Cornwall Fire & Rescue Service Newsdesk

N/A at 27/06/2002 17:11

Scars Are For Ever (SAFE) is the message the Devon and Cornwall Home and Leisure Safety Council are promoting this year raising the awareness of burns and scalds in children. Every year approximately 50,000 children in Britain under the age of fourteen are burned or scalded resulting in many of them suffering terrible scars, both physical and emotional.

As part of the campaign the Council has linked forces with the Devon Federation of Woman's Institute and the Children's Fire and Burn Trust at the Royal Cornwall Show in Wadebridge.

The stand gave a wide range of messages and information in the form of verbal advice, leaflets and a summer pantomime. The light hearted comedy pantomime was produced specifically to convey the home safety messages to all ages, and despite the weather none of the volunteers' enthusiasm was dampened.

Carolyn Cripps OBE (Director of Children’s Fire & Burn Trust) told Dave Powlesland from the Council she “was very pleased to have formed new partnerships in Devon and Cornwall”, and was “delighted with donations from the Devon W.I. and the Council which enabled £250 to be raised for the Trust at the Cornwall Show.”

Dave Powlesland said: “The Royal Cornwall Show was a success, we passed out in the region of 2,000 sets of home safety literature, as well as the verbal advise given to the visitors from both Devon and Cornwall.”

For further details on the Devon and Cornwall Home and Leisure Safety Council or the Children’s Fire & Burn Trust please contact Dave Powlesland on (01392) 872326 or e-mail dpowlesland@devfire.gov.uk

Related item: http://www.childrensfireandburntrust.org.uk/