We are team NGNPUK.
Louise Nicholls
I love chocolate, cake and chocolate…. Forget that I just love food!
I’m also chief worrier of the group and the one who has to rein in Sam’s crazy ideas! |
Sam Carter
I'm a horse mad, dog and cat loving, frustrated gardener.
I’m the one with all the crazy ideas and deputy chief worrier! |
Lee Nicholls
A harassed and always busy computer nerd and music lover!
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Louise and Samantha have been friends since secondary school and Lee is Louise’s husband.
Lee takes charge of most of the computer based jobs, designs the website and posters, tickets for events, banners and anything else technical. Lee is also delivery and collection driver and sometimes, even taxi driver.
Sam and Louise organise the fund-raising as well as looking after the books, banking, growing plants and buying and selling anything that moves!!. They coordinate the making of the syringe driver bags thorough our army of volunteers and everything else that is involved in running a charity. We all muck in to get things sorted and are proud to be team NGNUPK.
How did we come up with that name ???
As you may know, we decided that our goal was to aim to increase the numbers of syringe drivers in the community so patients always had access to one when they needed one. Finding a name was difficult! "Syringe drivers R us" just didn’t seem to work so, as our first event was a 50 mile bike ride and we all wanted to lose a little weight, "no gain" (biking off those miles), "no pain" ( the purpose of a syringe driver) seemed to be a fitting name. We admit it doesn’t roll off the tongue with ease but what would?
We were originally a non profit community fund-raising group, but soon realised this didn’t open as many doors that being a registered charity would, so we finally took the plunge and after reams of paperwork and forms we became registered in 2016.
We all now juggle family life (we have 3 young children between us), work and play with running the charity and it keeps us all very busy. Not a day goes by without a syringe driver conversation somewhere along the line.
We always have lots of crazy ideas but then we have to sit and work out if they are humanly possible but that’s half the fun!.
We've been overwhelmed by the support and encouragement we've had from everyone along the way and it makes it all worthwhile!
Louise, Sam and Lee
Team NGNPUK
Lee takes charge of most of the computer based jobs, designs the website and posters, tickets for events, banners and anything else technical. Lee is also delivery and collection driver and sometimes, even taxi driver.
Sam and Louise organise the fund-raising as well as looking after the books, banking, growing plants and buying and selling anything that moves!!. They coordinate the making of the syringe driver bags thorough our army of volunteers and everything else that is involved in running a charity. We all muck in to get things sorted and are proud to be team NGNUPK.
How did we come up with that name ???
As you may know, we decided that our goal was to aim to increase the numbers of syringe drivers in the community so patients always had access to one when they needed one. Finding a name was difficult! "Syringe drivers R us" just didn’t seem to work so, as our first event was a 50 mile bike ride and we all wanted to lose a little weight, "no gain" (biking off those miles), "no pain" ( the purpose of a syringe driver) seemed to be a fitting name. We admit it doesn’t roll off the tongue with ease but what would?
We were originally a non profit community fund-raising group, but soon realised this didn’t open as many doors that being a registered charity would, so we finally took the plunge and after reams of paperwork and forms we became registered in 2016.
We all now juggle family life (we have 3 young children between us), work and play with running the charity and it keeps us all very busy. Not a day goes by without a syringe driver conversation somewhere along the line.
We always have lots of crazy ideas but then we have to sit and work out if they are humanly possible but that’s half the fun!.
We've been overwhelmed by the support and encouragement we've had from everyone along the way and it makes it all worthwhile!
Louise, Sam and Lee
Team NGNPUK
