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Niamh's Journey
Past Events
THANK YOU ALL FOR TAKING PART IN THESE EVENTS THAT HAVE ALLOWED US TO RAISE MONEY FOR SUCH WORTHY CAUSES
Pampered Chef Party - Sat 5th March 2011
Niamh's auntie Denise hosted a Pampered Cheff party to raise funds for The Lily Foundation.
It was a really fun day with lots of delicious food to taste and proceeds raised from the raffle, cake/biscuit sale and purchase of PC cookware was an amazing
£245.37!
Thank you also to Angela Watkins and Claire Devlin who donated some fanastic raffle prizes and Dominique and Gabriella who made some delicious biscuits and cakes!
BUPA Great South Run - 24th October 2010
Legs, Bums & Mums Charity buggy/wheelchair Class - Reigate Park - Sat 26th Feb
Thank you to everyone who made a fantastic effort to attend our annual charity event at "Legs, Bums & Mums"Buggy classes in the Park!
This year our chosen charity was Brooklands school in Reigate, which is a wonderful school caring for all different types of children with special needs. Niamh Maguire, attended this school in her short life an had a wonderful & exciting time here and was much loved by all the teachers, pupils & of course all of us.
A lot of the ladies who attend the Buggy exercise classes in Priory Park, which is very close to Brooklands school also go to swimming lessons at the school, so really felt by attending & supporting our charity event where helping this great cause. Unfortunately the weather was quite unkind to us & it rained - a lot!! But, everyone was still very motivated & even some of the Dad's turned up too, we had a great march around the park & did lots of fun & fast exercises routines to get us all fit & possibly also to try & forget that we were getting soaked!!
Well Done to you all, you are all stars.........although Niamh will always be the brightest little star we had the pleasure to have known.
Comedy Night at the London Comedy Store - 18th January 2011
Thank you to so many people that turned up to support us at the Lily Comedy night in London. I can honestly say again that I have never laughed so much (since the last one). Line up included Jack Whitehall, John Hegley, Phill Jupitus, John Maloney,Terry Alderton and was hosted by Kevin Day.
What a great evening for a great cause and a very funny evening - thank you all. The evening raised in excess of £5,000.
Park Hill Infants - Christmas Play Collection - December 2010
Park Hill Infants School held a collection after their Christmas performances in December and managed to raise a huge £243.14 for the Lily Foundation!
Headteacher Natasha Parry wanted to thank all the children and staff that worked really hard to make the performance a sucess whist raising such a lot of money for such a good cause!
BUPA Great South Run - 24th October 2010
Our fantastic team took part in the BUPA Great South Run 2010 in memory
of Niamh and raised an amazing
The aim of the race was to raise awareness of Matthews Friends Charity PLUS as much money as we could
manage, which will all go towards their new Ketogenic Diet Centre, scheduled to open next year! This centre
could change the lives of children with difficult to control epilepsy (like Niamh) and give them a chance of life
without seizures.
£1,555!
We have so many brilliant pictures of the day that we have ceated a separate website for this event. Please visit this by clicking the button link below or via
Woodcote High School Rag Week - July 2010
Mr Paddock and his wonderful 6th Form Students took part in a host of fun events in their last week of term to raise a huge £1,014 for well deserving charities.
£400 of this total was donated to Matthews Friends towards their new Ketogenic Diet Centre. This donation will really help change the lives of children with difficult to control epilepsy.
Thank you so much to the whole 6th form
who took part in the fund raising but
especially to India & Yasminwho worked so
hard to make this all happen! x
Climbing Kilimanjaro - 25th June 2010
Helen Markey is very bravely decided to climb to basecamp of Africa's highest mountain, Mount Kilimanjaro! What an amazing thing to do for such a good cause - Well done Helen! Helen raised a fantastic £195 so far - thank you so much x
Thank you to all my mates that came to the Ball and whom supported in other ways by getting fantastic auction prizes.
Clairey for the signed cycling shirt, Dean&Vanessa for the Brian May Guitar, Daniella&James for the signed Engalnd Cricket shirt, Philip for the Shooting day and Ben for the Casino sets.
These fab prizes + donations on the night helped the charity raise a huge £37,000 which will be shared between Great Ormond Street Hospital Ketogenic Diet Reserach and the new Matthews Friends Centre which is due to open early next year, and will help 100's of children and babies with drug resistant epilepsy - Thank you all!
Rainbow Ball - 22nd May 2010
Caterham Bunny Fun Run - 28th March 2010
Mia Frith was born in East Surrey Hospital 2 days before Niamh, and I met her mummy in my antinatal group - They travelled with us on Niamh's journey,showing love and concern throughout.
Mia decided by herself that she would like to do her "Bunny Fun Run" to raise money for Niamh's charities in memory of her little friend.
Thank you so much Mia for a fantastic effort and raising £70 which we will share between Chase, Matthews Friends and Lily Foundation. Mia and her mummy also helped us with our collection outside Sainsburys in May which raised a huge £520 for the Lily Foundation. Thank you Mia - you were great!
Fleet Half Marathon & London Marathon - March & April 2010
The day was fantastic and our team were brilliant. We raised an amazing £5,476!!!
You can see pictures of the day by following the link below to the dedicated event website. Thank you so much to all involved.
3rd Annual Ball - Sat 13th March 2010, London
Thank you to everyone who came along to support The Lily Foundation 3rd Annual Ball. A great night was had by all and a magnificent £36,500
was raised! The evening was full of surprises when Heavy Weight Champion of the World David Haye made an appearance..
Niall & myself were also involved in making a very moving publicity video for the charity about Niamh and her life which was shown at the ball. To see the video please click the link
We had a fantastic night with a great turn out!
Thank you all for coming and supporting this event
Although it was the first Quiz Night we had organised, it all seemed to run pretty smoothly thanks to the organisational skills (and apple pie baking skills) of Niamh's Nanny Pat & Nanny Mena. Thanks also to Niamh's uncle Paul for being quizmaster and for all the kind friends and family who donated raffle prizes and who helped on the night.
The winners of the night were "The Girls" consisting of Claire, Elena, Vanessa, Imogen, Diana, Mags & Honor, with a score of 94 out of a possible 125. They were followed closely by their other halves "The Boys" and "Tasha's Team" in joint second with 92.5 points.
The wooden spoons went to "The Ramblers" who's team included 2 headmasters - better keep that one quiet from the school kids!!
On the night we raised a huge £1,225.70!!! which will be shared between Matthews Friends and CHASE hospice.
Quiz Night - Friday 12th March 2010
Gala Comedy Night - Monday 18th January 2010
The Lily Foundation hosted a fantastic Comedy Night at the Comedy Store, Leicester Square, London.
Thank you to all my mates that came along to support this charity and who all agreed that the line up of comedians (compered by Kevin Day and Andre Vincent) Jo Brand, John Maloney, Jason Manford, Terry Alderton and special guest Jack Dee!! was quite amazing - definately a date for next year.
Well done Liz and Kevin for arranging such a good night!
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