News Updates
RFLF salutes General Sir David Richards, recently appointed Head of the British Army, and to whom Robert was political adviser in Sierra Leone. In a recent letter to Mike and Wendy, Sir David wrote: "What an amazing success Robert's fund has been! He is up there beaming that big smile of his over you all, I am absolutely sure. I still find myself referring to him when discussing what a modern civil servant should be."
In April 2008, £10,000 was donated to the new Teenage Cancer Trust unit which is to be opened at Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge (the temporary version will become permanent in early 2009). The money will go towards recreational facilities in the 10-bed specialist unit.
RFLF has donated £20,000 in Jan 2008 to fund a major upgrade of patient comforts in Shouldham Ward in the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, King's Lynn, including the installation of Sky TV. RFLF hope it will provide much needed entertainment and distraction for long-term patients there. More details on the Projects page.
In July 2007 the RFLF donated £5000 to the Macmillan Unit at Queen Elizabeth Hospital, King's Lynn (one of the two hospitals which treated Rob), to fund a major improvement in computer access in the chemotherapy suite there and provide new computers and printers for their clinic rooms to aid with a new viewing system for X-rays etc. We thank Jayne Miller for her work on planning the upgrade and hope the staff there find the new equipment helpful.
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Fundraising
The latest Bog Oake concert in March 2009 raised a quite amazing £650! Thank you everyone who played and who supported the concert.
On Oct 25th 2008, James and Gemma Porter successfully completed the Great South Run MiniMile to raise money for the Fund. They both completed the course in under 7 minutes 30 seconds - bravo!!
The third Annual RFLF Quiz Evening at Walpole Parish Hall on October 18th raised nearly £500 from 60 people in 15 teams. Thanks to everybody - especially two of our trustees, Dawn and Peter, for all they did to help to make this possible.
£500 has been received from Nicholas Bird - Nick was a school friend of Robert and Helen and played in the same youth football team as Robert. They lost touch when they went to different universities, but Helen has recently re-established contact with Nick, who until now was unaware of RFLF. His donation has been generously matched by his employer UBS under a charity scheme they run - thank you, Nicholas.
As of March 2009, total funds raised has passed £88,000. We cannot thank enough everyone whose generosity has enabled this figure to be achieved, and enabled so much support to be given to worthwhile causes. See the Fundraising page for a list of just some of the fundraising efforts (a concise summary of money raised so far can be found here).
Thank you Mr Brown! We have been given permission by Mr Brown to collect Gift Aid on all donations. This even applies to back dated donations, so either Mike or Wendy will be contacting you with a form which just requires you to tick a box. This will allow them to collect an extra 28% on your donations!
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