Charities
The Fire Fighters Charity provides vital support services to fire service personnel and their families when they need it most. The Charity’s three specialist centres across the UK offer fire fighters the help they need to recover from injury, surgery or illness, so they can get back to their job of saving lives.
Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Charity works hard to make a difficult time easier for patients at our family of five hospitals. We support continuing excellence n treatment, care and research at: Royal Manchester Children's Hospital Manchester University Dental Hospital Manchester Royal Eye Hospital Manchester Royal Infirmary Saint Mary's Hospital The charity has three main areas of work: to support research projects to improve our understanding of illnesses to help create an environment that's more friendly to provide state-of-the-art equipment for diagnosis and treatment Registered Charity Number 1049274
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Team Lardy Boy
Team Lardy Boy are a group of drinkers with a cycling problem! This year four of them are taking on the Land's End to John O'Groats Cycle Challenge (End2End) and hoping to raise plenty of money for charity in the process. You can follow their progress here.
Setting off on 13th May 2012 Paddy Connaghan, Garry Dutton, Garry Jones and Rick Warbuton will be cycling upto 100 miles a day and have given themselves 2 weeks to complete the trip.
The charities they have chosen to support are very close to their hearts.
Royal Manchester Children's Hospital Charity and
The Firefighter's Charity
In April 2011 Paddy's 10 year old daughter Kitty became suddenly and critically unwell. She spent a week in intensive care and her life was saved by the doctors and nurses at The Royal Manchester Childrens' Hospital. You can see her full story here. A year on, and as a thank you for her amazing recovery, 75% of all monies raised will be going to the Royal Manchester Children's Hospital Charity and will be split 3 ways to support the areas that were so important to Kitty's treatment and recovery.
25% will go to the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) which through it's 17 beds provides care for critically ill children and their families. It is a leading centre in the North West.A wide range of specialist teams- including neurosurgery, oncology, cardiology, respiratory, physiotherapy and pharmacy-work with the multidisciplinary PICU team to deliver paediatric intensive care to children, age 0-16, from across the region.
25% will go to Ward 79 (Gastroenterology) which cares for children and young people who need medical and surgical investigations and treatment for a number of underlying conditions including short gut syndrome, inflammatory bowel disease, intestinal failure,liver disease and malignant tumour surgery. Many of these conditions mean children have to stay in hospital for long periods of time and some of the work of the ward is to equip parents with the skills they need to take their children home.
The final 25% of the money raised will go to the Therepeutic and Specialised Play Department at Royal Manchester Children's Hospital. The team at the hospital do an amazing job at lifting children's spirits and putting a smile on their faces. Laughter really is the best therapy and the team rely heavily on charity donations to support their work.Therapeutic play has an important role in helping a child to adjust to the hospital experience and helping their recovery.
As 3 members of the team are firefighters the final 25% of all monies raised will go to a charity which is close to their hearts. The Fire Fighters Charity exists to help members of the fire and rescue services who put their lives on the line every day to save others, whilst providing support to their families.
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Anonymous £10.00 (+ £2.50 giftaid) 23.07.12 Can I buy a shirt for £50 |
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Gav, Jules + Boys £50.00 (+ £12.50 giftaid) 06.07.12 Fantastic Efforts Mate and a Great Charity. Gav, Jules, George Charlie |
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Brian and Lorraine £20.00 (+ £5.00 giftaid) 27.06.12 Well done - impressed!! |
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Eddie and Lynn £35.00 (+ £8.75 giftaid) 27.06.12 Well done Warbs - I never knew you had it in you! |
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Rob & Claire Woodier £20.00 (+ £5.00 giftaid) 27.06.12 Good work boys |
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Reg £10.00 (+ £2.50 giftaid) 24.06.12 |
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Roy Ellis, John Wilky, Stuart Pemberton £35.00 (+ £8.75 giftaid) 13.06.12 |
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Robbie Stevens £10.00 (+ £2.50 giftaid) 12.06.12 Well done, Lads, especially the drinking bit (ho, ho, ho..)! A seriously great achievement & an inspiration to those who follow. Best wishes for anything you may attempt in the future ;-) |
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Ged £10.00 (+ £2.50 giftaid) 08.06.12 Well done - great effort. |
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Anonymous £50.00 08.06.12 from your Chelsea and Tottenham mates |
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Lol Foster £20.00 (+ £5.00 giftaid) 05.06.12 Well done gents. I knew you could do more than just make toast. |
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Richard Craven £100.00 (+ £25.00 giftaid) 30.05.12 Well done to you and yer mates, Pat. I do a bit of cycling but mine's got an electric motor; much easier. Best wishes to your little girl. |
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Claire Farrow (@kayakingclaire) £10.00 (+ £2.50 giftaid) 29.05.12 Congrats lads, well done!!! |
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tom £10.00 (+ £2.50 giftaid) 29.05.12 |
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Anonymous £25.00 (+ £6.25 giftaid) 29.05.12 |
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Eddie (The Gooner!) from FPS £10.00 (+ £2.50 giftaid) 29.05.12 Hey Pat and Team, a great achievement for a great cause! Many congratulations!! |
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Mum £30.00 (+ £7.50 giftaid) 28.05.12 Patrick, From your Mother. |
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Pete & Cath £25.00 (+ £6.25 giftaid) 28.05.12 Well done to Rick and the boys |
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ASM £101.00 28.05.12 You met the challenge with faith, courage & dedication!! CONGRATULATIONS - well done!! |
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Ian Johnson £20.00 (+ £5.00 giftaid) 28.05.12 well done lardy's |
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Anonymous £50.00 (+ £12.50 giftaid) 28.05.12 |
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Tom Parker £10.00 (+ £2.50 giftaid) 27.05.12 |
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Scott Murphy £5.00 27.05.12 Well done lardy boys |
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Phil Nelson £20.00 (+ £5.00 giftaid) 27.05.12 Gents. Unbelievable effort by you all. Brilliant to see you all back with your families and chilling. One hell of a lie in due tomorrow?!? Well done!!! |
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Anonymous £5.00 (+ £1.25 giftaid) 27.05.12 |
