Family and friends of Thomas McConaughy embarked on a 24.5 mile walk from their home in Hungerford to the Footsteps Centre in Warborough.
The walk was organised by Helen, Thomas’ mum who wanted to raise funds for Thomas to be able to attend more Footsteps sessions.
26 people took part in the walk finishing with a well earned drink at The Six Bells across the green from the Footsteps Centre The walk has raised nearly £10,000, £1350 has also been donated to Footsteps Foundation.
The Marlborough school near Wootten along with local primary schools recently fundraised for 5 charities including Footsteps Foundation. From cake sales, fun days and even a spider week, a total of £2150 was raised.
Dorchester Festival raised a fantastic £16,000 over the 10 day festival in May.
Footsteps Foundation receiving over £8000 of the funds raised.
The Footsteps Foundation raffle which ran throughout the festival raised £1500, and we even had a Footsteps raffle winner!
A huge thank you to everyone who organised & supported the festival.
Since November 2010 I have lost nearly 2 1/2 stone through weightwatchers! But there are other well known weight loss programmes out there. The comments from Footsteps parents have been fantastic, I feel much healthier and have dropped 3 dress sizes! And am now regularly running up to 5km. Other mums have also commented that they wish they had the will power to do the same—so now is your chance!
From 1st July –31 December Footsteps Foundation is running a slim-a-thon.
Here’s the deal
By what ever ‘sensible’ means eg. joining a club, getting healthier or ‘watching what you eat ‘ let’s aim to lose as much weight in 6 months and raise money for Footsteps Foundation. Ask friends and family to sponsor you up until Christmas. Keep track of your weight loss, the results of the final weigh in will be published in the January newsletter (no names will be mentioned)
There will be a prize for the biggest loser! And the biggest fundraiser.
Anyone interested in joining please contact me polly@footstepsfoundation.com
Let the slimming begin!
Footsteps father Nick Streeter is gearing up for a Red Devils jump to raise money to go towards his daughter Chloe’s treatment at The Footsteps Centre. Nick takes the plunge in August- we reckon a few pints might be in order before and after!
Three boys from Oxfordshire have completed a 100 mile non stop cycle from Bristol to Reading along the Kennet and Avon canal raising money for Footsteps Foundation. Thomas Digby, Al Squires and Will Dolan who all took part in a similar challenge last year said “ This challenge was really tough, and we got lost!” So far the boys have raised £660.
Raising a fantastic £28,968 which was split between five charities including Footsteps Foundation.
We were invited to collect the cheque at a presentation lunch held at the head office in London where we heard first hand about the broken elbow – Ouch!
Footsteps Fundraiser Nick Portsmouth completed the Shakespeare marathon and raised over £800 for Footsteps Foundation.
Finishing the race in 4hrs 23 mins and coming 729th place out of 1077 people.
Well Done!
We are currently looking for more volunteers to help us with local events. We need Raffle ticket sellers, bar staff and ticket staff to enable us to run more events in aid of Footsteps Foundation. If you are willing & can spare a couple of hours or simply want to get involved in the organising of events please contact polly@footsteps foundation.com
Footsteps Foundation is delighted to have been chosen as the supported charity for the 2011 Dorchester Festival taking place Friday 29th April—Sunday 8th May 2011. The ten day bi-annual festival of music and art is set to draw crowds and raise money for Footsteps Foundation. Previous performers have included The BBC Elstree Concert Band and The Tallis Scholars, with book readings and activities for the children there is also a craft fayre and live music in several locations throughout the village of Dorchester. For more information visit www.dorchesterfestival.com and put the dates in your diary.
