2017 Winter Edition

The Newsletter of St John of Jerusalem Eye Hospital Group - The only charitable provider of expert eye care in the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem; treating patients regardless of religion, ethnicity, or ability to pay

GAZA Photograph: Fadi Thabet APPEAL2017 The medical crisis The Archbishop of facing Gaza - and what Canterbury visits our St John is doing to help hospital - and other (Pages 2-6) news from 2017 (Page 7)

Join in the festive fun at the St John Gift of Sight Fair 2017

“Gaza is experiencing a humanitarian emergency, but when bombs are not falling, the international community pays little attention.” Aimee Shalan, CEO of our partner MAP

Help the most vulnerable in the Holy Land this Christmas by supporting our Gaza Appeal

Page 1 Winter 2017 GAZA APPEAL 2017

The challenges facing the Gazan healthcare system In a year which marks Recent politics have one decade since the also directly affected Israeli blockade of the healthcare system the Gaza Strip began, throughout June and July Palestinian political of this year. In order to unrest has resulted put pressure on Hamas in further issues for the Palestinian Authority our most vulnerable had limited referrals of patients. the majority of medical ELECTRICITY RESULT: OUR patients for treatment in SHORTAGES GAZA HOSPITAL Gaza is currently Jerusalem. This means 18-20 HOURS IS RUNNING ON facing its worst ever for St John the cost PER DAY EMERGENCY energy crisis resulting of their treatment fell GENERATOR in extreme electricity to our limited Patient 24/7 shortages. This has Relief Fund to ensure all caused sewage to wash received the treatment up on Gazan beaches they needed. and undrinkable water to pour from taps (as St John is even the most basic focussing on water treatment plants can no longer function). increasing our It also means our Gaza ability to deliver Hospital is functioning treatment within 50% OF PERMITS RESULT: solely on its emergency the Gaza Strip to TO ACCESS PATIENTS CANNOT generator, at great cost. MEDICAL TRAVEL TO ensure patients TREATMENT JERUSALEM FOR The hundreds of will receive DELAYED OR SIGHT-SAVING patients who travel from the treatment DENIED TREATMENT Gaza to our Jerusalem they need Hospital for treatment each year are those regardless of the with the most complex political climate eye conditions, many of surrounding them. which cause debilitating vision loss. We are proud to say it has been a This is challenging PALESTINIAN RESULT: as over 50% patients year of remarkable AUTHORITY PAYMENT or their companions growth in our LIMITED FOR THESE are delayed or denied most challenged PATIENT TREATMENTS permits to travel for hospital. REFERRALS FELL TO SJEHG healthcare by the Israeli TO COVER THE authorities (WHO, COSTS June 2017).

Page 2 Winter 2017 New medical conditions covered within Gaza days. An exhausting, but A tired surgical team pose for a selfie after performing a record 20 cornea transplant surgeries in three days at our Gaza Hospital, July 2017. rewarding feat! 2017 has also seen our first vitreoretinal 500 treatments in Gaza MAJOR SURGERIES begin as our new expert DELIVERED WITHIN on the condition Dr GAZA JAN-JULY 2017 Mahmoud Ghonim got NEW CONDITIONS his hands on our state- COVERED: of-the-art equipment this year. This wonderful combination has resulted in no vitreoretinal patients left on our referral list for Jerusalem.

Finally, Dr Al Walid NORMAL EYE has returned from his fellowship in India to OUR MISSION TO INCREASE treat Glaucoma. This is ST JOHN’S ABILITY TO PROVIDE a horrendous condition EYE CARE FROM WITHIN GAZA which can cause often irreversible damage if not treated in time. It is We have delivered operation is hard to suffered by children in GLAUCOMA almost 500 major achieve as it involves the region who would the transportation of often be separated operations from donated corneas (often from their parents when within the Strip from the US), then travelling to Jerusalem in the first half through the Israeli and for surgery (as they of 2017, almost Palestinian Authority would not be given borders into Gaza, permission to travel double the amount as well as organising together) – now they compared to the permits for our can hold their mother’s year previous. Jerusalem medical staff hand whilst awaiting KERATOCONUS to travel to Gaza. As a their daunting surgery. This included 40 major result our team perform corneal transplants many operations during – the first surgery of their short visits. Dr its kind performed in Abu Hantash travelled our Gaza Hospital. twice to Gaza to The logistics of this perform two sets of 20 surgeries in three alone is a triumph - the RETINOPATHY Page 3 Winter 2017 GAZA APPEAL 2017

Recruiting for the Future This year we completed under our experts in training of fifteen Jerusalem. We are nursing assistants in offering full training for Gaza, some of whom Cornea, Oculoplastic work in our hospital and Paediatric sub- and others who are specialties. By next delivering care in all year we should be able corners of the Strip. to proudly add these conditions to the list Three new medical of those treatments residents have also available within the been recruited to train Gaza Strip.

