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Abbie
Abbie & her brother Jamie
Abbie – June 2006 |
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Abbie’s
Fund Inspired by Abbie Shaw Registered charity no. 1119273 |
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MARCH 2012 – LATEST NEWSLETTER Click here to open the latest Abbie's Fund Newsletter
2011 – PRIVATE DONATIONS Despite the economic climate we have received some amazing and stunning donations for which we are incredibly grateful. Thank you so much for all your support.
December 2011 – COFFEE MORNING Thank you to Ruth Banks and all her helpers and guests for supporting Abbie's Fund at a coffee morning in East Horsley.
December 2011 – PRAXIS CHRISTMAS CARDS Praxis donated the cost of their Christmas cards to Abbies's Fund and sent an e-card to raise awareness.Thanks for all their support.
December 2011 – TORMEAD SCHOOL CHRISTMAS FAIR A big thank you to Alex Jany, Izzi Wilkinson, Claire Robinson, Julia Bird and Emily Good for all their work promoting Abbie's Fund at their school and raising a fantastic amount at the Christmas Fair.
November 2011 – WINE RESERVE WINE TASTING A fantastic evening attended by almost 200 people hosted by Cobham's Wine Reserve team at the spectacular Horsley Towers tasting wines, whiskies & olive oils and enjoying the stunning historical surroundings.
June 2011 – GLENESK SCHOOL BALL Many thanks to the generosity of Glenesk parents for donating such fantastic auction prizes for their ball.
Money raised from the auction went to Abbie’s Fund and the Piers Simon Appeal.
June 2011 – POST EXAM KRISPIE KREME DOUGHNUT SALE AT FELTONFLEET SCHOOL Our Krispie Kreme doughnut sale was a huge success with us selling out in a matter of minutes. We promise to get extra supplies next time! Together with the Yaer 7 'Capture the Flag' event we raised almost £450.
May 2011 - FELTONFLEET SCHOOL COFFEE MORNING Many many thanks to Anne Cursley who held a breakfast and coffee morning at her home.
Anne provided the most amazing breakfast with gorgeous fuits, cereals and croissants and pastries. June 2010 – TRIATHALON AT DORNEY LAKE, WINDSOR Our thanks to Carla Gilbey who entered the Dorney Lake triathalon in June 2010. Carla
not only completed the course in an excellent time but also raised an amazing £950 for Abbie's Fund.
Many thanks to everyone who sponsored Carla.
September 2009 – CELEBRATION CONCERT A wonderful autumn evening of music arranged by Mary Suckling in
aid of Abbie’s Fund. A massive £1,500 was raised and a big thank you goes out
to everyone who took part which included, but wasn’t limited to, Meadvale
Singers, Cantamus Chamber Choir, New Voices and James Suckling who performed
a piece, Hope to Give, that he composed especially for the event. Click
here to download a copy of Hope to Give, (for Abbie), by James Suckling July 2009 - SAINSBURY'S, COBHAM CHARITY OF THE YEAR We are delighted to have been chosen by Sainsbury's, Cobham as
their chosen charity this year. Look out for us in store and for lots of
events over the year to raise awareness and funds to help make neuroblastoma
survivable. May 2009 - DANESHILL SCHOOL A big thank you to all the pupils and staff at Daneshill School,
Oxshott, for supporting Abbie's Fund as one of their chosen charities this
year and for the massive cheque they presented to us this month. April 2009 - LONDON MARATHON A fantastic effort by David Pearce who, despite an injury two
thirds of the way, continued to the end in much pain and raised a staggering
£1,500. A big thank you to him for all his support. April 2009 - THE WHIPS: COME ON JEEVES A farcical comedy by PG Wodehouse & Guy Bolton was performed
in West Horsley Village Hall and enjoyed by a full house on a special charity
night on Wed 22nd April 2009 in aid of Abbie’s Fund resulting in a very
welcome cheque. Thank you to everyone for their support. October 2008 – ABBIE’S FUND ANOUNCES FIRST RESEARCH
GRANTS The trustees of Abbie’s Fund are delighted to
announce that the first ever research grants from Abbie’s Fund have recently
been awarded to two very worthy projects. The first was to Louis Chesler of the
Institute of Cancer Research based at The
Royal Marsden Hospital, Sutton for £50,000 over 2 years to develop a blood
test to provide early
diagnosis and monitoring of neuroblastoma. This test will make detection of
the disease and the progress of treatment significantly easier to detect and
monitor. It will also have a dramatic impact on the patient on a day to day
basis as it will reduce the number of scans and tests which for young
children can be scary, painful and often require general anaesthesia. The second was to Paul Sondel of the
University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA, for $29,523 over 1 year to research
the mechanism which makes a particular style of antibody therapy particularly
effective at mopping up small amounts of residual disease. It is these minute
levels of disease remaining undetected at the end of treatment that often
ultimately lead to relapse and antibody therapy is one treatment under a lot
of investigation at present to deal with this problem. All applications received were of an extremely
high standard but sadly we received more than we were able to fund at this
time. However the exciting step of
awarding these monies renews our energies and our conviction to work even
harder to raise funds to help make neuroblastoma survivable. APRIL 24th 2008 - SPRING EVENING OF FUN, PAINSHILL
