Amelia’s Campaign Challenge
Welcome to Amelia’s Campaign Challenge!
Thank you for taking part in Amelia’s Campaign Challenge. We hope you enjoy it.
Amelia’s Campaign aims to raise £10,000 by August 2012 for two life saving charities,
the British Heart Foundation (BHF) and Live Life then Give Life (LLTGL). The campaign
also promotes the importance of organ donation.
Challenges are organised into four themes. To complete the challenge, Guides and
Senior Section must complete three challenges from each theme. Brownies and
Rainbows must complete two challenges from each theme.
Don’t forget to email Amelia’s Campaign [email protected] and let us
know what you’ve been up to, include a picture and you might appear on the website.
Thank you
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Amelia’s Story
Amelia Scholey is 23 years old and is a Senior Section Guider and Assistant Guide
Leader in Scarborough, North Yorkshire. In August 2002 Amelia received a heart
transplant due to Restrictive Cardiomyopathy (Heart Disease). When Amelia was just
a baby her father died of a heart related problem and when she was fourteen her
brother died suddenly due to Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy.
Amelia found out she had the same disease after losing her brother and in June 2002
she was put onto a waiting list for a new heart. In August 2002 Amelia was lucky enough
to receive the organ, unfortunately the heart she received didn’t beat. An ECMO
machine kept Amelia alive and did the job of her heart.
It was thought that after a rest the new heart would beat again, unfortunately this was
not the case. Amelia was then added to the emergency transplant list and yet again
was lucky enough to receive another heart, which is still beating today!
Amelia is so grateful to have been given the gift of life and would now like to help
promote the importance of organ donation, and also raise money for two life saving
charities, the British Heart Foundation and Life Live then Give Life in celebration of her
10 year transplant anniversary.
Information on BHF and LLTGL
Live Life then Give Life is an award-winning organ donation awareness charity. The
charity exists to improve education and awareness of organ donation and to fund
projects that increase the numbers of successful transplants in the UK.
More than 10,000 people in the UK are currently in need of a transplant. Of these, 1,000
people each year – that's three a day - will die waiting as there are not enough organs
available. Whilst 96% of us would take an organ, only 27% have signed the organ donor
register.
The British Heart Foundation is the nation’s heart charity. The charity aims to fight
against disease of the heart and circulation, preventing this being a major cause of
disability and premature death. 2011 sees British Heart Foundation celebrating their
50th anniversary.
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Key: R – Rainbows
B - Brownies
G – Guides
SS – Senior Section
The Challenges
Theme 1 – Health
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Learn about organ donation, bone marrow transplants and giving blood.
Including how to register – G SS
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Complete one of the following – B G
- Healthy Heart Badge
- Agility Badge
- Sports Badge
- Healthy Life style badge
- Be a good sport GFI
- Healthy Eating GFI
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Invite a guest to speak who has had a transplant or heart disease - G SS
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Learn how to take a pulse before and after exercise. If possible have a go with
heart rate monitor – B G SS
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Learn about heart equipment – ECG’s, ECHO’s, X-rays – G SS
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Complete the Heart Quiz – G SS
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Where is the heart and what does it look like? - How about drawing round
somebody and learning where all organs in the body go? – R B G SS
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Find out transplant statistics to include when the 1st transplant took place,
longest surviving transplant etc. – G SS
Theme 2 - Food
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Produce a healthy cook book - R B G SS
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Cook a healthy ready steady cook. - R B G SS
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Eat healthy for a week and keep a diary - R B G SS
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Learn what foods are good for your heart - R B G SS
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Try a fruit or vegetable you haven’t tried before – R B G SS
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Make a heart cake/biscuit and decorate it - R B G SS
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Have a cake sale with heart shaped goodies - R B G SS
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Veggie friends - R B
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Key: R – Rainbows
B - Brownies
G – Guides
SS – Senior Section
Theme 3 – Hearts
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Make a heart shaped ornament - R B,G SS
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Design a new pack of Love Hearts - B G SS
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Have a heart of gold - Do a good turn - R B G SS
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Complete the Heart Word search - R B G SS