10 Mobile Outreach in Gaza Hope On Wheels - Centres visited so far:

1. Palestinian Medical JABALIA Relief Society 5 1 - Jabalia 2. Ard Alinsan - Gaza City 4 2

GAZA CITY 6 3

DEIR AL BALAH 7 4. Women Graduates Association Gaza Children pose whilst waiting for their eye check up at a Mobile Outreach 5. UN Women Clinic in the Gaza Strip, September 2017. Photograph: Fadi Thabet Program( Beach ) 8 6. Tawasel Association Finally 2017 is the sees over 18,500 7. Afaq Association 9 year we are delighted isolated and KHAN 8. Palestinian Medical to launch our Mobile vulnerable YUNIS Relief Society Outreach Programme in patients each 9. Ard Alinsan - Khan Yunis the Gaza Strip. year. Its launch 10. Palestinian Medical 11 in Gaza will allow Relief Society Beit Lahia Our Mobile Outreach us to reach our 11. Palestinian Medical RAFAH Programme launched in most marginalised Relief Society Rafah the West Bank in 1980 patients in Bedouin 12. Palestinian Red and is an absolutely communities and Crescent Centres vital service which now refugee camps.

Page 4 Winter 2017 Wish list Why we need your support: Lena 1. Patient Relief Fund times to Jerusalem for £Any amount surgery and check-ups Support the most to treat her debilitating vulnerable in Gaza condition. by funding their vital treatment. As her mother and father are denied 2. permission to travel with Cornea Transplants her for these frightening surgeries it falls to her £1,700 each elderly grandmother We plan 100 of these of to accompany Lena. these operations in 2018. Two-year-old Lena holds hands with nurse Ahmed Amer, as she prepares However our Jerusalem for her 6th Glaucoma surgery at St John Eye Hospital in Jerusalem. 3. staff do everything they can to make Lena feel Tonometers Two-year old been caught earlier, safe and at ease prior to £2,500 each Lena is from an and it is likely that her surgeries. We need three more Lena will struggle with isolated Bedouin digital tonometers her education and St John launched its to fight Glaucoma community in employment as she has first Mobile Outreach in in Gaza. the Gaza Strip. very limited vision. Gaza this year, providing education and screening 4. Due to lack of eye care Although Lena has little services across the Slit Lamps services her glaucoma chance to see well again troubled region. was overlooked as St John Eye Hospital is Under the programme £23,000 'beautiful big eyes', doing everything in its glaucoma cases like each leaving her almost blind. power to save the little Lena’s will be caught We urgently need three sight she has left. and treated earlier, Slit Lamps in Gaza, used An ideal situation saving the sight of many for most medical would have been for In her short life, Lena where Lena was less diagnoses. the condition to have has had to travel six fortunate.

Help the most vulnerable this Christmas Give the Gift The more we develop This Christmas we our office, going of Sight to the our services in Gaza, ask you to support online (https://www. people of Gaza the less our Gazan our mission to stjohneyehospital. this Christmas by patient’s eyesight will end preventable org/support-us) or by be at the whim of the blindness in Gaza. returning the donation supporting our tumultuous political Donate to our Gaza form at the back of Gaza Appeal. situation in the region. Appeal by contacting Jerusalem Scene.

