The Success Continues!

We’ve reached a milestone- over 25% of the tangible money is already in the bank and we’ve got

pledges of money still to come in so the target is really looking achievable if we all carry on pushing!

If we can carry on at the rate we’ve started, a summer start to the build is looking within reach.

Keep up the good work everyone! We’re all working so hard and it’s great to see all of our efforts

paying off. Thank you to all of you that have helped us so far.

This is the modern world!.....

Text Giving

Did you know that you can donate to the appeal using a straightforward text message? Simply go to a

new message in your phone and text OSCA12 £5 to 70070 to donate £5 or OSCA12 £10 to 70070 to

donate £10.

You can donate £1, £2, £3, £4, £5 and £10 using the above format.

We need your vote!

The public voting stage of the Lloyds Banking Group Community Fund was launched on Friday 18th

May. This means that you can vote for the Our Space Appeal to benefit from a

donation of £5,000.00!

You can vote online by visiting:

https://www.lloydsbankinggroupcommunities.com/communityfund/CF_Org_V

ote_Profile.asp?CFOIDS=10000573 OR

You can text your vote by texting: VOTE LE1 to 61119

Please spread the word!

Donate Online with JustGiving

You can also donate to the appeal online using

our JustGiving page. Visit

www.justgiving.com/cancerappeal and click on

Donate now.

Or….If you’ve got a clever phone, scan this

code and it will take you

straight to the JustGiving

page where you can donate

online.

With pledges and promises of support, our

estimated total means we’re at £1.2million!!

Our Doctors, Nurses and Friends have been busy!..... The Century Cycle Challenge

Nicky Rudd, Matthew Lyttelton, Tom Lyttelton, Michelle Wilbram,

Michael Porter, Lynda Beck, Anu Gore, Harriet Walter, Claire Esler,

Helena Gleeson, Neil Frankland and Fiona Miall made up the Our

Space Team who attempted the Century Cycle Challenge to help raise vital funds for the appeal.

The Century Cycle Challenge is a 102 mile cycle ride from Nevill Holt in

Leicestershire to Brancaster Staithe on the north Norfolk coast

that took place on Saturday 5th May. The Our Space Team have raised

an incredible £9,047.75 to date but they still need your support to help

them raise even more money! Please donate online

at www.justgiving.com/Fiona-Miall

We’ve also had a flock of fundraisers sign up through JustGiving to raise their sponsor money for the

Cycle Ride: David Adcock, Chris Alloway, Graham Goode, Derek Hunt, John McHugh, Andy Medland,

Richard Prior, Dr Philip Watt and James Weaver. Collectively, they have raised £3,363.38 to date!

What our Busy Fundraisers have been up to

London Marathon Runners

We’re so proud of our marathon runners that took part in the London Marathon in April, we even had

a sub-4 hour finisher!!

Matthew Dacombe raised £1,523.47 to date. Matthew also held a big fundraising event at his

university which raised £962.10 to boost his total.

Paul Gowdridge has raised £2,657.16 to date. Brookvale High School also added to his total raised.

Sam Jones has raised £2,559.20 on her JustGiving page to date.

Kevin Mannion is on £506.25 and is planning on paying more money into our Cashiers dept in May.

Helen Parry has raised £831.75 to date through her JustGiving page.

Claire Willday- although Claire couldn’t run due to a calf injury 3 weeks before the marathon, she has

raised £368.75 and plans to run next year.

Heath Lane Surgery in Earl Shilton raised

£120.00 that they collected over Christmas 2011

in support of Robert Palin.

Hall Orchard C of E Primary School raised

£665.16 at a church collection, playtime & cake

sales and from the sales of bands and cards.

Dale Heathcote donated £930.00 in April that

was raised from various events including a

boxing night. This adds to his previous

fundraising, making a total of £1,519.54!

Paul Bailey held an event at The Old Inn in

Littlethorpe. There was a hog roast and a band.

Paul hoped to raise £500.00. He smashed his

target and actually raised £1,125.00!

Spire Leicester Hospital donated £1,150.00 that

was raised at the raffles, book and cake sales by

the fundraising and social committee.

