Aims and Objectives

·   to support the sufferer who may be alone and isolated.

·   to provide advice and welfare support for people with lupus.

·   to publish information on the disease and make literature available on lupus from other sources.

·   to publish posters and publicity material, and to produce the national magazine News & Views.

·   to arrange educational meetings and generally inform the medical and nursing professions on lupus.

·   to publicise lupus through the Press, Radio and TV, magazine articles and all other possible outlets.

·   to promote the annual October Lupus Awareness Month and awareness the year round.

·   to increase the charity's member base and income.

·   to raise money for research and welfare support through national, regional and local fund-raising events.

·   to affiliate with other organisations whereby the voice of LUPUS UK can reach a wider audience.

The Aims of the Cambridgeshire Group are to support the Aims of LUPUS UK, particularly focusing on supporting people with lupus. It strives to achieve this through holding regular meetings for people with lupus, local fundraising events, producing a quarterly local newsletter and working to help raise awareness of lupus with the general public, healthcare professionals and the media. The Group also has five Contacts that local people with lupus can speak to or email for local advice and support on living with lupus.