Firstly a big thankyou out to all the celebs that have donated handprints for Tilly, keep 'em coming!
Maureen hodgins and all the funny farmers are a family run childcare service. they had a big party in their local village hall. The children took part in the nativity play, they had a big raffle, a bar and some food for the parents and grandparents. It was a fun afternoon for all but everyone worked very hard to raise £621.00 for tilly’s fund! thankyou so much!
A good night was had by all at Dan’s wrestling night at the civic centre in Consett. the money is still being counted but its roughly between £350-400.
'The Tilly Tubbies' was organised by Julie and Tony Gibson of Walker in Newcastle - Tony being one of the Tilly Tubbies and the post workers of Heaton Newcastle. They even took dance lessons for the big performance! The night raised £5500 (£500 of that came from the post office themselves and £2500 of that was given as an extremley kind donation) To follow, Julie has told her story in Pick me up magazine which will be out on 20th March. The story tells of how she got involved with fundraising for tilly and the night she organised! This raises an extra £350 for Tilly.
Royal Air Forces Association Wisbech branch has donated £100 for Tilly.
Weardale flower club held a Christmas raffle for Tilly and donated £100.00 into her fund.
Deborah Scott has sold her badges now raising £50 and has involved the Burtree pub in Darlington to help with Tilly’s fundraising. Thanks Deborah!
We are selling meningitis help tickets if anyone is interested. We really want to get the Immunosonic machines into NHS hospitals!
Thanks to Marion and Julie for holding a coffee mornings in your own home, Julie recently raised a massive £530 for Tilly’s fund!
The Green Trees Pub in Howden Co. Durham raised £305.10 for Tilly.
Get Smart hair salon in Willington held a raffle and cake stall for Tilly.
Christine Varley and Joy Abbott organised a Raffle for Tilly, as did Serendipity in Wolsingham - thanks guys!
Ian Piggot (a massive Sunderland fan) raisied £1600 for Tilly by wearing a Newcastle shirt on derby day. Massive thanks go out to a very brave man!!! Apparently the shirt was on his back for an hour and he is still itching :-)
Thankyou to everyone who sent Tilly money instead of sending christmas cards and birthday presents etc, brilliant idea!
Parkside School where Adam (Tillys dad) works had a non uniform day where they had to wear yellow for Tilly - They raised over £900 due to throughtful extra donations.
Thankyou to the Lowdens of Burnopfield who the Lockeys met on Holiday for their kind donation. They didn't put a contact so we were unable to track them down. Hopefully they will check the website!!!
A massive thankyou goes out to Geannine Midgley from Gallery Hairdresses in Crook. She got her head shaved for Tilly and is still collecting in the money. Brave, brave girl!
Two students from WOLSINGHAM SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY COLLEGE got their hair cut for Tilly. Natalie Story age 13 and Robert Harrison age 18 raised more than £500 Another girl has just finished her sponsored silence and told me that she had been doing it for 3 days solid - over the weekend too. Bless you all! We can't thankyou enough!
Big thanks to the lads at R-Tek (Nissan supplier) for running sponsor forms and for raffling seats for the game, also collection tins at the vault/lotties/and the market plaice fish shop in Crook.
McInerney Homes donated £1000, fantastic!
Peter Haney from Peter Haney Ltd organised a night with 2 bands playing for Tilly - Alcofrolics and Soul Street. A brilliant night had by all raising a massive £2400 for Tilly.
See here to read about Ellen and David Barnett. They are only seven and five, but both completed a 20 mile trek to help Tilly. The kind-hearted duo of Lanchester, County Durham, walked along the shore of Kielder reservoir for their fundraiser. Ellen said: “We did it because we wanted to help Tilly, who we’d seen in the paper
Romag Limited (Glass specialist) in Leadgate Industrial Estate raised money by making glass football replica shirts for their staff to buy.
Gemma Davis and the 'Little Gems' Dance school in Cramlington donated the money that they made from their show to Tilly. Thankyou so much it is very kind of you. (£300)
Huge thanks to Jane Hutchinson and the girls who took part in the pub crawl, in Crook County Durham - raising Just under £900 for Tilly! They are gonna have another Pub crawl in Consett soon - any excuse! :-)
Julie Gibson threw a birthday party for her dad and he asked for no presents just donations for Tilly. They even had a 'Give Tilly a Hand' cake made! Thanks goes out to Julie's dad - what a lovely gesture!
Alishia Clement - student of Parkside School - raised 1534.00 on a sponsored walk. She has also worked very hard bringing Tilly to everyones attention. Other fundraising events have stemed from this, such as a Karaoke competition raising £1000!
A 5-a-side tournament organised by Dug raised £325, thanks to the generous support of the players, their WAGs and Powerleague at Whalley Range High School, Manchester.
The winning team, Club Foot, captained by Matthew Cropper, won the competition on goal difference after thrashing Team Evil 12-1 in the final round. Congratulations to everyone involved.
