FUNDRAISING news

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BEER FESTIVAL

Every year the Kinross-shire Round Table hold a beer festival to raise money for a charity, and this year it was the BBS! 

After several months of hard work the festival was held in September and there were several BBS staff and volunteers there on the day which was a great success. 

Recently Christine, our Fundraising Officer, was presented with a cheque for £5,000 from the festival.

CASINO GAMBLE PAYS OFF!

Congratulations to Catherine Veness from Maidstone who organised special casino and Frank Sinatra tribute night to raise funds for the BBS.

The event was well suported by local businesses, which donated to the prize draw or made donations to the BBS.

Everyone seemed to enjoy playing at the casino table, the tribute to Frank Sinatra and, of course, that very special cake!

So far we have received £2,500, with more to come in the next few weeks.

It takes a lot of work to organise an event like this, so congratulations to you, Catherine,  and if anyone asks how you were able to do all this work just tell them -

   "I did it my way"

They CAN, You CAN!

Gertie and John Farmery have supported the Brittle Bone Society for many years and remain among our most active and successful fundraisers.

Recently Gertie sent us a letter all about how they raise funds from can collections and we thought we should share some of it with you...

“John and I have recently had some successful collections raising over £1,100 at two 2 day collections at Booths in Preston and Morrison's in Chorley. Now that we have retired we have more time to do these collections but still find great difficulty in getting others to do collections.

We usually start our collections about 9.30 -10.00 and continue till about 5.00pm to 5.30pm depending on how busy the store is at the time. We wear yellow, high visibility jackets and red baseball caps to make us very obvious. We printed Brittle Bone Society on the front and back of the jackets to assist with this.

Some people are particular about the charities they support so it is necessary to immediately be obvious which charity we are collecting for. Some people think we are collecting for the Osteoporosis Society so we briefly explain the difference. We also have some leaflets with us which we give to those enquiring about the society”.

For this year Gertie and John have already arranged no less than 20 can collections, and as Gertie said  there is still "great difficulty in getting others to do collections".

Details of the collections are listed below so if you think you can help with any of them contact Christine at the BBS office, 01382 204446 or chris@brittlebone.org.

Charity Golf Day

Last year Jamie Dennis and his colleagues at Orange, the mobile phone company, organised a Charity Golf Day in aid of the BBS.

This was a resounding success and they have decided to do it again this year, on Monday 26th June at Darlington Golf Club. With more than 30 people taking part Jamie and everyone at the BBS hope it will be another resounding success.

Jump for it!

Catherine Skidmore, the aunt of a new born OI baby, did a tandem parachute jump to raise funds for the BBS.

With training andmre than alittle courage Catherine jumped from 14,000 feet at Hinton Airfield near Brackley in Northamptonshire.

As you can see in the photograph she thoroughly enjoyed the experience and raised money for the Brittle Bone Society.

If you feel just a bit adventurous, and would also like to support the BBS,you can , "Jump for it! if you "JUMP WITH US"