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2008 Reading Lions Fun Day
David Wilson Homes Employees of David Wilson Homes in Hungerford (we are their Charity of the Year) ran in the Newbury 10K on 1 June to raise funds for us. They are also avidly collecting toner cartridges for us for recycling. 28.06.08 Shire Hall Rugby Club
The George at Loddon Bridge, Earley raised over £1000 for us at their May Bank Holiday Fun Day. 28.06.08
RAF Walk into Action
Call Centre Rings the Right Numbers
“Many of us have had friends and relatives who have benefited from the extraordinary work that the hospice does. My team set about fundraising through selling gifts, cake baking and a huge raffle. It was amazing at how quickly people responded to this, praised the Duchess of Kent House & how generously they gave. In a 4 week period we raised over £675! The RBS Group has been kind enough to match the first £500 we raised, ensuring a healthy £1175.90 donation to the charity.” 29.5.08
Fashion Show at The Barn
Audi of Reading
Sandford Springs
Golf Day Raises £7,5000 Andy Wild, Manager of the Sandford Springs Golf Club, presenting George Solly, Fundraising Manager of the charity Duchess of Kent House Charity with a cheque for £7500. Golf club owners Jennifer & Paul Gibbons are ardent supporters of the charity and through the annual charity Golf Day held at Sandford Springs Golf Club have raised over £30,000 since 2002. 13.5.08
Englefield Walk
Rabbits Vehicle Hire Graham Dore of Rabbits in Caversham, kindly let us have a free van to help with our removal of stock and fittings from our charity shop in Tilehurst which closed at the end of April. 30.4.08 Duchess of Kent House Charity Shop Closes Sadly despite the considerable efforts of our shop manager, volunteers and supporters we have not been able to make the shop financially viable. The Trustees have therefore decided that our shop will close and the last full day of trading will be 24th April 2008. Our many thanks go to all who have supported us in our in our shop endeavour either by giving of their time to work in the shop or by donating items for us to sell. 24.4.08
Sally Leaver
The proceeds of these events resulted in an amazing £ 2650 raised for Duchess of Kent House & £13,000 for the RBH. Duchess of Kent House Charity supports various services at the hospices, and already this year has given extra funds to replace ward furniture and update medical equipment to the value of £16,000. 04.03.08
The 3
Horseshoes The 3 Horseshoes pub at Brimpton have been raised over £600 in support of Duchess of Kent House over the past years. Monies have been raised by donations and the sale of jam made by Joan Farmer in memory of her husband. The pub features a grotto in the garden dedicated to Duchess of Kent House. 07.03.08
2007 Light Up a Life 2007
Members of the public enter the gardens in near darkness carrying candle lights and when the choir sings, ’Now light one thousand Christmas Lights’ literately thousands of lights are turned on at once, for the benefit of the congregation and the in-patients in their wards looking on. Each light on the Christmas Trees and surrounding walls represents the life of a loved one. An In Memoriam book is available for all those who made a donation in memory of a family or friend. The lights will be turned on each night until 12th Night (6th January). Donations are accepted until that date with remembered names entered into the In Memoriam book. Bulmershe School Year 10's
Reading & Wokingham Lions
Reading and Wokingham Lions clubs joined forces at the Reading and Wokingham Country Show in August, to run their second "Festival Of Motoring" under the leadership of Alex Woollard who is the "Driving Force" behind this fund raising effort. 120 vehicles attended this year's event which was lower than expected and no doubt a result of the poor summer which hit so many outdoor events this year. Andy Slay of Wokingham Lions said "We are delighted to have been able to support the Duchess of Kent House Charity again and would like to thank the Wokingham and Reading Agricultural Association together with the people who supported the event which has enabled us to raise funds for this very worthwhile cause. The Hospice serves the Reading, Wokingham, Newbury, and surrounding districts. In addition to funding two beds at the Hospice, the charity pays for a family support service (Bereavement), dietician, psychologist, chaplain, aroma therapist, transport, patient outings and additional equipment for the Hospice." 12.11.07 St Mary's, Upper Woolhampton
