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Amount Raised - The Final Total Raised for the Week: *** £14,388.56 *** Our sincere thanks to everyone who has been involved with Support Our Soldiers Awareness Week and for their tremendous efforts. We are sincerely grateful to each and every one of you. The reports from the individual events are detailed below - SOSAW in Leicester! Amanda, our Leicester representative whose energy and enthusiasm is unending, has been around the town with her camera encouraging people and businesses to have their pictures taken in support of our boys and girls. Here they are!
Staff at H K Wentworth Group - Supporting Our Troops
Sir Peter Soulsby MP - Supporting Our Troops
Sturgess Motors - Supporting Our Troops
Liam (Home on R&R) and his family - Supporting Our Troops
Paul Nixon, Captain of Leicestershire Cricket Team - Supporting Our Troops
Roger from Buyrite, and friend Dee - Supporting Our Troops
The Lord Mayor of Leicester - Supporting Our Troops More pics of the wonderful people of Leicester Supporting Our Troops at the foot of the page! Friday 23rd May - Non Uniform Day at Farringdon Primary School Thanks to Joyce and Jill, the children and parents, and Headteacher Mrs Henderson, of Farringdon Primary School the event raised a wonderful £234.80 Bank Holiday Saturday 24th - Monday 26th May - NRA meet at Bisley Despite dreadful weather Jude proudly manned the Support Our Soldiers section on the North West Custom Parts stand and raised a wonderful £122.95
24th May - 15th June - Collection at Asda Kilmarnock Mary Anne would just like to say a huge thank you to Asda Kilmarnock and their customers. The trolley donations filled 5 carrier bags, plus a large box of crisps, and Asda gave her a £10 gift card to buy more parcel fillers! The donations included T shirts, Boxers and socks, as well as toiletries, food items and puzzle books. Julie Anne, the events coordinator has invited us back again before Christmas so many thanks to her for that! Thank you to everyone who donated.
Bank Holiday Monday May 26th - Todmorden Once again the weather was against us, but Vicky braved the gusts at the Charity Market and raised a wonderful £120.00
Friday 30th May - Collection at The Guild Hall Shopping Centre Exeter Many thanks to Peter who raised a wonderful £354.22 through his collection in Exeter Saturday 31st May - Collection and stall outside Asda in Aberdare A great day for Linda, Yas, Chris, Lucie and Chelsea who managed to raise a tremendous £381.30 with their collection and merchandise sales! Plus 30 carrier bags of shopping were donated and Asda themselves raised a further £70 which they're turning into parcel fillers! A wonderful result all round. Saturday 31st May - Collection at Torquay Area Two South Devon And thank you againto Peter, his collection in Torquay raised a further £200.32 Saturday 31st May - Slessor Raf Club held a raffle during their disco night and raised a wonderful £122 Sincere thanks to all involved. Saturday 31st May - SOS Stand at Helensburgh Fair A fine, sunny day in Scotland where Lou and Paul, together with helpers Caroline and Andy raised a wonderful £117.14 Lou was interviewed live on air by Your Radio, and some great contacts were made on the day too!
Lib Dem Alan Reid MP Supporting our Soldiers Monday 2nd June to Sunday 8th June - Chichester Council Help Shop This fabulous window display was organised by Hilary and is generating lots of interest!
Monday, Tuesday & Wednesday, 2nd, 3rd & 4th June - BAE Systems - Samlesbury and Warton sites Our sincere thanks go to Kale and everyone at BAE Systems in Samlesbury and Warton who have raised to date a wonderful £940.57.
But that's not all, thanks to the overwhelming generosity of the staff, they have enough items to fill around 150 parcels! Monday 2nd to Friday 6th June - St Bede's High School, Lytham - Sincere thanks to Vaughan & Barbara Shephard, Staff and Pupils at St Bedes who have launched a campaign at the school for parcel items. In Vaughan's words 'SOS has arrived with a vengance at St Bede's!' Monday 2nd to Friday 6th June - Stephen & Diane Sams - Sincere thanks to Stephen & Diane who have been collecting parcel items during the week. This is a wonderful gesture and much appreciated. Monday 2nd June - Bar Quiz Evening, mcQs Bar, University of York Awaiting Details Monday 2nd June - Sponsored Swim at the Galleon Centre, Kilmarnock Well Robert completed his mile in just 45 mins! Many thanks to staff at the Galleon Centre for all their support, to Mary Anne, Brian, Aimee and Agnes, and of course to Robert. A wonderful £359 raised!
