Tickhill St Mary’s School fundraising

As you are well aware, all my fundraising antics this summer have been in aid of Diabetes UK, with the aim of trying to find a cure for Samuel.

In fundraising news of a slightly different kind but going to the same cause, Samuel’s old headmistress gave me a call a couple of weeks ago.

The teachers and pupils at Tickhill St Mary’s do a collection every year at Harvest Festival time to raise money for charity. For the last few years, this has gone to a local hospice in Doncaster. However, this year they had a meeting and decided that they would like the money to go to Curesam – or more specifically the Diabetes charity that we support through Curesam.

I was blown away by this – what a wonderfully generous offer. Samuel is no longer at the school, having moved up to ‘big school’ this year, but his two younger sisters are still there.

I was even more blown away when the school secretary rang me on Friday to say they have collected all the monies in and the total is £424 – WOW!!!!

I have arranged for a representative of Diabetes UK to come into the school to collect the ‘Big cheque’ and will post some photo’s in the next couple of weeks.