in income achieved this year and building a modest increase in for
next year. Of all our budgets, we feel that there is a need to increase our research budget to a
higher level. With this in mind, we have set ourselves a new increased target for funding in
2007/8.
During the year we have recruited new Trustees through public advertising and set up a
reduced and streamlined system of subcommittees. This new governance system seems to be
working well and will be built on in the year ahead.
In summary, it has been a year of considerable progress and much hard work. The many
people who help us as volunteers in a variety of different ways deserve, and get, our sincere
thanks for all that they do. In addition the staff throughout the UK, who work long hours to
achieve many good things, is a valuable resource that we cannot manage without. Thank you
one and all.
Dr Keith Prowse
Chairman
Dame Helena Shovelton
Chief Executive
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The British Lung Foundation
One person in seven in the UK is
affected by lung disease.
Whether it’s mild asthma or lung
cancer, the British Lung Foundation
is here for every one of them.
This is what we do:
• We support people affected by lung
disease through the individual
challenges they will face. Support is the
focus of many of our activities,
including our nationwide network of
Breathe Easy support groups and
membership scheme.
• We help people to understand their
condition. We do this by providing
comprehensive and clear information
on paper, on the web and on the
telephone.
• And we work for positive change
in lung health. We do this by
campaigning, raising awareness and
funding world-class research.
Our Head Office is in London, and we
have offices in Scotland (which also
covers Northern Ireland), Wales and in
five English regions (South West,
Midlands, North West, North, and
London and South). Our Advice
Service, which includes our telephone
Helpline, is based in Liverpool.
The national/regional offices’ main
role is to provide support to people
affected by lung disease, mainly
through Breathe Easy groups.
The offices also raise awareness of
lung disease and work with
health/social/political organisations to
improve services for people affected by
lung disease. British Lung Foundation
Scotland and Wales also have a
fundraising function.
New BLF Membership
scheme launched
In January 2007 the British Lung
Foundation introduced a membership
scheme. This was an important
development, offering people the
opportunity to join with us and add
their voice to the only UK charity
working to help everyone with a
lung condition.
Our 2,020 members who joined by the
end of the year received the quarterly
magazine, Breathing Space, campaign
bulletin, access to all of our
information leaflets, booklets and our
Breathe Easy support network. In the
future we aim to develop a members'
area of the BLF website.
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The British Lung Foundation has a two-fold mission:
• To focus our resources on providing support for people affected
by lung disease today.
• To use a variety of means (including funding world-class research)
to bring about positive change, to improve treatment, care and
support for people affected by lung disease in the future.

support
Breathe Easy – going from strength to strength
The British Lung Foundation's nationwide network of Breathe Easy
groups for people with long-term lung conditions continues to grow,
with 40 new groups opening during the year. The mission of
Breathe Easy is to provide a network of friends, advisers, events and
activities that support and empower people affected by lung disease.
England
We established 31 new Breathe Easy
groups over the year, bringing the total
number in England to 152, with a
further 18 groups in development. In
doing so the Breathe Easy network in
England has extended its regular
support to over 1000 people with
respiratory disease and their carers.
Groups have been proactive in raising
awareness of lung disease in their
localities, hosting 72 events during
Breathe Easy Week and more than
150 events during World COPD Day in
November. Additionally, we undertook
three large awareness raising events
engaging specifically with minority
ethnic communities.
During the year, Breathe Easy group
volunteers actively influenced and
worked towards improving health care
through local health fora. Their role is
to work in partnership through
consultation, by sharing patient
experiences and representing the
needs of people with respiratory
disease in their area. Over the year,
groups have pressed for the
introduction of continued access to
pulmonary rehabilitation,
improvements in the availability of BLF
literature in GP surgeries, the provision
of lung function testing in GP surgeries
and annual reviews for all patients.
More BLF display boards were provided
to hospitals in England over the year,
and these are regularly updated by the
Breathe Easy members.
Breathe Easy volunteers and members
have also taken part in many
consultations and surveys about
health service provision, and kept their
local MPs updated on BLF and NHS
services, support and developments.
As the NHS restructure took place,
Support and Development Managers
“The most important thing has been to keep the
meetings varied”
…says Rose Durrans, who chairs the Breathe Easy Gloucester group that launched in February 2007.” I was
going to Birmingham hospital and was asked to set up a patient group there, but thought something more
local would be much better. My respiratory nurse suggested contacting the BLF. Having healthcare
professionals involved makes such a big difference as they speak to the people affected by lung disease
and can recommend us.”
“We’ve also made a big effort to publicise ourselves in the local newspapers, giving interviews when the
group was launched and during Breathe Easy Week and we always get calls after something has been
published. We have between 20 and 30 people attending our meetings – not always the same faces – and
I’ve been told that is pretty impressive!”
“I find the most important thing is keeping the meetings varied. So sometimes we focus on health and have
people like physiotherapists come and give talks, which is very popular. But it doesn’t always need to be
about the disease. We have also had artists come in to help inspire people to take up new hobbies. Most of
us can’t get out and about easily so taking up something like painting is ideal for us as well as good fun.”
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“I receive phone calls all the time from people who have been
diagnosed with COPD and have no idea how to deal with it”
…says Carol Forsdyke, 64, Chair of Breathe Easy Islington. “The group was set up in March 2007 and since
then we’ve gone from strength to strength. We now have over 30 members. We receive fantastic support
from both the Islington PCT Respiratory Service and the consultants at University College Hospital.”
“Our group is a very active campaigning group. We were represented at the British Lung Foundation’s ‘Meet
the Patients’ reception at the House of Commons during Breathe Easy Week. Two of our members attended
- Maureen Tricki and her husband - and they both found the whole experience a very rewarding one.”
“I find being Chair of the group very rewarding. Even though I am ill myself I want to help others to cope
with their lung condition and with the help of my husband, Maureen and Committee members, hopefully I
do. I receive phone calls all the time from people who have been diagnosed with COPD and have no idea
how to deal with it. I then send those who contact me free leaflets and information provided by the BLF
and an invitation to attend our group. Many of our members have found that Breathe Easy Islington has
given them the information; support and friendship that they needed to give them the confidence to cope
with the reality of having a lung condition and deal with it in a positive way.”
continue to identify, contact and build
partnerships with appropriate
respiratory and Long Term Conditions
leads throughout the 10 Strategic
Health Authorities and 152 PCT areas.
We began to track PCT progress in
respiratory services mapping and
gathering intelligence and developing
an overview of the state of services
across English regions. This has proved
challenging and time consuming.
Managers now support many PCT
working groups advising and sharing
best practice with NHS staff.
Facts and figures 2006-07
190 ➜ Breathe Easy groups across the UK
9700 ➜ People attending Breathe Easy groups
31,000 ➜ BLF’s supporter network
300+ ➜ People who have used the Pen pal scheme
“I started off with Breathe Easy soon
after my Dad died”
…says Nathan Ledger. “My Mum had started helping out with
Breathe Easy. It was probably because we saw how much Dad
suffered with his lung disease that we didn’t want anyone else to
suffer that as well. It also makes you feel that you are not just taking
but also giving back, this makes you not feel guilty. It does get a bit
cold and wet and tiring standing outside on a stall trying to raise
awareness, when people think you are trying to con them or sell
something, but it is very worthwhile when you think of the people
you have helped in the long run.”
