Latest News
09/03/2010 - Tribunal
The Special Educational Needs Tribunal Hearing, which will determine
Isabella's educational placement, has been set for April 21st.
09/03/2010 - Future Events
The Events page has been updated with details of the Sheffield Half
Marathon and Edinburgh Marathon.
14/11/2009 - Recent Fundraising
A big thank you to recent fundraisers including:
- SYPA
colleagues who donated £31 from their Christmas Savings interest
- The IT tuckshop that netted £13 profit
- Kevin Porritt and Gareth Waterson from WMDC (ran Great North Run) and Gail
Fox from West Yorks Police (baking) ... raised £300 in total
14/07/2009 - How can you very easily donate money to our appeal, FOR FREE??
Answer - by using
EasyFundraising. Here are some examples:
- renew
your car insurance with Direct Line insurance ..... we get a £35 donation
from Direct Line
- register a new ebay account ..... we get a £4 donation from ebay
- renew your car breakdown cover with the AA, RAC, Green Flag .... we get a
donation of between £7.50 to £9.50
- purchase a new mobile phone contract .... we get a £45 donation from
Vodafone or a £25 donation from the Car Phone Warehouse
Once you
are registered for the facility, you simply need to access the appropriate
retailer from the easyfundraising site, before you make a purchase. That's
all there is to it and there's hundreds of retailers that have joined the
scheme.
14/07/2009 - Doncaster MBC Payroll
Staff at Doncaster Council Payroll Office and the Pensions Office
"dressed down" this week at work and raised £40 towards our appeal. Thank
you!
01/07/2009
- Emma Smith completes the London Marathon and raises money for our appeal!
More info soon.
01/07/2009
- 10 mile Sponsored Walk (Saturday 28th March 2009)
Around 30 people completed this years "Six Churches Walk" which started
and finished at Elsecar Heritage Centre. As well as a few sore feet and
blisters picked up along the way, the total amount raised was a fantastic
£3,800. A big thank you to everyone that braved the "spring" weather and
took part, and to those that kindly sponsored us.
24/02/2009 - Easyfundraising
Thank you to those people who have registered for the Easyfundraising
facility. So far this has paid over £100 to our appeal!
24/02/2009 - Facebook
Are you registered for Facebook? Why not join our
group to see more photos etc.....
24/02/2009 - 10 Mile Sponsored Walk
Please see the events page for more information
on our next fundraising event.
19/03/2009
- Daily Express
Thank you to the Daily Express newspaper for publishing our story, and
to those people that have been in touch as a result, to offer their support!
30/12/2008
- Christmas Raffle at Barnsley Council
A Christmas
raffle in the Planning and Transportation department raised £300 towards our
appeal. A big thank you to
Teresa Carr, Jane
Ingram and Mandy Loach for organising the raffle and to everyone who
purchased tickets!
03/11/2008
- Halloween Party
Click here for a
list of raffle ticket winners.
Another
great fundraising night (sorry for the power problems!) with around 300
guests attending. Thank you to everyone concerned including companies that
donated prizes for the raffle and auction. More details soon....
24/10/2008
- South Yorkshire Police Ball raises over £2,000!
A huge thank you to everyone involved in last weeks event at Ardsley
House. Special thanks go to Sheena Lyden !! Read the full story
here
24/10/2008
- Our story...in Marie Clare
Last month we told our story to Marie Clare magazine. We are featured in
the Christmas Edition of the magazine and would like to thank all concerned
at Marie Clare for helping us to publicise our fundraising appeal....
24/10/2008
- Halloween Fundraising Party
A very limited number of tickets are still available for our Halloween
Party. We are expecting over 300 guests so be quick!!
The night
will feature an auction of a signed Barnsley FC football and also a brand
new Hotpoint Aqualtis Washing Machine (worth £400).
03/10/2008
- Its a running total for Isabella
A pair of marathon-running Hemsworth dads have raised hundreds of pounds
for our appeal.