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Take part in BHF Jump for Rope - B G SS (Please let us know if this is chosen)
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Take part in BHF Dodge ball - B G SS (Please let us know if this is chosen)
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Have a red themed night - R B G SS
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Make a heart collage - R B G SS
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Take part in the Artie Olympics – R (Please let us know if this is chosen)
Theme 4 - Beat
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Have a drumming session – African Drums - R B G SS
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Learn about different rhythms - R B G SS
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Make an instrument to shake/bang to a beat or have a junk band - R B G SS
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Get the heart beating – dancing, sport night, Olympics - R B G SS
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Listen to a love song - R B G SS
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Have a film night – Romantic comedy, fairy tale - R B G SS
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Fact Sheet
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You are more likely to need a transplant than become a donor
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The oldest recorded cornea donor was 104
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More women (54%) than men (46%) have signed up to the organ donor register
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The 1st heart transplant was in 1967 in South Africa by Christina Bernard
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Between 1st April 2009 and March 2010 3,709 organ transplants were carried
out, thanks to the generosity of 2,021 donors.
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Over 8,000 people are currently waiting for a transplant
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Over 1,000 people died waiting for a transplant last year
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The 1st transplant was a cornea in 1905
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Adults wait an average of 149 days for a liver transplant while children wait an
average of 86 days.
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Heart and circulatory disease is the UK’s biggest killer
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Around 4,600 babies are born with congenital heart disease every year
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Most adults in the UK do not eat enough fruit and vegetables
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There are around 124,000 heart attacks in the UK every year
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More than a third of men and nearly a third of women exceed the
recommended level of alcohol intake
Useful Websites
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Amelia’s Campaign – www.ameliascampaign.com
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Life live then Give Life – www.lltgtl.org.uk
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British Heart Foundation – www.bhf.org.uk
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Heart Stats – www.heartstats.org
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NHS Organ and Blood - www.organdonation.nhs.uk
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Food Standards Agency- www.eatwell.gov.uk
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Heart Quiz as part of theme 1.
1. How often does the heart beat each day in the average human?
a. 25,000 b. 40,000 c 100,000
2. How many chambers does a heart have?
3. What are the names of the chambers?
4. How many valves does your heart have?
5. What are the valves called?
6. What does the heart deliver around the body?
7. What counts when you’re having a heart attack?
8. Which activities don’t help your heart?
9. Around 2.5million people are living with heart disease – True or False?
10. Every 10 minutes somebody dies from a heart attack – True or False?
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Veggie Friends as part of theme 2.
You will need: Six different types of chopped or sliced vegetables that can be eaten
raw, cocktail sticks, plates and a playing dice
Have each veg on a different plate labelled 1 -6. Split the girls into small groups and
give each group a empty plate. To play the game one girl from each group takes a turn
to throw a dice and collect a vegetable from the plate with the same number. Keep it
going for 2 mintures. Then shout stop and each group much make a vegetable friend
with what they have. Finish by eating the vegetables.
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Heart Quiz Answers
11. How often does the heart beat each day in the average human?
b. 25,000 b. 40,000 c 100,000
12. How many chambers does a Heart have?
4
13. What are the names of the Chambers?
2 small upper ones Atria and 2 larger bottom ones ventricles
14. How many valves does your Heart have?
4
15. What are the valves called?
Tricuspid, Pulmonary, Mitral and Aortic
16. What does the heart deliver around the body?
Blood
17. What counts when you’re having a Heart attack?
Every second
18. Which activities don’t help your heart?
Smoking and Drinking
19. Around 2.5million people are living with Heart disease – True or False?
True
20. Every 10 minutes somebody dies from a Heart attack – True or False?
False it is every 6 minutes
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