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Scotland and
Northern Ireland
We continued our drive to reach more
rural areas in Scotland opening BE
groups in Borders and Dumfries and
Galloway, and we also opened our
fourth BE group in Northern Ireland –
BE Lisburn. This brings the total
number of group across Scotland and
Northern Ireland to 20. 2006-07 saw
the first joint Scotland and Northern
Ireland Breathe Easy Conference.
In partnership with VOCAL Carers
Centre, Edinburgh we launched the
first expert respiratory carers’ course
providing training and advice for
people caring for someone living with
a lung condition. Our Breathe Easy
groups have been involved in a range
of Healthboard and other initiatives
providing the vital patient
perspective to help shape
appropriate services. Breathe Easy
group members made up the focus
groups for the Audit Scotland Report
into long-term conditions.
Elsewhere, 2006-07 saw the
development of two new respiratory
managed clinical networks (MCN) in
Scotland. NHS Forth Valley MCN was
funded by £100,000 that the BLF
helped secure from the Scottish
Government Health Department,
and NHS Lanarkshire launched its
MCN in May. The BLF is represented
on the Executive Group of these and
the Grampian MCN.
The campaign for Clinical Standards
on COPD really got underway with
the Christmas postcard campaign in
December. We took the decision to
lobby the Scottish Executive to
develop a set of standards that will
provide COPD patients with the
same access to care and treatment,
regardless of where in the country
they live. We produced campaign
postcards with the slogan "All I want
for Christmas is … clinical standards
for COPD", which we then distributed
with the help of our Breathe Easy
members, collecting signatures to
return to the Minister for Health in
time for Christmas 2006.
After gaining successful publicity for
the campaign including television
and radio news, and delivering over
1000 signed postcards to the
Minister for Health, we were pleased
to have secured a meeting with the
Minister, where we were in a unique
position to push forward the BLF
agenda in advance of the Scottish
elections and the publication of the
Audit Scotland Report which focused
on COPD as one of the two longterm
conditions studied.
The Big Lottery Fund provided
£64,000 for a Communications and
Information project, which helped to
raise both the awareness of lung
disease in Scotland and the profile
of the BLF by having over 250
stories in the press and hosting 12
outreach events.
“It’s still early days, but the group is doing well and I think
we’re going to carry on growing”
…says John McKie, Chair of Breathe Easy Dumfries, which had its official launch in March 2007. “The
group is still in the early stages but we’re getting around 14 to 18 people at every meeting, which is a good
start and I think we’re going to get bigger as time goes on. We have talks about things like how to give up
smoking and speakers from other organisations like Age Concern come too, but we also try and set up
other social events like a barbeque and trips out.”
“An event we all really enjoyed was our ‘Walk in the Woods’. Lung disease can often be very isolating and
people sometimes feel trapped at home, so it’s good to get out and about. We took it very slowly and it
was a gentle walk – I think I was the one holding the rest of the group up!”
“The next big thing we’re planning is a Christmas meal for the group. Breathe Easy Dumfries has had great
support, my hope is that we will carry on expanding.”
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Wales
Since opening our first national office
in Wales, in late 2005, 17 new
Breathe Easy groups have been
opened in Wales, bringing the total
to 19. With so many new people
there have been great opportunities
– through ‘Meet the Patients’ at the
Welsh Assembly, conferences and the
officers forum – to network and join
together to make one big voice for
lung disease in Wales.
A survey of all the membership
showed that over 80 per cent felt
that, since joining Breathe Easy,
they understood their condition
more, felt more supported and had
an improved relationship with their
health professionals. Together, we
are determined to make a difference.
It has been a busy year too for
fundraising in Wales. On a misty day
in the beautiful Neath Valley, South
Wales, members of Breathe Easy
Neath group, their friends and
families, took part in a sponsored
abseil which raised close to £6,000.
Part of the proceeds will be spent
locally and the remainder allocated
to the BLF’s work in Wales and with
children across the UK.
Rosemary Butler, Welsh Assembly
Member and Deputy Presiding Officer,
with Margaret Zier, Chairwoman of
Breathe Easy Newport
“Being part of Breathe Easy is not only fun but very fulfilling”
…says Margaret Barnard, of Breathe Easy Neath Valley. 63 year old Margaret helped to form her local
Breathe Easy group after she was diagnosed with COPD and is currently the Secretary. Margaret was a
primary school teacher, but retired early because of the impact the condition had on her life.”
“I am one of the founder members of Breathe Easy Neath Valley. We have been together for 19 months
now and go from strength to strength. We support each other with tips and hints. We fundraise for the local
pulmonary rehabilitation unit and the British Lung Foundation, but, most of all we have fun. Being involved
with the BLF and trying to improve the situation for myself and all others like me is actually very fulfilling.
Breathe Easy Neath Valley has also helped me to remain positive and focus on what I can do rather than
what I can’t do anymore.”
Children’s services
Our Baby Breathe Easy pilot has now
come to an end, which helped 320
families and children. During the year
we undertook a full evaluation of this
innovative pilot scheme, to assess the
benefits to parents of babies and
young children with lung disease and
breathing problems.
The pilot has taught the BLF many
things, including the need to support
parents in a tailored way – many
parents told us they found it difficult
to attend group meetings because of
the demands of childcare.
Baby Breathe Easy gave us an
invaluable opportunity to evaluate
the kind of support that parents
want. Following full discussions
throughout the organisation, we have
decided to change the way we deliver
support for parents and children and
try to reach more people. This has led
to the closing of the nine Baby
Breathe Easy groups and transferring
the service on to the BLF Helpline
where a paediatric respiratory nurse
and parent counsellors will work.
Our initial task is to ensure that the
families who were receiving support
from the nine group organisers are
transferred to the telephone help they
had indicated they would like, and
then to publicise the service wider in
order to reach more people. The BLF
continues to provide information on
childhood lung diseases, on its
website and through printed leaflets,
and also encourages people to
support each other through its penpal
patient networking scheme.
We plan to promote and expand the
service over the year ahead.
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Information and publications
The reach of the British Lung Foundation continues to grow. Over the
year we distributed larger numbers of publications, increased website
traffic and received more calls to our helpline. We are helping more
people as we work towards positioning the BLF as the leading expert
voice on all lung disease.
BLF Helpline
Our Helpline, based in Liverpool, has
been operating since March 2005. It
is staffed by respiratory nurses and
welfare benefits advisers who provide
advice on a broad range of topics,
principally by phone, but also by
email and post. Volunteers provide
vital administrative support for the
service. The team handled 13,434
calls this year, a 16 per cent increase
on the previous year.
In particular, we continued to receive
large numbers of calls during the
summer of 2006 about the changes
in the arrangements for providing
home oxygen. And in April 2007, the
Helpline was involved in the BLF’s first
television campaign which was
broadcast in the Yorkshire region. This
campaign generated 686 calls to the
Helpline over a five-week period.
