Love on the Transplant List

A couple of days ago, a show was aired on BBC Three called "Love on the Transplant List". This programme follows Kirstie Mills (the girl I previously posted a link to, to her blog), a 21 year old girl who lives with Cystic Fibrosis. Its shows her extraordinary experience of living on the transplant list, the fear and uncertainty, the realities of having constant pain, taking endless medications, relying on oxygen machines 24 hours a day to breathe and doing all of this whilst planning for her wedding. Please try and watch when you have some time, it gives a very slight insite into how it must be living with Cystic Fibrosis and really reiterated the reasons behind our fundraising efforts. Click link below to go to BBC iPlayer. (Available until 5th December)


http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/watch#p00m1v39

Mega Music Quiz Night Total!

Thanks to everyone who came along on Saturday night and supported our Mega Music Quiz Night for the CF Trust. After all costs taken (bar/licence/hall) we raised a total profit of £1300 on the night which is much better than hoped for and so a massive thanks to all who put teams together, bought drinks/raffle tickets, made donations (including the winning team who donated their £100 prize and the winner of the heads/tails game!) and to all supporting companies who donated the great raffle prizes we had on offer!

More details about our next event will be announced soon,

Thanks again

Emily & Family

SOLD OUT! Mega Music Quiz Night

A massive thanks to all the teams who have signed up to take part in our Mega Music Quiz Night this Saturday. We are now closed for registration as we have filled all the team spaces available! 

Because of the huge amount of interest for this event, we will be holding another Mega Music Quiz next year. We are also running a Race Night on the 3rd March 2012. If you would like to register your interest in either of these events, please use the registration page on the right of this blog so I can email you details when more information becomes available!

Thanks again to all and look forward to seeing you on Saturday!

Cystic fibrosis cure under threat from £6m cash crisis

Funds dry up as scientists pinpoint effective treatment for cystic fibrosis - 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/sep/18/cystic-fibrosis-cure-cash-threat

Please help us do as much as possible towards this massively important cause to help save the lives of thousands of babies and children.

THE MEGA MUSIC QUIZ NIGHT

Our next fundraiser, The Mega Music Quiz Night, will be held on the 22nd October 2011 at Pinder Hall, Cookham. The quiz night will have music for all ages and involve music trivia, name that tune, picture and lyric rounds, a prize of £100 for the winning team and much more! We will also be holding a raffle and a good value bar and there will be nibbles for your team table!

The doors will open at 7:30 for the quiz to start promptly at 8:00pm. To register your team, go to the "MEGA MUSIC QUIZ NIGHT REGISTRATION PAGE" on the right of this blog. Spaces are limited so please register your team asap. A team can consist of up to 6 members and there is a £20 entry fee for each team, proceeds of which all goes to the Cystic Fibrosis Trust. Remember, you don't need to decide on team members just yet, so you can register a team and decide on members and numbers at a later date!

The night is hopefully going to be one of our biggest fundraisers yet and if any of you have experienced David's music quizzes before, you know you are going to be in for a treat!

We look forward to seeing you on the 22nd!

Thank you

http://www.lloydstsblondon2012.co.uk/en/carrytheflame/Nomination/?nid=0363e5d1-4650-41d3-88e2-b2389cbb5ce1

I would like to give a massive thank you to Harriet Jamieson, Kirsty's cousin, who has kindly nominated me as a torch bearer for the 2012 London Olympics for my charity work for the Cystic Fibrosis Trust. It really means a lot to me to have such kind words said and I hope that this can help with gaining the much needed recognition for the charity.

£300 from our Charity Car Wash!

Thanks to everyone who came along to our Charity Car Wash on Saturday, where we managed to raise a whopping £300 in the 4 hours of washing. Comments were made on the quality of cleaning we did (one guy even went home to get his other car!) and suprisingly we were even trusted with cleaning a beautiful Aston  :)

The weather turned out really well after the torrential downpours on Friday, hopefully the guilt trip from Lucy and Joe stood redirecting traffic from Tesco car park doesn't turn against us at the next one!

Sounds like everyone had a really good day and hopefully will be running another in the upcoming months, more info to come...

Introduction to my Peruvian Andes Trek 2012

Please click on the image for a bigger view!

Charity Car Wash, Bristol

Kirstie's Road to Transplant Blog

I urge you to take a few minutes to read through this young ladies blog. She is 21 years old and living with CF. This blog gives you a glimpse from a first persons view of living with CF and her desperate struggle to find a lung transplant that will save her life. Please take time to look at the various pages including her "New Lung Task List" which I hope will make you realise some of the things you may sometimes take for granted.

http://kirstie-2ndchanceatlife.blogspot.com/

Bishops Cleeve Street Fair

Yesterday was the 2011 Bishops Cleeve Street Fair, just north of Cheltenham. The Street fair ran between 12 and 4pm with stalls, dance groups, music performances, parachute jumps, vehicle displays and a spitfire flyby all taking part to help raise money for both the community and 6 charities, one of which was the Cystic Fibrosis Trust.

