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The Queen Elizabeth Hospital King’s Lynn Charitable Fund                              Registered Charity No. 1051327
 

Fundraising news

Here you will see details of just some of the fundraising activities and events that are and have taken place in our community in the past 6 months. We are extremely grateful to our fundraisers and donors who support our patients, young and old, in so many different ways.

December 2013

The Cooper family presenting their chequeYoung Archie Ramshaw is a regular guest on Rudham ward, where he receives blood transfusions for Congenital Sidenroblastic Anaemia. He's also a VIP, and last December switched on the QEH Christmas lights.

As a 'thank you' to the ward for his treatment, Archie's family and friends, known as the Rudham Runners, raised £6,500 from a sponsored half-marathon in London.

November 2013

The Cooper family presenting their chequeWhen little Katie Cooper was born prematurely, parents Richard and Denise were very grateful for the good care she received from the NICU - Neonatal Intensive Care Unit team. So by way of a 'thank you' they set about fundraising…and they haven't stopped.

They were significant contributors to our Transport Incubator appeal. Then in October they were here to present a cheque for £700, raised from raffles held at Gressenhall Social Club, near their home. They are pictured here with Katie, aged six, and Neonatal Sister Sharon Riches.

Since then they have added an additional £88 from a further raffle.

October 2013

Mr and Mrs Fisher presenting their cheque to Denise CaseleyLindsey and Raymond Fisher gave our Healthy Hearts campaign a very generous donation of £580. They decided to support the campaign as a thank you for the care given to Mr Fisher following a stroke in March. He has made a very good recovery.

The couple had a ruby wedding anniversary party in Downham Market Town Hall on 3 August and asked for donations instead of gifts. Guests helped them celebrate their 40 years together with a hog roast. Denise Caseley, cardiographer, received their cheque.

September 2013

Footballers at Carrow RoadIt was a day he feared he might never see but after battling with a chronic chest condition, Bob Pridmore, was finally able to say "thank you" to the nursing team who looked after him at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital.

Bob, of Gloucester Road, King's Lynn, was taken ill last December and was on Oxborough ward, the QEH respiratory unit, until March. With friends at Hunstanton United Services Club he raised £1,250 through bingo, raffles and other charity events, which will go to Oxborough ward's equipment fund (£1,000) and the specialist COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease) community nursing team, based at the hospital.

He said: "I wanted to come back to say 'hello' to old friends on the ward and in particular to thank my girls – the nurses who looked after me."

Oxborough ward manager, Sister Trish Ralph, said: "Bob astonished us all by making such a good recovery. He really was very poorly when he came in. His recovery was due to a combination of his determination to get better – plus good nursing and medical care."

July 2013

Footballers at Carrow RoadMums and dads of newborn babies, plus our 'guests' on Rudham ward were very much in the thoughts of keen footballers from across West Norfolk during a charity football match at Carrow Road.

The event was a one-day tournament at the Norwich City ground, hosted by Smithdon Football Club from Hunstanton in playoffs against teams from Heacham FC and West Winch FC.

All the players taking part paid a fee towards hire of the stadium for the day, then obtained sponsorship for the event, raising more than £5000 in total for two QEH charitable funds.

The money is going towards additional refurbishment of the Family Bereavement Room on the Central Delivery Suite, and towards a new Hygiene trolley for Rudham ward.

The charity matches – a repeat of a similar event last year – were held in memory of former Smithdon FC club manager, secretary and treasurer Duncan Gooderson, who sadly died while competing in the King's Lynn 10km GEAR challenge in 2006.

Current secretary of Smithdon FC, John Meyer, said: "The money we raised last year went to a national charity and we didn't really see the benefit of it locally. This year we decided we wanted to do something where we could hand over the money to someone and where we could see it was going to a good cause. As we're very much a family club we decided to raise money to help children locally.

"The day at Carrow Road was hard work. It was non-stop football."

June 2013

Mr and Mrs SealeyFreemason Roy Sealey, who is immediate Past Master of the Martin Folkes Lodge in Hunstanton, took advantage of his recent year in office to say a special 'thank you' to our breast care team.

