Fundraising in the South, South West and South Wales
To support DebRA in this area please contact Ruth McBain on 07884 078504.
Can you help, please?
Collection boxes across the country can raise many thousands of pounds for DebRA. Do you know of a local shop, pub or club that would have one of our boxes? If so, perhaps you could let me know and we can arrange for one to be put in the post - and perhaps you'd be kind enough to look after it for us. Payroll Giving is a wonderfully easy way to support DebRA. Regular donations can be taken from your pay before tax thereby enabling your donation to cost you less - it's almost magic! Please contact me if you'd like to know more about giving this way.
Like a Challenge? Please ask for information about our full programme of outdoor events.
If golf is "your bag", please let me know if you'd like to receive details of DebRA's Golf Days.
Thanks...
It would be impossible to thank everyone here but these are some supporters who have helped recently. If your name is not here, please don't think we have forgotten you - you are just as important to us and I hope you know just how much we appreciate your support.
Windsor Forest Unicorn Club
Members of this club are very old friends of DebRA and have given a great deal of support over the years. This year they donated the magnificent donation of £4,000 - just one of the many presentations they made after their highly successful Wokingham Fireworks Display. Thank you so much for your most generous gift and for keeping DebRA in your thoughts.
Shiplake College and Christian Gilder
Christian found out about DebRA from his grandmother, who had supported the charity with her Inner Wheel Club and decided he wanted to help too. Shiplake College hold a sponsored walk and he nominated DebRA for support - he was successful in his proposal and we were thrilled to receive the tremendous donation of £2,289. Thank you Christian - and thank you to Shiplake College for your fantastic support.
Billingshurst Rotary Club
Many thanks for your generous donation of £275.
Lorraine Drake and Vie Portland
A very enjoyable Tea Party was held and they raised an impressive £335. Thank you Lorraine and Vie and everyone who helped to make this gift possible.
Rotary Club of Whiteley
Thank you for your big-hearted donation of £750 - we are extremely grateful for your support. This club is also working with our Fareham shop by selling any books they can't and for recycling chipped china on their china smashing stall at shows and fetes!
Boscombe and Southbourne Rotary Club
Thank you for your most generous gift of £500.
Wimborne Lions Club
Many thanks for your donation of £100 - we're really grateful for your help.
Woodspring Ladies Probus Club
Another wonderful club whose members keep DebRA in their thoughts - thank you so much for your ongoing support.
Dawlish Rotary Club
We were thrilled to receive a cheque for the magnificent sum of £1,250 from the members of this club who have also given us a large donation before now.
Ferndown Inner Wheel Club
Who'd have thought that Ferret Racing could be so lucrative? Thank you so much for donating part of the proceeds to DebRA!
Tryphena Campkin and the Inner Wheels Clubs of District 20
An amazing £3,000 was donated when Tryphena chose DebRA as her charity during her Chairmanship - thank you to you all for this superb contribution to our work.
Sallyanne Steatham and the ladies of Inner Wheel District 9
We were thrilled to have the support of a second District and Sallyanne motivated her clubs to raise an outstanding £5,000. Thank you all for your commitment to DebRA.
Rotary Club of Reading Erlegh
Thank you all for your generous donation of £250. It was a pleasure to meet you all when you invited me to your meeting.
The Office for National Statistics
We are very grateful to all the members of staff who continue to support DebRA. There is a thriving line dancing club that meets one lunchtime each week and they donate their session fees to DebRA and last Summer, the ONS Family Fun Day donated a wonderful £570 to us. Here is a pic of the dancers' demonstration dance.
The Hollybush Tavern Village Club, Surrey
By holding their annual Memorial Cricket Match in memory of baby Mia, who was born with severe EB and lived for just 25 days, they raised a tremendous £632.74. Thank you to all who took part and to Mia's mum, Sonia, for encouraging everyone to support DebRA.
Claire Stanbridge, Nina Couchman and Sue Cowburn
Three intrepid ladies who cycled from London to Paris and raised a huge £3650. Just cycling around the Arc de Triomphe would have been enough for me! Thank you all for your superb efforts.
