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Mar 21st 2013 - Fundraising Star – Natalie Thomas
Girl Guide Natalie Thomas has been working hard to achieve her Queens Guide Community Action badge for the last 15 months, and we congratulate her enormously on having raised over £700 for the Children’s Heart Federation as part of her extensive project. Inspired by her cousin, Bradley, who sadly passed away aged 6 from a [...]
Feb 11st 2013 - Fundraising Star – Leah Carvell
Introducing our fundraising Star: Leah Carvell. Leah, along with her friends and family have set up a memorial fund to honour her brother David. The fund helps us to provide our Small Grant Scheme to help heart families all over the country. The fund has already raised over £5,000. Kate of the Children’s Heart Federation said: [...]
Jan 31st 2013 - Fundraising Star – Anthony Birch
Introducing our fundraising star Anthony Birch: Anthony was born with congenital heart disease (V.S.D) and was recently admitted into the care of St. Thomas’ Hospital in London were he was diagnosed with a serious; and and at the time life threatening disease called endocarditis (infection of the lining in the heart). During his two month stay in hospital [...]
Jan 31st 2013 - Fundraising Star – Lucy Yates
Lucy Yates had always wanted to do a skydive, and having heard about the work that the Children’s Heart Federation does through a friend, she signed up to do a skydive and fundraise for CHF. Lucy’s family and friends came along to the airfield on the day to support her and see her jump. Lucy [...]
Oct 30th 2012 - Fundraising Stars – Clare and Tony Newman
Thanks to The Children’s Heart Federation, Tony and I were given the opportunity to run in the RPHM. We had an absolutely amazing day. The course was stunning, running past Buckingham Palace, along the Embankment and through picturesque Hyde Park. The atmosphere was electric and the supportive crowds were very encouraging. All this combined to [...]
Oct 30th 2012 - Fundraising Star – Rachel Tully
Royal Parks Half Marathon Having recently taken up running, I decided that the best way to ensure that I kept it up was to enter a half marathon. My housemates had already registered for the Royal Parks Half Marathon, and I thought it would be a great opportunity to raise money whilst doing something I [...]
Aug 30th 2012 - Fundraising Stars – Tracey Harris and Robert Ginsberg!
Being inspired by the Olympics and wanting to fundraise for CHF, Robert Ginsberg entered the British 10K 2012 and raised an amazing £1,572 for CHF. Robert’s son Oliver was born with a VSD which went undetected until he was 5 weeks old. He had open heart surgery at 13 weeks, but now, at two and [...]
Aug 06th 2012 - Dragon Boat Challenge 2012 – Fundraising Stars
We are Very Pleased to Announce the Winners of our Dragon Boat Challenge 2012 Highest Fundraisers Award! Best Individual Fundraiser goes to Habed Hussain from the Bengal Vikings and Best Fundraising Group is Team Oscar, led by Julie Geue Prizes will be sent out to you very soon! Congratulations everyone and thank you so much [...]
Jul 26th 2012 - Katie Rush – Fundraising Star
August’s Fundraising Star is Katie Rush from Cambridgeshire! Katie organised and held the ‘Patchwork Moo Charity Auction’ from 19th to 23rd June, and all of the proceeds were donated to Children’s Heart Federation! The Auction featured beautiful handmade items including children’s clothes, bunting, jewellery, cakes, purses, household decorations and children’s toys. The Auction has raised [...]
Jul 02nd 2012 - Fundraising Stars: the Children of Kings Langley Primary School
The children designed, stuck, coloured and painted on heart worksheets that were sent home and raised a fantastic amount for the Children’s Heart Federation! The Chair of the PTA said: “We were absolutely thrilled with the number of entries we had for our Have a Heart competition. The children had put in so much time [...]
Jun 18th 2012 - Michelle Stevens
Michelle Stevens said, “I’m raising money for the Children’s Heart Federation because I know what great work they do for children who have congenital heart problems. My own daughter Brooke has a heart problem and had to have heart surgery when she was only three years old. CHF have always been there for support and [...]
Jun 22nd 2011 - Dean Lake’s 20km longboard skate for Children’s Heart Federation
On 9 July this year, Dean Lake skated 20km on a longboard for the Children’s Heart Federation, smashing his fundraising target of £500, raising a total of £1,440! Dean arrived at Hyde Park at 11am with family and friends, and met up with 16 fellow Longboarders ready for the day’s adventure. After a brief warm [...]
May 22nd 2011 - Rebecca Bond’s British 10k
“In September of 2010 I decided that I had had enough of being the fat friend. So I sorted my head then started on my body, I started to take up running and committed myself to getting fit and healthy. So in March when my friend signed up to run The British 10k in London [...]
Sep 22nd 2010 - LV= Broker 3 Peaks Challenge
LV= Broker is part of Liverpool Victoria Friendly society and specialise in selling personal lines insurance through insurance brokers. In 2010, LV= staff were joined by a team of insurance brokers to make a team of 24 who decided to take on the gruelling Yorkshire Three Peaks Challenge! The LV= team raised a staggering total [...]
Jul 01st 2010 - Joe Frankland & Mark Luntley – Home2Rome “Banger” Rally
Bury based motorway recovery operators Mark Luntley and Joe Frankland tested a 1987 Reliant Robin to the limits of its name by taking the plucky three-wheeler to Rome and back in aid of Children’s Heart Federation. Mark and Joe were inspired to raise money for CHF by Gabe, the young son of a workmate who [...]
Jun 18th 2010 - RBKC Community Action Team
The Children’s Heart Federation’s mission is to empower children and young people with heart conditions and their families by providing the right support and information. We wouldn’t be able to do this without the help from a fantastic team of volunteers.For over two years CHF have been working with the Royal Borough of Kensington and [...]
May 01st 2010 - Paul Willgoss – The Walker with a Heart
Children’s Heart Federation trustee Paul Willgoss, 38, is looking forward to the sort of schedule that would leave most people breathless, let alone someone born with a major heart defect. Over the last 8 months he’s walked to the top of Snowdon, spent an hour on the 4th Plinth in Trafalgar Square, run the Great North [...]
Apr 22nd 2010 - Adam Mayhew Walks the London Marathon
Adam came to us, letting us know about his London Marathon challenge. After months of training, Adam was unfortunate enough to pick up an injury just before the event. However, he didn’t let this stop him, and decided to go on regardless. Rising to the challenge, Adam chose to walk the marathon instead of running as he’d [...]
Apr 01st 2010 - Jonathan Bashforth – London Marathon
Jonathan was lucky enough to secure a place for the Virgin London Marathon this year. Having looked forward to the run for about 6 months, Jonathan’s training all paid off in the end, when he completed the run in just 4 hours and 9 minutes. Although it rained, we’re sure the runners would all agree [...]
Apr 01st 2010 - Sarah-Jayne Makin – Marathon des Sables 2010
A very good friend completed the Marathon des Sables (MDS) in 2007 and since then the idea keeps popping into my head, each time I have rapidly tried to send it away. However after a while I had to accept that this is something I really wanted to attempt. I am not an endurance event specialist at [...]
Mar 01st 2010 - Dhoon School Wellie Walk
Dhoon School are a small rural Primary school on the Isle of Man. Each year they hold a schoolwide Wellie Walk in aid of a named children’s charity, alternating with international and more local organisations. In 2010 they chose to support The Children’s Heart Federation and managed to raise an amazing total of over £1500. We’d [...]