Plans are underway to expand the
service with the addition of a
paediatric nurse and parent
counsellor to the Helpline team. This
will help the BLF provide more
specialist support to parents of
children with a lung condition.
BLF Publications
We distributed 970,474 items of
literature during the course of 2006-
07, covering a range of lung
condition and related topics. This was
a 20 per cent increase on the
previous year. BLF leaflets and
brochures are provided to patients
and health care professionals free-ofcharge.
We produced new
publications during the year on
complementary therapies, dealing
with anxiety, lung cancer, sarcoidosis
and the special reports, ‘An unnatural
death’ and ‘Lost in translation’.
The majority of our patient leaflets
and booklets are distributed through
hospitals and respiratory clinics. We
want to encourage more hospitals to
distribute BLF publications and so we
continue to provide leaflet display
boards for this purpose. In 2006-07
we delivered display boards to
another 55 hospitals, taking the total
in use to 282.
With the growth in demand for BLF
publications, and the expanding
range of charity literature, the time
had come to review the way we
process orders and distribute printed
publications. It was no longer possible
to meet the need using a
combination of staff and volunteers
working out of head office. The
decision was taken therefore to
outsource the fulfillment of
publication requests, and this new
arrangement started in August 2006
and has been working well.
Following the launch of the BLF
membership scheme in January
2007, Breathing Space became the
magazine for BLF members. It
continues to feature a wide range
of topics on lung health and BLF
activities, as well as general
interest articles.
BLF Website
The popularity of our website
continues to grow. This year the site
was visited by 845,000 people, an
increase of 37 per cent over 2005-06.
We are planning to redesign the BLF
website, and to incorporate a Content
Management System (CMS) that will
allow the site to become much more
dynamic and responsive. The new
website will be launched in the
autumn of 2007.
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This year we aimed
to help more people
with lung disease.
We sent out 20% more
publications, received
37% more unique
visitors to our website,
and responded to 16%
more calls through
our Helpline.

British Lung Foundation Nurses
Following the successful launch of
the BLF Nurse programme the
previous year, 23 BLF Nurses are
now operating in six areas in
England and Scotland, in Glasgow,
Oldham, Bristol, Sefton, Central
Lancashire and Calderdale. BLF
nurses work across the spectrum of
respiratory disease, although the
majority of patients have a
diagnosis of COPD.
The nurses are delivering expert
care and support to patients and
carers in their own homes. They also
deliver tailored education
programmes to community matrons,
district and practice nurses,
pharmacists, physiotherapists and
other health professionals.
BLF Nurses have supported over
3000 patients during the course of
the year. They help by monitoring
patients’ symptoms, stabilising their
conditions and with advice on
lifestyle, nutrition and medication.
Collectively the BLF Nurses provided
more than 1000 medication reviews
over the year and prevented over
300 hospital admissions.
The nurses are also developing
innovative practice and are involved
in the Primary Care Organisation
decision-making fora.
BLF Nurses supported over 3000 patients
during the year, improving the quality of life
for people affected by lung disease.
“Everyone should have a British Lung Foundation Nurse
like Mary”
…enthuses Adrian Parker, who has had COPD for 10 years but has never spent time in hospital until last
year, when he collapsed at home. His worried wife Barbara rang 999 and Adrian was rushed to Preston
Royal Infirmary. He stayed there for five weeks and wasn’t expected to survive.
Adrian says the fact that he is still around, nearly one year after that hospital stay, is
largely thanks to his British Lung Foundation nurse, Mary Tomlinson. Mary is a
specialist respiratory nurse who has supported Adrian through regular home visits.
Each time she visits, she runs through a series of checks to monitor Adrian’s health
and helps him manage his medication. Over the past year Mary has ensured that
Adrian receives the home nursing and physiotherapy he relies on.
Adrian says: “One of the most important things I have learnt about COPD is not to
Mary Tomlinson let problems build up. Mary gives me lots of practical help and advice on managing
my condition. I know that she is checking on my health on an ongoing basis and
helping me to avoid anything drastic happening. That has helped me feel a lot more confident about
my condition.”
“Mary is a very special person – she is one in a million,” says Adrian. “I can’t describe the difference she has
made to my life – but I can tell you that everyone with COPD should have a specialist nurse like her.”
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Being BLF Active
“I was so delighted about how much better
I felt, I just wanted to keep going”
…says Ellen Smith, 73, from Aire Valley in the North East. “I was part
of the BLF Active pilot scheme. I’m still doing exercise. I have
bronchiectasis and asthma, and it really does help. It gives me
confidence and helps with my balance, which is really important
because I’m 73 now – most of us are knocking on! Recently I had
an appointment and I saw the bus coming, and I ran. It didn’t take
long for me to recover my breath. When things like that happen,
you can cope better. Before I would have missed the bus.”
It is well known that people with severe
lung problems can benefit from even
small amounts of exercise, and it really
is worth keeping as active as possible.
By gradually building up their exercise,
over time people can often improve
their breathing and feel better. That is
why in its Charter the BLF calls for
pulmonary rehabilitation, with followup
exercise classes to be made
available to all those who could benefit.
Pulmonary rehabilitation is very
important in encouraging people with
lung disease to start exercising in the
right way. But the British Lung
Foundation believes it is also vital that
people are encouraged to continue
exercising. This follows earlier BLF
work testing the usefulness of physical
exercise classes.
In 2006-07 we worked with health
care professionals and
Loughborough University to develop
a Chronic Respiratory Diseases
Exercise course which will equip
fitness instructors to provide exercise
classes. We also developed a bursary
scheme - with funding from Air
Products - for fitness instructors.
Instructors who successfully
complete the course will be able to
set up BLF Active classes in their own
community. These classes are
designed to complement rather than
substitute for pulmonary
rehabilitation classes.
We wanted to
develop an exercise
training programme
for fitness
instructors, tailored
to the needs of
people with chronic
lung disease.
“I feel better now than I did more than a decade ago thanks to
the exercise classes”
…says Roy Davies, 78, from Leicester who was diagnosed with bronchiectasis 25 years ago. “I’ve always
been told about how being afraid of feeling breathless leads to a downward spiral of being less active and
therefore even more at risk of breathlessness attacks. The exercise classes have helped to break that
vicious cycle and I feel fitter now than I did 11 years ago when I retired as a shopkeeper. We all felt such
benefits that even when the six months were up, most of our group kept going. I can now do more of the
housework and gardening than I used to be able to, which is especially important because my wife is
slightly disabled. It feels good not to have to depend so much on other people.”
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change
The British Lung Foundation’s campaigning was more focused this
year, particularly with regard to Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary
Disease (COPD), a condition which has an extremely low profile in the
UK despite being our fifth biggest killer disease. We also celebrated
the introduction of smoking bans across the UK.
Progress across the UK
In England … we are playing a
constructive role in the development
of the National Service Framework
for COPD (see pages 18-19).
In Scotland … the BLF ran a major
campaign calling for the development
of clinical standards for COPD to be
implemented through Managed
Clinical Networks in every Health Board
area of the country (see page 8).
