Rugby Ball donation raises £50

A big thank you to my friends Jane, Damian, Tom and Toby and Nottingham Rugby Club.

Jane spoke to Ben Thompson, Operations Manager of Nottingham RFC, about our charity fund raising efforts and the imminent prize draw. Thank you to Ben and the rugby club, they donated a signed Gilbert rugby ball for the draw.

What a brilliant prize, too good of a opportunity to miss! Jane volunteered to try and get extra funds by holding a 'pick a player' at the clubs weekend presentation/family barbeque. What a great idea as another £50 was raised....fantastic....thank you Jane

Here are Toby and Tom helping out with the ticket sales....you did a brilliant job lads, thanks!

I would like to thank Tom Mawhood for allowing Jane to raise funds for the John Eastwood Hospice as Nottingham RFC chosen charity is Olivers Army. This charity was set up in the memory of Oliver Liley who sadly lost his fight to ALD last summer.

ALD is a rare terminal illness which is usually only detected when a young boy shows symptoms of the illness, by which time it is too late to try and save his life. Ironically it is when ones brother becomes ill that it is possible to test other males and if they do not show signs can be checked and monitored and if signs of ALD are developing it is possible to halt the disease by carrying out bone marrow transplantation.

If you would like to find out more about ALD, please visit the Oliver's Army website at www.www.oliversarmy.org/. The site is set up to broaden the awareness of this terrible disease and in turn to raise revenues to help fund research in the hope that one day somebody else won't lose their child in a similar way.

A BIG thank you again to Tom, Toby, Jane, Damien, Tom, Ben and Nottingham RFC.