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We are always looking for volunteers who can help us with our fundraising activities.
If you think you can help in any way please contact us.
MetroCentre Collection
Saturday 5 September 2009
It was Tyne & Wear Branch's annual outing to the Gateshead Metro Centre shopping mall. Read more...
Sunderland Cyclists Go the Long Way Home
25 July 2009
| Why did a group of 7 Sunderland cyclists take several days to cycle to, er, Sunderland? Answer: They started from Whitehaven, the west coast end of the celebrated Coast-to-Coast (C2C) cycling route. And on the way had to pass through large chunks of the rather hilly Lake District and battle their way over the Pennines. Read more... |
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One Man's Great North Run
5 October 2008
Steve Rawlinson is not a born athlete by any means but he took part in the 2008 Great North Run in memory of a well-loved and well-respected work colleague, Liz Essex-Cater. She had taken early retirement to enjoy the good life in France and tragically died earlier this year from MND. Read more...
MetroCentre Collection
Saturday 27 September 2008
Two Branches joined forces to make a street collection at Gateshead's enormous MetroCentre shopping mall. Read more...
MetroCentre Collection
8 September 2007
Tyne & Wear Branch held its annual collection day at the Gateshead Metro Centre on Saturday 8 September 2007. North Cumbria Branch came along too to join in the fun and collect on behalf of their own branch. more details...
Mark's great run
Hearty congratulations to Mark Patterson on raising £558 for the Branch from his Great North Run.
In memory of Barry White
Our thanks go to members of the Greenacres Caravan Club for a donation of £100 in memory of the late Barry White.
Whitley Bay Ladies' Club
We are very grateful indeed to the members of Whitley Bay Ladies' Club who have raised £350 for the Association.
GO-NorthEast staff raise £1,700
Staff at the major bus company GO-NorthEast have presented the Association with proceeds of their latest fundraising for charity.
Branch Chairman Martin Boyes and President Ken Hylton went along to the company's main bus depot to receive the cheque from GO-NE Staff Association members more details...
In memory of Jimmy Johnstone
The great Scottish footballer Jimmy Johnstone died of MND in March last year.
Marking the first anniversary of Jimmy's death, Tyneside Celtic Supporters have donated £1,000 to the Branch from their fundraising activities. more details...
Donation from Brunswick Methodist Church
We were delighted to receive a very generous donation of £400 from Brunswick Methodist Church. The church is the branch’s regular meeting evening place in Newcastle
Yvette's Coast-to-Coast Cycle Ride
in aid of the Newcastle MND Centre
| Yvette Hodson is a Specialist Nurse at the MND Clinic in Newcastle. She successfully completed the gruelling C2C cycle ride - a three day trek across the backbone of England from West Coast to East Coast. The result? A massive £750 collected from sponsorships and from a fundraising evening. Many thanks, Yvette! more details... |
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Liz gets a fireman's lift
Great North Run 2006
| Liz Shipley, who has MND, completed the 2006 Great North Run in her wheelchair. She was pushed by a team of 4 firemen from Hebburn Fire Station: Branch Chairman Martin Boyes, Steven Foster, Richard Rickaby and Chris Tubrit. The news was featured in the Newcastle Journal on 23 September. Click here to see the report. |
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| Liz abseiling in 2004 |
MetroCentre Collection
2 September 2006
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Answer: Collect for Tyne & Wear Branch at the Gateshead Metro Centre. And so we were there in force... more details... |
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Fundraising by Glendale Social Club
The Glendale Social Club at Houghton le Spring has donated £300 to the Branch from its fundraising actvities. Club Secretary Sid Smith presented a cheque for that amount to the Branch President, Ken Hylton, on Sunday 21 May.
Our sincere thanks go to the Club and to everyone who helped to make the donation possible.
This is not the first donation from the Club. Glendale has raised substantial sums for the Branch in the last few years.
North Tyneside staff raise £1,000
| 60s Night, organised by the North Tyneside Council Employees Charity Committee raised £1,000 for the Branch. It was a fun-packed evening with plenty happening. The music was fantastic and the bar was kept busy. more details... |
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Overview of the Branch's Financial Year 2004 - 05Financially 2004-5 was the most successful year in the Branch's history. Income, at £40,123 was more than that of the 5 previous years put together. more details ... |
24 September 2005
MetroCentre Collection
North Cumbria and Tyne & Wear Branches joined forces on Saturday 24 September 2005 for a day of street collecting at the Gateshead MetroCentre.
Tyne & Wear branch funds benefitted to the tune of almost £1,100. North Cumbria are still counting.
Champion collectors for Tyne & Wear were Tony and Ann Holden. They collected throughout the entire day and relieved the public of over £300.
Great North Run
Sunday 18 September
| What a day! Record numbers in the Great North Run. Over 200 athletic souls running for the MND Association. A fine sunny day - perfect weather for spectators but distinctly too hot for most runners. First runner home for MND Association was Derek Reed with a time of 1 hour 34 minutes 37 seconds. more details |
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| Eddie Cooper ran as Blaze Bear |
Fundraising Gets a Lift Off
The Branch enjoyed a motivating session on fundraising at their June Branch meeting.
Simi Epstein and Elaine Wyspianski, who manage and co-ordinate Community Fundraising for the MND Association had travelled all the way up from National Office in Northampton to 'rally the troops'.
After losing their fundraising officer to another charity, the branch were concerned that they would be struggling to match their record-breaking fundraising last year.
From Christmas baubles and baking biscuits to the Great North Run, Simi and Elaine presented a whole range of ideas to try.
By the end of the evening the room was buzzing with enthusiasm and North East optimism!
And often all it takes is a very charming smile - as Elaine demonstrated with great finesse at the end of the evening.
Stepping into the lift, two complete strangers travelling to the ground floor with her emerged at the bottom accepting Elaine's business card - enthused about the possibility of running the Great North Run for us next year! That's the way to do it!
Fundraising Achievements
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'The Royal George', at Brunton Park in Newcastle, has raised £45
so far
this year in donations of small change from customers and staff.
Ashleigh Boyes and Liz Shipley have raised £74 in donations from
distributing the Association's red-and-blue wristbands.
Sid Smith and the Glendale Social Club have done it again! They raised £620 for the Association at a fundraising night in February.
Inland Revenue staff at Longbenton raised £700 for the Association from their Xmas Raffle, through the good offices of our hardworking member Lorraine Young.
Durham Concert Secretaries donated £300 to us raised at a social event in January.
Alan and Dorothy Simpson have been selling bottles of their home-made ginger wine at meetings of the Sunderland Support Group. So far they have raised £45.
Joan Cohan and her friends raised £40 for us from a coffee & bingo evening in December. Thank you all!
We send our grateful thanks to everyone concerned in these activities.
2003 Fundraising
2004 Fundraising