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Correspondence and flyers.

Correspondence (including telephone memoranda) with Robert Pointer, Tyne & Wear Asbestos Support Group / Barrow Asbestos-related Disease Support Group, re awareness-raising concerning the dangers of asbestos. Starts with request Pointer for information to be used at TUC annual conference, later foundation asbestos victims support group.

One email and copy of newsletter of the June Hancock Mesothelioma Research Fund.

Correspondence (including telephone memoranda) and papers chiefly re funding for Mavis Robinson’s Mesothelioma Patient Information Project, Leeds, initially funded by Macmillan Cancer Relief. Also papers re the founding of the British Mesothelioma Interest Group in 2001.

Includes charity leaflets and articles, newsletters concerning conferences, trials, etc..

Mavis Robinson was a nurse who set up the first dedicated mesothelioma helpline. In 2001 she was awarded an MBE for her seminal work assisting UK asbestos victims and their carers.

Mainly emails about the Riding Asbestos Support & Awareness Group (RASAG).

• correspondence with Mick Firth and Paula Walker of Sheffield & Rotherham Asbestos Group (SARAG) and copies of SARAG newsletter 1-11 (2003-2006)
• correspondence and papers relating to other projects and activities in the area, notably the Rotherham Occupational Health Project and the Sheffield Occupational Health project, etc.

Papers and correspondence with and re asbestos victims support in Wales.

Correspondence with Tenovus Cancer Information Centre, 1997, and Tenovus leaflets and posters, c. 1979.

Correspondence with Derbyshire Asbestos Support Team (DAST), founded in 2002. Includes some earlier press coverage about the area.

Mainly papers, also some correspondence with George Mason of the Walsall Workers Education Association branch. Includes copies of the bulletin / newsletter, 2000, 2005-2007.

Correspondence, 1997-1999, and papers re Plymouth, the Bill Luck's Plymouth asbestos support group, and the foundation of the National Asbestos Disease Association Limited (NARDA) as a national umbrella group of victims of asbestos related diseases (ARD) support groups.

Includes some historic documentation 1969-1976 as well.

Correspondence with Cancer Help Centre, Bristol, 1989-1999, in reverse chronological order. Includes leaflets and brochures.

Papers on the following victim support groups: Southampton Asbestosis and Mesothelioma Society, Swindon and South West Asbestos Group. Very little material.