Page 5 Winter 2017 News Flash 2017

1. Archbishop Visit We were delighted to welcome The The Archbishop of Canterbury meeting our Gaza Hospital Staff, accompanied by Nursing Director Ahmad Ma'ali, our Chairman Archbishop of Nicholas Woolf, previous Consul-General for Britain to Jerusalem Dr Alastair McPhail and trustee Dr Maged Abu Ramadan. Canterbury, Justin Welby, during his On the visit, our 2. St John Ophthalmic treasure that has been trip to the Holy Land Chairman, Nicholas Association recently restored to where he visited a Woolf, commented that: In April, the St John welcome all our guests number of Palestinian “The motto of The Most Ophthalmic Association and curious visitors - our communities, expressing Venerable Order of The (SOA) held its first new Muristan Peace his “profound grief and Hospital of St John of scientific congress Garden. Upon arrival sorrow” after hearing Jerusalem is 'For the in Jerusalem, with you feel a great sense the testimonies of Faith: In the Service of a guest list of 60 of tranquillity, like time Palestinians living Humanity (Pro Fide, ophthalmologists itself has stopped. You around the West Bank Pro Utilitate Hominem).' which included find yourself immersed and Gaza. The tour This was one of those doctors from St John, in the arms of the past included a visit to our moments where the two Moorfields, Hadassah but with the fresh air hospital in Gaza and a halves come together and other European of the present, with the press conference held in their most powerful ophthalmologists. The sound of the church’s in our new Muristan expression. St John is SOA was established by bells and the mosques Clinic’s Peace Garden proud of its Anglican ophthalmic practitioners calling from the ancient in Jerusalem. heritage and faith and across the world to times of the city. a visit by the Head of support the St John Eye Every day St John the worldwide Anglican Hospital Group. The aim It was within this globally acts in the Church is a rare and of the Association is to atmosphere our first service of humanity and privileged moment.” broaden the ophthalmic Muristan event began no more so than in the expertise available to St with the launch of a new troubled and challenged We are honoured that John and its staff, and book by the esteemed location of Gaza, where the Archbishop took to include all physicians author Malcolm Billings. we moved from our time from his busy interested in supporting previous small clinic to schedule to visit our the work of the hospital. If you would like to our much larger new Hospital and services, If you would like to get use our Muristan hospital last year. The and hope that it involved please get in Peace Garden for Archbishop was greatly represented a positive touch. your own event, or impressed by the beacon of hope in a visit this piece of high standards of our region that desperately 3. Our Muristan historical history Gaza Hospital, adding needs it. Pro Fide, Pro Peace Garden hosts please get in touch. that “the generous Utilitate Hominem. its first event Profits from events humanitarian care you in the garden go to provide is inspiring.” Within the old walls of St John to support Jerusalem, lies a hidden our charitable work.

Page 6 Winter 2017 Upcoming Events Brompton Oratory Join us to walk in the footsteps of St Thomas at our Annual Brompton Oratory lecture on October 12th Author and photographer Serena Fass will talk us through her third book which follows follows The Mayor of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea Councillor Marie-Therese Rossi with Guild Chair the Apostle’s journey Sarah Shilson at last year's Gift of Sight Fair. across the world. Buy Gift of Sight Fair tickets via https://billetto. co.uk/206837 or contact Sarah Shilson, everyone will find work of St John Eye the office to order tickets Chairperson of our something they will love. Hospital so in effect over the phone or by post. Fundraising Guild If you have been before each purchase also who organise our you will know that this includes a gift of sight. Gift of Sight Fair fabulous annual Gift is the buzziest party Join the festive fun at this of Sight Fair, would to start the Christmas Please do come year’s Gift of Sight Fair like to invite all St season. It is perfect down with your on Wednesday 29th John Eye Hospital timing to find some friends and family November at Chelsea supporters to come unusual and ethical and join in the Old Town Hall. along to our festive Christmas presents festive fun!” Buy tickets for the evening celebrations. and perhaps a little reception via https:// indulgence for yourself. billetto.co.uk/e/215415 “This year’s Gift of Sight 10% of all sales will go or contact the office to Fair is on Wed 29th of toward the wonderful order tickets over the November in Chelsea phone or by post. Old Town Hall and we are looking forward to a Word from a Stallholder . . . fantastic day. For daytime shopping we will be “Zaytoun love being opening from 11am and part of the Gift of in the evening from 6pm Sight Fair - it's a we are having a special Gala Reception in the wonderfully festive presence of his Royal event, where we Highness the Duke of can show case our Gloucester, (advance artisan Palestinian tickets only which you products and can purchase at: support a great https://billetto. cause. And it's a co.uk/e/215415) chance to do our We have a wide own Christmas selection of stall shopping from the holders, selling unique and ethical a range of items offerings from including gourmet other stalls!” foods.

