Thank you to all who supported the petition to the PM regarding knife crime a response to the petition from the PM office should be received soon.

Professor Carl Chinn Thank you to everyone who supported an evening with Professor Carl Chinn. Over a £1,000 was raised which is great. Our sincere thanks to Carl for his generous support and for making the evening so successful and enjoyable for all. Also thanks to the Lazy Hill pub for their loyal support. It was a wonderful and very memorable fundraiser.


Professor Carl Chinn Thank you to everyone who supported an evening with Professor Carl Chinn. Over a £1,000 was raised which is great. Our sincere thanks to Carl for his generous support and for making the evening so successful and enjoyable for all. Also thanks to the Lazy Hill pub for their loyal support. It was a wonderful and very memorable fundraiser.


The Poachers Pocket
The charity week held at the Horse & Jockey (Poachers Pocket) in Walsall Wood during March 2008 raised over £500. Thank you to the staff for their hard work and fundraising ideas including waxing the chef! A big thank you to all their customers who did a great job in supporting them and Rosie’s charity.


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:

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 donations.

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.

Pictured are the ITV News Team with their trophy. Congratulations!

The Gift Fair held in December at the Parish Church was very successful. Although the weather was appalling inside the church the atmosphere was very warm and friendly.

The event made £450.00 which we are very pleased with and shall be looking at holding the event again next year. Father Christmas was popular and the photographs with him were well received. Thank you to our volunteers who all gave up their time to help out. Pictured here is Zoe Barlow aged 9.

Children’s Christmas Chill Out Party. Held on Saturday 23rd December. Louise the storyteller organised this party which included showing the film Polar Express followed by lunch, craft activities and a short story telling session. Thank you to the 30 children who attended and raised £110.00 and to our volunteers for their help.


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The World’s largest Bike came to Aldridge on Saturday 15th July 2006

Built to break the world record for the most people on a cycle (which it did) it provided a great opportunity for people over the age of 10 years to raise sponsorship for Rosie’s Helping Hands. A Team of 23 people cycled from Aldridge Town Centre to Walsall Town Centre and back again, this was a real head turner and proved to be a fun way in which to raise money. All the people on the team have asked to do this again next year and to further the distance with another team of 23. We shall be organizing this again sometime next year and will be looking for people to take part. To register your interest please contact Karen Ross by e-mail.




Paul Manning is part of the British Team Pursuit Cyclists, shown above. Paul kindly came to Aldridge to see the large bike off.

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Previous Walks

Rosie’s Walk 2005 raised £22,000 . Thank you to everyone who contributed and supported the event this was a fantastic amount to raise. The money has bought Walsall Manor Hospital Accident and Emergency Dept a portable ultra sound scanner (the same piece of equipment as City Hospital). The scanner will be of benefit to patients of all ages brought into the A&E dept, with injuries involving foreign objects or in cases of trauma where intravenous drugs are required quickly and accurately.

“A lovely day enjoyed by us all. An important date on our calendar we wouldn’t miss it.
We were on TV too ! A Tribute to Rosie.”
Quiney family, Aldridge

To find out about Rosie’s Walk & Festival 2006 please click here.

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Rosie’s Walk & Festival 2006 – Took place on Sunday 16th July 2006 at Aldridge Airfield, (A454) near Walsall. 780 walkers took part in the event joined by another 200 people for the entertainment in the afternoon. The amount raised to date with pledges and donations is £11,000. A huge thank you to everyone who gave a donation or collected sponsors and to all the people who gave their time and skills to make the day a success, we do appreciate it.

This was the 5th anniversary of Rosie’s Walk which has grown over the years to include entertainment suitable for all. The theme of
the event this year was Country & Western. Entertainment included Rodeo Bull ride,
country & western band, dancing displays by local youngsters with activities for the children including have-a-go arts and crafts, children’s rides.

Pictures taken on the day can also be viewed here.

To view a video clip by Alex Ross of the Walk click here. Money raised from the event will help local children and young people with a donation to Cancer Studies at the University of Birmingham for a piece of equipment to help speed up biopsy results. You may still make a donation if you wish to the event by clicking here. If you still have a pledge or sponsor money to send please click here to find out ways in which to send your money. Rosie’s sponsored Walk & Festival 2007 will take place on Sunday 15th July at Aldridge Airfield between 12 Noon and 5pm. Details of how to receive a sponsor form for 2007 will be published here in April.

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Rosie’s Walk & Festival 2007. Thank you to everyone who supported the event despite the poor weather conditions we were vey touched by your support. It was another very successful event, enjoyed by over 800 people. Mel the Jack Sparrow lookalike certainly brightened everyone’s day, he was kept busy posing for photographs. The entertainment on stage kept people amused and dry! The money raised has helped various small local projects with equipment for new playgroups, bursary for young people with disabilities entering employment for the first, resurfacing of a local children’s park, hire of premises for youth club, children’s choir with transport costs to competitions and concerts.

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