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Someone in the UK is diagnosed with a blood cancer such as leukaemia every 23 minutes. A blood stem cell (or bone marrow) transplant is often the only cure. Currently Anthony Nolan is only able to provide a matching donor for half the people that come to us in need of a lifesaving transplant. With your help we can grow our register of remarkable people willing to donate their stem cells, facilitate more transplants and save more lives. It costs £100 to recruit, tissue type and maintain just one potential donor to our register. Your donations will help fund our lifesaving work. Please visit www.anthonynolan.org for more information or email events@anthonynolan.org if you'd like to get more involved.
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Ayesha's Appeal fundraising page
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Ayesha was diagnosed with leukaemia in April 2011. The family are now working with Anthony Nolan to urgently find her a match from the charity’s register of potential donors.
We are asking our supporters to kindly make a donation to support Ayesha's Appeal and her search for a donor.
“Ayesha is a bright and cheerful girl and her courage and sheer determination have surprised all who have met her."
Ayesha has had to endure 10 cycles of intensive chemo, numerous hospitals stays and has lost her hair 3 times in that period. In June 2012 she started her maintenance block of chemo. This runs on a 4 week cycle of low dose chemo and steriods and it is anticpated that this will continue to December 2013.
Ayesha has managed to return to school and feels like a 'normal' person. She attends zumba classes, art and craft classes brownies and is hoping to be a rock start by learning the violin! She has so far managed 60- 70% school attendance. This is positive, but we never plan more than 3 months ahead and how things will look 12 months from now remains uncertain.
It costs £100 to recruit and add each new donor to the register, so we’ve set ourselves a target of raising £150,000 in support of Anthony Nolan. Through the kindness of family, neighbours, friends and strangers who have heard about Ayesha we achieved out initial target of £150,000 in August 2012. We have now decided to continue with fundraising as:
1. We have yet to find a match since our initial search started in August 2011.
2. The 3000+ sample of potential donors from the Anthony Nolan relevant to Ayesha's background have been type matched - no suitable match was found.
3. There are so many people who wish to continue to fund raise or be given the opportunity to do so.
The charity needs money in order to grow their register and provide more matches, so we’re asking everyone to donate what they can to make lifesaving difference to our family and all the families like ours who are still waiting to find a matching transplant donor.
We have also held a number of donor drives to increase the bone marrow donor registry and will continue to do so right through to 2013.
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Thank you for your kind donation, every penny counts. We really appreciate your support.
A huge thanks to Tom Cromar and Children's Aid for hosting the successful Question of Sport dinner on Thursday May 3rd at the Thistle Hotel in Glasgow which raised £50,000+. Many thanks to the following organisations for their most generous donations: Spifox, Children's Aid and Fraser Ingles.
Recent donors
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Noreen Siddiqui £275.00 (+ £68.75 giftaid) 19.06.13 Thank you to Kirkhill Parent Council for this amazing donation, on behalf of Kirkhill Primary School East Renfrewshire Scotland. |
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Pauline Gentles & the 5K team £150.00 (+ £37.50 giftaid) 03.06.13 Money raised from the North Glasgow 5K. Thank you to all the sponsors. |
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Anonymous £250.00 (+ £62.50 giftaid) 02.06.13 Thinking of you all, Elaine and Alastair H |
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Anonymous £20.00 (+ £5.00 giftaid) 14.05.13 A huge well done to Andrea in the 10k!! Wishing Ayesha and all her family much love and great strength xxxx |
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andrea macdonald £20.00 (+ £5.00 giftaid) 12.05.13 ayesha, hope you get a match very soon. you,re such an amazing girl. lots of love andrea xx |
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Anonymous £10.00 12.05.13 |
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Anonymous £5.00 (+ £1.25 giftaid) 07.05.13 God bless your fundraising efforts |
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Margaret Smillie £250.00 (+ £62.50 giftaid) 17.04.13 With Best Wishes to Ayesha |
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Anonymous £10.00 (+ £2.50 giftaid) 13.04.13 |
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Ruth and Edward C £500.00 27.03.13 With my most sincere thanks to Dr Nadeem Siddiqui for your excellent and compassionate care. We wish every success and good health for you, your family and Ayesha . It means a great deal to us to support this appeal for Ayesha. May she soon be well. |
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Scottish Association for Histotechnology £82.00 23.03.13 In memory of Ambreen Siddiq |
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Rajoo Goutam £115.00 (+ £28.75 giftaid) 18.03.13 Get well soon brave young lady! You are always in our thoughts. |
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Anonymous £250.00 (+ £62.50 giftaid) 28.02.13 Our love to you Ayesha, have a speedy return to health. And to you Nadeem, we owe you more than can be put into words, or money. Alan, Julie and Darcey Young Kelly |
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Anonymous £2.00 28.02.13 |
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Anonymous £10.00 (+ £2.50 giftaid) 14.02.13 |
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Anonymous £10.00 05.02.13 |
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Laura Hewitt £20.00 (+ £5.00 giftaid) 26.01.13 Great to see you are back at school! Hope you find a donor soon x |
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Shiela Laramore £20.00 (+ £5.00 giftaid) 24.01.13 Good luck Ayesha, I'll be keeping my fingers crossed for you. I'm so pleased to hear that you got back to school, you were so much fun to teach in the hospital! |
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Farrukh Kidwai £10.00 17.01.13 Aafa Allahu Annka! May god Bless you Ayesha! |
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Geraldine Ferrie £10.00 (+ £2.50 giftaid) 13.01.13 Keep strong x |
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Anonymous £10.00 (+ £2.50 giftaid) 02.12.12 |
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Reiko Aiura-Vigers £100.00 (+ £25.00 giftaid) 24.11.12 Surprised to find you in this situation. Good luck to your family. We pray for you. |
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Ann-Marie McLaughlin £100.00 (+ £25.00 giftaid) 07.11.12 i would like to thank Dr Siddiqui for all his care for me over the past 5yrs . He is an amazing guy ! i hope my donation helps towards the care his little ANGEL needs . Ayesha is a Brave and Gorgeous little star take care xx |
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Rachel Connor £150.00 (+ £37.50 giftaid) 28.10.12 This is for a special little girl ! |
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The Ahmed family and all at Parklane £4778.53 25.10.12 Wishing Ayesha all the best. |
Running total
- Target:
- £200,000.00
- Total raised incl. Gift Aid:
- £174,364.11
- Total donors:
- 332
- Biggest donor:
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The Ahmed family and all at Parklane
£4,778.53 - Last donor:
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Noreen Siddiqui
19.06.13 - Offline fundraising:
- £124,816.00