Each of the charities had a stall, which I decided we would run the Throw-A-Lightbulb game and also have a stand for information and awareness about CF and the Trust.

We had a really busy day right from the start, with constant queues and crowds around our game, and many comments about how great the game was, and even a few asking if they could have permission to make a copy! Within the 4 hours we raised £160 on the game towards my £4000 target and hopefully find out shortly how much will be donated to the Trust from the profits of the Street Fair. A cheque presentation will be happening in September this year.

Thanks to all who came and took part and to Mars and ShakeAway for some of the donated prizes.

Winnersh Fete 2011

Saturday 18th June 2011 we set up our pitch at the fourth year of Winnersh Fete, with fingers crossed the weather was going to hold out. Big black clouds loomed overhead and within 5 minutes of putting the gazebo up, the heavens opened and the expectations of raising money for the charity quickly fell. But as quickly as it had started, the weather cleared and bright sunshine and blue skies were on for the start of the fete!

The throw-a-lightbulb game again proved itself as a great fundraiser, with constant queues and battles between youngsters to win prizes including a skateboard, football, chocolates and milkshakes, with the top score of the day reaching 312, one of the highest scores in quite a few years! The Silent Auction was a slow starter, but once the afternoon went on, the bids came in and between the game and auction (which were only running for 3 1/2 hours) we managed to raise a whopping £400 towards the CF Trust!

The Winnersh Fete was definitely a fete we will return to next year, a great day for the family and a great fundraiser for all the charities that attended - 40 charities and local voluntary groups who provided a really enjoyable afternoon for all.

2011 Fundraising Events so far

So far in 2011, we have run 2 fundraising events, kicking off with our annual Treasure Hunt organised by David and Vanessa (my mum and dad).

This years treasure hunt took place in Marlow, Buckinghamshire, where 15 teams turned up to take on cryptic clues, scavenger hunting and photo finding, ending at the Ship pub. Each team donated £20 to the trust to take part and many helped by buying raffle tickets and pizza's at the pub, who kindly donated £2 per pizza to our cause. This family day managed to raise us £500 towards our target and really started off the year with a bang!

At the Marlow Regatta, 11-12th June 2011, we ran our locally famous "throw-a-lightbulb" game and a Silent Auction with prizes donated by:

• Shakeaway
• Choco-Latte, Marlow
• Legoland
• Ministry of Paintball
• The Waterside Inn, Bray
• Midwich
• The Vanilla Pod, Marlow
• Grove Riding School, Wycombe
• The Marlow Brewery
• Gear4

Together this managed to raise £400 towards our £4000 target, despite the rain on the Sunday which meant the turn out wasn't good! Thanks to all of you who bid for items and played our game!

This weekend, 18th June, we will be running another Silent Auction and "throw-a-lightbulb" game at the Winnersh Fete, Bearwood Recreational Ground, Winnersh. This will include prizes donated by:

• John Nike Leisure Centre, Bracknell
• Mars
• Ministry Of Paintball
• Billingbear Park Golf Course
• Legoland
• Shakeaway

Fingers crossed the weather holds out and we can raise another few hundred towards the total.

Please visit www.virginmoneygiving.com/EmilyShimellforCF to help support the cause.


Thanks


Emily

Welcome to my Fundraising Blog!

Hi all

I have decided to start keeping a blog of my fundraising activities after being asked by quite a few people about what I was getting involved with and the events that we are running for the CF Trust.

For those of you who do not know about my fundraising and challenges, I will give you an introduction here :)

I have been fundraising for the CF Trust now for around 18 months, since my oldest friend Kirsty was admitted to hospital in November 2009 after taking a turn for the worse from CF. In March 2010, our beautiful friend could not fight any longer with this cruel disease and passed away at the young age of 21.

Since then, I have been fundraising alongside a number of other friends and family members to raise money in Kirsty's memory for the CF Trust.

In September 2010, I trekked Mount Kilimanjaro in Africa to Uhuru Peak, the highest free standing mountain in the world. Through sponsorship for my challenge and through other events, we managed to raise almost £7000 for the charity.

In April 2012, I am taking on another challenge where I will be trekking the remote Lares region in the Peruvian Andes, to 4,600m altitude, 8-9 hours a day for 6 days with the aim of raising another £4000 for the CF Trust. This year, we will be running numerous events and fundraising activities to help raise these much needed funds for the charity.

I will aim to keep this blog up-to-date with fundraising activities, events, CF Trust information and our progress. Please visit my donation page to help support the trust. www.virginmoneygiving.com/EmilyShimellForCF

Many thanks

Emily