Mick Cordall, 39, of Union Street, and Mick Tildesley, 36, of Haverlands,
ran in the recent Robin Hood half-marathon in Nottingham
They have so far raised £800 for Mr Tildesley’s three-year-old niece,
Isabella. Mr Tildesley said: “It was my first half-marathon and it was a lot
harder than I expected. I’m glad we raised so much money and I want to thank
everyone who supported us.”
Mr Cordall has been running for about 14 years. He said: “The atmosphere was
great and it was really busy with about 17,000 people there. I met Isabella
at a children’s party and thought it would be a good idea if we both ran
this one for her.”
20/09/2008 - Isabella Quiz Night at South Yorkshire Pensions Authority
A big thank you to everyone who supported this event in various ways
(donations, purchasing raffle tickets etc). In total, over £700 was raised
through the sale of raffle tickets, food and drink etc.
11/09/2008
- New Events
Please see the events section for more details....
11/09/2008
- Paces School
Isabella continues to make excellent progress at Paces School. Thank you
to all our supporters for making this a reality!
23/06/2008 - Isabella's progress
Isabella has again been admitted to hospital with recurrent chest
problems.
In some
respects her condition has deteriorated this year and as a result, she is no
longer able to take any food or drink by mouth. Health wise, avoiding
recurrent chest infections remains the highest priority.
She
continues to attend Paces School twice weekly and is making good progress,
despite her recent illness. During the summer months, she will attend a 2
week intensive summer camp at Paces.
Looking
forward to the new term in September, we are delighted to report that she
has been granted a place at Paces School (subject to us meeting the tuition
fees)
23/06/2008
- Fundraising Gig @ the Trades Club, Barnsley
This event, kindly organised by Jon Nixon and Patrick Crawford, raised
£391 on the night. Thank you to the organisers, the bands that played, the
trades club and everyone who turned up for a great night.
01/06/2008
- ETS Golf Day
A huge thank you to Paul and everyone involved at ETS for raising £5,000
towards our appeal.
Click
here to view photographs from the
day.
28/02/2008 - Support the 'Every Disabled Child Matters' Campaign
Additionally I need to put further pressure on the council to sign up
for the “Every Disabled Child Matters” Charter. Its no great surprise that
Barnsley Council have yet to sign up and this maybe goes someway to explain
their disregard for families like us. The following link allows you to
compile an email to the councillor responsible for Children’s Services at
Barnsley Council.
Go to
http://www.edcm.org.uk/la_charter and take Action 2
28/02/2008 - Petition the Prime minister!
We are petitioning the prime minister to look into our ongoing dispute
with Barnsley Council over Isabella’s education provision.
Please take 2 minutes to sign our petition on the 10 Downing Street Website
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/LEAfight/
08/01/2008
- Fundraising at Kendray Hospital, Barnsley
Members of staff at the hospital raised £140 over the Christmas period
by organising a "guess the weight of the Christmas Cake competition" and
also contributions from individuals in the catering department instead of
sending Christmas Cards.
06/01/2008 -
Fundraising at the South Yorkshire Joint Authorities
Members of staff from the Payroll/Admin team, Investments department,
Information Technology Unit and Sheffield & Rotherham District Offices chose not to send Christmas Cards this year. Instead
they have made a donation to our appeal.
Special
thanks go to I.S.
Maintenance Ltd for their kind donation.
Amy
Blakemore organised a Christmas Quiz raising £40.
Thank you to everyone for your generosity.
18/12/2007 - Cannon Hall Sponsored Walk
Staff at South Yorkshire Pensions Authority organised and took part in a
six mile walk on 17th November. The event, organised by Amy Blakemore and
Julie Peel was a great success. The walk started at 10am in the car park and
finished some six miles later, in the SAME car park!
In total,
30 colleagues, friends and family took part in the walk raising an amazing
£3,786.
