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Wavin Plastics

Road Chef

              Ropuk Foundation.

www.prisonservicecharityfund.co.uk

 
 
 
  From this page you will be able to see all of the latest news including events that are taking place to help to raise money and awareness for Robbie and the Meningitis Trust. You  may have noticed that the site has not been updated for a while this was due to a number of changes and will hopefully be changed over the next few days.

Special Thanks must  go to

Ropuk   www.Ropuk-foundation.co.uk who are sponsoring Robbie, and  donated loads of brilliant prizes for The 2 Ramside nights we have had.


Special Thank You
A special thank you must go to the Road Chef who like many individuals are continuing to support Robbie and his family with events happening all of the time and fundraising Robbie's family cannot thank you enough for your help and support
 

Events coming Soon


Watch this space for upcoming events
 

Past Events

Thanks to staff in The Bridge Inn at Spennymoor, they had a Karaoke night with a raffle and bucket collection rasining £300
 
Thanks to The Gift Company in Durham who have donated £250

Thankyou to two very nice customers of the gala,
 Tom and Anne Mcmahon for donating £100.00 and who always ask of Robbies progress and wellbeing.

Thanks to staff at Gala Theatre for Robbies Night on Saturday 24th April 2010 who raised £5200, special thanks to Catherine Ditchburn and Chris Wilson for all there hard work 01/07/10
 
Thanks to Ian Crampton and staff from Durham Passport office who raised £215 from Ian doing the London Marathon 01/07/10
 
Thanks to Gary Lindsay at SAFC Chester-le-Street who raised £310 01/07/10
 
Thanks to John Warnick who raised £471 doing the Coast to Coast 29/06/10
 
Thankyou to Gareth , Mandy , staff & customers at The Village Inn Murton who raised £230.00 from an auction & raffle.29/06/10
 
Thankyou to Josie Potts the lady captain at Castle Eden golf club who raised £772.00 which included £247.00 of sponorship for Robbies nana Sandra who ran the pier to pier 7.5 miles from Southshields to Roker in 52 minutes on Sunday May 16th 2010.
 
Special thanks to Coxhoe Primary School who had another fundraising day for Robbie raising £170.70 25/06/10

Special Thanks to Ethan Purvis from Coxhoe who had a garage sale raising £81.60 20/06/10

Thanks to Christopher Melville from Western Australia who donated £10 to Robbies Website 15/06/10

Wavin Plastics done a 10 mile walk on the 6th June  

 Footy Day Bowburn money raised was £1042.73, special thanks to everyone who took part and joined us there. 05/06/2010
    
Well Done  to Robbies family, Sister Abbie,  Mam, Nanna Sandra, Cousins Emma and Jane and Aunty Lyn and Pauline who are took part in a 'Helens Sponsored Walk' on Sunday 9th May 
Helen died from Meningitis in 1992 aged 24,
 All money raised is donated to Meningitis Uk,  a great afternoon in Memory of Helen

Robbies Night at the Gala Theatre  money still been counted  24/04/10

Laura Teesdale raised £276 from the Boxing Day Dip 09/04/2010  

Coxhoe Primary School raised £278.97p doing a dress down day and bring and buy sale 01/04/2010

Jim And Jackie Beecham £340 from a 40th Birthday Party 09/03/10

Karin Younger donated £270 from a 50th Birthday Party  08/03/10

Robbie meets The Hairy Bikers 07/03/10


Robbie & Abbie
Special Thanks to Dave Myers and Si King or as we all know them as 'The Hairy Bikers' who took time from there rehearsing at the Gala Theatre to meet Robbie and Abbie



News Story from Sunderland Echo Click Here to Look at it  06/03/10

Bowburn Infants and Nursery 27/02/10
 had a dress down day raising £183.68
 
Coxhoe Primary School 27/02/10
had a dress down day raising £280.35
 
Shincliffe Primary School 26/02/10
 had a Zoo Lab and raised £127
 
Shane and JilL 26/02/10
 donated £40
 
Linda Rumney and colleagues 25/02/10
 had a christmas collection instead of christmas cards raising £40
 
 Dave Ellison from The Gala Theatre 24/02/10
 who continues to make 'Robbie Keyrings' ang has raised £90 so far
Wavin factory 23/02/10
had a raffle and raised £180


Waskerley Pallets 22/02/10

 have donated £30
 
Mrs M Murphy 21/02/10
 has donated £25
 
 Northumbrian Water 20/02/10
Staff f
had a Valentines Cake sale and raised £157
 

Robbies Night at Belmont Club 13/02/10

was arranged for Saturday 13th February  Tickets were £5 which included 2 singers 'Dave Lee Michaels and Suzy Saxon, there was a Raffle and Bingo. It was a great night  and raised £1700.

