Samantha Hughes is nearly three years old and in October 2005 was dianosed with stage IV Neuroblastoma. Samantha has her own site and has become a bit of a celebrity in recent weeks! Her
Dad contacted us a few days after her diagnosis and told us that our site and others by parents suffering from this dreadful disease had inspired him to start a site for Samantha. Dad, Neil also
said that he and his family wanted to join us in raising awareness about Neuroblastoma and to help us in our quest to fundraise to raise funds to research into new treatments and hopefully one day a cure for this aggressive childhood cancer.
This page is to show how their fundraising is going and to let them know the support they are receiving from people all around the world that have been so touched by their story.
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Fundraisers and Donators
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Samantha's Grandad and his work colleagues collected an amazing £744 and they are still fundraising! Well done to you all!
UPDATE: 4th Feb 2006: We have received a further £110 from Samantha's Grandad from the sale of wristbands and he is still raising more money!
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Aunty Lynsey has sent us £135 that she has collected so far by holding a name the Teddy competition and 'How Many Beads In The Jar' competition at her place of work Ernest Jones the Jewellers. Aunty Lynsey also sold wristbands and is intending to sell the next lot at her 'Mother and Toddler' group.
Well done Aunty Lynsey!
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UPDATE: 12th April 2006: Neil's place of work Counter Solutions have raised an amazing £1,900. Fantastic!
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Apart from Samantha's lovely families fundraising we are also receiving a steady stream of wristband and badge orders, donations via PayPal including one from Sallie Conway. We also had a cheque and a lovely letter from
Jane Hawkridge who's department at the hospital where Samantha is being treated collected the money they saved by not sending Christmas cards this year.
UPDATE: 13th March 2006: So far through the link to the wristband page from Samantha's News page on her site we have sent out, 342 adult wristbands, 100 kids wristbands and 43 badges! We have have collected over £613 through this
as well as receiving via donations through PayPal and Give Now a further £165! We have also been put in touch with some lovely people including families with children suffering from Neuroblastoma.
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UPDATE: 4th Feb 2006: Samantha's nursey school Heanor Pre-school and Louis's school Corfield Infants, have also been busy fundraising they have raised more than £300! To read the full story read the article in the Evening telegraph, HERE.
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UPDATE: 25th May 2006: Samantha has also launched her own website with Just Giving and so far she has raised £1,489.10! Also Brendan a close family friend of the Hughes family very bravely ran the Flora London Marathon on the 23rd of April, he also has set up a Just Giving site and he has
raised £986 through this site! For more info about Brendan see below.
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UPDATE: 13th March 2006: Samantha's press interviews have raised £750! What a little star she is!
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The Harrington Arms Pub in Thulston, Derby have been doing a fanatastic job selling wristbands. They have also organised a Christmas raffle to raise yet more funds. If you're in Derby, why not give them a visit. The Staff are very welcoming, the food is delicious and the portions are huge, I'm told their steak and Ale pie is especially good!
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Data Systems & Solutions in Derby chose us as their charity of the year for 2006/2007 they did this in honour of Samantha's brave battle against Neuroblastoma. They raised an amazing £1,592.50 from their Christmas party, raffles and selling wristbands and badges.
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The Flora London Marathon, St George's Day
Brendan Devlin has run the Flora London Marathon for Georgie's Fund in 2006 and 2007. We are so proud of him! He has raised lots of money for Georgie's Fund.
Georgie's Fund has teamed up with justgiving.com so all our runners & events participants can raise money quickly and easily online with their own personalised webpages.
Friends and family will be able to donate online with a credit or debit card - so no more running around with paper sponsorship forms, or chasing cheques and cash after your event. To set up your page today visit:
http://www.justgiving.com/georgies-fund/raisemoney or call 0800 028 6183 for more details.
We have been totally overwhelmed by the generosity of everyone.
On behalf of the trustees of Georgie's Fund