In Northern Ireland … following the
development of new Breathe Easy
groups, the BLF has taken a seat on
the Regional Respiratory Forum that
is looking at the implementation of
the Strategic Framework for
Respiratory Conditions.
In Wales … we continue to be
involved in the development of
Service Development and Commission
Directives for Respiratory Conditions.
World COPD Day
To mark World COPD Day in
November 2006, the British Lung
Foundation launched a campaign
aimed at finding the ‘Missing Millions’
of people living with undiagnosed
COPD. The campaign reached more
than 22.5 million people through a
combination of: free lung testing road
shows in COPD ‘hotspot’ areas; a
national and regional PR campaign;
and awareness-raising activities
around the UK.
‘Missing Millions’ road shows staffed
by qualified lung technicians,
respiratory nurses and smoking
cessation advisors offered free lung
function tests and information about
COPD and the BLF to the public in
prominent sites in four major
shopping centres in England. Nearly
1000 people were tested in all, with
131 people being referred to their GP
as a result.
A national and regional media
campaign communicated World
COPD Day key messages. Case
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“It was a great privilege to be invited to speak to MPs at the House of Commons for the British Lung
Foundation’s World COPD Day parliamentary dinner. I was extremely grateful for the opportunity to
represent the views of primary care physicians to such a distinguished audience and talk about the key
policy developments, such as the forthcoming National Service Framework for COPD.”
“My perception of politics had always been the arguing and point-scoring that you see on the television,
but I found it really reassuring that the politicians at the dinner really wanted to improve services at a local
level and were passionate about doing so. It was good to see them so committed to helping people with
lung disease and thinking about what needs to be done in the future to really make a difference.”
Dr Steve Holmes, General Practitioner in Shepton Mallet
Chair of the General Practice Airways Group
studies, spokespeople and celebrities
(Richard Wilson, William Roach,
Tamsin Greig and Joseph Milson)
were recruited to support the
campaign. The BLF’s Breathe Easy
groups held more than 100
awareness-raising events across the
UK and took part in local PR. Online
‘email your MP’ and letter
campaigns were organised to
engage support for an Early Day
Motion (Westminster), Statements of
Opinion (National Assembly for
Wales), and Motion (Scottish
Parliament) supporting the British
Lung Foundation’s campaign.
Parliamentary dinners were also held
to mark World COPD Day at the
House of Commons and at the
National Assembly for Wales.
The campaign achieved some
fantastic media coverage reaching a
potential audience of more than 22
million people, including a ‘live’ lung
testing clinic on ITV’s This Morning
featuring BLF spokesperson
Eve Cowdell and articles in the
Daily Express and Daily Mail’s
You Magazine.
Smoking bans
The BLF welcomed the smoking bans
that came into force across the
country in 2006 and 2007. Scotland
has now celebrated a year of being
smoke-free after becoming the first
nation within the UK to ban lightingup
in enclosed public places in March
2006. They were followed by Wales
on the 2 April 2007, Northern Ireland
28 days later and finally England on
the 1 July. These were important
events for the BLF and followed
sustained campaigning in
conjunction with other health
charities to secure comprehensive
legislation and appropriate
regulations for the new law.
A survey of Breathe Easy members
showed that an overwhelming
majority felt the bans gave them a
new lease of life and meant they
would no longer live in fear of an
attack of breathlessness brought on
by second-hand smoke. Many
members welcomed them by holding
their first meeting ever in a newly
smoke-free venue and invited the local
press along to celebrate with them.
Tobacco control policies continue to
be of importance and the BLF
responded to Government
consultations regarding the legal age
of sale for tobacco products,
supporting an increase from age 16
to age 18.
This year we aimed to increase broadcast media coverage
about lung disease by 15% - we actually achieved
an increase of 300%.
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Lung Health
Awareness Day
In May 2007 the BLF joined forces
with the House of Commons’
Occupational Health Safety and
Welfare Service to hold a third Lung
Health Awareness Day. 150
members of House of
Commons/Lords staff took a
spirometry test. 80 MPs and two
Members of the House of Lords
agreed to support the British Lung
Foundation’s ‘Missing Millions’
campaign and took part in a photo
call for their local media.
Action Mesothelioma
Day
This year saw real progress on the
Action Mesothelioma Charter, with
the launch of a new Department of
Health initiative to improve services
for people with mesothelioma in
England and an announcement of
improvements to the way
mesothelioma compensation claims
are handled.
Both were the highlights of a BLF
Parliamentary Reception at the
House of Commons on Action
Mesothelioma Day on 27 February
attended by 35 MPs, where speakers
included National Cancer Director,
Professor Mike Richards and
Department for Work and Pensions
Minister Jim Murphy MP. The event
was one of many marking Action
Mesothelioma Day around the
country, including a balloon release in
Gateshead attended by Health
Minister Rosie Winterton MP, and
rallies and meetings in Leicester,
Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds,
Sheffield, Chesterfield, Rotherham and
Doncaster. The charity received good
media coverage for this campaign,
reaching a potential audience of
more than 28 million people.
The British Lung Foundation also
published a report into the impact
of Coroner’s procedures on
bereaved families following
concerns that these families found
the process unsympathetic and
distressing at a very difficult time.
Work has continued in this area,
with the Ministry of Justice, The
Coroner’s Society of England and
Wales, the Coroner’s Officers
Association and the Association of
Chief Police Officers, in an attempt
to make improvements to the
current system.
We met our target to deliver three
high-profile campaigns about lung disease,
and launched the BLF Charter.
Breathe Easy Week
launches the
BLF Charter
This year’s Breathe Easy Week, from
11-17 June, saw Breathe Easy
members across the UK ‘Blowing the
Whistle on Lung Disease’. We used
the week to launch the BLF Charter,
setting out our 12 priorities for
improving the UK’s record on lung
disease. The results of a survey of
1000 Breathe Easy members were
released to the press showing that
almost two thirds wanted respiratory
disease to be a priority for their local
healthcare services; that nearly half
wanted an end to the postcode
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lottery of treatment and care, and
more than a third highlighted the
lack of respiratory specialists in
the NHS.
Breathe Easy members had a
chance to put these points to their
MP in person when they travelled
from all over England and Wales to
‘Meet the Patients’ events in
Westminster and the Welsh
Assembly. Former Health Minister
Andy Burnham MP was among
more than 40 MPs who got to hear
first hand from people with lung
disease about the impact it has on
their lives and who were asked to
support the BLF Charter. In Wales,
more than half of Assembly
Members attended to talk to their
constituents and sign the Charter.
Signatures in support of the Charter
are continuing to be collected both
on paper and online – go to
www.lunguk.org to sign up.
Around the country more than 100
events marked the launch of the Blow
the Whistle campaign, including an
abseil off the Dinas Rock in Wales, a
whistle-blowing bingo session, nine
lung testing events and a boat trip in
the North East which went ahead
despite local flooding in the area!