Monday 2nd and Tuesday 3rd June - Store collection at Morrison's, Horsforth Kazza B and Lynn R have raised a wonderful £317.53 through their collection at Morrisons. Many thanks to Kazza and Lynn, and to the people of Horsforth who's response and generosity was heartwarming.
Tuesday 3rd June - 'Question Time' style panel debate, University of York. Awaiting Details Wednesday, 4th June - The Coffee morning at Church Hill Court Lympstone raised a wonderful £148.00. Many thanks to Peter and everyone who gave their support. Thursday, 5th June - Sponsored No Swearing Day - Despite great temptation, Yas successfully completed her No Swearing Day and raised a wonderful £163. Many thanks Yas, and welcome home Adam and Nicky! Thursday, 5th June - Church Service to commemorate and is dedicated to our troops at St. Margarets and St. Andrews Church Littleham Exmouth followed by a coffee morning including stalls and cakes. Many thanks to everyone who took part in the Service which raised a wonderful £172.45 Thursday 5th June - 'Wine & Nibbles/Barbecue' evening with Ayrshire Provosts, local tri-service Commanding Officers, and SoS reps at Yeomanry House, Chalmers Road, Ayr. Family, friends and supporters of our troops went along and as well as spending an enjoyable evening finding out more about SOS raised £40 too! Friday 6th June - Parkside Middle & Meadows First School Special Assembly Pupils at the school held a special assembly dedicated to UK Troops serving abroad. Many thanks to all the staff and pupils at the schools for this wonderful show of support, and particular thanks to Kaylea Dalton for all her hard work.
Friday 6th June - 'Dress-Down for a Pound Day'.....South Ayrshire Council staff and local businesses participated in a Dress Down for a Pound Day and raised a wonderful £547.28. Thank you to everyone who took part for raising such a great amount. Friday 6th June - Dress Down Day A fantastic result from Brian and workmates at Liquid Plastics in Preston who raised a wonderful £70 from the Dress Down Day and a further £100 was kindly donated by the social club. The ladies have already been shopping and bought lots of items for care parcels - enough indeed to fill a 45 gallon drum full of goodies! Sincere thanks to Brian, Val and everyone involved. Friday 6th June - 8 Transport Regt's hard PT Day raised a wonderful £422.29 Sincere thanks to all the lads for paying to get out of this and raising such a great amount. Thank you to to Heather and the WO of 8TR for organising this! Friday 6th June - Message To Our Troops Night at The Toby, Kenton Bank Foot, Newcastle Upon Tyne. Report from Kim to follow - 'Again we had great support from all at The Toby on Friday, this support was given from customers and staff alike. Although the Toby was very quiet on Friday we managed to have a good night, we raised £132.10 funds and awareness for "Support Our Soldiers". Joyce came along to help me on the night, we had a "Name the Lion", merchandise, display board and of course the" your message to our Troops" box. I would like to say a HUGE thank you to everyone at the Toby that showed their support on Friday including The Friday Night Lads, they came up trumps again, thanks lads! A massive thanks to Manager Jonathon Seed for continuing to help us whenever he can, Jonathon worked really hard on Friday to make our night a success, so thanks again Jonathon to you and of course your staff. Our "Name the Lion" was actually won by Jonathon himself in the end so he immediately gave "Amber" the Lion to two lovely girls that had been having a meal at the Toby. Georgia and her friend Leoni ( both 9yrs) have written messages of support for our troops, Georgia and Leoni also "sponsored" a cool tie each, they loved our Lion and were SO pleased when Jonathon said they could have her. By the end of our special night we had lots of messages in our box to include in the next batch of care parcels, hopefully give the troops a few smiles.'
