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£70,000, or 19 per cent of our total income. This came from eight pharmaceutical companies and one other major corporate. The rest was made up of grants from health authorities, social services, charities, funds and personal donations. Our total income for the year 2001 was £380,000: hardly 'millions' and certainly not 'spent on nonsense'.
The UKC has always operated by listening to what positive people say and developing new projects in direct response. In 2002, we plan to introduce five new projects:

Positive Advice, a telephone helpline staffed by solicitors offering legal advice on specific areas of concern, backed up by trained volunteer peer advisers offering face-to-face advice.
A positive youth service, as a result of Health Initiatives for Youth becoming part of the UKC.
Positive Voices, a national web-based discussion site.
Two new co-infection projects, one for HCV/HIV and the other for TB/HIV due to the TB Network Association joining the UKC.
2002 will also see the UKC introduce a new policy to dramatically increase our membership to make us an even more authentic national patient-led charity.

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