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A Mile in Memory 2013 

25/2/2013

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Since 2007 A Mile in Memory has been a lovely way for family and friends to get together to honour the life of someone special.  It is a poignant event for us as it was founded the year that Alexander died and the first fundraising we ever did.  Members of Mumsnet started the walk in memory of a little girl called Maude who was 2 when she died in January 2007.  It was a huge success and FSID took the event on as their own.


I've never met Nola, Maude's Mummy but we were in contact then and we still are friends on Facebook.  I owe a lot to Maude and Nola for helping me through those first few months,  I found it hard and unthinkable that Alex was over 1 when he died and knowing I wasn't alone in that was a little comforting.  I had never heard of babies over 1 suffering from Cot Death or Sudden Infant Death Syndrome but it does happen, sadly. 

This year's I've planned a walk in Yorkshire at Cannon Hall Park and Gardens.  This is a fabulous local setting and after we have strolled around our mile we will release our balloons and messages into the sky for our angels to read.

I hope to organise a little bit of fun after as well with our usual picnic taking place but also some games and a bit of fun for us all to get involved in.  If you can help with this or have any ideas as to what we could do then please do get in touch.

The date is Saturday 11th May and as with previous walks there will be many held across the country and as we all set of at 11:00 I know there will be many thoughts with all those babies that we couldn't be sharing the walk with.

If you would like to join us then please do I will ask for a donation to the charity as part of the walk nothing to break the bank just £1 and I have set up a Facebook event so I can communicate any details on there as well as here on the website.  
https://www.facebook.com/events/359706987477673/

I look forward to seeing you then 


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The Total !!!

12/2/2013

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So, that's it! Done and dusted for another year and what an absolutely fabulous night!

Starting at 10am with Sam and her Glamourpuss team (and a couple of novice hands) there were 300 sashes, 30 mirrors, Vases and Light bases, over 3000 feathers, millions of table diamonds, 1 blow up Champagne bottle, 50ish balloons and one emergency trip back to Barnsley! 

The room looked stunning and as always Sam gave The Queens Hotel Ballroom the WOW factor.  Everyone commented on how stunning it all looked so Thank You Sam.

The decor was then given a sparkly boost with the addition of a Twinkle Dancefloor supplied by Wedding Venue Lighting if you haven't seen one in action I have to say it beats dancing on a plain old dance floor, I think this is going to have to be a regular addition to The Ball now! Lighting in the room was given an ambient pink glow by Martin from Carta Projects as well as our lovely logo on the wall, I have to say even though we had a little hiccup with the lights due to The Queens electrics not being 100% Martin didn't hesitate to drive all the way back to us to sort it out.  Excellent service and I am trying to restrain myself from looking at all the fantastic things Carta Projects can do for us for 2014!!!

That was it the night was under-way, the speech was nervously spoken whilst trying to hold back the tears and take in the 300 pairs of eyes staring back at me, the meal was delicious and the drinks were flowing nicely.

Our entertainment was massive hit so once again I need to say Thank You to Graeme Cox
http://www.party-joe.com/fr_home.cfm for starting the evening off with his wonderful voice and Mark Waddington who entertained brilliantly with his magic,  the amount of people talking about the tricks at breakfast made me chuckle alot. http://yorkshireweddingmagician.com/

Func on the Rocks were unbelievable no sooner had they said hello and started their set then the dance floor was swamped, you did a brilliant job guys the dance floor never emptied whilst you were playing and so many people came to me to say how good you were http://funcontherocks.com/  Also our Fun Casino was once again a massive hit so Thank You to Ian Mac and Grosvenor Fun Casino's everyone had a blast and lots of very happy prize winners.

There are some brilliant pictures floating about from the night some of which are here, if you were there and would like to share them please tag us on facebook I'd love to see them
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.429715100440457.101254.284367448308557&

Please please share your memories with us, what you enjoyed and maybe what you'd like to see in the future, all ideas are gratefully received.

And so to our total ...






£16029 is the total raised from the sales of all tickets including the Raffle, Auction Prizes, Sales of Fun Casino Money and Golden Envelopes on the night and the donation from our Photographer.  Also included in this total is £410 from Penistone Players, our local Theatre Group who I have to say did a great job Thank You All.

I'm overwhelmed I wanted £15000 and hoped we could achieve it so THANK YOU all so so much for playing a part in it. I now need to have a chat with FSID and talk about where this money is best placed, some of which will be going into research as normal but I would really like to keep this in Yorshire and have a legacy for Alexander in his home county.

It also appears that I may have booked Alexander's Charity Ball 2014 so after a few months off I shall come back to you all ready to start again!!!


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