To Caring Matters Now My name is Ava, I’m 10 years old. My friend Megan and I did a sponsored silence to raise money for you. The reason we did this was because my brother, Harrison is affected by Congenital Melanocytic Nevi. We managed to raise £170.20 by doing the sponsored silence from midnight until…
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In December 2014 one of our founding trustees Jessica Ma lost her battle with cancer. Jessica was not only a trustee to the Caring Matters Now charity, but also an amazing, courageous and inspirational friend to many in the charity and beyond. Due to Jessica’s wise and tireless work in managing the charity’s finances over…
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The Belfast City Marathon is Northern Ireland’s largest sporting event with 17,500 people taking part every year. The race day includes a fun run a full marathon, an 8 mile walk and a wheel chair race, but it was the relay event that caught our attention. Over the years myself, Adam and many of our…
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My granddaughter Lois who is 5 years old was born with CMN so we have a very personal reason to raise money for the charity. On Saturday 18th April we held a charity night for CMN in Gilroyd social club. This is our third event of this type. We previously raised over £2500 with the…
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Dronfield is the small town where we grew up and they have held a 10k for the past 22 years! This year myself and Alex decided to challenge ourselves to run the tough 6.2mile route for Caring Matters Now. We both completed the course in exactly the same time of 1:03:56. Alex ran the course…
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2014 has been an epic year for fundraising and we would like to say a massive thank you to you all for doing your bit! But we must not rest on our laurels! We have seen an increase in corporate support, schools fundraising and so many more individuals getting involved in one way or another.…
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Recruitment for this post will commence shortly and we hope to have news of the newly appointed member of the CMN Research team in the July newsletter. This has been achieved through many different activities such as the CMN Dinner Dance, a very successful marathon run which raised over £10,000 and all of you taking…
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I first took up running 5 years ago at the age of 55. I was watching the Great north run on TV and thought I would have a go, so sent off an application and a few months later I had an acceptance! So, thought I best start training having never run 100 yards since…
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On 7th September 2014 Amy organised a Big Charity Family Fun Day in Sheffield. At the Charity Fun Day there was bouncy castles, face painting, balloons, fairground rides, stalls, Olaf, Minion and Doc McStuffin mascots, not to mention a BBQ, Bar and Zumba! The Big Charity Family Fun Day raised a grand total of £541.33!
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“CMN is obviously a very special charity to me and I got together with my friend, Sam who also is a keen fundraiser for The UK Sepsis Trust and CLAPA charities (These two charities mean a lot to her as she nearly lost her life to Sepsis and her eldest daughter was born with a…
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