25-27 September 2020 would have been our CCAA family residential weekend bringing much needed information, support and friendship to families dealing with a child or children with arthritis. It can be a lonely journey when you have a child diagnosed with Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (JIA) as I know from personal experience - my daughter was diagnosed with the condition when she was 2 and she is now 12! We try and live as full and active a life as possible but this is so much easier when we are able to meet others dealing with JIA. We now run a CCAA local area support group in London which links up with other CCAA local groups across England and Wales. Children with JIA need to meet each other and our CCAA volunteers aim to link families up with others living near them and going through the same thing. 

As we have had to cancel the weekend this year due to Covid we are trying to bring families together in a different way, to raise awareness that children get arthritis too and to raise money for some more projects we want to start to ensure that families at home do not feel isolated with the condition. 

Families will be holding Percy Picnic events across the weekend instead of meeting in person and our Percy Picnic FUNdraiser is part of this!

It is very easy to help us!

1. PLAY! Guess how many sweets in the jar (email your guess to emily@ccaa.org.uk or include it in your donation message)

2. DONATE! Please make a donation to CCAA here

3. WIN! Wait to see if your guess was the nearest to the actual number and win the jar of sweets (we will contact you to send you the prize!)

Thanks so much for taking the time to visit my JustGiving page and thank you for your support for children with arthritis. 

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