Archived News
Archived news from the NILRF:
We raised a fantastic £1004.95 with our Belfast Street Collection on 24 September 2011. Many thanks goes to everyone who collected on the day. Can you help with future street collections? Please contact our office.
Anita and Donna Ross organised a very successful Charity Fashion Show at the Linen Green, Dungannon on Friday 13 May and raised a fabulous £1214 for the NILRF.
Dr Sandra Irvine and Frances Parker from NILRF went along on the evening to support the event, and Donna Ross visited the CCRCB over the summer to present a cheque to Professor Ken Mills.
Our thanks goes to everyone who helped with the organisation of this event.
Bangor company Teleperformance had a ‘Dressing Down Day’ at work and raised a fantastic £1268.74 for NILRF!
John Peel from Bangor Branch went along to collect the donation and meet some of Teleperformance’s staff,
including Aimee Boyce who nominated us as one of the Company’s Charities for 2011.
Joan and Billy McGonigle recently organised an Old Tyme and Sequence Dance in Omagh which raised £2112.
This was the second dance they have organised for the NILRF and have promised to arrange another one in 2012! Click for more photos.
On Saturday 28 June at Ballycran Boxing Club of John Peel from Bangor Committee accepted a cheque for £1,200.
The Club had ten groups of young boxers who took part in this year’s Belfast City Marathon.
Our Charity was very fortunate to receive a portion of the money which they had raised through a Mr Bill Nicholson.
Cullion woman Mrs Irene Black recently handed over a cheque for £420 to Northern Ireland Leukaemia Research Fund (NILRF) - Strabane Branch.
Mrs Black who celebrated her 60th birthday with family and friends at Donemana Cricket Club and as a result of requesting no presents – donations were given to the NILRF.
Mrs Black was first diagnosed with Leukaemia some 10 years ago and said she was only too pleased to be able to help the research fund in this way.
A spokesperson for the Strabane Branch of the Northern Ireland Leukaemia Research Fund said that this was indeed a most generous gift from Mrs Irene Black and her family and friends.
A cheque in the amount of £250 was recently presented by Ms Janet Williamson (centre) Headmistress of the Royal Belfast Academical Institution,
to John Peel (2nd from right) of the Bangor Committee.
This amount was raised by the school organising a Talent Show.
Also pictured are from the left Alex McGowan (Head Boy), Dennis McMorris (NILRF Treasurer and Bangor Committee), and Scott Hool.
Bangor’s Niamh Perry has appeared on the BBC talent show “I’d Do Anything”, which has launched her on the singing career that she has always dreamt of, having recently appeared on the West End in musicals including Andrew Lloyd Webber’s ‘Love Never Dies’.
However, Niamh knows from experience that not everybody has the opportunity to achieve their dreams, due to illness. She recently spent some of her time off in Belfast visiting the leukaemia research group in the Centre for Cancer Research and Cell Biology at Queen’s University Belfast.
Niamh wanted to visit this group, supported by the Northern Ireland Leukaemia Research Fund (NILRF), as her uncle died from the illness.
She wanted to show her support for the NILRF as they have active fundraising branches both in her home town and across Northern Ireland, and all of the funds raised by the NILRF are also spent in Northern Ireland supporting leukaemia research.
During her visit to the NILRF supported laboratories, Niamh met members of the research group and also launched the NILRF's campaign to encourage participants in the Belfast Marathon to adopt the NILRF as their charity.
Niamh later visited the Belfast Children's Hosptial where she meet several children with cancer and leukaemia.
If you are going to run the Belfast Marathon on May 3rd, why not do it to support the NILRF?
Contact Frances Parker at the NILRF Office on 028 9097 2928 or email m.parker@qub.ac.uk.
Set up a fund raising account on JustGiving for your sponsorship donations to the NILRF
The staff and students of South West College have contributed recipes to a Cook Book to raise funds for Northern Ireland Leukaemia Research Fund and Kidney Research.
All the recipes were contributed by Staff and Students of South West College and coordinated by Caroline Harker. Caroline spent study periods with the scientists of the Leukaemia Research Group at the CCRCB to try to develop interactions between the College and the NILRF research staff.
The cookery book is priced £4 and available from South West College, local Enniskillen shops and by email!
DIAGEO Bailey's Global Supply based at Mallusk, near Newtonabbey, have achieved an amazing 3 year record of safety within the company. Each of these months, the plant was awarded funds to donate to charities nominated by workers at the plant.
Plant Manager, Michael Hailes, nominated the NILRF as one of 16 charities supported in 2010. Michael presented a cheque of £750 to Professor Ken Mills for the NILRF at their recent charities event.
Thank you to all the workers for not only having an impressive safety record but also for supporting the NILRF
Dr Scott McCloskey from the Haematology Department at the Belfast City Hospital accepted a cheque in the amount of £2,100 on behalf of the NILRF from Mrs June Humphries Lady Captain of the Armagh Golf Club who organised a Golf Outing.
The Central Committee wish to thank Prof. Lappin for his work and contributions to the Fund particularly over the past 12 years.
A dinner was held recently to honour Terry, and his wife Gill, was attended by members of the Central committee and work colleagues including Prof. John Bridges, Prof. Curly Morris and Prof. Ken Mills.
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The Richie Warburton Memorial Cuphad been scheduled for the previous weekend but was washed out but was played on Fri 24th Sept in honour of a long time member of the Knock Golf Club Richie Warburton who lost a very brief battle with AML on July 2nd 2010 aged 65yrs.
This cup will be a yearly memorial event where the family have asked the Club to donate any raised money to the NILRF.
Mr Arnold Gardiner visited the leukaemia research laboratories in the CCRCB to unveil a plaque acknowledging his generous donation which has purchased a Real-time PCR instrument.
Professor Ken Mills thanked Arnold for the donation made in memory of his wife Norma.
The instrument accurately measure the levels of RNA within cells and allows minute changes to be monitored for research and monitoring response to therapies.
Several groups within the laboratories rely on this type of technology for their research project and scientists and students were applauded as the plaque was unveiled.