The CAIRS Committee at The Robert Smyth

School in Market Harborough donated £112.00

that was raised at their CAIRS Concert.

Karen Young- More than 350 of Karen’s friends and

family attended a gig at the Grampian Club in Corby

on Friday 17th

February, in support of the Our Space

Appeal. Karen, 23, who is receiving treatment in our

hospitals, said that she was overwhelmed by the

support she received.

Karen, who is receiving treatment for leukaemia,

said: “It can be very difficult when you’re in hospital

for weeks at a time. A unit for young people would

make a difficult situation much better for patients.”

She started fundraising for the appeal with her friend Siobhan Buzzard, who sadly died last year of the

same condition. They met while having treatment.

Karen said “I felt really stressed out before the dance but I shouldn’t have worried. Hundreds turned

up and everyone had a great time. There was tremendous support for the appeal and for me. I saw a

lot of people I hadn’t seen since school and they were all so kind. We hit the £2,000 mark but the final

total could be more. It’s totally overwhelming. I’m exhausted but it was all worth it.”

Corruption who were one of the bands that played on the night also played in

a pub on Saturday night and donated their fee to the appeal.

Paul Young, Karen’s brother and his friend Martin

Curran had their heads shaved, chests waxed and

legs shaved to raise money in support of Karen.

Paul, who had been growing his hair for 6 years,

said: “It is now very cold and feels very strange, but

it is all for a good case. It was not that painful. The

worst part was losing my long hair.”

Mark Gibbard, manager of the Thurmaston Magpies Under-13s, held a Charity

Football match at the Leicester & Rutland County FA head quarters- Homes Park

Whetstone on Saturday 18th

Feb. The day raised an incredible £2,062.09- amazing

considering the wet weather! Dr Fox made an appearance and came back very

muddy! Mark decided to fundraise for the Our Space Appeal in support of patient

Lucy Betts. Lucy is 13 years old and lives in Thurmaston. Unfortunately, she was

diagnosed last December with Glioneuroblastoma, a very rare form of cancer.

Raynsway Properties Limited in Thurmaston also donated money towards Mark’s final

total.

Enderby Ranger Guides raised £50.00 from weather sponsoring (what a great idea!).

Children’s Hospital School raised £707.42 at the students’ pre-Christmas afternoon and the staff’s

Santa Canter sponsor money.

Circus Starr (What's On Tickets) donated £550.00 from money raised at the circus show on Sunday

6th

November 2011

The Marquis Wellington on London Road, Leicester donated a full collection tin containing £84.08.

Breakers Darts Club who are in the Leicester City

Municipal Darts League picked the Our Space

Appeal as their charity of the year and have

raised £300.00. Sarah Witherington contacted us

and nurses Jill Bramley and Elaine Wright

attended the presentation on Weds 4th

Apr at

8:30pm in The Breakers Snooker Club in

Braunstone Gate to collect the donation.

Jenny Clegg, Ellie Roebuck and 9 other

colleagues are a group of Physical Training

Instructors (PTI) under training at RAF Cosford.

They have cycled from Workington to Newcastle

Upon Tyne which is a coast to coast cycle route of

approx 138 miles over 2 days with an over-night

camp. They’ve raised £712.50 for the Appeal. The

route was a mixture of on and off road tracks

providing and interesting and challenging ride.

Kerry Hulley completed the 3 peaks challenge on

21/4/12. She has raised £137.50 to date through

her JustGiving page.

The Knighton Players donated £900.00 that was

raised at their Jack and the Beanstalk production

in March.

Iceland Store, Saffron Lane donated £40.00. £91.92 was raised by Windsor Reception and

Ward 27 at the LRI.

Coalville Ladies Breakaway Darts League

donated £205.00to the appeal.

Lafarge Contracting in Syston raised £155.36

from a dress down day.

Christopher Simpson raised £1,196.48

throughout the year collecting donations when

giving talks.

Polly Taylor has sent in a cheque for £130.00, she

raised this money by selling greetings cards in her

local church on London Road, Leicester.

Flogas in Syston have donated £110.91. Overdale Junior School donated £520.00 in April.

Fernvale Primary School in Thurnby raised

£200.00 for the appeal in memory of Billy Thorpe.