15th Anniversary Summer Ball Christine Pickett, her husband and a group of dedicated helpers staged another Summer Ball in July in memory of Barbara Pickett. Held at Burghfield Civil Service Club 140 people, including some of our nurses enjoyed themselves dancing to Backbeat Band. Decorations very expertly executed in the charity’s colours to celebrate 15 years since the unit was opened by the Countess of Westmorland. An amazing £2815 was raised. Our sincere thanks to all involved, especially Christine and family. Running for Us The last Reading Half Marathon has been the most successful for the charity financially with over £15,000 in so far, and still counting. Many also took part in the Green Park Challenge, including James (11) and Daniel McGregor (12) who ran in memory of their mother Debbie who passed away here in December of last year. Hadrian’s Wall Louise Marshall wrote, ‘My husband Bob, a keen fundraiser and accomplished trekker had already decided to walk Hadrian’s Wall in aid of Duchess of Kent House Charity, It was ironic therefore that it was just these good people who cared for him last year when he lost his fight against mesothelioma. Their family room gave us all a much needed place where Bob could feel secure and spend precious time with all of us. Six months later Bob’s close friend Jack also died. Now to fulfil Bob’s goal and in memory of these two good men, Jack’s wife Ann and I have walked Hadrian’s Wall’ To date over £1400 has been raised, with more coming in. John Lewis Local partners (staff) of John Lewis (Heelas as was) have adopted us as their charity of the year. First involvement was replacement of our damaged sun canopy used by day therapy patients in the garden. Secondly all day patients who went on the Thames cruise in July were given a very well stocked goody bag containing up-market cosmetics among other desirables. In the last few days a cheque for £2745 has been received as well as craft stock for sale. Store charity representatives Chris Manning & Natasha Murray plan more fundraising for us in the near future. Latest staff initiative involves 7cm high bears called ‘Duchess’ who can be hired out for £2.50 a time on the proviso that they are photographed at all the exotic locations they travel too. Destinations so far include Brussels and the Ritz in London! Peking to Paris The doctors Marks (Annabella and Nick) successfully completed their very gruelling 12,214 km drive over 35 days to support us and another charity, dear to their hearts. Annabella and Nick also won the Concours d’Elegance competition with their 1954 Lancia. KPMG Meanwhile KPMG via Help the Hospices continues to support the hospice movement in general and us in particular, through the personal involvement of Nicola Gladwell and her team. KPMG employees have just voted to support the hospice movement for a further year, up to September 2008. Just today we have received a cheque for £4703.
The money for last year’s Eldart Close Xmas Lights has just come in (£764) The fundraising manager and other members of staff give talks to groups, companies and societies explaining the work of the hospice and the fundraising that goes to support it. Lions Fun Day held on 30 June in Prospect Park was blighted by the weather but our charity stalls still managed over £400 of sales. Reading’s Waterfest was relatively rain free and our long-time supporter Paul Farmer was decked out completely in yellow (with dyed hair and beard) collecting for us. During the Hospice Awareness Month of June, Paul will have collected several hundreds for us. The new Holybrook Festival was poorly attended by the public despite wonderful weather, but the charity made contact with South Chiltern’s Lions, resulting in a donation of £500 received this week. We are noticing that some supporters celebrating special birthdays and anniversaries with parties are asking their friends to make a donation to Duchess of Kent House Charity instead of giving a present. A trustee and 5 friends have just completed the British 10K London Run for the charity 3/07/07 Green Park Challenge Runners
