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Cousin Richard & Scotty at Langer airfield. They raised £200 from their parachute jump.
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Chloe Loach awarded 'The Rosie May Trophy for Expressive Arts' 2010 at Belvoir High School.
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held a competition for the best fundraiser. They raised £2842. The winners were Fran & Roanna.
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Concert of Dance, 15th May 2010 at Highfields School performed by Tozer Studios. This event was organised by The Inner Wheel Club of Newark who raised £1106. Special thanks to Hazel Parsons for choosing the Rosie May Home as her charity for 3 years. Also, thank you to Lyndsay Haynes for her continued support.
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Harrison Dowzell raised £332 by finishing 'The Great Nottinghamshire Bike Ride 50 miles' WELL DONE!
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Karen Pye-Smith of the Nottingham Odd Fellows presenting Mary with a cheque for £200.
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Melissa and Tessa Saville recently completed the Coast to Coast challenge and raised £600!
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Rachel Anderson (2nd Left) raised an amazing £759.50 + giftaid by taking part in the Sheffield Half Marathon.
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West End star Charlotte Gorton performing live at the 'Any Thing Goes' evening at the Dutch House in Galle, Sri Lanka.
Thank you to Charlotte, Henri Tatham and Geoffrey Dobbs (AdoptSriLanka) for raising 603,602SLR for the Rosie May Home.
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Belvoir High School Achievement Awards - The winner of the Rosie May Expressive Arts Trophy this year is Kitty Broome, she has taken part in a number of Expressive Arts activities this year, played the Prince in the school Panto, Cinderella last December and is a talented and focused student. A very deserving winner. She is pictured with Sean Lamont, our guest speaker for the evening Scotland Rugby International player and former pupil. £140 was raised and donated to the fund.
Kitty takes over holding the Rosie May Trophy from last years (2007) winner Verity King (photo right) and Charlie Goddard (2006.)
Current Fund Raising:
Swinton Community School present Mary and Luke with a cheque for £318.83
(pictured here with her coach Mary!) has just completed the City of Lincoln 10K Road Race.....Raising a Fantastic £745.79 for the fund. Well Done Tina!
Tim Morris and his team Completed the Challenge.....and raised £3274.00 Thanks to all the sponsors!
Tim Morris on the 'Numb Bum Run'. 1000 Miles in 24 hours. Starting in Brugge, Belgium up to Hanover, Germany, then down to Frankfurt and back to Brugge
The Team with a well deserved drink.....notice not one of them is sitting down!!
The Newark Palace Theatre have kindly allowed us to take a 'Bucket collection' at the end of each performance of this years Pantomime 'Snow White'. This will raise funds to support the Rosie May Home for Tsunami Orphans in Sri Lanka. Please give your support. We raised a fantastic £4.142.54.....Thank You to all those who donated.
Emily & Alice Wells, Rebecca & Roanna Doleman collecting at the Pantomime.
AUSTRALIA......
Jenny & Don Murray (Rosie May's God Parents) arranged yet another fantastic annual fund raising event 'Down Under' and established an Australian Branch of the Rosie May Memorial Fund. CLICK HEREto go to the new Australia page!
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September 08 - The Rosie May Memorial Fund was one of the three chosen charities to share all the proceeds of the per una charity sample sale. We have been presented with a cheque for £11,842.04 This will go towards further building work at the Rosie May Home in Boossa.
Nov 07 - Graham was honoured for his work with Tsunami Orphans in Sri Lanka and presented with a PhD in Humanitarian Science at the 45th World Congress of Integrated Medicines in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
The award was presented to Graham by the First Lady, wife of the President of Sri Lanka.
Dr Asoka Jayasena, The First Lady of Sri Lanka and Dr Graham Storrie
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Janet Sinclair of Carillon Rotary Club presents a cheque for £200 to purchase books for the Orphans in Rosie May Home. They also printed special individual name plates for each Child's book.
Loughborough Girls High School present another cheque to Rosie May Memorial Fund. This time for £3,262 from various fund raising activities of the pupils and staff during the Autumn 05 term. This brings the total raised by the school to £6,262 plus the additional £1000 raised by Jacques Verschuere with his sponsored giving up smoking.
Children of Eastfield County Primary School, Thurmaston, Leicester Presenting the cheque for £1,400 to Mary and Graham on the 18th January 2006.
Most of the money was raised at a fund-raising weekend, during which children sold full English breakfasts and organised car washes, a bring-and-buy sale and a family disco.
Head teacher Bill Griffiths said: "The children listened intently as Mary explained about the lives of the disaster victims, and asked many questions.
"The school wants to learn more about Rosie May's House and Sri Lanka and will be setting up a link for the future."
'For Rosie May With Love' - A special cabaret show by performers from West End musicals in aid of the fund. This will took place at the Battersea Barge on RemembranceSunday 14th November 2004. The event raised £360. Special thanks to Angel Brereton who organised the event.
Brown Eyed Girl CD - was released on the May 9th, Rosie May's 11th Birthday.
A tribute to my " My darling Brown Eyed Girl" This CD is especially for you. Keep dancing in heaven until we can dance together again. Love you and miss you. Broken hearted. Daddy XXX A cover version of Van Morrisons hit recorded by Rosie May's Father as sang at the memorial service. Rosie May thought this had been written especially for her! Happy memories of Rosie May dancing to her Daddy singing this to her over the last ten years.
170 people attended the launch. The event was covered by TV and press.
Thankyou to all who 'Ran for Rosie May!' Last year Rosie May came second in her age catagory. The Rosie May Trophy for the 10 - 13yr age group was awarded to Faith Anderson.
Sponsorship was raised by the following runners:
Charlie Morgan £20.00 Roanna Dolman £45.00 Nicole Wooley £18.00 Abigail Tonge £14.00 Luke Storrie & Friends £245.27 Laurence Storrie & Friends £296.51 Clement Stratford £24.00 Mike Briggeman £111.65 Charlotte Jewsbury £110.00 Rosie & Felix Booth £17.00 Brian Mawby £15.00 JackMellor £27.00 Matt Jordan £43.00 Tanya Bailey £60.00 Faith Anderson £25.00 Jane Robinson £203.00 Miriam Howson £23.00 Amelia Gribby £19.00 Gillian Watchorn £18.50 Linda & Jade Greaves £70.00 Amy Barett £39.00 Natalie Barett £31.50 Total to Date £1499.03
Rosie May Dance Trophy - Held on Sat 22nd May
Nickie Slater School of Dance held a dance competition for members of the dance school 7 years plus. Competition fees donated £54.00 to the fund. Dance performance was judged on criteria and skills that Rosie May excelled in!
Winners - Victoria Norgate & Molly Sheridan presented with their trophiesPhoto by Grantham Journal
25 dedicated golfers endured all three championship courses at The Belfry. Starting at 6.30 in the morning through to 8.30 in the evening, they raised £6,000 for Rosie May.
Special thanks to Andy Leaver and Julie Mottershead for all their hard work and organisation.