The GRACE Stall at the Reigate Christmas Street Fair is a long standing tradition, always hosted by our Chair of Trustees, Simon Butler-Manual and his wife Lucinda, regularly assisted by Pat Greenaway. The most recent fair was on Saturday 1st December and despite the atrocious weather - with torrential rains and winds - we took
GRACE held a very successful Christmas table sale of GRACE candles, creams and wonderful home made cakes and condiments on Thursday 29 November at the Royal Surrey. We took a total of almost £1200 which is fabulous! Many thanks to Lucy Dodds and all her friends who donated cakes, and to Sue Clarke for her
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Many thanks to our incredible Fundraiser Doris Foot and her friends at the Love Bean Cafe. Ivana, who runs the Love Bean Cafe, kindly held a fundraising event over the Summer Bank Holiday and raised an amazing £705. This was raised through donations of teas, coffees, cakes, sandwiches and a huge raffle. We would like
Having hopped around Haslemere since May, Hare - The Musical, sponsored by Roger Macdivitt, finally sits and waits patiently to find out who his new owner is. Hare - The Musical was auctioned off for an amazing £390. In addition to this, Hare carried around collection pots and had his own My Donate Page, and raised
Helen Sleightholme became Lady Captain at Aldershot Army Golf Club earlier this year. To kick off her captaincy, Helen held two breakfasts and drive-ins on Sunday 28th October and Tuesday 30th October. The Lady Captain generously picked GRACE as her chosen charity and raised an amazing £798 from both drive-ins. The club was joined by
Thank you to everyone who provided cakes or gifts for our fundraising table at RSCH on Thursday 3 May. We had amazing day and raised £537.00 for GRACE. Special thanks to Maria Hobbs, Chris Cook, Sue Permanand, Suzi Hutt, Amanda Borlase, Sophie Otter, Maria Ashworth, The Love Bean Cafe, Kavitha Madhuri and for all the
Lydia is back with her round up of the last week of Gynae Cancer Awareness Month... Day 22 of My Gynae Month. Cancer ain't all bad, WHAT!?!? What, you can't say that! Well it's true, it gave me a new state of mind which can be summed up beautifully by two very simple words: fuck it.
Great news! GRACE has been accepted on to the AVIVA Community Fund. We have applied for a grant of £1,000 towards a TrenGuard Patient Restraint System. This equipment comfortably keeps patients in a precise position during gynae surgery, when they are in a Trendelenburg position i.e feet are elevated higher than the head. More details
A photo Sophie took whilst running across Tower Bridge Huge congratulations to Sophie who ran the London Marathon last week on behalf of GRACE! Here she describes her experience: "Marathon day came round very quickly but my training had gone well and I had comfortably got up to 20 miles a few weeks