Friday 6th June - The Family Fun Night Disco at Palm Cottage Working Men's Club, Gillingham managed to raise £212.57. A big thank you to.....the Royal Engineers museum, Gillingham golf club, Sittingbourne dog track, Splashes, Diggerland, odeon cinema, and the Conservative Club, for donations of raffle prizes, and to Jodie, Becca and Helen for all their help. Many thanks too to Debbie who organised the event Friday 6th June - Sponsored Swim - Well made it in 42 mins! Very pleased and thank you to all colleagues and friends for sponsoring to the tune of £170
Friday, 6th June - Street collection at Teignmouth South Devon organised by Peter raised a wonderful £76.88 Friday, 6th June - Wear Something Yellow Day - A very special thank you goes to Joolz daughter Ingrid who organised a Wear Something Yellow Day at school. Ingrid composed a letter to the parents (with help from a teacher) saying what she wanted to do, and gave out badges and yellow ribbons. She had a little display board in the hall with pictures she downloaded from the site - which included one of her brother Danny, - and she spoke in assembly! One little lad, who goes on the school bus with her, had yellow ribbons on the weels of his wheelchair! We're all very proud of Ingrid, who also raised a wonderful £62.30! So again, a big thank you to her and to all the children and teachers who took part in the day.
Saturday 7th June - Sponsored Swim at Ely swimming baths A huge thank you to Michelle, Martin, Amanda and Debbie, the four swimmers who did the sponsored mile swim for Awareness Week on Saturday. They all managed to do the swim in about an hour. They have also raised the amazing sum of £920.50. Again, many thanks to them and to Tracy for organising the swim. News article from Ely Standard
Saturday 7th June - Sponsored Bike Ride - Steve Taylor Steve managed the ride from Warrington to the National Memorial Arboretum in great time, arriving just after 3pm. He was met at the Arboretum by the curator and laid a wreath at the Forces Memorial on behalf of SOS. A very poignant moment. Mary, Puds and Tracy also kindly went along to welcome Steve in. A great achievement Steve, thank you so much, and a wonderful £135 raised
Saturday 7th June - Sponsored Swim - Jo in Sheffield completed 40 lengths breaststroke and raised a wonderful £153.50 Saturday 7th June - Sponsored Walk - Julie and Dennis completed the ten mile walk in record time, 3 hrs 35 minsl and raised an amazing £858.50! Julie said 'Everything went well apart from we did the first 5 miles in 1 hr 25 minutes so the pub wasn't open, then we walked back and the Station pub wasn't open nor the Roebuck so we had to wait until Man in the Moon for a well deserved pint!!' Many thanks Julie and Dennis for all your efforts, this is a tremendous result! Many thanks too to everyone who contibuted including tenants and friends Poynders Meadow, Codicote Tenants and friends Deanscroft Knebworth, tenants & friends Clarion House Offley, tenants and friends Lime Tree House Whitwell, Friends at Careline, Letchworth, Rose & Crown, 85 Club, Maidenshead Whitwell, 36 Engineers, Friends of Chris at the ladies Guild Harlow and Julie's colleagues and friends at North herts homes.
Saturday 7th June - Coffee Morning at The Manna House in Penketh, Warrington The coffee morning was a great success with Joolz being joined by many people including Dan from 1 Lancs who has just returned from Iraq. A fabulous £234.46 was raised. Many thanks to Joolz and to all involved.
Saturday, 7th June - Street collection at Paignton, South Devon organised by Peter And another wonderful result, £154.30 raised! Saturday 7th June - SOS Stall at Blaby Carnival, Leicester It's been a very busy week for Amanda and all her wonderful team in Leicester. This is a report by Natalie - 'On Friday night we went to speak to a group of kids at a youth group in Leicester about SOS. They have already collected quite a few care packages together for us already and are keen to do more!! Mandys son gave them an account of what it was really like in Afghan, and this really brought it alive for them - so well done to him!! The kids were really interested and went away with a real understanding of who we are and why what we do is so important for the troops out there in the sand. Obviously after all that effort we had to follow it up with a trip to the pub, still in SOS t-shirts of course!!!!!
Saturday, 7th June - SOS Stall outside Somerfields in Sherborne, Dorset. The collection and merchandise sales brought in a wonderful £204.15. Many thanks to Sharron for organising this. Saturday, 7th June - Street Collection and Stall, Bingley Town Centre. Sincere thanks to members of Bingley Detachment ATC for all their help with the street collection which raised a wonderful £116.11. Many thanks too to Kat, Sammi, John, and Judith for their help with the stall. A further £60.50 was raised through merchandise sales and Shirley and Len Thompson very kindly brought along four carrier bags full of perfect parcel fillers. A great day despite the rainy start!
