During Lymphoedema Awareness Week (LAW) we are once again setting you the Sock It Challenge, with a difference! Where possible we would like you to take and share photos of yourself wearing ODD SOCKS while doing something active or sporty. There are new images to download this year from the website. These can be used as posters, fliers or images and links within social media. They show Farrel, a young man who plays table tennis Click Here. They also include information on how common lymphoedema is. You can read and share his story of overcoming the challenges he faced Click Here

Why not email your colleagues and friends or message your followers and challenge them to have a little fun – getting active and wearing odd socks during LAW - and share their pictures on social media #Lymphoedema #EveryBodyCan. Encourage them to share the pictures or videos with you so you can feed these back to the BLS. The posters are A4 so once emailed to GPs and any HCPs in your area they can be printed out easily and displayed in surgeries and departments. The more HCPs you can encourage to get involved the better. Think GP surgeries, hospital wards and departments, hospices, clinical commissioners, chief executives, politicians and local celebrities!

Please display posters in your own service to encourage patients to get involved. The more awareness the better! We aim to flood social media with Sock It pictures and make the idea of wearing “odd socks” synonymous with lymphoedema, just as “Red Nose Day” is for Comic Relief, “Pudsey and Spots” are for Children in Need and Macmillan are known for their coffee mornings.

Good luck and have fun spreading showing that #EveryBodyCan with #Lymphoedema !!