A great turnout at our final coffee morning of the year at Yarns Kitchen at Mossley Mill, with 28 members and friends enjoying the great food and craic.
Thank you to everyone who joined us at any of our 2025 events. Watch out for our 2026 schedule coming out soon.
As hoped, Santa took time out of his busy schedule to visit all of our lovely liver children at our Christmas party 2025 in Newtownards. There were crafts and colouring in to do, and food for everyone to enjoy. Our thanks go to all the ‘Elves’ who transported the boys and girls, and those who made it all happen in the background. Wishing everyone a joyful and happy Christmas.
One of our young liver patients, Thomas Morrison, has been collecting all his loose change, together with donations in tins from local shops, since he was just a toddler. He’s one of our staunchest supporters along with his family. He recently met Arthur at our Helpdesk at Liver Outpatients, and handed over the phenomenal sum of £825 to help further our support work. What a role model and ambassador for our young patients. Well done Thomas, and he has already started his next collection!
Pictured is Barney McConville, owner of Steel Lintels Ireland Ltd, presenting a cheque for £2000 to Kay Duffy, founder of the RVH Liver Support Group in memory of his wife the late Alison McConville. Also pictured are employees of the company who were involved in the fundraising effort. We wish to thank everyone involved.
Our team who travelled to the @2025worldtransplantgames in Dresden during the summer, were delighted to have been invited back to Stormont last night by invitation of both the Sports Minister and Health Minister to congratulate them on their successes on the world stage. Thanks to the ministers and their departments for hosting this event and all those others from a number of other Northern Ireland transplant charities who came along to support us.
The family of the late Fr Brendan Smyth are seen here presenting a cheque of £1100 to Kay Duffy, founder of the RVH Liver Support Group. The Group would like to thank them for this wonderful donation which will be used to support liver patients.
Our Chairman, Jim Kilpatrick, was pleased to represent all of our Liver Support Group members at an Afternoon Tea event in the Mansion House, in the City of London, hosted by the @british_liver_trust (BLT) and the Lady Mayoress, earlier this week. Others present were Trustees, Ambassadors and Directors of BLT, and supporters from around the UK. This included our own Rachel Quinney-Mee, her husband David and daughter Alice, BLT Ambassadors.
Another successful coffee morning, this time in Bushtown Coleraine where Ashley and Kay hosted the event. A time again for patients, many local to the area, to meet up and have a coffee and scone whilst chatting to friends.
Our next coffee morning is already booked and will be held in the Mourne Country hotel Newry on November 5 between 10 and 12:30. It will be hosted by Kay and Arthur. We look forward to seeing as many patients there as possible and remember that you can come to as many coffee events as you like and take someone with you 🙂
Another roaring success for Hillsborough!!. This event was hosted by Jim, Jane, Patricia and Sharon from committee .We had over 44 people attend the event in the grounds of Hillsborough Castle as you can see in the attached cards. And of course Jane and Michael with their newborn, Alexander
This is becoming one of the most looked forward to and attended events of the entire coffee event calendar!!
It is also especially poignant because it is always held during Organ Donation Week which holds a very special place in the hearts of many of our Charity members.
The next coffee event will be held in the Bushtown hotel in Coleraine on October 11th. Look forward to seeing you there and remember everyone is welcome and bring friends too.
Members of the RVH Liver Support Group, along with committee members, attended the bicycle run on Thursday of Organ Donation Week at Belfast Grand Central Station.