UPDATE - Issue 21 - Spring 2005
Who's having fun fundraising?
Pants in Park
We need your help to make the fun run in Battersea Park on Father's Day, 19 June 2005 a big success. We need participants for the 5km run/walk. Registration is £5 per person. And, of course, we need sponsors!
If you don't want to run then come along and help us with the back office work: marshalling, registration, lost children etc. there will be lots to do on the day!
The theme is similar to the now well known Moon Walk but instead of men or women running in a bra, the idea is for the runners to wear their pants on the outside of their running shorts, Superman style. Prizes will be given for the best and worst pair of pants and everyone taking part will receive either a medal or rosette.
This will be a fun day out for all the family, there are plans to have a steel band, children's entertainment, a food and drinks trailer and much more to keep the none runners happy as well as the runners.
Walking Miles
While Malcolm Ridley was recovering from his radical prostatectomy, he heard how our supporters had raised funds by climbing both Kilimanjaro and Kinabalu. He then heard of the plans this year to cross Britain along Hadrian's Wall as part of the Million Prostate Miles campaign, and decided he would also undertake a sponsored fundraising event: he chose to follow the mediaeval pilgrims route from Winchester to Canterbury and has rapidly proved himself to be a top-class fundraiser - he already has pledges of nearly £12,500!
Shirley and Richard Killick are also planning a sponsored walk. Their choice is the beautiful Ridgeway Trail in the Chilterns from Stokenchurch to Ivinghoe Beacon. They estimate it will take them three days. Quite enough for two septuagenarians!
Sailing Miles
Consultant Urologist, Mike Hehir is eating up the miles on the water. He is planning to leave his home port of Port Edgar on the Forth in his 9 metre Najade Bermuda sloop yacht to sail round Scotland and Ireland for 33 days to raise funds as part of the Million Prostate Miles campaign. There will be lots of stopovers on the way in Scotland and Ireland both of which he will circumnavigate anticlockwise. We will put his full itinerary on the web site.
You can support Mike either by making a donation. If you or someone you know, lives in any of the ports he will visit and wants to wish him well or help with raising local awareness of his trip please tell them about Mike's trip. Any local newspaper would be pleased to tell Mike's story and publish a picture of his boat.
Dancing Miles
A group of people touched by prostate cancer in Chorleywood and Rickmansworth have been operating as the local branch of the charity for a couple of years. In January they ran their third fund raising event, a hugely successful forties evening that raised just over £2,000.
Forties evening in Chorleywood Memorial Hall
With unlimited energy, they are now planning their next event, a pig roast with jazz band in Sarratt on 21 August.
Charity Golf Day
The Rotary Club of Langley and Iver are hosting a charity golf day 50% in aid of Prostate Research Campaign UK on Thursday 9 June at Richings Park Golf Club.
A round of golf in teams of four plus an excellent buffet lunch costs £40 per player. High handicappers of both genders welcome welcome. Full details from Roy Bain, Acorns, Church Lane, Wexham, Slough SL3 6LE or phone 01753 524894.
Running Miles
Your editor sat next to Jane Dawoodi, a senior incontinence nurse at The London Clinic, during the performance of the Rape of Lucretia and learnt that she will be running the London marathon for Prostate Research Campaign UK. He sponsored her. She completed the course in four and a half hours. She would welcome some late sponsorship from you!
Thanks to Mr Armstrong of Kettering who sent us his £50 sponsorship for completing the 10K annual Daffodil Run at Castle Ashby in February.
Giving us a hand
Readers will recall that, in our last edition, we sought support for a fundraising Chicago Bridge evening, hosted by Andrew Robson at his famous club and organised by Louise Anderson. In the event it was a huge success, thanks to the hard work and support of everyone involved.
Andrew and his team quickly put everyone at their ease and provided help - and even prizes - when needed. Colin Gouldsbury's catering company, Quisine, produced a delicious meal at cost price, a generous benefactor produced theatre ticket vouchers for the winning pairs and Louise made sure that the whole event ran like clockwork.
We are also extremely grateful to all those players who supported the event - over 80 - plus those who were unable to attend but who sent in donations.
Thanks to everyone's generosity the event raised nearly £1,900.
TO GET INVOLVED
If you would like to take part in, help, sponsor or otherwise get involved with any of the fund raising efforts described above please contact Lesley in the Putney office on 0208 877 5840.