There will also be some Heather Masoud, exciting new stallholders, Director of Zaytoun so we are sure that

Page 7 Winter 2017 Staff Awards Ceremony Presentation of Ophthalmic Nursing Diplomas To Staff Nurses Who Have Completed The University Of West Post Graduate Ophthalmic Nursing Course 2017 Presented by Mr Nicholas Woolf, Chairman

Abeer Zuiter – Staff Nurse Ahmad Odeh – Staff Nurse Husam Alessa – Staff Nurse Israa Jomaa – Staff Nurse Raneen Jerjawi (right) proudly poses with her husband Mohammad, our Senior Nursing School Lecturer Nasrallah Khalilia and her two-week old baby Yousef. Sarah Radaydah – Staff Nurse Raneen gave birth to Yousef one week after finishing our opthalmic nursing course.

Sheenah Davies RRC DL (Davies Plate: Jerusalem) For Nursing Excellence 2017 Presented by Ms Nicki Shaw, Board Trustee

Lina Bahbah – Staff Nurse

Sheenah Davies RRC DL (Davies Plate: Gaza) Employee Of The Year 2016 Our Sir Stephen Miller School of Nursing Class of 2017 with their Senior Presented by Dr Maged Abu Ramadan, Lecturer Nasrallah Khalilia and Nursing Director Ahmad Ma’ali. Board Trustee

Dr Mahmoud Ghneim – VR Specialist Presentation of Special Prizes Halendorff Cup McDougall Cup For Member Of Staff Who Has To The Top Student Achieving The Highest Grades Contributed Most To The Hospital Over The Year In The St John Eye Hospital Examination 2017 Presented by Mr David Verity, Presented By Mr John Pelly, Board Trustee Board Trustee

Judith Musallam – Head Orthoptist – Staff Nurse Husam Alessa

Magauran Cup: To The Doctor Who Has Made Baroness Audrey Emerton DBE DL Cup For The Most Contribution To The Services Provided Quality Services To Nursing 2017 By The Medical Department During 2017 Presented by Mr Nick Goulding, Presented by Ms Susan Dingwall, Board Trustee Board Trustee

– Staff Nurse Rawia Kamal Dr Mohammad Ma’ali – VR Consultant

Page 8 Winter 2017 Employees of the month If you would like to sponsor any of these individuals please get in touch.

Jamil Abu Hani, Theatre Coordinator (second from left), poses with three February 2017: staff members in his department who were nominated for awards: Khitam Hasanat, Lina Babeh and Ahmad Qaraqe. Wasim Dirani (Porter) treats patients well and is pleasant to all The Professor Saul Merin Memorial Award staff and visitors. Presented by Mr Guy Morton, Board Trustee March 2017: Suhair Wild Ali Dr Mohammad Daraghmeh (Staff Nurse) is very – Clinical Assistant cooperative, flexible and has initiative.

Victoria Sheffield-Pyle Cup for Research April 2017: Presented by Dr Anne Coleman, Maureen Meo Board Trustee (Medical Coordinator) has taken an important Khitam Hasanat – Staff Nurse role in the transition period in the medical Head Orthoptist Judith Musallam poses department. with Trustee David Verity after winning Employee of The Month - August 2017 the McDougall Cup. Presented by Mr Herbert von Bose, May 2017: Board Trustee Hilal Misk (Cleaner) shows initiative, and is Ahmad Qaraqe – Staff Nurse loyal to his job.

June 2017: Marie-Claire Boyle (Marketing and Events Officer) produced outstanding marketing and is flexible with her time.

July 2017: Salim Abu Jibneh (Guard) proved his loyalty and commitment to the hospital and his position.

August 2017: Ahmad Qaraqe (Staff Nurse) is a dedicated nurse who in a Mahmoud Ghneim receives his award from Dr Maged Abu Ramadan, surrounded by the St John Board of Trustees short period has proved at our Gaza Hospital, September 2017. As Dr Ghneim is unable to leave Gaza to collect his award in our Jerusalem to be an active team Ceremony – the board came to him. member in the infection control department.

Page 9 Winter 2017 Blast from The Past The Sheikh Jarrah Hospital The Building of our Jerusalem Hospital during construction.

The new Hospital on the day of its opening on 11th October 1960.

His Majesty King Hussein of Jordan meeting with Lord Bossom (Supervisor of the Hospital Build) to discuss assisting with the shipping of theatre and medical equipment. Inside the children’s department of the Jerusalem Hospital.