A press campaign focused on the
results of the Breathe Easy survey,
highlighting the stigma associated
with lung disease and how people
with respiratory disease felt they
received a raw deal from the NHS.
Media coverage generated included
188 regional TV and radio interviews
and 74 regional newspaper articles.
Home oxygen
In February 2006 the Government
introduced a new system for the
supply of oxygen to people living
with long term respiratory conditions
and other diseases that are treated
with oxygen therapy. Immediately
after the change, people reported
considerable problems with the new
service and disruption to their supply.
Throughout 2006 and 2007, the
British Lung Foundation continued to
press government ministers behind
the scenes for improvements to the
new Home Oxygen Service. This
worked. A survey of Breathe Easy
members in April 2007 showed
significant improvements in the
service, with most respondents
saying they were no longer
experiencing problems with their
oxygen supply, and most describing
the overall service, helpline and
servicing of equipment as excellent,
very good or good. Holiday provision
of oxygen is still causing some
problems, and we will continue to
work for improvements.
“I never imagined I’d be on telly, but I really enjoyed it and
wasn’t as nervous as I thought I’d be”
…says Eve Cowdell, 57, who appeared on This Morning as part of World COPD Day 2006. Eve lives in
Grimesthorpe in South Yorkshire and was diagnosed with COPD in 2005. “They brought me down the night
before and put me up in a nice hotel. The next morning I got driven to the studios, which weren’t how I
expected. I thought I’d be really nervous, but I wasn’t. I think having my hair and make up done relaxed
me. Dr Chris as well as Fern and Phillip were really lovely and had definitely done their research.”
“I’ve had lung problems since my 20s despite never being a smoker and really regret that my COPD wasn’t
picked up on earlier, as it meant I went through a very stressful time. That was the message I wanted to
get across – that people should get themselves tested. It seemed to work. As part of This Morning we went
out on to London’s South Bank and did spirometry tests on passers by. Some days after the show I
popped in to see how the British Lung Foundation roadshow was getting on in Sheffield and loads of
people there had come along after seeing me on TV, which was really amazing. I even got roped into
doing something for Yorkshire TV while I was there, so I almost felt like a celebrity for the day!”
Most of Eve’s village also saw her performance. “My vicar taped This Morning and then played the video to
the whole congregation! I definitely enjoyed the day and the whole experience that went with it.”
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Putting the spotlight on COPD
COPD Project
The BLF established its COPD Project
in January 2007 in direct response to
the announcement of the National
Service Framework (NSF) for Chronic
Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. NSFs
are 10 year strategies which commit
health care providers to raising
standards and to ensuring that
everyone gets the same level of good
quality care no matter where they
live. This was a major announcement
by the Department of Health in
2006, and is the first ever NSF for a
respiratory disease in England.
The COPD Project is one of the
largest projects undertaken by the
BLF and has been made possible by
an educational grant from
GlaxoSmithKline. Over three years,
the project aims to mobilise the BLF’s
internal resources and to work in
partnership with other organisations
to prepare for the launch and
subsequent implementation of the
NSF in 2009. The project is focussing
on four key themes: Awareness
Raising, Knowledge Exchange,
Support and Advocacy.
The activities undertaken so far
include establishing a dedicated
COPD Project Team and two project
stakeholder reference forums; one of
pharmaceutical industry
representatives to develop a
consortium of industry partners to
support the BLF’s work in COPD, and
another of patients living with COPD
and their carers. Seven regional
patient and carer forum workshops
across England are planned to better
understand what issues patients and
their carers face in managing their
condition; this is instrumental in
identifying new ways for the
organisation to respond to their
needs. Plans are in place to develop a
similar forum for health and social
care professionals with an interest in
COPD, to explore how the BLF can
support local implementation of the
NSF standards.
So far, we have made strides
particularly in raising awareness
among the general public about the
signs and symptoms of COPD,
encouraging people to adopt healthy
lifestyles such as stopping smoking,
and also signposting people to their
local healthcare professionals for
more advice and information. With
the support of a Department of
Health Section 64 grant, the project
has coordinated 12 COPD public
awareness raising events across
England. These events have attracted
an estimated footfall of over 5,000
Our COPD Project Team has coordinated
public awareness-raising events
across England.
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“I was astonished that a room filled with doctors and health
experts wanted to listen and understand my point of view”
…says former miner Pat Crowe (pictured right), aged 57, chairman of Mansfield and Ashfield Breathe Easy
group in the Midlands. “I was diagnosed with COPD in 2002 after being misdiagnosed with asthma since
1989 and was really pleased when the Government announced
they were developing a National Service Framework for COPD
because it meant that at last people like me would be more of a
priority for our local health services. When the British Lung
Foundation asked if I would attend some workshops organised
by the Government to canvas the opinions and views of
patients with COPD, I jumped at the chance.”
“I attended three out of four workshops all over the country
and each one focused on a different subject - pulmonary
rehabilitation, treatment management, palliative care, early
diagnosis, the smoking ban, medicines, devices and
alternative therapies. I was absolutely astonished how the
health professionals and lung health experts who attended the
workshops were so keen to listen to mine and other patients opinions and
it was also great to see that the majority of patients attending the workshops were
Breathe Easy members proudly representing the British Lung Foundation”
“I can honestly say that I found the whole experience very worthwhile and interesting. I just hope now
that the Government will go on to create a worthwhile document which will be implemented in a practical
and useful way to help make the lives of future generations of patients living with COPD a little easier.”
and of the 248 people who
undertook lung function screening at
these events, 33 (13%) were
referred to their GP for further advice
and assessment.
Members of the COPD Project Team
have visited various Breathe Easy
groups in England and have been
supporting BLF regional staff to
spread the word about the NSF and
the charity’s COPD Project. At these
events, we have been getting a sense
of what patients and carers want,
not only out of the NSF, but also
from the BLF in the future.
The COPD project is very much taking
their lead and members like Pat Crowe
have been very supportive in looking at
how we roll out our activities.
Influencing the
National Service
Framework for COPD
The Chief Executive is a member
of the External Reference Group for
the Department of Health advising
on the content of this NSF. She is
co-chairing the Patient Awareness
and Prevention and Awareness
Raising Subgroups as part of this
work. The advice from the External
Reference Group will be given to
Ministers in January 2008 and the
Department of Health will then take
on drafting the NSF with a view to
making it public towards the end
of 2008.
We planned to
establish a COPD
Project Team and to
engage with patients,
carers and other
partners about the
forthcoming NSF
for COPD.
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BLF Research – giving hope for the future
This year has been spent
consolidating the British Lung
Foundation’s investment in medical
research and developing a new
strategy for the way in which we
allocate funding to research. During
the year the BLF made two important
research awards:
Dr Zsuzsanna Tabi from the School of
Medicine at Cardiff University has
received £139,000 from the BLF June
Hancock Mesothelioma Research
Fund to study a new type of
treatment for mesothelioma, a cancer
caused by past exposure to asbestos.
The grant will enable her to
investigate the possibility of
developing an immune therapy
treatment for mesothelioma, using
the patient’s own immune cells to
attack the tumour cells.
