Thank you to all those that came along and supported us on our Soft Toy Tombola Stalls.
We attended Walton on the Hill on 21st May and Ashtead Village Day on 11th June.
We met some lovely people and of course had fun whilst raising money!
A whooping £546 raised over both events.
On 9th April Ellen and Betty took part in the Windsor 50km ultra marathon, consisting of walking, jogging and running to the finish line.
They completed it in 9hours7mins and have smashed their original £500 target and raised £1,331 for Emmas Bubble Trust.
It was a fantastic event and organised through Action Challenge. For anyone interested in setting themselves a 2022 challenge for Emma’s Bubble Trust take a look at their website for more : https://www.actionchallenge.com
Well what a star!
Alison completed the London Marathon in 5 hours 17 minutes and has raised £3244.89
An amazing achievement, especially by the girl that only took up running at the start of “Lockdownâ€!
We are so proud of you Alison and know that our bestie Caroline would be too!
If you haven’t sponsored Alison yet and would like to, its not too late. Go to the justgiving page of Alison Cutts.
Thank you to everyone that has donated and enabled Alison to reach such a fantastic amount. Every penny is very much appreciated and will go to supporting and providing a comfortable place to stay in our EBT flat so that families can be together when far from home during such a difficult time.
Keep up the running Alison, you are an inspiration to us all!
Hi my name is Alison and I’m privileged to be to running The London Marathon this October, for Emma’s Bubble Trust 💕
I am running in honour and memory of my gorgeous friend Caroline Welford, who passed away last year 💜
I am not a runner and have a love/hate relationship with it! But, I am determined to do this and make Caroline and Emma’s Bubble proud.
Training is going well I had a 13 mile run this week and I survived!
I would love it if you could sponsor me and help smash my fund-raising target. Anyone that does, can choose to add a song to my Marathon Playlist, whatever you fancy, to help me along on the big day.
This is my link, so don’t forget to leave your song choice in a message:)
Thank you in advance. Have a great day. Love Alison x
http://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/Alison-Cutts69
Many thanks to everyone that took part in this years Virtual Easter Raffle. For transparency, we decided to draw the numbers and record it! Find out the results by watching the draw here.
Winning numbers and names were as follows:
Congratulations to all of you. Lynn will be in touch.
We have had an amazing response to our Virtual Christmas Raffle…so much so that we sold out the tickets in 2.5 days! We couldn’t believe the response, so firstly…THANK YOU…and secondly as it’s been so popular this time round we’re going to run another one at Easter.
Stay tuned as numbers for the raffle will be drawn on December 12th.
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Hopefully Lockdown 2 hasn’t been too bad for you so far.
With fundraising being at an all time low this year, we hope that you will support us by taking part in our first virtual Christmas Raffle. We have numbers 1-100 selling for £10 each. Already taken raffle numbers can be seen below:
There are some great prizes to be won, including a bottle of whiskey signed by Boris himself! Afternoon tea for 2 in Cobham, A case of prosecco, an aromatherapy massage, vouchers from Cook to name a few.
Please check our Facebook page or our website for details of how to enter, alternatively you can contact Lynn at Lynn.brandon@emmasbubbletrust.org or 07367 900229
We do hope that you are able to take part, your support as always will be very much appreciated.
Meanwhile stay safe and look after each other
As many of you know, back in 2015 we purchased a flat, close to The Royal Marsden Hospital, for the soul intention of allowing patients and their families to stay while receiving treatment.
When we moved in, we renovated the Royal Marsden flat from top to bottom, painting throughout and installing new furniture. Many families have used the flat since and while we don’t get to hear about all of them (due to us handing over full use of the flat to The Royal Marsden Hospital) when we do it makes us proud to know that the money we’re raising is truly helping on the front line. It’s comforting to know that the flat is been being put to good use.
So we thought it would be a good idea after 5 years to upgrade the place slightly, adding in new decor and carpets throughout. This also is coupled with the fact that Regency Grove are funding the flats internet each month, providing patients and families with that much needed connection while they’re away from home. We hope that you agree that it’s definitely cosier than it was before and we’re really happy with the new look. Let us know if you agree!
A request to all of you that shop with Amazon, please can you nominate Emma’s Bubble Trust as your chosen charity when purchasing goods. It is a simple process – log on to www.smileamazon.co.uk and then sign in using your usual details, you then select us as your chosen charity.
We will receive 0.5% of your total purchase each time you access Amazon through the Amazon Smile route. They make it really easy with an add on to your Browser!
As you can imagine fundraising has been almost non-existent this year so your nomination is very much needed.
Thank you in advance for your support and enjoy all of your purchases.
A huge thank you to Matt Rose who decided in lock down to shave his head during lock down and donated £323 to the charity.
We were really touched by Matt’s story of why he decided to raise money. Turns out we had helped to support his family when his brother was having treatment for Stage 4 Hodgkins Lymphoma at The Royal Marsden Hospital in Sutton. Being from Saint Leonards-on-Sea the journey to the hospital was an hour and 20 minutes on a good day, so having the ability to rest up at our flat helped his family to stay with his brother later and have a home away from home.
You can see before and after pictures of Matt’s head shaving below! Thanks again Matt.
As many of you already know we very sadly lost someone very dear to us on 21 April 2020.
Caroline Welford was a valued member of our events committee as well as being a very dear friend.
She has given her time and support since our charity was started and has played a huge part in all of our lives.
We shall miss her smile, her generosity and her great sense of fun. Caroline was truly a very special lady.
Our love and condolences go to Colin, Tom and Sophie who she loved so much.
Thank you to everyone that has donated to our charity in Caroline’s memory, it means so much to us as I know it would to Caroline too.
She will always be that bright star in the sky with a special twinkle and will always be in our hearts. We will miss her terribly
Rest peacefully lovely lady.