The Rotary Club of Oadby donated £455.00 in

March.

Eve Kelly has held another bake sale with Alex

Moran and Anna Spencer. They raised £75.00!

Parochial Church Council of Thurmaston donated

£20.07 in May.

Lets Walk Hinckley raised £25.00 at their Walking

Groups.

Chloe Miller raised £290.00 from Wristband and

Christmas card sales.

St Barnabas C. of E. Primary School donated

£177.84 that was raised by staff at Christmas and

from a donation from St Barnabas Church.

Jobcentre Plus (DSS Leicester Sport & Social Club)

donated £1,288.94 after fundraising in

connection with Andrea Burton.

The Cancer Information Centre at the LRI raised

£206.56 from their collecting tin.

Queniborough Farmers Club donated £500.00 in

March.

Residents of Tom Eatough Court in Earl Shilton

raised £265.00 at an Easter Raffle. Rachel

Boardman went to collect the money and gave a

short speech on the unit and the appeal.

Mr D P Marlow (Chairman) of donated £100.00

after reading an article about the appeal in the

Leicester Mercury.

Leila, Fateha, Marie and Sonia from

Regent College, Leicester raised

£105.17 at a cake sale in college.

Laura Willcocks raised money by taking part in

the 3 Peaks Challenge on 21/04/2012. She has

raised £278.13 through her JustGiving page.

St John the Baptist Church on Clarendon Park

Road, Leicester donated £100.00 in March.

The Wednesday Club in Thurnby Lodge donated

£255.00 in April.

Julie Stanley presented a cheque to Chairman, Martin Hindle &

Ward Sister, Rachel Boardman on 6th

March 2012. Julie and family

raised £1,494.68 for the Appeal in memory of her mother. She was

helped at the presentation by patients Harry & Zainab.

Clare Benson did the Loughborough half

marathon on 25/03/12 and raised money

for the Our Space Appeal. She raised

£502.85. Debbie Adlerstein, Community &

Events Fundraising Manager here at

Leicester Hospitals Charity went to collect

the money at a cheque presentation at

Music Maker in Coalville that Clare’s

friend, Julie Pegg-Moffatt owns.

125 Winter Fund- This fund was set up by Paul and Sue Newman

from Glenfield to give those over 60s who can afford it, the opportunity to donate their Winter Fuel

payment to Charity. This winter, the Our Space Appeal benefited. Another £4,785.85 was donated

from the fund in April making the total received a whopping £8,704.39!

Lisa Andrews along with her colleagues swam 1360 lengths of Nottingham University’s swimming

pool on 20/4/12; this is the same distance as swimming the channel (34km). They also had a casual

dress day at work and held a cake sale. They have raised £1,477.76 to date!

Ratcliffe College Fete – Samantha Pole from the Ratcliffe College Parents Association organised the

school fete which took place on Saturday 24th

March. Ex-Leicestershire & England cricketer, Paul

Nixon took the time to come down and join in the fun. The day raised a wonderful £5,000.00!

Janet Howkins raised £1,350.00 at Coffee Morning in Peggs Green in connection with her niece,

Andrea Burton. Janet was astounded with the amount of money raised and was truly grateful to all

those that supported the event.

White Stuff Foundation donated £180.19 in March- this was their most

recent donation from the fundraising done by their White Stuff Leicester

Store who are supporting us.

Marks & Spencer plc Charity Committee gave us £2,300.00 towards the appeal in March.

Support from Trusts

We have been extremely fortunate to receive some wonderful gifts from various charitable trusts.

Further to the previous gifts from the Edith Murphy Foundation, The Robbie Anderson Cancer Trust

and the Ross Family Trust totalling £70,000.00, we have recently received the following gifts:

� The Garfield Weston Foundation donated a very generous £50,000.00 to the appeal in March.

� The Red Arrows Trust kindly donated £1,000 in March.

Update meeting

We are holding another update meeting on Fri 25th

May at Gwendolen House, Leicester. All are

welcome. We will be thanking our kind donors and updating you all on how the appeal’s going and

any new developments. Please call Debbie on 0116 258 8531 if you’d like to come along.

Leicester Hospitals Charity Events

We’ve been busy too!

