BIG NEWS: We’re becoming Asthma + Lung UK! In 2020 the British Lung Foundation and Asthma UK joined forces and together we’ve been supporting you, campaigning for lung health and continuing to invest in research. Now, we’ve joined our charities under a new name and will be working as one to fight for a world where everyone can breathe with healthy lungs. We still offer lung health advice for everyone, whether you have a lung condition, care for someone or just want to know more about your lungs.
Asthma + Lung UK will be UK’s leading charity fighting for everyone with a lung condition. Find out more on our shiny new website: asthmaandlung.org.uk
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As others have stated in their posts below. I am far from happy or impressed with this decision. I believe it dilutes both BLF and Asthma UK.The logo is poor and the name is even worse. Type of name a child would come up with and I imagine that some “clever” people took months to decide this.
In view of fact that WE are the ones with the conditions and organisations are meant to speak for us am, very very disappointed at lack of consultancy on this and asthma uk site.
I feel the same Bevvy. As a matter of courtesy the BLF could have spoken about this beforehand. It's somewhat late in the day to announce BIG NEWS after we have seen the new logo.
Whilst I can understand this move in light of the financial problems all charities are facing at the moment, I am not happy with it.
I have asthma along with copd but mine is mild. I have been on the asthma site and learned it is very different from severe or different types of asthma and which advice from those like me is often incorrect.
The number of purely asthma sufferers is probably even higher than those with copd and I worry it will cause problems on here for them. On the asthma site I learned to keep quiet and accept my experiences weren't typical.
I agree with what others have said. An arbitrary decision.which hilights one condition whilst reducing everything else to also rans. As if we haven't struggled hard enough for recognition and proper treatment for ALL of our different conditions. A step back into the wilderness.
We’ll. Firstly, I don’t like the name. The asthma bit is ok I suppose. I can understand how joining forces might help with research, but…As two different charities I would have thought you would raise more funds. For example, I have donated to both asthma U.K. and the BLF, as have others I imagine. I cannot see people saying they will donate twice as much because the two charities have combined.
Both charities were well known and respected and I doubt many people will realise that this amateurish sounding charity are in anyway related.
The British Lung Foundation as a name commands some respect. In this new title, it is just represented by lung.
Thank you Carol, but this is too little too late. We have already had this foisted on us without the curtesy of any consultation. As a person with both bronchiectasis and asthma I Am in full agreement with Bevvy. The FIGHTING for BREATH is scary and ill thought through and the title and logo totally unimpressive. I hope it was devised inhouse and funds weren’t spent on very poor agencies with no knowledge of lung conditions. Asthma appears to be the main guest and all the rest of us their + 1.
I as so impressed when BLF gAve funding to Prof Chalmers team for research into ncfbe, plus 2 other teams, one of them being for copd. I am sure this will have attracted donations. I can’t honestly see the new name and plaster logo being recognised with the same respect.
I don’t like the slogan either. It says nothing about what these charities, sorry this charity, does. Fighting to save lives might be more appropriate or something of that ilk.
Could you tell us, please, Carol, what proportion of available funds will go towards Asthma support & research, and what proportion towards all the other lung conditions?
What concerns me a little when i see the staff list of this new mega charity is that the CEO of our new organisation ,as it is with many mega conglomerations, is involved with so many charities in some function or other that i think it would be impossible for her to devote the amount of time and attention to our specific cause that is required?
Hmm, the charity’s accounts for last year state her earnings to be £75,833 and that “she was not employed for the whole of the financial year.” The argument is that they must employ the right people for the job and it’s a competitive market. You could offer to do it for a rounded-down £75k, skis? 😉
Nice little earner if the other numerous charities she is involved in give her the same remuneration?Me and Scruff's will do it for half the price with a few cans of tuna in brine chucked in for Scruff's.
I'm disappointed with the new name. I have been trying to raise the profile of the BLF amongst friends and relatives since being diagnosed with bronchiectasis. Most people say 'Oh yes. Like the BHF but for lungs'. I think now, that people's first comment will be 'Oh I didn't know you have asthma'The slogan 'Fighting for Breath' is awful beyond words. We don't need reminding every time we look at the website or forum.
Sorry not impressed with the title or the logo. The title reduces all other lung conditions other to asthma to ‘oh yeah and those other lung problems’. As for the logo it is childlike and aggressive - the colours are shocking!!! The red balloon in the sky at least symbolised clean air which we all need. I hope money for research is distributed fairly and not as the title would make it appear.
I found the new website pages very slow to load, and it was hard to find things because there was no search box on the home page, so I had to go through more pages than necessary to find the singing groups page.
There I discovered that my singing group Breathe Better Sing Together was no longer listed, where it had been on the BLF website. I have emailed asking it to be reinstated, but won't hold my breath as the singing groups listed are only those whose members were trained by the charity. The BLF refused to train me in 2015/6 because my group was already running and I had been trained at Uni, and their funding for places was limited.
I did consider stopping my donations as I give to BLF. Then decided to wait. Furious they didn't consult us but then they knew what the answer would be.
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