Prison Service Charity Fund 08/01/10

 Robbie & Abbie

Thankyou so much to Mr John White, Mr Bob Howard, Mrs Cathy Smith,and all at the Prison Service Charity Fund for the fantatic donation of £5,000. Also the staff of  H.M.P.Frankland for their many donations and continued support. many thanks.  


Kielder Winter Wonderland 05/12/09


Robbie & Abbie


Robbie & Abbie

This was the day Robbie and Family went to Kielder Winter Wonderland, on the 5th December we spent the whole day where Robbie and Sister Abbie took part in activities including Jack and the Beanstalk Pantomime, arts and crafts studio, visited Mrs Clauses Kitchen and visited Santa. Many thanks to Jane Morland from Northumbrian Water who donated this to us 

Last Orders Pub Gilesgate nov09
It was not last orders at this pub after a brilliant night well done as they raised £225.00 through a karoke,raffle,fancy dress november 2009

Ramside Charity Event

Many thanks to Gordon Dance and the staff from Ramside Hall, from the 3rd October Golf day and The 23rd October Evening £10,750 was raised. Thanks to Terry Sunter who sponsored the event, Helen and Kevin Maddison from ROP UK who donated fabulous prizes and for also bidding on the auction for a Cyprus holiday and donated back to Robbie and his family, And thanks to Philippa Thompson who presented all the prizes and Acoustic Beatles for there fabulous entertainment 


 
Robbie & Abbie


 Robbie & Abbie


 Robbie & Abbie


Robbie & Abbie

Robbie on Radio 01/10/2009

Robbie & Abbie

Robbie visited Durham Tees FM where we did an interview about Robbie and Meningitis, photos taken with Nanna Sandra, Neil Green and Diane Youdale ( Jet from the old Gladiators) Thursday 1st October 2009

Robbie helps raise money for Trust

Thanks to Jamie Ndal from Beautiful Communications London, Robbie and family went to meet Jamie and a lot of Meningintis Trust staff for a big fundraising event in Club 24, London on 24th July 2009. We had a great weekend and helped raise alot of

 money for the Trust


 
Robbie & Abbie


Robbie & Abbie


Robbie & Abbie


Gala Tabletop Sale:21.10.09

Thank you to Dawn Taylor donated a lot of wool knitted Christmas decorations, animals, baby clothes, dolls clothes and many more which raised £177, also Thanks to Lyn, Pauline and Lauren who worked on the stall all day which must have been tiring well done to all concerned

Brilliant Night at The Station 20.10.09

Thanks to Joan and John Bell, they had a charity night in The Station at Langley Moor with Karaoke, Raffle, Auction, Sponsored Head and Moustache Shave which raised £700



A sight below Robbies family thought they might not see Robbies 3rd Birthday
Robbie & Abbie

This is Robbie with his sister Abbie celebrating his birthday with a visit to Diggerland

Diggerland

Northumbrian Water send nice gesture for family 18.10.09

Northumbrian Water Donation

Family go on holiday 23.09.09

Robbie and his family went away to Alicante in Spain last week with the flights been paid for by the Road Chef I think everyone will agree its a brilliant gesture and well earned

Rotary Club Help Out 22.09.09
Thank you to Spennymoor Rotary club for a donation of £150

Great North Run
Well done for Sunday to Sandra Graham, Robbie's Grandma, and Ashleigh Crampton who did the Great North Run for Robbie and the meningitis trust with Sandra doing a time of 1hr 45mins and Ashleigh's was 2hrs and also to Anthony Kerry who also did the run for Robbie and raised £400 in a good time of 1hr 49 mins well done to all and thank you to everyone who supported them




19/09/09 Charity Football Match

A charity football match was held last Saturday 19th at Bowburn football field where the under 35s played the over 35s kick of was at 2.30pm the cost to play was £20/player and was followed on the night by a karaoke at the Cooperage Pub where there was also a raffle with great prizes £830 WAS raised

Football Teams

Three Peaks Climb





Kenneth Bowes who did the 3 peaks with the Thompson lads only 12 years old and completed it in about 10 1/2 hours Well Done Kenneth



16/09/09 Thanks to Thompson staff of Durham who completed the three peaks Lake District on Sunday 30th of August. thanks to everyone for there support and well done to everyone who took part watch out Mount Everest. The amount  raised was  £1040.00