Sunday, 8th June - SOS Stall outside Tescos in Blandford, Dorset raised a wonderful £236.45 through the collection and merchandise sales. Again many thanks to Sharrona and to everyone who contributed. Sunday 8th June - Sponsored Walk from Tavistock Roker Hotel to Tavistock Restaurant South Shields A fabulous day and the amount raised to date an amazing £5,035.35. THANK YOU to Lyndsey Urwin at the Tavistock in South Shields for arranging such a FANTASTIC event for Support Our Soldiers. Lyndsey not only arranged the 8 mile sponsored walk but also "after our walk entertainment" which included a Raffle and Tombola, thanks to all companies that donated items to use as prizes and of course the helpers that spent the afternoon selling tickets for both of these stalls. As you can see the children were able to have a good bounce around to get rid of any energy they had left on the lovely bouncy castle. Lyndsey had also arranged a BBQ and a beer tent which was great, everyone was very hungry and thirsty after their long walk. Big thanks to the Tavistock staff for their help. On the completion of their walk Lyndsey supplied fresh fruit and water which was gratefully received as it was a hot day, walkers also received an S.O.S. Awareness Week pin badge. Live singers were organised also Brassneck was the name of two of the singers, sorry not sure of the names of all the live singers but THANKS for all of your tunes and support, you all sounded great. Lyndsey had also organised a balloon release, they became entangled but both Joyce and myself thought they still looked great floating up and away over our beautiful sea.............wonder if they have reached Norway yet? South Tyneside Pipes and Drums Band were amazing, they looked and sounded FANTASTIC, many thanks for your time and music lads. Chris came along from Motif8 to sell Para Reg clothing and also donated a jacket to the raffle on the day, Thanks Chris! We also have to thank our local army cadets for taking part in the sponsored walk, and some of them formed a walkway at the Tavistock for walkers to walk through on completion. Lyndsey had also arranged face painting for the children, we have Lyndsey’s family to thank for this. St. John's Ambulance went along on the walk (just in-case) thanks for your support and i’m pleased that you didn’t have to put your skills into practise. Lyndsey’s sister in law Tracey did a HUGE amount of work in preparation for the day and also on the Fun Day itself so a BIG thank you to Tracey too. Many people have donated items or money to Lyndsey for her FANTASTIC event so just a final thank you to everyone that has not been mentioned by name. This event was one of the events arranged especially for the S.O.S. Awareness Week, it has managed to raise a fantastic amount of awareness of our Charity supporting the troops in Afghan and Iraq, at the same time raising a large amount of funds for S.O.S. We would also like to add our thanks to Tavistock as a company, as without their help and generosity this lovely day may not have been able to go ahead.
Sunday 8th June - Grand Raffle Draw organised by Sensei Bob MrCracken or GKR Karate. We're delighted to announce that a wonderful £350 was raised in the raffle organised by Sensei Bob MrCracken. Our sincere thanks to Bob, and to everyone who took part. Another fantastic result. Monday 9th June - The Homecoming Parade for 1 Scots Battlegroup in Edinburgh raised £23 through sales of pin badges. 2nd – 16th June - Avon and Somerset Constabulary - the collecting boxes in each of the following Police Stations - Broadbury Road, Trinity Road, New Bridewell, Newfoundland Road, Bishopsworth, Fishponds, Kenneth Steele House, Avonmouth, Redland, Southmead and Police Headquarter raised a wonderful £205.75 with a further £32.50 raised through sales of merchandise. Many thanks to Kim D for organising this More Pictures from Leicester...
Staff at Leicester Royal Infirmary - Supporting Our Troops! Yellow Ribbons Philip Davies, Conservative MP for Shipley Gerald Howarth, MP for Aldershot and Shadow Defence Minister Celebrity Auction This took place on Ebay during the week and raised further £64.82 which was brokend down as £3 signed Simon Weston book, £5 Royal Mail stamps signed by Vicky Butler-Henderson, £7.16 RM stamps signed by Ossie Ardilles, £8.50 RM stamps signed by Carlos Alberto, £7.16 RM stamps signed by Ray Wilson and £34 signed by Glasgow Celtic FC. Sincere thanks to Eulogy for kindly donating the stamps, and to Coca Cola for offering the football. And of course many thanks to Mary for listing these for us!
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- Bradford Telegraph Argus - Bradford,England,UK
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