HAUTE-VIENNE

Cancer Support France Haute-Vienne was founded at the end of 2011 by Richard and Sue Ware and Karen Blewett. Before that the Haute-Vienne was covered by CSF Charente Plus and the separation was encourged by the then President of Charente Plus. We are all volunteers and CSF H-V runs as a 1901 association under French law. Our aim is to offer support to English speakers affected by cancer... During our first year, the association in Creuse began to fail and we agreed to take it over. We then found ourselves with clients from Corrèze and Indre, being the nearest association to these departments. So we now cover 87, 23, 19 and 36. We have built relationships with the various hospitals across these departments and even visited the hospital in Montluçon to translate for a client from Indre... We arrange some fund raising events during the year to cover our immediate costs of which training and on-going training are the biggest financial demands. We do not raise money for third parties.