With our support, you can set up an Awareness stand in your hospital to help educate staff, patients and visitors alike.
Distribute leaflets, share your professional experience or talk about your personal experience and signpost people to further information.
You can even fundraise at the same time!
Every year, on Addison's Disease Day (29th May), we are proud to see awareness stands pop up in hospitals across the whole of the UK, thanks to you!
Most of our awareness stands are run by Healthcare professionals, such as dedicated endocrine teams who are keen to educate people about Addison's and adrenal insufficiency, distribute leaflets and publications, and raise the profile of the charity.
However, if you are a charity member and would like to host a stand, please reach out to your endocrine team to support you in hosting a stand. You do need to have a sound knowledge of Addison's and adrenal insufficiency and the role of the ADSHG in order to best support this initiative.
You will be sharing information with healthcare colleagues and the general public (we have resources for both audiences).
Where?
Which hospital or GP surgery are you going to host your stand?If you are not a healthcare professional, contact your local endocrine team to support you.
When?
What date will you host your stand? If you can, it is great to host it on Addison's Disease Day (29 May). Don't worry if it has to be another day - any day is a good day to raise awareness!
What?
Check with your 'venue' that you can be supplied with table and chair(s), and permission to set up somewhere 'visible'.
Order your resources
Once you sign up, we will get in touch to check where you would like your resource pack delivered and will arrange tracked delivery for you.
Set up your stand
Use our leaflets and posters to make your stand eye-catching. Display our resources, ready to show people and distribute.
Have fun and take photos!
Chat to people, share information and have fun! Please take some photos and, with permission, share them with us.
We have put together a resource pack on our online store, that we will arrange to be delivered to you at the most convenient address for you.
It includes a few items for 'demonstration' e.g. an example member pack, hospital folder and emergency injection kit. It also includes a range of leaflets that you can hand out to interested people, with some for the general public and some for healthcare professionals.
Resource list:
- Hospital Folder
- Member Pack
- NHS Steroid Emergency Cards
- Emergency Injection Kit (Small)
- Injection Training Kit
- Emergency Injection Instruction Leaflets
- Surgical Guidelines
- Adrenal Insufficiency Action Plan leaflets
- About the ADSHG leaflets
- Bunting
- Notes for Ward Nurses
- Notes for Primary Care and A&E Nurses
- What are Addison's and adrenal insufficiency leaflets
- Let's Get Fundraising Leaflets
- Managing Addison's or adrenal insufficiency leaflets
- ADSHG join us cards
- A3 Poster
- ADSHG Pens
Running an Awareness stand can also be a fundraising opportunity, and you will be able to order a collection box for your stand if you would also like to collect cash donations.
We are so grateful to you for considering setting up an Awareness stand in the hospital where you work, or your local hospital. Thank you!
We know that it can feel daunting, so we are here to support you, to help make your stand eye-catching, and ensure you have the resources you need to hand.
We are here to:
- Guide you through the process above if you need additional support.
- Arrange delivery of a resource pack to your chosen address.
- Help you potentially source a volunteer to help you run your stand if you need another person to help.
- Publicise your event via our Website pre-event and via social media and or magazine/newsletters post-event.