Roy's wife was successfully treated for breast cancer at the QEH some years ago and he has never forgotten the expert care she received. During his year in office, with QEH Breast Care as one of his chosen charities, he and fellow masons raised more than £2,000 for the QEH.

As his final donation on behalf of the Lodge, he was here recently to hand over a cheque for £1683 to breast care specialist nurse Angela Holford.

May 2013

Tesco staff with rock band BewilderedTesco staff dressed as rock stars, with local rock band, Bewildered and played at the Hardwick store entertaining the customers. The event raised £662 towards the cost of an electronic pump. Pumps are used daily to administer chemotherapy in the enhanced Chemotherapy Suite of the Macmillan Care and Treatment Centre.

April 2013

A daughter is so thankful for the outstanding care her mum received at the QEH that she is celebrating in style – by running the Virgin London Marathon to raise funds for our Breast Care team.

Margaret and JoanneMargaret Hurst, from Long Sutton, discovered a lump in her breast in October 2011, was diagnosed with cancer the following month and had an operation to remove eleven lymph nodes in the December. In January last year she had chemotherapy – and by her 65th birthday last July, she had recovered sufficiently to take part in the Cambridge ‘Race for Life’.

Her daughter Joanne Randall, who lives in Essex, said: "I've always known Mum to be a strong person. But seeing what she has endured over the past 16 months has proved to me just how brave she is and I am extremely proud of how she has handled this whole experience.

"I know that this has been made all the more bearable by the endless support, care and kindness that we have both been shown by all the staff at the Breast Care Unit."

Joanne plans to raise £1,000 for the Breast Care nurses and the Breast Cancer Unit Development fund. She said: "This is one way that I can show how grateful we are to all of the staff for what they have done for us.

"Marathon training can be tough and tiring but it is nothing compared to what cancer patients have to endure – and this thought is enough to keep me motivated until I reach the finish line!"

March 2013

Darren and SamA member of the community, Darren Hooker, is running 26.2 miles for the Trust on Sunday 21 April. His Justgiving pages explains why he decided to put himself through this challenge: for his son, Sam, and wife, Mandy. Darren is raising £500 for our Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) and Central Delivery Suite (CDS) - www.justgiving.com/Darren-Hooker1.

February 2013

When Richard Ebbs left the Royal Artillery in 1992 he opted for a new career as an Outward Bound instructor. But climbing rocks didn't pay sufficiently so he turned his skills to climbing trees, and started his own business as a tree surgeon. For most of us, an active outdoor life in all weathers might encourage us to think of putting our feet up in front of the fire during the evening. Not so Richard. For this remarkable man, who is constantly on-the-go and never has time to sit still, has just competed on behalf of the Trust in a 50-mile cross country run across the Yorkshire moors and along the coast.

As if that isn't enough, he is now in training for an 'Iron Man' event and what he sees as this year's ultimate challenge for distance runners: qualifying for a 100-mile run around Mont Blanc.

Richard EbbsRichard (42) only took up serious running in 2011, although he had competed in Army cross-country runs and motorbike races. He has now notched up a number of running challenge successes, including the Original Mountain Marathon in the Lake District and recently undertook the Yorkshire Ultra in Whitby, raising funds for our Healthy Hearts campaign.

‘Ultra’ events test runners to the absolute limit. They are very long distance endurance runs across country in all weathers, using your map-reading and navigational skills to follow a course on which there may be no other runners in sight, so…no one to follow. Each Ultra can take around 16 hours of non-stop running to complete in hail, snow, rain, gales – whatever our weather can throw at you. So why does he do it? What's so wrong with being a couch potato? He grins as he says: "No… I couldn't do that. I rarely sit still – although I don't let training rule my life. I usually run around 30 to 40 miles a week. When I'm not running I'm often cycling. I don't know why I do it. I have always been active, so I don't think it's anything to do with mid-life crisis.

"My father died young so while I'm fit and able to do it, I intend to use my body as much as I can. Distance running is a challenge. You have to be in the right frame of mind if you want to succeed at anything in life.

"I'm just pleased I can raise money for Healthy Hearts. I think it's exactly the right sort of charity for a runner to support."