Dr Ling-Pei Ho of University of Oxford
has received the Henry Shelford
award for research into sarcoidosis.
Dr Ho was awarded £50,082 for her
project looking at the role that our
genes play in the development of
long-term progressive sarcoidosis.
We also awarded 20 Travel Fellowship
awards of £750 each to respiratory
scientists to enable them to attend the
European Respiratory Society annual
congress in Munich in September
2006 and nine Travel Fellowship
awards of £750 each to the American
Thoracic Society annual congress in
San Francisco in May 2007.
Although it may appear this year’s
investment into medical research has
been smaller than usual, this is simply
a consequence of delaying the
awarding of the majority of research
funds raised in 2006-07 until
November 2007 (see box for a fuller
explanation of this).
New research strategy
As the only UK charity that
supports research into all forms of
lung disease, the BLF recognises the
need for a robust strategy that will
help make the most of our
investment in medical research. In
consultation with the wider UK
respiratory research community, the
BLF’s Scientific Committee has now
developed a three-stranded
research strategy:
• Capacity Building - helping
scientists to begin and maintain a
career in lung research.
• Research Prioritisation - ensuring
our research tackles the most
important questions in lung
disease.
• Patient-Centred Communication –
improving the way we tell nonscientists
about the work we fund.
The BLF will also continue to
welcome opportunities in working
with other organisations interested in
funding respiratory research.
Accounting for research grant awards
The Charity Commission’s Statement of Recommended Practice (SORP) states that grant expenditure must be
accounted for in the year it is allocated. In 2005-06, the BLF made its research awards before the end of the
financial year, so that grant expenditure could be accounted for in the same year that the money was raised.
However, as our accounts had not been audited at this point in time, the Scientific Committee did not know exactly
how much money was available to allocate to new research grants. This made it difficult for the Committee to
make informed funding decisions and has lead to changes in the timing of research fund allocations this year.
It was agreed that the money raised for research in 2006-07 should not be allocated until the financial audit for the
year had been completed. The grants award meeting for distributing funds raised in 2006-07 will therefore take
place in November 2007. To ensure compliance with SORP, the grants awarded in November 2007 will be
accounted for in the 2007-08 financial year. Therefore, details of this expenditure will appear in our 2007-08
annual review together with details of the awards made.
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In 2005-06 we
planned to develop
a new research
strategy, to make
sure we get the most
from the funds we
spend on medical
research.
TB researcher wins
prestigious BLF award
Innovative research aimed at
combating TB has won the
prestigious BTS/BLF Young
Investigator of the Year award. These
awards are designed to recognise and
reward innovative research in lung
disease and they attract around 100
entries from young doctors every
year. "It is crucial to encourage this
kind of research from young doctors if
we are to have any hope of achieving
ground-breaking cures for lung
disease in the future," says Dame
Helena Shovelton. The winning
research projects are expected to be
published in the specialist medical
magazine Thorax.
Dr Clare Sander of Oxford (pictured
below right), who is a Specialist
Registrar in Respiratory Infection at
the Royal Brompton Hospital in
London, received the Young
Investigator’s Prize for her work to
improve the efficacy of the BCG
vaccine to combat TB. After a period
of decline in the UK, the most recent
figures for 2005 showed the number
of TB cases in England, Wales and
Northern Ireland rising sharply
by 10.8 per cent.
Dr Rachel Hoyles of London, an
Arthritis Research Campaign Clinical
Research Fellow at the Royal
Brompton Hospital and Royal Free
and University College Medical
School, was runner up in the Awards
for her work on the causes of
pulmonary fibrosis. Dr Phillippa
Lawson of West Wickham,
Cambridge, is a Wellcome Clinical
Research Training Fellow at University
College London, also received a prize
for her investigation into possible
genetic tendencies for sarcoidosis
to occur.
New BLF research
spares children the pain
of the needle
Children could be spared the pain of
the doctor’s needle when they are
being treated for pneumonia, thanks
to new research funded by the
British Lung Foundation. In the study,
researchers at The University of
Nottingham discovered that
antibiotics taken orally are just as
effective as those given
intravenously in children with acute
respiratory infection.
In fact the study found that those
patients given oral treatment
recovered more quickly, suffered less
pain, required less oxygen therapy in
hospital and were able to go home
sooner than those given injections.
2.5 million children are affected by
pneumonia each year in Europe.
Over the last 5 to 10 years, increasing
numbers of them have been
admitted to hospital and treated with
injected antibiotics.
The findings suggest that these
injections – endured by generations
of children – may be unnecessary and
could be replaced with oral doses of
the medicine in the majority of cases.
The research was led by Terence
Stephenson, Professor of Child Health,
and Dr Maria Atkinson, both of The
University of Nottingham’s Medical
School. The study is the first in the
world to compare oral treatment
versus IV treatment for children with
community-acquired pneumonia who
are unwell enough to need admission
to hospital.
Professor Stephenson said: “This is
good news for children who hate
injections; good news for parents
whose children will spend less time in
hospital; good news for paediatricians
who hate sticking needles in children
and good news for the NHS as less
beds will be occupied and the
treatment is cheaper.”
The researchers conclude: “We
suggest that in countries like the UK,
all but the sickest children with
community-acquired pneumonia
should be treated with oral
amoxicillin initially. We expect that
the majority of children will still
require hospital admission but for a
shorter period to ensure oral
medication is tolerated, and
temperature and respiratory distress
are settling. Most importantly,
children will be spared the pain and
distress that injections cause.”
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fundraising
Strong performance by fundraising
The British Lung Foundation relies on
the generosity, support and
commitment of many individuals, the
business community, trusts,
foundations and statutory sources to
fund its work and activities.
This year has been the most successful
ever for the charity and we are
profoundly grateful for the support
given whether through money, time or
sharing of resources. A record
£6,215,982 was raised, 40 per cent
higher than the previous year, reflecting
the successful implementation of the
five-year fundraising strategy and
investment in staff posts. The cost of
achieving this impressive result has
been closely monitored and we are
pleased that expenditure in these
activities was 30 per cent lower than
expected. Fundraising costs for the year
were 13.1p for every £1 raised.
Impressive results were achieved from
the business development and trust
and statutory teams who secured
significant high return donations and
funding to support key activities. A
major donor programme has started
and several one-off donations were
received during the year towards
research activities.
There has been significant growth in
income from charitable trusts,
foundations, statutory sources and
the business community. Collectively
they have contributed £2,219,977
and helped fund a wide range of new
projects and core activities including
medical research, high profile
campaigns such as the World COPD
Day Roadshow, Breathe Easy
Awareness Days, the Helpline and the
BLF Nurse programme. We were
especially pleased to receive funding
to produce and air the first BLF
television campaign in the Yorkshire
Television area and to fund the
development of the charity’s COPD
Project Team.
Engaging individuals in events and
regular giving programmes has been
more challenging, although there
were some positive results during
the year. New activities including a
BLF team in the New York Marathon
and the London to Paris Bike Ride
were well supported, together
raising over £35,000, and existing
activities such as Breath of Life
Funds continue to perform well.