Broad Street Collection Another collection involving over 30 volunteers in Broad Street on Saturday 28 April netted the charity £1026.04. With thanks to all involved. 30.04.07 Reading School West House chose us as their nominated charity and raised over £1000 in their charity week last week. 12.03.07 Freemasons
KPMG
Autumn / Winter 2006-7 Fundraising News The Oracle We were chosen by The Oracle, Reading as its regional charity of the year, 2006 and the 5 fundraising weeks achieved an incredible £26,628! With many thanks to all our musicians. helpers and volunteer collectors who made this possible. Light Up A Life Another successful carol service was held on the 1st December with over 350 attending despite the rain. Donations to date exceed £11,000. You are able to make a donation in memory of a loved one right up to 12th Night (6.01.07). Many thanks to all who helped especially the performers: Reading Spring Gardens Brass Band, Piper Michael Barnes, Newbury College Singers, Elvian College trebles / sopranos, the readers and the many volunteers who helped put the event on. Woodley Winter Extravaganza On Sunday 3 December we ran our now traditional stand in the Precinct and sold over £520 worth of merchandise! With thanks to all our volunteers especially Jo who organised the rota. Royal Mail As part of the Help the Hospices partnership, RM employees have raised £800 for us (14/11/06) with company matching for the same amount next year. On the 29 January 2007 we shall be collecting at the main post office, Market Place, Reading. The Fox & Hounds, City Road, Tilehurst held 2 events which raised a staggering £3269.90 - £450 from a Family Funday in the pub garden and the rest through a charity auction. Wonderful pledges included 2 Newbury Race tickets, Dinner for 2 Calcot Hotel, signed Chelsea shirt, 2 seats Directors’ Box at Fulham, Box at Reading for 2 versus Charlton and much more! John Lewis Partnership . JPL staff led by Day-Therapy patient Micky Forde raised £1708.05 from the sale of furniture during the closure of their Windsor store, Caleys. Finchampstead Gift Fayre. The ladies of the support group have again surpassed themselves and raised a confirmed £11,500, helped by sponsorship from Michael Hardy, the estate agents.
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On Saturday 21 June
Berkshire Shire Hall Rugby Club raised £1036 for us at their
50th Anniversary Ball at the Calcot Hotel.
Wing
Commander McApline and colleagues entertained a small group of us at RAF
Odiham and presented us with a cheque for £500, the result of a sponsored
South Downs Challenge Walk
Debbie
Mumford’s team at The Royal Bank of Scotland’s Call Centre in Theale chose
Duchess of Kent House as its charity of the year. Debbie said,
Dave’s
Ices sponsored by Audi and Dave himself (whose wife was treated here 18
months ago) popped into the unit on the last sunny day of the recent hot
weather to provide patients and staff with free ice creams, much appreciated
by all. 14.5.08
119
walkers participated in our Annual Charity Walk in the Englefield Estate on
11 May, raising a creditable £800 (so far). With thanks to estate owner,
Richard Benyon, and to Kate Clark and all the other helpers.
12.5.08
Relatives,
friends and work colleagues of Sally Leaver, who lived in Yattendon
rallied round to raise considerable funds for two charities in her
memory. Sally sadly passed away 1½ years ago after spending 16
months in the Adelaide Ward, Royal Berkshire Hospital and a further
period at Duchess of Kent House. Several fundraising activities
took place including a Lloyds Bank sponsored walk. Last December, at
the new Upper Basildon Village Hall the Angel Ball supported by XP
plc power supplies of Pangbourne where Sally worked, was held
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Doreen
Baker (2nd right) lost her husband Roy at the end of last year.
When grandchildren Daniel Butler and Amanda Vockins (1st and second
left) said they would run the Green Park Challenge during the
Reading Half Marathon, Doreen was delighted. Doreen is very
appreciative of the way the staff of Duchess of Kent House hospice
supported her husband and family during their time of need, and
continue to do so. Amanda & Daniel have raised no less that £723
through sponsorship of their run and all money goes to the hospice
which continues to help local patients with life-shortening diseases
according to need, free of charge. Other people in photo are 3 year
old Robbie and mother
8.05.07
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