15/09/09 Terry and Jane Williams from Somerset 1 loft race donated £1050

14/09/09 Collins Seafood did online donation of £500

10/08/09 Harry and Mary from Newton Aycliffe donated £1000

31/07/09Sponsored Walk

Sposored Walk


A sponsored five mile walk from the Rose Tree Shincliffe Durham took place on Friday 31st of July Robbie and his family would like to thank everyone who took part and supported the walk Total sponsor money raised for the walk was a brilliant £1824.00 well done to all who took part

14/07/09 Hatfield Ninjas Donated £600 from doing the Coast to Coast in July

20/05/2009 psychic night Atlee Square Sherburn Village raised £354.00

05/05/2009 Neil Procter from Frankland prison Raised £100.00 (sponsored Beard)

03/05/2009 Langley park charity day raised £710.00 (bucket collection)

24/04/2009 A big thank you to Lee Henderson for arranging a charity night at the Meadowfield wmc ,all funds raise was donated back to Lees Family as he lost his wife recently to cancer.

04/04/2009 Bowburn Community centre charity night raised £1100.00

22/03/2009 A pigeon auction raised £6000.00

21/03/2009 Coffee morning at Lee square raised £265.70

18/03/2009 Alan Mains from Northern Ireland donated £655.00

01/03/2009 Northumbrian Water dress down day raised £439.00

01/03/2009 Batley’s Birtley donated £1000.00

01/03/2009 Majestic Bingo raffle raised £100

14/02/2009 John and Joan Bell raised £71.00 sponsored moustache

31/01/2009 Amy foster coffee morning and cake sale raised £3000.00

31/01/2009 Peters the bakers Gilesgate raffle raised £579.50

25/01/2009 Lee Walker donated £1000.00

1/12/2008 Dennis Pamkin donated a£1000.00 cheque

1/12/2008 Glendene Arms Gun club raised £100.00

1/12/2008 Frankland prison education department raised £51.00

1/11/2008 The Avenue Shincliffe darts night raised £6.50

1/11/08 young guys V old guys football match raised £1200.0



A very special thank you to Catherine Ditchburn at the Gala Theatre. They raised a total of £10,040.00 for Robbie.

Gala Theatre


We have just received this letter all the way from Saudi Arabia. Thank you so much for your generous donation.

Saudi Letter



We have just received a donation of £500 from Durham Police Motorcycle Section and would like to say a big thank you to all involved.

Durham Police Bike Section



Sandra and Andrew at the Great North Run 04/10/08 they raised £3674 of which Frankland Prison staff raised £2170 and also the prison service charity fund donated £3000 as they wanted to try and match what was raised.

Great North Run
 


Special thanks to Pullman Volkswagen who continue to show there support and have donated £500 towards the Great North Run fundraising and selling all raffle tickets for all charity events we have had so far.

A huge thank you to Ian Bell, also Sandra and Michael of the Daleside Arms for a night of entertainment which raised £1,000

Daleside Arms


Special thanks to Sherburn club & Sherburn jolly boys who raised £1,280

A great big thank you to Tudhoe Colliery Primary School who raised £425

Tudhoe School


27TH SEP PAUL & DENISE RAISED £601.50 SPONSORED BIKE RIDE 40 ML MANY THANKS

18TH OCT KEEP MOAT HOMES DONATED £250.00 MANY THANKS

19TH OCT STEVE MANIFOLD DID A SPONSORED RUN RAISED £400.00 MANY THANKS

20TH OCT SPONSORED MOUNTING CLIMB RAISED £76.00 MANY THANKS TO BILLY & SANDY AND LADS AT RUGBY CLUB

24TH OCT DURHAM POLICE MOTOR BIKE SECTION DONATED £500.00 MANY THANKS

25TH OCT RAMSIDE HALL RAISED £16,060 MANY THANKS TO GORDON DANCE AND ALL BAR STAFF

31ST OCT DALESIDE ARMS CROXDALE RAISED £1,000 MANY THANKS TO THE LANDLORD AND LADY, BAR STAFF AND IAN BELL WHO ORGANISED IT

1ST NOV ANGELA & MARK & HARRISON DONATED £100.00 OFF AN KARAOKE MANY THANKS

A great big thank you to Easy Street Chester le Street for raising £4000

Easystreet


Special thanks to Ray and Jeanne Atkinson. Belmont Club Saturday 14th February which had 3 singers a raffle and auction which raised an excellent £6200

Club


Thanks to Norman Robertson and Ted Scott who raised £1725 with a singer, raffle and auction in January




Northumbria Water Durham had a Dress Down Day and raised £360 March 2009

Bowburn Youth Football Group had a charity event and donated £250 of the fundraising to Robbie.

The Prison Service Charity Fund Donated £5000

Thank you to The Avenue Shincliffe which held a Darts tournament in October and donated £266.50.