Thursday 28 May 2015

Macmillan Nurses: Where the donations came from!

You may remember that over the Christmas period, and earlier this year, Paul Denny raised £359.62 for Macmillan Nurses by making homemade pickles and leaving collection boxes at a number of sites, as mentioned in earlier blogs. He since ran the London marathon and raised a further £891.53, thus bringing the total raised to £1,251.15, again blogged about here previously (and don't forget, another £100+ in 'gift aid', so he probably raised over £1400 in total!).  

He took just over 5 hours to complete his 12th marathon; 10 London, 1 New York and the Hastings Marathon in 2008 (only staged every 100 years!). Though not his fastest run in a marathon, taking into account he injured his ankle 2 weeks previous to the race, which prevented him training, and that the same injury reoccurred at the 10 mile mark of the marathon, it was some achievement just to complete the course, so very well done Paul!  
So, where did the extra £891.53 come from? 
  
Well, money raised at John the Cobblers amounted to £110.00, here is Paul presenting John with the certificate from Macmillan Nurses. 


The Dolphin raised a further £62.00. 


The Jenny Lind contributed a further £50.00. 


Together with a little more 'pickle money', the First in Last Out contributed a whopping £669.53 more!  

Debbie McSweeney (1962-2014) R.I.P. 

2 comments:

  1. Hi,
    Just came across your blog tonight. My name is Marie, I am a life long friend of Debbie McSweeney and live in Glasgow. Some friends and I are arranging a fundraiser in Debbie's memory on 14th August 2015. We were going to send the money to cancer research but on reading your blogs may consider the McMillan nurses. Please spread the word and if anyone in Hastings is interested tell them to contact me Marie Callaghan on mariec644@gmail.com
    Thanks
    Marie

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  2. I just realised I never responded on this blog to Marie, who I contacted by email... Anyway, I wrote a blog later referring to Marie and Debbie's friends in Glasgow raising money in honour of Debbie on 20th August 2015, cheers Marie! www.steveonhastings.blogspot.co.uk/2015/08/oh-what-night.html

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