Whilst we were in St Austell Tesco’s collecting for our Funeral Fund Appeal, Eddie, Tanya’s Dad had his body waxed in an attempt to raise more funds for this appeal. We managed to raise £415.16 in just 6 hours!!!
Well done Eddie, it was very brave of you to do this to help the Funeral Fund, and also a big thank you to Sharon who kindly gave up her time to do the waxing.
Well done Eddie!!
I have made a blog for pictures of our old events, if you have any pictures that you would like to be shown on our website please email them to us and we will put them up for you.
All of us at Tanya’s Courage would like to wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
May 2010 bring you all happiness.
We hope that 2010 will bring big and wonderful things for Tanya’s Courage and that we can continue to support young people with Cancer.
Saturday was a horrible wet and windy day, but thankfully the kind Firefighters at St Austell firestation allowed us to decorate our float in the station so we were nice and dry.
We spent from 9:30am until 4:30pm decorating the float and safely arrived at St Austell College at 5pm, with our lorry lit up and sparkling with a Christmas theme, as well as all volunteers including Nikki and Leon’s Dog Molly dressed up in Christmas outfits.
We were then judged whilst waiting for the procession to begin, dancing and singing along to Christmas music. The procession started at 6pm through St Austell Town with Tanya’s Courage volunteers waving, singing, dancing and handing out pens and leaflets. Unfortunately we had a little technical problem with the Generator so our lights and music stopped working but we didnt let that stop us from having fun, luckily we soon sorted the problem and had lights and music back within 10 minutes!
Once we hit the Council offices, the end of the parade, we all had a group hug and waited for the results. We then stood in anticipation whilst Sheila Vanloo from Radio St Austell Bay was announcing the winner of our category, when she announced it was us, we all cheered as Iris went to collect our Trophy.
Once we finished we took a long diverted route back to the firestation with lights on and music playing cheering all the way home, to take all the decorations off the float.
We would like to thank everyone who was involved in this event, as it was hard work, but so worth it. Everyone involved had such a great time and we look forward to the next carnival.
Get your thinking caps on and let us know any ideas for our next theme!!
For anyone wanting to attend our meetings the here are the dates up until our next AGM:
November 27th 2009
January 28th 2010
February 26th 2010
March 23rd 2010
AGM April 15th 2010
We are always looking for new volunteers. We have a wide age group and a wide range of event types from music festivals to store collections in local supermarkets, so im sure there is something that will interest you.
If you are interested in volunteering for us, even if it is for a one off event, we would love to hear from you. Please go to our Get In Touch page to find out how to contact us, or leave a comment here on the blog.
To help us improve things for Young Cancer sufferers in Cornwall and Isles of Scilly, please leave comments here on how we can improve our service in any way, or if you want to tell us what you think of what we do as a charity please feel free to leave your comments. We always welcome feedback as it is a great way of making sure we are doing all we can to help young Cancer sufferers in the best possible way. We look forward to your comments.
In March 2009 Iris, President of The Tanya’s Courage Trust, was awarded with Tesco Magazine Mum of the Year 2009. Iris was nominated by Tanya’s Doctor, Sophie Mepham,not only for all she did for Tanya when she was ill, but for all the hard work and passion she puts into Tanya’s Courage. She works tirelessly to make a difference to those going through what she has been through with her daughter.
Iris was treated to a fantastic weekend in London for the Award ceremony, where she stayed in the Waldorf Hilton and dined with the likes of Jimmy Osmond and Nell McAndrew, to name just a few. She was then presented with her award by Fiona Phillips and Jimmy Osmond, and was given her prize of re-branding of The Tanya’s Courage Trust and this fantastic new website from Creative Cherry, plus a 2 week P & O Cruise to the Caribbean. Tesco also awarded The Tanya’s Courage Trust with their first Celebrity Patron Neil Warnock, Manager of Crystal Palace FC.
Iris on the Red Carpet with Fiona Phillips and Nell McAndrew
Iris
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