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2007

Landy Rally 2007. Paul Ashford and David Green took part as ‘The Lost Boys’ on this no racing charity rally covering 8 countries in 7 days. There was no getting lost for this pair as they whizzed through the countries with not much time for sightseeing due to getting to camp each night. They raised just over £2,300 for Rosie’s charity. A big thank you to Paul and David and all their sponsors, especially Interserve in Aldridge for their generous support - this was a fantastic amount to raise.

Rosie’s Tree of Giving Christmas Appeal.
A huge thank you to everyone who gave to the Rosie’s Tree of Giving instead of sending Christmas cards. A fantastic £808 was raised by:

Rosie's Tee of Giving Christmas Appeal Protega Coatings Limited
Oakwood Special School
Tynings Lane Church
Druids Heath Golf Club Seniors
Walsall Civil Servants
WMBC Occupational Therapy Dept
Mr A R Varachhia
The Everist family
The Fellows family

Feel Great in 2008 – thank you to those who came along to support the event and to all the people who gave up their time to provide an activity or stall – we very much appreciate your goodwill. Just over £300 was raised from the evening.

Thank you to everyone who supported the Quiz Night at Aldridge Social Club in November a fantastic £535 was raised from the event.

Rod Stewart Experience held in October 2007 raised over £2,000. A huge thank you to everyone who supported this event. Also our grateful thanks to Garry Pease (Rod Stewart) and Steve from the aptly named ‘The Best Fun’ for the disco and The Lazy Hill Pub for the venue. Thank you to all the people who took part in the auction of slaves this alone raised £360 through very generous

Pamper Night. Thank you to all the wonderful ladies who supported the Pamper Night on Friday 5th October. We are delighted so many ladies left the evening feeling relaxed and pampered. A fantastic £1140 has been raised from the event for local children and young persons groups which we support.

Special thanks to the following who donated their time and services so making the event possible and very worthwhile.

Waves Health & Leisure Club
Fresh Beauty Clinic of Aldridge
Kudos Hair Design
Ladies of Leisure
Jo and Yvonne –Aromatherapy & Reiki therapists
Helen Miller - Indian Head massage
Barons Court Hotel for the donation of the room and their wonderful help and attention to detail.

Nidderdale Charity Walk
Karen and Sean took part in this walk on Sunday 13th May to raise money for the charity. They raised £460 in sponsorship thank you to everyone who sponsored us, especially customers from the Royal Oak in Stonnall.

Saturday 14th July – Pirate Ship Push The ship was been built by 5 volunteers, Jon Bignell, Matt Bignell, Dan Simpson, James Treadwell and Julian Bailey. It drew a fair amount of attention on it’s maiden voyage to Aldridge Precinct and the big push from Aldridge
to Walsall on the 14th July with 35 pirates was a sight to behold. Over the weekend they raised nearly £700 which was then very
kindly match funded by Npower.

June 21st Summer Solstice Gala Ball at Wolverhampton Civic Centre with Darren & Lilia from BBC Strictly Come Dancing. Rosie’s Helping Hands has been chosen as the charity to benefit from the Grand Charity raffle. The raffle raised £767.00, thank you to everyone who supported us.

Salsa Party 18th May 2007. A great night enjoyed by all especially the lesson with everyone mastering Salsa within the hour! Just over £900 raised from the evening a huge thank you to everyone who supported this fundraiser and to Norman & Jayne the dance instructors and DJ for the evening you did a great job!

Bavarian Night Saturday 24th March 2007 with the Eric Von Winkler Band. A great night’s entertainment the audience participating in the singing, clapping and a little dancing. All 140 tickets were sold before the event, thank you to everyone who came along and supported the event your generosity raised £1,275.00

Test the Professionals Quiz night held on 2nd Feb 2007.
The Birmingham Hippodrome set the scene for this very successful and enjoyable Quiz night. 11 teams of 8 took part:

Aston Villa Former Players Association
Walsall Football FC Supporters Club
Cannock Business Networking Group
City Hospital Nursing staff from A&E
SR Print Management
Institute of Cancer Studies at University of Birmingham
Rosie’s Supporters
Roger Corbett and his legal team
West Midlands Police Federation
ITV Central News
Brownhills Community Colts Association

The question master from Quiz Quiz Quiz set some tough and challenging questions but the competition was very tough and only a couple of points decided the winning team who were ITV Central News. Followed by a very close joint second with The Cancer Busters and Walsall FC Supporters Club. The evening raised over £2,700 a huge thank you to everyone who supported the night so generously and to the Hippodrome who made us feel so welcome and looked after us superbly including donating a couple of tickets for the raffle.

We were very pleased to also present a cheque for £5,000 to The Institute of Cancer Studies at the Unviersity of Birmingham. This represented money raised during 2006 in memory of Rosie and will be used by the Institute to buy a new piece of equipment.

Congratulations to the ITV News Team who won the trophy!


Rosie's Helping Hands, 3 Tenbury Close, Aldridge, Walsall, West Midlands, WS9 8HL Email: mail@rosieshelpinghands.org Registered Charity Number: 1097278	Website designed by Dean Staples and authored by Karen and Sean Ross (Rosie’s parents)