Jayne Holmes and her fantastic friends
Jayne lives near St Austell in Cornwall and is a wonderful ambassador for DebRA - and she constantly amazes us by just how much she can raise. If you'd like to challenge her fundraising you'd need to exceed £1432.80 by baking and selling cakes and £1517.78 from a Coffee Morning! She and her friends have raised an incredible ££20,311.25 since she first began helping us - and her inspiration is her brother-in-law who lives with EB. Words alone can't say how grateful we are - thank you.
Wessex Kit Car Club
Nick's Charity Run raised a wonderful £440 and we're incredibly grateful to all the members who took part in their kit cars and to everyone who sponsored them.
Ysgol Gynradd Gymraeg Garth Olwg
£223.16 was raised when the pupils took part in a Dress Down Day earlier this year.
Rotary Club of Swindon Old Town
We are so very grateful to the members of this club - and especially to Stuart for choosing to support DebRA as one of the charities during his Presidential year. The fantastic donation of £1,500 was presented to Heather and Wendy Skerry who accepted it on DebRA's behalf - thank you all.
Frimley and Ascot Locomotive Club
The members of this club keep DebRA in their thoughts and we thank them for their recent gifts. 2011 is their anniversary year so why not go along to support them at Frimley Lodge Park in Surrey?
Bournemouth & Poole College
Raised a magnificent £516.29 with a sponsored walk.
Hamworthy Labour Club
Our heartfelt thanks go to Debra Giles and the members of this club for taking DebRA as their charity of the year and for raising a truly wonderful £4,243.64.
Andrea Knowles and her Dance Academy
Thank you so much for your loyal and enthusiastic support - we are enormously grateful for all the events you hold to raise funds for us.
The Blandford School in Dorset
We are grateful to the staff, students and parents who supported the school's Mufti Day in aid of DebRA which raised a wonderful £372.54. Thank you all so much.
Butterfly Bash
Alyson Hammond Forge and Rachel Thomas organised a fantastic night in Poole and raised an incredible £928.45. Thank you so much - and I hope it wasn't as cruel as the name suggests!
Lauren Trent
For fundraising at Clayesmore School - you're doing a fantastic job! Thank you so much.
Nadia Flint's Dance Studio - Zumba Evening
It's not often that an event makes money as well as creating a loss but this one did - a great £275 was made for DebRA and I imagine a few pounds were lost as a result of the energetic event. Thank you all.
Caroline Stanzel
Caroline is one of Mason White's carers so she knew which charity would best benefit from her running so she raised a brilliant £277.75 for DebRA by taking part in the Bath Half Marathon earlier this year. Thanks, Caroline - you're one fit lady!
Candice Moxey
Thank you, Candice, for holding a Dance Evening which raised a fabulous £461.76.
Christina Moyse
Climbing Mount Snowdon or raising funds for DebRA? Both challenging, both appreciated - thank you Christina
Kelly Williams and Kellie Cash
These two remarkable ladies organised Bournemouth's Got Talent in October to raise funds for DebRA. The show was sponsored by Rubyz and Eden Hair & Beauty and was compered by Lady James and featured many local talented acts, including Dame Kitty. DebRA's own shop manager, Chrissie Dean, performed the finale with her Shirley Bassey tribute act. Thank you to everyone who worked so hard to make this a truly amazing event.
Karly & Georgina Britton
Thank you for all your fundraising at Poole High School.
Gerry Roberts
Gerry doesn't allow anyone to leave his office without popping a donation into the DebRA collection tin - and sometimes those donations are very big. Thank you Gerry - and thank you to your clients too!
Amy Dawson & Friends
Who walked an amazing 26 miles from Lymington to Bournemouth and raised an extraordinary amount of around £1,000. Thank you so much, ladies!
Alyson Hammond Forge and her lovely daughters, Liberty, Atlanta and Brooke
Who work so hard to raise funds for us - thank you all so much.