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Local musician Bill Brown (69) from Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, has recorded a charity album to help improve the lives of children and adults in West Africa. 

Hope on the Horizon is a collection of 13 original tracks of Christian music by Bill, who has been playing music in bands for over 40 years and supported Eric Clapton at the start of his career, as well as bands such as the Fortunes and Barron Nights.  read more »

A British surgeon from Hertfordshire is one of a number of British medics heading to Togo next week to join a volunteer medical team screening thousands of potential patients in the West African country.

Consultant maxillo-facial surgeon Peter McDermott is volunteering with the international charity Mercy Ships to help provide free health care and training to local health care workers.  read more »

Mercy Ships has raised over £60,000 through its annual Grand Prize Draw. The first prize – seven nights in a charming cottage on the beautiful shores of Loch Fyne was won by Mr Harris from Bristol. This prize was kindly donated by www.cottages-and-castles.co.uk  read more »

Sysco Guest Supply, the world’s largest supplier of hotel toiletries, has supported Mercy Ships by donating more than 2000 bars of soap for use on its hospital ship, the Africa Mercy.

Sysco Guest Supply Europe has donated 1,500 bars of Glycerin Soap and 600 bars of normal bath soap, worth £450, to be used for the ship’s upcoming field service in Togo which starts in January 2012.   read more »

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Following a highly successful Ball in February of this year, Mercy Ships is set to hold its next Ball on 22nd March 2012.

The Ball will celebrate our work in Sierra Leone in 2011, as well as our return to Togo in January, where Mercy Ships has been a number of times.

Taking place at the Landmark Hotel, renowned as one of the finest Grande Dames amongst London’s foremost hotels, individual and corporate supporters can expect a delicious 3-course dinner, fabulous wines and great entertainment.  read more »

We all know how difficult it is buying Christmas presents for loved ones, trudging around the shops; trying to find the perfect gift.

This year, why not take the stress out of Christmas, and surprise your friends and family with a unique and inspiring present from our Gifts of Hope Catalogue.  read more »

Mercy Ships has received a generous donation of cleaning and water-waste treatment products from international group Hepburn Bio Care.

Mercy Ships runs the world’s largest charity hospital ship, the Africa Mercy which is currently in field service in Sierra Leone.   read more »

Students at Cardiff University Medical and Dental Schools are launching a charity initiative called ‘Mad for Medics’ in support of the world’s largest charity hospital ship, the Africa Mercy.

This week, students will be fundraising for Mercy Ships dressed in surgical scrubs to raise awareness of the work of the volunteer medical crews on the ship and they have invited Bristol pathologist Dr Ed Sheffield and his wife Ruth, who was a nurse and is now a Pre-school teacher, to give a talk about their work volunteering with Mercy Ships.   read more »

Pam Rhodes, known around the world as the familiar face of BBC Television’s SONGS OF PRAISE series for more than twenty years, is the new ambassador for Mercy Ships UK, the international Christian charity that provides free medical care and humanitarian aid to some of the world’s poorest people.  read more »