Sands Charity Night

We raised a total of £1,193.00 at our Charity Curry evening on the 29th

February at Sand’s of

Glenfield! Included in the total- £340.00 was from the raffle, £130.00 was raised from the auction of

the LCFC football (Thanks to Pat and the One in a Million Campaign at LCFC!) and £33.00 was from

sales of the Our Space bands.

Debbie from the Charity had a word with Sanjay, the owner of Sands, and he has agreed that we can

hold another charity event for the Our Space Appeal maybe in the summer this year which is great

news.

Thank you to all that attended the evening for your presence and generosity!

Leicester Tigers Game

We had our scheduled charity match at Leicester Tigers Rugby Club on Friday 30th

March 2012. The

match was between the Tigers and Worcester Warriors. The Our Space Appeal is the official charity

of the Junior Tigers Club.

LloydsTSB supplied us with leafleting volunteers. The

volunteering was organised by Harinder Sahota, Local

Director of LloydsTSB Leicester & Hertfordshire and Aunt of

patient, Amber Palin.

The volunteers included Harinder’s boss, John Bradford, Regional

Director LloydsTSB, Theresa Deevey-Ryan, Mark Brown, Steve Bates,

Graham Edge, Kevin Johnson, Emma Smith, Jonathan Kirby, Dawn Wilson, Gary Hayball, Spencer

Ursell and Stuart Walker. Harinder’s niece Amber and her mum and dad, Kam and Rob

were also there to help! All the LloydsTSB staff used the time as part of their “The Day

to Make a Difference programme” that gives every colleague time to volunteer with a

charity or community project of their choice.

Other volunteers that helped us collect on the night include Colin Esler,

Sam Jones, Matthew Dacombe, Helen Parry, Ian Stringer, the O’Neill

family, Fiona Miall & family, Rachel Boardman, James Mclean & children

Georgia and Jonathon, Murray Martin & family, Emma Ross & family, Richard Power,

and Paul Gowdridge- Huge thanks to all!

Our guests of honour were Jamie and Amy Dronfield, brother and sister of the late

George Dronfield who sadly passed away earlier this year. Jamie and Amy were lucky

enough to deliver the match ball just ahead of kick-off.

Our marathon runners also got to

perform a lap of honour at half-

time as they built up towards

running the London Marathon

We raised a magnificent £4,808.52

on the night plus the £64.00 raised from the cash-back scheme.

Sainsbury’s Collection

The Supermarket collection at Sainsbury’s, Belgrave Gate on 27/04/12, along with donations that we

received for some Tigers clothing raised £413.32.

Coming up in the next few months

Prof Dyer and Ali's Tattoo- Professor of Haematology, Martin Dyer has decided

to join cancer patient Ali Johnson, 20, to have an image of a Toucan, designed by

Ali, tattooed on his body.

Ali asked Prof Dyer if it was safe to have a tattoo once she had finished her treatment and

after divulging it to be a toucan, he found himself offering to have the same on his body.

One of his favourite books is Two Can Toucan by David McKee and that together with a

special patient, Ali, persuaded him to join her in this one off venture to raise as much

money as possible for the Our Space Appeal.

Prof Dyer says “The more money we raise the more embarrassing the position of the tattoo!!!” They

are planning to have their tattoos done in the middle of July at Swannys Tattooz in

Loughborough.

So far they have raised £1,315.00! Please help them raise even more and sponsor them

online- www.justgiving.com/profdyertattoo

Leicester to Skegness Cycle Ride- Top fundraiser, Martin Isaac, has organised another sponsored

cycle ride from Leicester to Skegness on 16th

June. Previous years have been a huge success and this

year looks likely to be too. Martin has agreed the money raised will go towards the Our Space Appeal

which we’re so grateful to him for. You can sponsor the event by visiting Martin’s JustGiving page-

www.justgiving.com/LeicesterSkegnessOurspaceAppeal.

So far, we’ve had 6 people taking part in the event set up a JustGiving page so that people can

sponsor them online:

Jen Kearns- www.justgiving.com/jennifer-kearns: £92.50 raised to date.

Andy Richman- www.justgiving.com/andy-richman: £426.25 raised to date.

