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Starlight - Starlight grants magical wishes to seriously and terminally ill children who are afraid and in pain, and is the only charity providing entertainment, fun and laughter to half a million children in every hospital and hospice throughout the UK.
Starlight
Starlight grants magical wishes to seriously and terminally ill children who are afraid and in pain, and is the only charity providing entertainment, fun and laughter to half a million children in every hospital and hospice throughout the UK.

Event details

12 May 2010

We are taking part in in a Sailing Regatta in Portsmouth to raise money towards a Starlight Fun Centre.



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Starlight Portsmouth Regatta - 12th May 2010

Fundraisers: 
Farzim Nazari

My page: http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/team/MLC

Hi and thank you for visiting our fundraising page.  

Myself (Farzim Nazari), Paul Garratt, Brad Kelly, Michael Curry, Gary Samson, Michael Clayton, Nick Bonham and Iain MacDonald Smith MBE are team MLC.

Our challenge is to sail a 37ft Jeaneau Yacht in a race in Portsmouth on 12th May 2010.  We will have a day to train and then race amongst seasoned sailors, including teams from the royal navy and our armed forces, as complete novices (apart from our secret weapon in Iain, who won gold in the 1968 Olymipic's and Nick) .   

The odds are stacked against us and its a challenge to race as novices (not to mention the probability of the best of British weather on the day to help us along!).   However, if you would be kind enough to make a donation today you can help spear us on and make a real difference for a seriously ill child and their family through more challenging times by supporting the Starlight Children's Foundation. 

Starlight's aim is to brighten the lives of seriously and terminally ill children in order to take their minds off the pain, fear and isolation of their illness. We would like to raise enough money towards a Starlight Fun Centre.

A Starlight Fun Centre is a specially designed mobile entertainment unit incorporating a TV monitor, a combi video/DVD player and a Nintendo GameCube™ – or as Joanna Greensmith, mother of 9 year old Joshua who suffers from a congenital heart disease, puts it: “the most effective post operative relief available, bringing more smiles and drying more eyes than any medicine on offer”.
Starlight Fun Centres can be used in many different ways. Children on the ward can all sit together and watch a film, breaking the ‘first day at school’ atmosphere and encouraging the children to make friends. Alternatively, the Starlight Fun Centre can be wheeled right up to an ill child’s bed in intensive care, providing entertainment whilst isolated from others.
Starlight Fun Centres are also used as a crucial part of a child's treatment. They can be used to help calm children down prior to an important operation and to distract them as they fall asleep after their pre-med injections. Children who have access to a Starlight Fun Centre whilst undergoing treatment are often so absorbed playing their Nintendo game that they are unaware of the treatment being administered to them.
Starlight aims to put a Starlight Fun Centre, which costs £3,000 to sponsor, on every children’s wards and in every hospice across the UK. So far over 919 Starlight Fun Centres have been distributed from Aberdeen to Abergevenny, Glasgow to Guernsey, Hull to Haverford West, Birmingham to Belfast, providing entertainment for children in hospitals and hospices across the United Kingdom.
Starlight is hugely grateful to Nintendo UK for its support of the Starlight Fun Centre programme since it started. Nintendo, not only provide GameCubes™ and games for every Starlight Fun Centre, but it also provides support all year round looking after and servicing the Starlight Fun Centres in hospitals and hospices throughout the UK. For more information about Nintendo, please click here.
Requesting a Starlight Fun Centre. If you would like to apply for a Starlight Fun Centre for the children at your hospital or hospice, please send a written request (name, contact details, position, hospital/surgery/hospice name) to Starlight Children's Foundation, Macmillan House, Paddington Station, London W2 1HD or email hospitals@starlight.org.uk.
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A Starlight Fun Centre is a specially designed mobile entertainment unit incorporating a TV monitor, a combi video/DVD player and a Nintendo GameCube™ – or as Joanna Greensmith, mother of 9 year old Joshua who suffers from a congenital heart disease, puts it: “the most effective post operative relief available, bringing more smiles and drying more eyes than any medicine on offer”.
Starlight Fun Centres can be used in many different ways. Children on the ward can all sit together and watch a film, breaking the ‘first day at school’ atmosphere and encouraging the children to make friends. Alternatively, the Starlight Fun Centre can be wheeled right up to an ill child’s bed in intensive care, providing entertainment whilst isolated from others.
Starlight Fun Centres are also used as a crucial part of a child's treatment. They can be used to help calm children down prior to an important operation and to distract them as they fall asleep after their pre-med injections. Children who have access to a Starlight Fun Centre whilst undergoing treatment are often so absorbed playing their Nintendo game that they are unaware of the treatment being administered to them.
Starlight aims to put a Starlight Fun Centre, which costs £3,000 to sponsor, on every children’s wards and in every hospice across the UK. So far over 919 Starlight Fun Centres have been distributed from Aberdeen to Abergevenny, Glasgow to Guernsey, Hull to Haverford West, Birmingham to Belfast, providing entertainment for children in hospitals and hospices across the United Kingdom.