PARK, COBHAM Another
wonderful and hugely successful event held at Painshill Park on a beautiful
spring evening. Simulators, casino games, music, silent auction and much much
more was enjoyed by over 400 people and a staggering £50,000 was raised for
Abbie’s Fund. April 2008 - LONDON MARATHON Another fantastic effort by
Running Dads, (Adrian Potter and Kevin Brooker) and Abbie’s Uncle
Steve running the London Marathon again
in 2008 in memory of Abbie to raise money for the Neuroblastoma Society and Sparks. September 2007 - TREASURE HUNT, PAINSHILL PARK, COBHAM On
Sunday, 23rd September, 50 children and their parents attended a
Treasure Hunt in the beautiful grounds of Painshill Park in aid of ‘Abbie’s
Fund’, which has been set up to raise funds to support research into making
Neuroblastoma, a childhood cancer, survivable. The
event was organised to officially launch ‘Abbie’s Fund’ as a charity. The children were all given a helium
balloon with the charity’s logo. Many of the children attached messages of
love addressed to Abbie, who died in September last year of
Neuroblastoma. Messages such as:
‘Abbie I really miss you’; ‘I love you’; ‘we wish you were still here’ all
floated together into the sky. One of
the children was heard to say ‘hopefully Abbie will be able to catch
them’. Abbie was only five years old when
she died of Neuroblastoma, which is the biggest killer of children under
5. These children were mainly from
Glenesk School in East Horsley, where she spent some of the happiest days of
her life. Abbie
won the hearts of hundreds of local people who followed her courageous fight
the end. Abbie was diagnosed with
Adrenal Neuroblastoma when she was 21 months old. She underwent intensive treatment with
induction chemotherapy, high dose chemotherapy, stem cell transplant,
surgery, radiotherapy and Retinoic acid.
She went into remission and was declared free of disease in January
2004. Unfortunately, a relapse was
diagnosed in June 2005 and she had to undergo yet many more months of
chemotherapy, radiotherapy and numerous other invasive and horrendous treatments
to try and rid her of this despicable disease. Abbie’s family and friends were all
devastated when she finally lost her fight for life in September 2006. Abbie’s
Fund Trustees are determined to do their utmost to raise as much money as
they can to help other children who are going through the same dreadful
journey as Abbie. One of Abbie’s
Fund’s key objectives is to raise funds to support research into making
Neuroblastoma survivable and also to look into other areas of innovative
treatment as well as supporting those children already suffering from this
horrendous childhood cancer. Abbie’s
Fund website is: www.abbiesfund.com. Any correspondence can be addressed to: claire.attard@abbiesfund.com. Donations should be made payable to:
‘Abbie’s Fund’ and sent to: Abbie’s Fund, Rowbarns Cottage, Green Dene, East
Horsley, KT24 5RG Spring 2007 – ABBIE FEATURED IN SPARKS NEWSLETTER Sparks Newsletter: www.sparks.org.uk/pdf/news_07_1.pdf April 2007 – LONDON MARATHON Congratulations and a big thank you to Running Dads, (Adrian
Potter and Kevin Brooker) and Ian Morris who ran the 2007 London Marathon and
between them raised an amazing £22,000 for the Neuroblastoma
Society and Sparks, (who support Neuroblastoma research amongst
other things). See their respective websites for more details. Running Dads: www.runningdads.com/ Ian Morris: www.justgiving.com/morrismarathon Christmas 2006 –
ROYAL MARSDEN CHRISTMAS CARD DESIGNED BY ABBIE Abbie’s award winning design from December 2005 was used for one
of the Royal Marsden’s Christmas cards in aid of their cancer campaign. September 2005 –
AUTUMN EVENING OF FUN On Wednesday 21st Sept, over 500 people attended a
spectacular ‘Autumn Evening of Fun’ in the stunning grounds of Horsley
Towers, East Horsley, in aid of The Neuroblastoma Society. The use of a marquee set in the beautiful grounds of Horsley
Towers was generously donated as the setting for the event. As people arrived they were greeted with
the sound of jazz music, played by the talented Mark Millington, and the hum
of cars coming from the Ferrari Simulator.
On entering the marquee ticket holders were greeted with a glass of
champagne and canapés and asked to try their luck on the casino tables (with
the chance of winning a holiday), or to browse through over 50 Auction items
and join in the ‘Silent Bid Auction’ by placing their bids. The prizes had been donated by various
sources and included a cricket bat, signed by the entire England Cricket
Team, signed boots and gloves from Jenson Button, a diamond donated by Nicky
Oppenheimer of DeBeers, a football signed by the Chelsea Football Team. The evening continued through until 10:00 pm, during which time
guests had the chance of competing in the ‘Race the Ace’ competition against
Damon Hill, or challenging their own friends on the 8-seater racing
simulator. Entertainment was also provided
by Bobby Davro, who acted as a compere for the night. At 10 o’clock Bobby auctioned off the
highest 5 prizes to the audience with much hilarity and success, pushing
prices to much greater levels. In
total, over £50,000 was raised on the night, with another single donation of
£20,000, which makes a total of over
£70,000. A group of 12 mums organised this whole event within a
tremendously tight 8-week period, having been inspired by the child of one of
the team, 4-year old Abbie.
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