Our Founder, the incredible Doreen Cartledge. Through personal loss of her son Lee Spark in October 1999 of the horrific infection necrotising fasciitis (NF); Doreen has campaigned endlessly to raise awareness by giving lectures including statistics and survey results from survivors and bereaved. Doreen Cartledge Doreen has been involved in world wide organisations [...]
Nathan Penfold tells us about Wheelie Access, designed to help people all over the world become accustomed to a new or existing disability. "I first heard of The Lee Spark NF Foundation when my uncle Jonathan was in recovery from NF as he was in contact with Dee Cartledge, the Founder of The Lee Spark [...]
Get to know The Lee Spark NF Foundation! We're excited to announce the first in our brand new series of webinars - Get to know The Lee Spark NF Foundation! Doreen Cartledge, Founder Join us by Zoom for a chance to hear our Founder, the amazing Doreen Cartledge, talk about why she created [...]
Today we are extremely proud to share with you the results of our first-ever mental health and well-being survey. For 2 weeks in January 20201, we conducted a survey across all of our social media channels, looking for information on how survivors of necrotizing fasciitis and those bereaved were treated on a mental health and [...]
Bereavement during normal times is heartbreaking and can be extremely hard to comes to terms with. Bereavement during COVID-19 has been even harder. As you are aware these times, almost one year ago we all have tried our very best to remain positive . Hanging on to every news-bulletin in hope that later on that [...]