Branch Fund Raising

 

Your support is vital to ensure the MND Association can continue to be there to help people whose lives are affected by Motor Neurone Disease (MND). Your gift can help provide the essential services people with MND rely on every day, or even fund research projects to bring hope for a future without MND. You can make a difference, thank you for helping today.

If you wish to make a donation, however small please make your cheque, voucher or postal order donations payable to MND Association - Cheshire Branch, and contact a member of the Committe identified on the Contacts page.

Gift Aid It

Using Gift Aid means that for every £1 you give, we get an extra 25p from the HM Revenue & Customs, making your donation go even further. This means that each £100 can be turned into £128, just so long as the following criteria are met:

  • The Donor must pay UK Income Tax and/or Capital Gains Tax equal to the amount of tax we reclaim on your donation.
  • You must ensure that all FULL names, house number/name and postcodes are written CLEARLY.
  • On sponsorship forms, the 'Gift Aid Declaration' box is 'ticked' accordingly.
  • The sponsorship money submitted to us MUST correspond EXACTLY with the amount shown as 'collected' on the sponsorship forms. If it does not, we will be unable to claim any of the Gift Aid.

Gift Aid Exclusions

Please note that if the MND Association has paid for your participation in an event, i.e. The London Marathon (Golden Bond) or our 'Challenge Events', then the following people's donation cannot be Gift Aided:

  • Family members (wife, husband, grandson, uncle etc)
  • Wife or husband of a family member
  • A company under the control of the participant or under the control of a family member.

Fund Raising Events - For full details about local fund raising events please see below:

Stories included are:

                  • Rotary club hands £2,500 to charity
                  • The Pickstone Bunny
                  • Christine Braydon's Garage Sale
                  • Sophie has a ball for the MND Associaton

Rotary club hands £2,500 to charity

BIG-HEARTED members of Nantwich Rotary Club gave a cheque for £2,500 to the Motor Neurone Disease Association.

It was gratefully received by local campaigner Joan Park. She said: "Motor Neurone Disease is dreadful, both for those who suffer from it and their carers. This generous donation will help fund specialist equipment, such as stair-lifts, bathroom equipment and tools to help communication where people have lost the ability to speak. It will all be used for local people. It is through such donations that we can help the people of Nantwich and Crewe to be as independent as possible for as long as possible."

Rotary club president John Meadows said: "The club is delighted to be able to support this extremely worthwhile local charity."  

 

The Pickstone Bunny

 

Eric and Lesley Pickstones’ daughter in law made a four foot chocolate bunny. Neil their son took it into the Prudential, where Neil works, to be raffled. After many adventures he arrived at was thought to be his final destination only to find that the winner very kindly donated him to a children’s charity 

Christine Brayden's

  

Many of you will remember Christine as our Branch Fundraising Officer. She has been up to her old tricks and raised a mighty £300 from a garage sale.

Many thanks Christine.


Sophie has a ball for the MND Association

(the following story and pictures have been provided by the Wilmslow Express)

 

 


An Alderley Edge teenager swapped the classroom for the ballroom on Saturday when she hosted a fairytale charity ball at the Belfry House Hotel. For the last six months, 16-year-old Sophie Beever has been busy organising the spectacular event. She juggled school work with arranging the entertainment, flowers, decoration, invitations and just about everything else involved in making the evening special. The aspiring events manager marketed the ball through her school, Alderley Edge School for Girls, to raise money for motor neurone disease. She said: "I’ve always wanted to hold a ball and raise money for charity. "A family friend, Denise Welch, organises a charity ball every year and I thought I could do one for people my age. "Not many kids in my age group know about motor neurone disease so I wanted to raise awareness and raise money too."
And Sophie certainly has followed in the footsteps of Denise’s successful fundraisers raising an impressive £1,750 for the charity. Actress Denise, who is an Alderley resident, joined Sophie for the evening and helped with the raffle and prizes. She said: "All the teenagers looked wonderful dressed up in their ballgowns. "I thought Sophie did a brilliant job and she’s certainly got the knack for it [event organising]."

Almost 200 teenagers paid £23 each for a ticket to the black tie event which had roulette tables, chocolate fountains and a live band to keep the atmosphere buzzing. And despite a couple of hitches along the way, the night was hailed a brilliant success. Sophie's dad, Jonathan Beever, was there on the night to help organise the finances but left all the partying to Sophie. He said: "All credit to her, it was a brilliant night and it really is something to be very proud of. "I don’t know where she gets her enthusiasm and energy from."

Sophie is currently studying for her A-Levels in IT, Business Studies and French in the sixth form. She hopes to go on to complete a business management course at university and eventually become a professional events organiser. And the success of the ball has fuelled Sophie’s ambitions further and she is determined to run more dazzling events. She said "It’s definitely going to be an annual thing. It was amazing, I’m over the moon. "I’ve had loads of comments on Facebook saying how good it was."