Margaret Donald held her 70th Birthday party at The Crown. Rather than presents, she kindly asked for donations to be made to Tilly - thankyou Margaret!
The Crown Susan and Graham Clough. held a Halloween charity night for Tilly.
The Queens Head (John Sweaton and Ian Hawley) ran a Karaoke competition over 15 weeks with the Final held on 2nd October. All proceeds went to Tilly.
Tim Davis and Suzanne Cox completed the Great North Run for Tilly. Hannah Phillips also ran the Junior Great North Run. Great work guys!
Gateshead Utd's Paul Thompson very generously donated proceeds from his testimonial match towards Tilly's fund. Newcastle Utd supplied a team for the event, captained by Shola Ameobi and a great time was had by all!
Thanks for everything Thommo!
DJ Spinelli Launches song with proceeds going to Tillys appeal.
Summer Ball - Knitsley Mill Sat 21st July - Raised £962.26. A massive thanks goes to Gary & Alison McCrory and the Knistsley Mill team for making the whole thing possible!
Doreen Edwards raised £150 with a donations jar placed at her WRVS cafe in Northwick Park Hospital.
Nana Sue Carter has now completed her sponsored slim - losing 10lbs, but raising £600!
Glyn Barron has done a sponsored bike ride raising about £1200.
Lauren Watkin did a sponsored walk wearimg Tilly T-shirts for Tilly raising a massive £591.
Annemarie Allan did a coffee morning for Tilly raising £440.
Alishia Clement (pupil of Parkside School in Willington Co. Durham) organined a sponsored walk for Tilly.
Michelle Blunden did a raffle for Tilly raising £369.00 and is also organising her friends to do ‘It’s a knock out’
Claire Blake and Beverages Flower Shop in Consett did a sponsored walk raising over £600
Local schools ran doing uniform free days - raising just under £3000!
Cathleen Robinson has now done her North East walk - over £200 raised.
Home Buyers North East - Are giving £10 to Tilly for every house that they Let and they are doing a sponsored run for Tilly.
Thankyou to all the children at St. Bedes school who have been buying badges off Tilly's cousin Brandon Hicks. Also to all the children who have given donations to Tilly.
Numerous coffee mornings have taken place, including one which included an incredible anonymous £5000 donation!!!
Liz Hume, Staff and Children of The Grove School did an assembly for Tilly, cake stall and toy/book stall - £400 raised
Ravensdene Lodge Hotel Lobley Hill - Themed night every month proceedings going to Tilly. The first event took place on 4th august and raised £440!
Race Night - £1700
Badges are being sold for Tilly £1 per badge.
Teachers (Chaz Hughes and Ian Stoker) from Parkside School Willington have just completed a C 2 C Bike Ride
Pam Wallis from Middlesex held a plant stall and raised £115 for Tilly
Thankyou to the staff at Parkside School Willington, Crook for their donations.
2 little girls (Chloe and Imogen Flack) gave up their weeks pocket money to help Tilly - £10
Meningitis Help - Donated £2000
The Lions Club - Donated £1000 and are going to do longterm fund raising for Tilly
The Sunshine Fund donated £5000 to start off the Chronicle Appeal
A HUGE THANKYOU TO ALL OF THE 'TAKE A BREAK' READERS!!! who have donated money to Tilly. We have tried to send everyone a 'thankyou', however alot came through anonomous and we still want to say it!
Rob Carter is doing a 42 mile sponsored swim for Tilly!
The Royal Air Force Marham have approved sponsorship of £1000 for our appeal. The comittee has also agreed to match the total amount for Robs fundraising (excluding the initial grant of £1000) UP TO THE VALUE OF £2000.
Thankyou for the on-going support of Consett Fire Fighters they are working hard raising money for Tilly with fire engine pulls and bag packing etc. Keep up the good work we really appreciate it!
Spark Response Limited have adopted The 'Give Tilly a Hand' appeal as their charity this year. At the moment they are selling Tilly Bear and Badges for us and will be involved in other events that we have throughout the year etc. by selling raffle tickets etc. for us.
Students at New College Durham have also adopted Tilly this year as their charity. I'm sure they will come up with great things to help raise money for Tilly!
The Derwent Manor Hotel in Allensford nr Consett Co. Durham has offered us a free venue for 2 events for Tilly. We are organising a Masquerade Ball for Tilly which is taking place on Friday 19th September. Formal Dress with Mask must be worn. We will be selling tickets for the event.
Also, on 9th Novemeber (Sunday afternoon) we are holding a childrens fashion show. We are appealing to children clothing stores to donate some clothing for our fashion show to raise money for Tilly.
www.tynephotos.com are doing fabulous work in our quest for celebrity hand prints/castings - keep up the great work!
Collection jars now in place at Jill’s News, The Rainflower, Market Plaice, Nu-hair, Lotties Bar, The Vault and Belle Vue Club - thanks to everyone for their continued support.
Pauline Forster is raising money for Tilly by baking cakes.
