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Lisburn Branch raising funds for NILRF 27 Years non-stop
The
Lisburn Branch of the Northern Ireland Leukaemia Research Fund
provided the funding to purchase new
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 Mr
John Galloway, President of Greenmount
Association and Michael Graham visited the
Haematology Research Group on Wednesday 12th April
to present Professor TRJ Lappin with a cheque
in the amount of £645 which they raised at an Annual Dinner Dance at
the Country House, Tullylagan,
Cookstown
earlier in the year |
  Frances
Parker who has worked for the Fund for a number of years celebrated
a big birthday in the Department before Easter. A surprise party
was organized for her and the pictures show everyone having a good
time before finishing for the Easter Break |
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Once again this year the annual Bikeathon was held in Ormeau Park and was well attended by children, bikes and thank goodness the weather. Our celebrity at this year's event was the lovely Alexandra Ford, who plays Dympna in the television program 'Give my head peace'. It was a wonderful day and a great deal of fun was had as well as money raised.
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Chartered Accountants Dig Deep for Kids Charities
Ulster’s Chartered Accountants put their hands in their pockets this week to help out local children’s charities. The Ulster Society of Chartered Accountants (USCA) split the £6,000 raised at its Charity Lunch between the Northern Ireland Children’s Hospice and the Northern Ireland Leukaemia Research Fund. The event also raised £10,000 worth of toys for the Salvation Army and St. Vincent de Paul.
David Tate, Chairman of t
“Each year the event gets bigger and bigger, and with our Charity Lunch in Derry now well established we’re able to give more to charities in the North West as well. We’re delighted to be able to present these funds to our nominated charities as we know that they will go towards helping local children.”
Pictured at the cheque presentations are (from left) David Tate, USCA Chairman; Siofra Healy, NI Children’s Hospice; and Frances Parker of the NI Leukaemia Research Fund.
The Ulster Society of Chartered Accountants is a district society of The Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland, Ireland's largest and oldest professional body of accountants founded in 1888 and with 14,600 members. www.uscai.com |
 Dr
Sandra Irvine collected a cheque for
£1000 from Rodney O’Neill from Thales Air
Defence. The money will be used by the
Haematology Research Group to
purchase a Centrifuge |
| Glenda McGonigle, Lisa Crawford and Phil Windrum graduated with PhD degrees from Queen’s University on 4th July 2006. All students are grateful to NILRF for the support they received during their study. |
 Derek
Heatly is one of the few people in the world to have flown in
outer space. He is from Bangor in County Down Northern
Ireland and has been using his experience and memories to good
effect in raising money for NILRF. His next celebrity
appearance is at
''Spaced Out'' day on Sunday 20th August, 2-5pm for the National Trust
at Mount Stewart,Co.Down. Tel. 028 4278 8387 for tickets.He is also appearing at the ''Green Living Fair'' at Castle Espie, World Wildlife Trust, Ballydrain Road, Comber on Saturday and Sunday 16th & 17th September at 10.30 - 5.30pm. Tel. 028 9187 4146. As usual he will be delighted to sign and sell space-related books, cds, dvds, photos, meteorites,etc. All proceeds going to NILRF |
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Christopher Telford who is the Translink Internal Auditor has donated £660.00 directly to the Leukaemia Research Fund in London and an additional £660.00 was then donated to NILRF via Translink's Staff Charity Matching Scheme. The donation was raised by Christopher taking part in the Bupa Great North Run which was held on Sunday 1st October 2006 in Newcastle - upon - Tyne. It is the world's largest half Marathon event of 13.1 miles with around 50,000 entries each year.
Christopher completed the half marathon in a time of 1 hour 43 minutes & 45 seconds. Jennifer Hanna is in the photograph with Christopher. She is a friend and the kind person who helped him to raise the original £660.00 |
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The Cannonball Run took place in August 2007 raising funds for NILRF Click above to see details!
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Northern Ireland Leukaemia Research Fund Christmas Cards 2007
Here is your chance to buy our really special Christmas Cards and support NILRF at the same time. Please tell all your friends about this great opportunity!
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The East Antrim branch of NILRF asks that you put these dates in your diary!!!! Antique Fair May 2008 (TBA) M&S bag packing 24 May 2008 Ballymena Collection 7 June 2008 Ladies who Lunch 28 June 2008 Larne Collection 6 September 2008 Belfast Collection 29 September 2008 Full Length & Fabulous Dance October 2008 (TBA) Craft Fair 15 November 2008
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  Joan
and Billy McGonigle and friends John and Valerie McConnell
presented a cheque to
NILRF. Billy and Joan had a
'Bag Pack' at Asda, Dromore Road, Omagh on 26th April 2008.
This 'Bag Packing' event was booked with Asda for one year. We
started at 9.00 am and finished at 6.00 pm. There were 11 tills
in operation most of the day. We had a total of 23 people
helping us on the day. Each person did a 3 hour shift, the
first one from 9.00 am - 12.00 noon. 12.00 noon to 3.00 pm and
the last one from 3.00 pm until 6.00 pm. We wore Leukaemia
Research T shirts and name badges. When we camehome we started to count the money and ended up with the magnificent figure of £1,620.00. Also included in the photo to the left are Professor Terry Lappin and Dr Glenda McGonigle who is the daughter of Billy and Joan. Forthcoming Event
The next fund raiser
for NILRF is an 'Old Tyme Dance' in Lislimnaghan Parish Church
Hall, Omagh (beside the Sperrin Restaurant) on Wednesday 4th
June 2008 starting at 8.30 pm until 11.30 pm. Admission is
£5.00 and this includes supper. Dancing to a great band called
'Country Traditions'. This is sure to be a great night, so
please come along and bring as many friends as you can. There
will be representation from the NILRF as well to receive the
money raised on the night. |
 On
the 16th May 2008 Arlene Cameron presented a special cheque to
Professor Terry Lappin with a donation in the amount of £745.00
to the Northern Ireland Leukaemia research Fund which she had
raised by participating in the 2008 “Belfast City Marathon”
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Billy and Joan McGonigle organised a fund raiser for NILRF as an 'Old Tyme Dance' in Lislimnaghan Parish Church Hall, Omagh (beside the Sperrin Restaurant) on Wednesday 4th June 2008
Joan says "£1,100.00
was raised at our Olde Tyme Dance in Lislimnaghan last Wednesday
night 4th June 2008. Dancing started
Dr Glenda McGonigle
travelled down from CCRCB to receive a cheque for £1045.50, but
then with donations made afterwards by generous people the
donation ended up with the magnificent amount of £1,100.00 which
was lodged yesterday to Northern Ireland Leukaemia Research
Fund.
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Colin Ritchie from Newtownards is climbing Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania, in June 2008 in aid of Leukaemia Research in Northern Ireland (NILRF). Standing at a staggering 6000 metres this will be a truly titanic 12-day challenge for Colin who’s inspiration comes from all those affected by Leukaemia and the quest in finding a cure. The donation of £3500 to date was the result of weeks of fundraising activities by friends and volunteers of the Bangor branch of NILRF who rallied together in memory of Michael Taylor a life time friend of Colin. Michael sadly passed away in 2005 at the age of 23yrs after a long and courageous fight with Leukaemia. He attended Regent House Grammar School and played rugby for the school and his home town of Newtownards.
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The photo shows them presenting Dr Lynn McCallum from the Haematology Department with a substantial cheque in the amount of £258.40. They had raised this amount by filling mini egg tubes with 20ps during their Easter Holidays this year.
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