Investment in payroll giving has
delivered impressive returns with a
70 per cent increase on the
previous year. Legacy income
continues to be an important source
of income for the charity – this year
gifts totalled £930,983. Established
events such as the London
Marathon, Great North Run, overseas
treks and challenges, Midlands Lung
Run and the golf days continued to
attract supporters and our thanks go
to everyone who participated in
these events and raised much
needed funds.
“I wanted to beat Matt Dawson and
Gordon Ramsay and I did”
…says James Thomlinson, 23, who has COPD and ran the London
Marathon for the British Lung Foundation. “Running the marathon was
a personal ambition, but if I was going to run for a charity, I wanted to
run for the British Lung Foundation. I did it with two other friends and
between us we raised nearly £7,000. While we were training we
heard ex-England rugby player Matt Dawson and top chef Gordon
Ramsay were running and decided we were going to beat them and
we did. We even saw them on the course. Whenever we ran past
other people wearing BLF T-shirts we cheered them on.”
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During the year we wanted to
consolidate our progress
towards building our base of
sustainable funding.

Aim: to develop our
major donor
giving programme.
Staff will continue to identify and
attract new sources of support in line
with the agreed five-year fundraising
strategy in order to plan for future
growth and development.
This includes work on our major donor
fundraising strategy. There has been
generous support for medical research
projects into the causes, treatments
and better understanding of lung
disease from a range of donors. We
are particulaly grateful to Severin
Wunderman for his gift. With one
person in seven now affected by lung
disease in the UK, the need for funding
has never been greater - we hope to
attract significant interest from current
and prospective donors towards this
Event supporters
vital work in the coming year.
We would like to express our gratitude
to everyone who has supported the
British Lung Foundation during the
year and helped make this one of our
most successful ever.
Television advertising
helps spread the word
The BLF received funding from
Boehringer Ingelheim Limited and
Pfizer Limited to develop and run a
television advertising campaign to
raise awareness of COPD and the
BLF’s services. The 30-second advert
was aired in April 2007 on Yorkshire
Television (an area known to have a
Our thanks go the many participants and supporters of the BLF’s
fundraising events programme, including our celebrity supporters and
the organisations which have contributed including:
Brendan Reynolds
Ray Wilkins
BARTS
Gary Lineker OBE
Rob Bonnett
Andrew Cotter
Mark Foster
Dan Lobb
Celina Hinchcliffe
Ed Stewart
Sir Henry Cooper OBE
Desmond Lynam
Alex and Daniel Stewart and
Nina Anderson
Birmingham City Council
Ashdown Forest Royal Golf Club
higher than average incidence of
COPD in the population) and ran for
four weeks. Seen through the eyes of
a person with COPD, the advert
highlighted the difficulties and
frustrations of coping with everyday
tasks such as climbing the stairs and
gardening. The viewer was invited to
contact the BLF Helpline for support
and advice to help them “breathe
more easily”.
The adverts were targeted at both
women and men aged 60 and over
with COPD or COPD symptoms.
They were also intended to inform
people of all ages who might know or
care for someone with COPD or
COPD symptoms.
Throughout the campaign the BLF
Helpline extended its normal weekday
opening hours until 9pm in the
evenings and additional temporary
staff were taken on to handle the
increased number of calls. Some 686
calls were received as a result of people
seeing and responding to the advert.
The advert resulted in an increased
uptake across other BLF services –
additional COPD publications were
requested, there was an increase in
visits to the BLF website
www.lunguk.org and an annual
awareness survey conducted by GfK
NOP highlighted that awareness of
COPD and breathing problems in
Yorkshire and Humberside increased
on the previous year. BLF publicity
generated 19 items of regional media
coverage about the advertising
campaign, reaching a potential
audience of 872,396 people.
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Finance
In 2006-07 we achieved our highest ever income, just above our previous best performance in 2004-05 and 40 per cent
higher than the previous year. This strong performance was due mainly to significant increases in income received from
trusts, companies, individuals and legacy donations. The growth is also partly attributable to the wide range of fundraising
initiatives which were put in place during 2005-06 in order to develop future income growth.
Income
Activities in relation to Breathe Easy and patient support £969,440
Public education & literature £46,065
Legacies £930,983
In Memoriam £496,755
Companies £964,800
Trusts £1,255,177
Individuals £919,595
Events £398,263
Investment incomes £234,904
£6,215,982
Expenditure
Public education & literature £916,795
Activities in relation to Breathe Easy and patient support £2,356,676
Research grants £181,368
Research department costs £79,639
Campaigning and awareness raising £529,205
Costs of generating voluntary income £816,990
Governance costs £216,762
£5,097,435
Overall income
£4,879,506
£6,113,045
£4,423,907
£6,215,982
2003 - 04
2004 - 05
2005 - 06
2006 - 07
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Income
Income was £6,215,982 (2006:
£4,423,907), up by just over
£1,792,000 (40 per cent) from 2006.
Income streams with a significant
increase on 2006 figures were: Trusts
up £1,035,000, Companies up
£706,000, Legacies up £348,000,
and Individuals up £339,000. These
were, however, offset by Activities in
relation to Breathe Easy and patient
support which were down by
£321,000 and Public education and
literature down by £298,000.
Activities in relation to Breathe Easy
and patient support includes the total
income of Breathe Easy groups of
£461,000 (2006: £401,000).
Expenditure
Expenditure totalled £5,097,435
(2006: £5,157,654), a decrease of just
over £60,000 (one per cent) against
2006. Expenditure in 2006 included
charitable expenditure of £596,000
designated out of the 2005 surplus by
the Trustees, which was spent in 2006.
The Costs of generating voluntary
income include direct fundraising costs,
salaries and overheads of fundraising
staff. These costs decreased by 19 per
cent in the year to £816,990, and
equated to 13.1p for every £1 raised
(2006: 22.8p). This decrease reflects
our previously stated aim to refine our
fundraising strategy to increase our
income while maintaining a tight
control on expenditure, in order to
maximise our expenditure on our
charitable activities.
Expenditure on charitable activities
increased by three per cent to
£4,280,445 (2006: £4,146,893). Such
expenditure equated to 68.9p for
every £1 raised (2006: 82.6p). This
figure is not directly comparable with
last year because of the decision to
delay the awarding of major research
grants until November 2007. If the
planned research grants had been
awarded in the 2006-07 financial year
this year’s ratio would have been
80.8p for every £1 raised. Expenditure
categories in relation to charitable
activities are detailed above and
include the expenditure of Breathe
Easy groups, and the expenditure on
salaries and overheads of staff
involved in delivering our charitable
objectives.
This summarised information has
been extracted from management
information. These financial highlights
may not contain sufficient information
to allow a full understanding of the
financial affairs of the charity. For
further information, the full statutory
accounts, the auditors’ report on those
accounts and the Report of the
Trustees should be considered. Copies
of these will be available from the
registered office once approved by the
Board of Trustees at their meeting on
28 November 2007.
Thank you!
Grateful thanks to everyone who has volunteered, donated, remembered us in their Will, taken part in an event, started a
Breath of Life Fund or made an in-memoriam gift during 2006-07.