Bie Grobet- www.justgiving.com/bie-grobet1

Matt Shewring- www.justgiving.com/matt-shewring: £198.75 raised to date

Nicholas Taylor- www.justgiving.com/nicholas-taylor4: £45.00 raised to date

Tom Sharpe- www.justgiving.com/tom-sharpe1989: £112.50 raised to date

Brown Dog Challenge 2012- This year Brown Dog’s challenge will be raising money for the

Our Space Appeal. The cancer charity has 2 challenges for 2012- the High Peak Challenge

and the Low Peak Challenge. Both challenges take place on 23rd

June 2012. For further

information, please visit: www.cancerbrowndog.co.uk/

On your marks event- This best kept secret is the envy of all petrol-heads. It is a huge event held in

Bruntingthorpe in August. A proportion of the money raised on the day will go towards the Our Space

Appeal. Further details will be in the next newsletter.

Our forthcoming Fundraisers (keep your eyes peeled for them!)….

Billinda Aldridge-Clyne is doing various things to raise money. She began by doing the Shakespeare

half marathon on 29/04/12. She’s going to do sweepstakes, car boot sales and anything else she can

think of! Billinda is hoping to raise around £1,000.00.

Adarsh Bhatt from Blaby Dental Practise along with his work colleagues intends to hike 20miles over

2 days and camp overnight. They are looking to do the event around the 30th June and Adarsh has

agreed to match the money raised so he’s hoping the total will be around £1,500.00.

Beth Bodycote works at LRI and is running the Edinburgh marathon on 27th

May

2012 in memory of her mother with her sister, Theresa Dennis for the appeal.

Steven Bowns intends on raising £2,000.00 for the

appeal, he will do this by cycling from Lands End to

John O'Groats on 31/5/2012 to 13/6/2012. He also

held a golf day on 4th May with around 50 people taking part.

Ruari Mitchell is taking part in a London to Paris bike ride.

Carol Shardlow & Jane Gamble are trekking Hadrian's Wall on 23rd

June.

Rachel Shepherd is planning a music & dance event at John Cleveland College hoping to raise £1,000.

Some of the Ladies at Priesthills Nursery have decided to raise money and

have signed up and started training for the 3 Peak Challenge.... this involves

climbing the 3 highest Peaks in the UK, Ben Nevis, Scafell Pike & Snowdon in

24 hours. Training has started now in order to climb the 3 Peaks in August.

Michael Tomlinson is running the Bupa Great Manchester Run on 20/5/12.

Andrew Morgan is holding a music evening on 01/06/12 7pm-12am at Club

2000 in Corby- £3 entry.

Special thanks also go to Joan Fitch, Jean Meysner, Mr & Mrs Jagjivah, Danielle Robinson, Mrs A.

Beecham, Mrs S. Malin & Family, Mrs Dennard & Family, Lucy Thompson, Pat Hubbard, Ian Abson,

Katie Grocock, Margaret Barthorpe, Emily Stone, Peter Hammond, Susan Smith, Joanne Wilson, Joyce

Reynolds, Mr Orme, Anita Hornsby & Family, Moira Chambers, Jennifer Cole, Miss L. Carter, John &

Dorothy Martin, Dr Andrew Fry, Tom & Rose Waterworth, Carol

Matheson, Malcolm Moore & Family, Rowland Baker, Mr & Mrs

Smedley, Colin Chapman, Florence O’Brien and Harry French.

Cheque and Postal Order Donations

Please make cheques and postal orders payable to ‘Leicester

Hospitals Charity Our Space Appeal'.

Post to- Leicester Hospitals Charity, Our Space Appeal, Gwendolen

House, Gwendolen Road, Leicester, LE5 4QF

Over the phone

Please call 0116 258 8709 or 0116 258 8531 if you would like to

make a donation with your credit/debit card over the phone.

Our lovely charity wristbands

are still available! Show your

support for the Our Space

Appeal. They are available

from White Stuff on Market

Street, Millington Travel, Ward

27 at the LRI and the

Fundraising Office at

Gwendolen House. Suggested

donation- £1 for the rubber

bands & £2 for the elastic

ones.

GOOD LUCK TO ALL OF YOU!