Page 10 Winter 2017 The opening reception of the Hospital, celebrated by local dignitaries, priests of different denominations, His Excellence the Jordanian Minister of Health, Dr Jamil Tutunji, the Lord Prior and the Hospitaller and his wife.

Lord Bossom visiting patients in the Hospital.

In Memory

Jean Smythe Irving team became best between the years of most remembered for acquainted with Jean as 1970 and 1983. Lady his remarkable career Jean Smythe Irving was she was one of the few Browne was made a as a Conservative MP admitted to the Order regular volunteers who Dame of Justice of the who worked closely with of St John as a serving showed up every season Order of St John in 1970 Prime Minister Margaret sister in 1995, after to help with the mail out and DBE in 1977 and a Thatcher. Less known decades of volunteering. of this very newsletter. Dame Grand Cross of St was his involvement in Among many roles at Jean lived up to the aims John in 1984. She was St John. His father, the St John, Jean was one of St John – ‘Pro Fide’ a remarkable woman who famous architect Sir of the regular team for the faith and ‘Pro made a great contribution Alfred Bossom, was the of members acting as Utilitate’ for the service to St John Ambulance in brains behind our beautiful stewards at Investitures of mankind. She will be the UK and worldwide. East Jerusalem Hospital. as well as helping with greatly missed. St John Eye Hospital Sir Clive followed in his background tasks at the Group’s flags were flown father’s footsteps and was office of Priory Affairs at Lady Moyra at half-mast in Lady an avid supporter of St St John Gate and a keen Browne Browne’s honour, when John Eye Hospital. We are supporter of the work she passed. thankful for the priceless done for the Eye Hospital Lady Moyra Browne historical snapshot he in Jerusalem. It was here served as the St Sir Clive Bossom provided with photos of Inside the children’s department the St John Eye Hospital John Ambulance our Jerusalem Hospital of the Jerusalem Hospital. Group London fundraising Superintendent-in-Chief Sir Clive Bossom will be build, pictured above.

Page 11 Winter 2017 Supporter’s Corner Celebrating your fantastic achievements for St John Eye Hospital

Knights Templar member Angus Rhodes almost died from lung failure due to a blood clot but is now doing a series of strength and endurance tasks based on Heroes of Old to raise funds for St John Eye Hospital. (Read more and support Angus at www.justgiving.com/fundraising/Angus-Rhodes).

British Palestinian Optician Sarah Pencott stands in front of the 500 pairs of glasses collected from Opticians across the UK. Sarah personally delivered the glasses to our Anabta Clinic on a recent visit to her father’s homeland - who trained at St John before moving to the UK.

For ways to get involved to help end preventable blindness in Palestine please go to https://www.stjohneyehospital.org/support- us/get-involved or call us on 0207 253 2582

The Rev Dr Robert Beaken, County Chaplain Do you run a St John Youth Programme and and Hospitaller of the Essex Priory Group, would like to teach your Badgers and Cadets handing over a £1,400 cheque to the Chancellor, about the history of St John? Visit www. Michael Messenger. The money was given by the stjohneyehospital.org/cadets-corner to find parishioners of Great and Little Bardfield Parishes out more. as a lenten sacrifice. Thank you Dr Beaken.

Page 12 Winter 2017 Priory Funding 2017 (January - July): £ Australia: £72,000 : £167,000 New Zealand: £141,000 Scotland: £78,000

