The Spire Regency Hospital recently followed the Classic in Hull in donating £200.00 to Owlss to help fund the activities of the group.

Pictured left to right; At the cheque presentation are Sue Westerman, Business Development Manager, Deborah Salisbury, Bariatric Lead Nurse and Dawn Broom, Owlss Macclesfield Co-Ordinator who received the cheque on behalf of the group.

I hope you will join us in wishing Dawn and everyone in the Macclesfield Team, the very best wishes for their next Owlss Group Meeting on Wednesday, 3rd December 2008, hosted by the Spire Regency Hospital from 6.30pm (Click on photo for direction).

If you are in the Macclesfield area please show your support to Dawn by attending if you can.

For further details please contact Owlss Co-ordinator, Dawn who is organising the event. Dawn is also keen to hear from anyone intending to attend in order to get some idea of likely numbers. This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

We will be drawing the Owlss Christmas Draw during the evening of the December Group Meeting in Hull, so make sure you bring along your tickets.  With £100 in cash prizes, as well as gift vouchers, a signed football, chocolates and buscuits, etc., there are certainly some nice early Christmas presents on offer so if you haven't got your yet, get in touch with Dee now. you can contact her at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it  Tickets are only 20p each and are in books of 10.

We are holding the final Group Meeting of the year at the Spire Hospital, Hull and East Riding (new name for the Classic), on Wednesday 10th December.

We aim to start at 7.30pm and end around 9.30pm. We hope also to have the Spire's Bariatric Lead Nurses Gail and Janet there too.

Our guest speaker this month is the Spire's own dietician who will be giving to tips on how to survive the festive season!.

For details of how to get to the hospital, click on the picture above.

You may be aware the Classic Hospitals Group was taken over earlier this year by Spire Healthcare. In recent weeks, the group have undertaken a corporate rebranding to reflect this and as a result, the links on the Owlss website to information on the original Classic Hospital website are now invalid.

Over the next few weeks, we will be working hard to re-establish these links and apologise for any inconvienience caused. In the meantime, It would help us considerably, if you could let us know of a link you have attempted to use that no longer works.  Please contact me at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

Thank you for your understanding.

At the September Group Meeting held in Hull, We took the opportunity to launch the Owlss Mentoring Scheme and It was pleasing to see the number of members who registered their interest in becoming Mentors.

Whilst the scheme will be managed from the Hull area, it is primarily a telephone-based service, so we are hopeful of forming a network of volunteer Owlss Mentors to cover all areas of the country where we have members (See the article Becoming an Owlss Mentor for more details of how to volunteer).

We would like to give you the chance to be more involved in the development of the website and help shape it for the future.

Everyone who registers on the site can now be designated at an 'Owlss Author' for the website and submit articles for consideration for publication on the site (See User Menu to the right - available only to registered users).