Trust and foundation
supporters
Archer Trust
Awards for All
Big Lottery Fund
Big Lottery Fund Scotland
Burdett Trust for Nursing
W A Cargill Fund
City Bridge Trust
Martin Connell Charitable Trust
Department of Health (Section 64)
John Ellerman Foundation
Eranda Foundation
Peter John Foord Charitable Trust
Donald Forrester Trust
Freemasons’ Grand Charity
Greendale Charitable Foundation
King Edward VII Hospital, Midhurst
Kirby Laing Foundation
Lloyds TSB Foundation for England
and Wales
Robert Luff Foundation Limited
W M Mann Foundation
Merchants' House of Glasgow
Miller Foundation
P F Charitable Trust
Partick Queen Victoria Diamond Jubilee
Benevolent Association
Peacock Charitable Trust
Rayne Foundation
The Muriel Edith Rickman Trust
Rosetrees Trust
Row Fogo Charitable Trust
ShareGift (The Orr Mackintosh
Foundation)
Sir Samuel Scott of Yews Trust
Henry Smith Charity
Souter Charitable Trust
Strathclyde Police Benevolent Fund
Swire Charitable Trust
Garfield Weston Foundation
Francis Winham Foundation
J & J R Wilson Trust
James Wood Bequest Fund
Zochonis Charitable Trust
...and a number of trusts and
foundations that wish to remain
anonymous
Corporate supporters
Air Products PLC
AstraZeneca UK Limited
Boehringer Ingelheim Limited
Garnett Keeler Public Relations
GlaxoSmithKline
Monster UK
TMP Worldwide
Novartis Pharmaceuticals UK
Pfizer Limited
Talteg Limited
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President
Dr John Moore-Gillon MA MD FRCP
Past president
Sir John Batten KCVO MD FRCP
Chairman
Dr Keith Prowse BSc MD FRCP
Vice Presidents
Greta Barnes MBE
Prof Peter Barnes DM DSc FRCP FMedSci
Sir Christian Bonnington CBE
Prof Mark Britton MD MSc FRCP
Dame Judi Dench CH DBE
Sir Terence English KBE FRCS FRCP
Baroness Fritchie of Gloucester DBE
Sir Richard Giordano KBE
Prof Sir Malcolm Green DM FRCP FMedSci
David Hanger
Dame Deirdre Hine DBE FRCP FFPH
Prof Stephen Holgate MD DSc FRCP FRCPE FRCPath FMedSci Cbiol FIBiol
Lord Howe of Aberavon
Prof William MacNee MBChB FRCP
Dr Michael Morgan MD FRCP
Sir Richard Sykes DSc FRS
Lord Tugendhat
Prof Lord Turnberg PRCP FRCP
Prof Dame Margaret Turner-Warwick DM PhD FRCP
Severin Wunderman
Board of Trustees
Dr Keith Prowse BSc MD FRCP (Chairman)
Mr Ian Hudson FCA (Honorary Treasurer)
Dr David Bellamy MBE BSc FRCP MRCGP
Lord Borwick (Deputy Chairman)
Mr Peter Dolphin (appointed 1 September 2006)
Dr Noemi Eiser MD FRCP (resigned 29 November 2006)
Prof Ruth Endacott PhD MA Cert Ed DipN RN (appointed 1 July 2006)
Dr Emrys Evans MB BCh MD FRCP (appointed 13 February 2007)
Mrs Christine Fehrenbach RCN (resigned 29 November 2006)
Mr Russell Hancock (resigned 29 November 2006)
Sir Graham Hart KCB (appointed 1 September 2006)
Prof Chris Haslett BSc MBChB FRCP FRSE FMedSci OBE
Mr Graham Lancaster
Prof Warren Lenney MD FRCP FRCPCH DCH (resigned 13 February 2007)
Ms Gillian Perkins BA (appointed 1 July 2006)
Mrs Samantha Prigmore MSc BSc RGN (appointed 13 February 2007)
Mrs Phyllida Pyper (resigned 26 July 2006)
Dr Gary Ruiz FRCP FRCPCH (appointed 25 July 2007)
Mrs Amanda Sater
Mr Karamjit Singh CBE (appointed 1 July 2006)
Prof Stephen Spiro BSc MD FRCP
Prof Monica Spiteri PhD FRCP (resigned 29 November 2006)
Mr Sabah Zubaida (appointed 1 September 2006)
Advisory Council
Dr John Moore-Gillon MA MD FRCP (President)
Dr Keith Prowse BSc MD FRCP (Chairman, Board of Trustees)
Ian Hudson FCA (Honorary Treasurer)
Lord Borwick (Deputy Chairman)
Greta Barnes MBE
Prof Edwin Chilvers PhD FRCPE FRCP
Prof Paul Corris FRCP
Prof Tim Evans BSc MD PhD DSc FRCP FRCA EDICM FMedSci
Dr Jonathan Goldman MD FRCP
Prof Chris Haslett OBE BSc MBChB FRCP
Dr William Holmes MRCP FRCGP
Amanda Jordan OBE
Dr Mike Morgan MD FRCP
Dr Fiona Moss MD FRCP
Dr James Paton MBChB MD MRCP
Richard Reid FCA
Prof Rob Stockley MD DSc FRCP
Adrian Vickers
27 British Lung Foundation Annual Review 06/07

Contacting the British Lung Foundation
Email: enquiries@blf-uk.org
Helpline: 08458 50 50 20 (Mon-Fri, 10am-6pm)
Website: www.lunguk.org
Head Office
British Lung Foundation
73-75 Goswell Road
London EC1V 7ER
Tel: 020 7688 5555
National Offices
Scotland and Northern Ireland
British Lung Foundation
Scotland & Northern Ireland
Suite 110-111, Baltic Chambers
50 Wellington Street
Glasgow G2 6HJ
t: 0141 229 0318
e: scotland@blf-uk.org
e: northernireland@blf-uk.org
Wales
British Lung Foundation Wales
6/7 Llandarcy Suite
Llys Kearns, Jersey marine
Swansea SA1 8QL
t: 01792 455 764
e: wales@blf-uk.org
Regional Offices
London and South
British Lung Foundation
73-75 Goswell Road
London EC1V 7ER
t: 020 7688 5555
e: londonandsouth@blf-uk.org
Midlands
British Lung Foundation
Carlton House
28 Regent Street
Leicester LE1 6YH
t: 0116 249 5780
e: midlands@blf-uk.org
North
British Lung Foundation
The Sir GB Hunter Memorial
Hospital
The Green
Wallsend NE28 7PB
t: 0191 263 0276
e: north@blf-uk.org
North West
British Lung Foundation
Orleans House
Edmund Street
Liverpool L3 9NG
t: 0151 224 7778
e: northwest@blf-uk.org
South West
British Lung Foundation
Second floor, South Suite
Liberty House, South Liberty Lane
Bristol BS3 2ST
t: 0117 300 4080
e: southwest@blf-uk.org
Registered charity of England and Wales - no. 326730
Charity registered in Scotland - no. SC 038415
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