A Starlight Fun Centre is a specially designed mobile entertainment unit incorporating a TV, Video/DVD player and a Nintendo Wii. They are used by children on the ward who can all sit together and watch a film or they can be wheeled right up to an ill child’s bed in intensive care, providing entertainment whilst isolated from others.  They are also used as a crucial part of a child's treatment. They can be used to help calm children down prior to an important operation and to distract them as they fall asleep after their pre-med injections. Children who have access to a Starlight Fun Centre whilst undergoing treatment are often so absorbed playing their Nintendo game that they are unaware of the treatment being administered to them.


Starlight aims to put a Starlight Fun Centre, which costs £3,000 to sponsor, on every children’s wards and in every hospice across the UK. So far over 919 Starlight Fun Centres have been distributed from Aberdeen to Abergevenny, Glasgow to Guernsey, Hull to Haverford West, Birmingham to Belfast, providing entertainment for children in hospitals and hospices across the United Kingdom.

You can help us by donating now trough Virgin Money Giving.  The whole process will take less than 5 minutes and every penny you sponsor us for will go towards Starlight Fun centre and be quickly processed and passed to the charity.   What's more is that Virgin Money Giving is a not for profit organisation and will claim gift aid on a charity's behalf where the donor is eligible for this.

We would like to take this opportunity to thank you for reading this page, your support and for any donation you make.

The M-L-C Crew

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Recent donors

10.06.10

28.05.10 Well done - and just behind the Navy as well.. born sailors!

27.05.10 I thought Brad worked the Hardest by far whilst on the boat, and definitely had the most responsible job. Without his folding skills we would not have won that superb trophy that Farz will now display in his bay window.

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16.05.10 well done love the besters xxx

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13.05.10 Well done team !

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10.05.10 Boys you must me bonkers!! Best of luck to you, good on ya Gary, love the Taylors xxxx

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07.05.10 Good Luck, its for a GREAT cause... All the best from all at CBW Limited

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05.05.10 Good luck

05.05.10 Good Luck Gary and Crew, Have a great day out Jan Samson and Brian

30.04.10 Good Luck

30.04.10 Good Luck and Enjoy the day!

30.04.10 Good Luck to Gary and Co, have a great day.

28.04.10 Good Luck Farz

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27.04.10 Good luck

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27.04.10 Good Luck!

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27.04.10 Best of luck

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27.04.10 All the best, hope you enjoy the race

27.04.10 Good luck Farz.

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26.04.10 For a good cause

26.04.10 All the best guys, good on you!

26.04.10

24.04.10 Well done Farz.

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22.04.10 Good luck Farz!

22.04.10 good luck lads,who's gonna be steering?

22.04.10 good luck Brad

09.04.10 Good Luck

09.04.10 Good Luck, Phil & all the staff at ALP Scaffolding.

07.04.10 good luck gary

02.04.10 Sail on Captain Pugwash!

26.03.10 Good Luck Gazza

24.03.10

24.03.10 Hope it's not an omen that you're doing it in Portsmouth, as the football club is definitely a sinking ship!

23.03.10 Go for it sailors!

23.03.10 Good Luck, I think you might need it with Gary on board.

£4,467.00

Running total

Target:
£3,000.00
Total raised incl. Gift Aid:
£4,729.27
Total donors:
55
Biggest donor:
CMC Markets Plc
£1,420.00  
Last donor:
Anonymous 10.06.10  
Offline fundraising:
£1,717.00
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