$ Australia: $91,000 England: $212,000 New Zealand: $179,000 Scotland: $99,000

Funding Today None of our work would be possible without our Pontifical Mission – Jerusalem kind donors, whose generosity allows us to continue Qatar Committee saving sight and changing lives. We would like to thank The Park House Charitable Trust everyone who has given to us so far in 2017, and PF Charitable Trust everyone else who has taken part in or organised any fundraising activities on our behalf. The Sobell Foundation The Sovereign Military Order of Malta (SMOM) Thank you to St John Priories around the world who Taawon - Welfare Association have delivered much valued assistance to SJEHG. We The Valentine Charitable Trust are grateful also to the Guild, the Alliance of the Orders Mr Timothy Mattar of St John, St John Associations, and the St John United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Fellowship for their on-going and crucial support. – Community Resilience and Development Major Donors (January – August 2017) Programme (CRDP) Australian Representative Office, Jerusalem USAID - American Schools and Hospitals Abroad (ASHA) The Estate of Vera Bavin USAID Child Blindness Program Bishops Waltham Charity Garden Fair Welfare Association British Humane Association The German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) The Cadogan Charity CBM The Clothworkers’ Foundation Consolidated Contractors Company The Estate of Jacqueline Alice Cummins The Edwina Mountbatten & Leonara Children’s Foundation The Eranda Rothschild Foundation European Union: EU Peace Building Initiative Fred Hollows Foundation German Ministry of Foreign Affairs The Gosling Foundation Limited Mr Paul Gwilliam The Hugh Symons Charitable Trust The Knights Templar Lions Club Ramallah Mazars Charitable Trust Medical Aid for Palestinians – (MAP) UK Mr Guy Morton Trustee David Verity with one of our youngest patients during a visit to our The Estate of Hugh Peppiatt Mobile Outreach Clinic in Gaza. Photograph: Fadi Thabet

Page 13 Winter 2017 ” NEW: Lamb of God Custom-Designed Card

Janet Marsh is an illustrator, painter and print-maker, based in Hampshire, most famous for her beautifully illustrated Nature Diary of Itchen Valley. A member of the Guild and long-time supporter of St John Eye Hospital, Janet kindly agreed to design a custom Christmas Card which encapsulates the essence of St John in her own beautiful style. We present to you the 'Lamb of God' card featuring the St John Maltese cross and our famous swifts featured on our Muristan Tree of Hope.

Christmas Cards All cards come in packs of 10 for £5.00

Mobile Outreach Van. Greeting: Blank inside OR Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Mary and Boy Child. Greeting: Happy Christmas.

NEW Bethlehem Evening and Stained Above L-R: Christmas Shopping, Santa’s on his Way, Doves of Peace. Glass Nativity. Greeting: Merry Christmas Greeting on inside: ‘Season’s Greetings’. and a Happy New Year. Page 14 Winter 2017 Stocking Fillers

Lapel Pin - £5.00

Phone Battery Charger 100% Cotton Tea (with all connectors) Towel - £5.00 £10.00

Swift Appeal that of a loved one will be associated with your bird. Sponsored: £3,950 (USD$5,000) Large to sponsor one of 150 £850 (USD$1,100) birds on the tree itself in to buy a large swift the Old City (you will also Mini receive a large swift to £350 (USD$450) take home). Your name or to buy a mini swift Tote Bag - £3.50 NEW

Flashlight Pen - £5.50

To order by phone: Please call St John Blank cards: 0207 553 6960 SJEHG Coat of Arms or to pay by card St John Logo - £4.40 (107mm x 107mm) To order by post: Mobile Outreach Van St John fans and history Complete order form Inspired by the first buffs alike. Purchase your on back Mobile Outreach Team piece of St John History van from 1980 this whilst supporting the All prices include miniature model (6cm by work of St John Present postage & packaging 2cm) will make a perfect today - £10.00 4GB USB Memory (except Swift Appeal, see stocking filler for young Stick - £8.00 back for details) Page 14 Winter 2017 Page 15 Winter 2017 Contact Us: Via email [email protected] Via phone 0207 253 2582 Order Form Item Cost per unit Number of units Total (£) Sponsor a swift on the tree in the Old City £3,970 (includes large swift to be sent to you) & £20 UK postage Large Swift - including UK postage £870 Small Swift - including UK postage £370 NEW Christmas – The Lamb of God £5.00 pack of 10 NEW Christmas – Stained Glass Nativity £5.00 pack of 10 NEW Christmas – Bethlehem Evening £5.00 pack of 10 Christmas - Mary and Jesus £5.00 pack of 10 Christmas - Christmas Shopping £5.00 pack of 10 Christmas - Santa’s on his Way £5.00 pack of 10 Christmas – Mobile Outreach Van £5.00 pack of 10 Blank - Mobile Outreach Van £5.00 pack of 10 Blank - SJEHG Group Coat of Arms £5.00 pack of 10 Blank - St John Logo £5.00 pack of 10 NEW Model Mobile Outreach Van £10.00 Lapel Pin Badge £5.00 Phone Battery Charger Pack £10.00 Flashlight Pen £5.50 4GB USB Memory Stick £8.00 100% Cotton Tea Towel £5.00 Tote Bag £3.50 Merchandise total

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