SPRING UPDATE May 2019

Reg. Charity No. 1111286

Supporting Breast Cancer Care in Northamptonshire

Dear MembersWe’ve not been in touch for a while! We trust you are all fit and well.

Here is a brief overview of what we have been up to over the past few months and whatwe can all look forward to.

Walk No. 17 – Sunday May 19thHave you entered yet? Please take a look at our ‘NEW’ website to register on line:

www.crazyhatsbreastcancerappeal.co.uk; call in or give us a ring.

We need your support more than ever this year as there appear to many similar events on at the same time across the county. Everyone is welcome – dogs too.

This year, for one year only, all walkers will receive a pink baseball cap and a really lovely medal. Pink t-shirts will be onsale, although we urge everyone to dress in pink. Once again, we thank our sponsors, Avon, who will present each walker

with a special gift; Tesco, who will be donating biscuits; Premier who will be providing bottled water and AO Copy whohave supported us with printing costs. Special thanks to Wicksteed Park, whose facilities will be open for you all to enjoywith free parking up to 2.00p.m.; to the ‘entertainers’ and to the many volunteers who help in so many ways to ensure the

event runs smoothly. We look forward to seeing many of you there. Have you thought about setting up your ownfundraising page with either JustGiving or Virgin Money Giving.

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£3 million Madhatter’s Tea Party….. and what a party it was!

The photos say it all! It really was a wonderful way to celebrate reaching the £3m milestone. Thank you so much toeveryone for entering in to the spirit of the occasion – the hats were simply AMAZING. Special thanks to the staff atWicksteed Park for looking after us so well and providing such delicious food and to ‘Gem’ and her family from GemCelebrations (Sywell) for making the Pavilion look spectacular – a photographer’s paradise. Thank you to Vaughan &

Elison for taking such superb photos; to Tricia Stewart (Miss February from the original Calendar Girls) for joining us andfor giving such an enjoyable and enlightening talk; to Oliver Wicksteed and to Paul Stephens (Sales Director/Avon) for

their kind and generous words.

COFFEE & CHATSESSIONS

The weekly, and now fortnightly evening sessions, continue to be very well-attended with new patients attending every week. Simon Weldon, Chief

Executive of Kettering General Hospital will be visiting on the morning of ThursdayMay 2nd and members from the Oncology Management Team at Northampton

General Hospital will be visiting in the near future. Please feel free to come along.We look forward to building up stronger links with both hospitals and to discussingnew projects. We recently donated funds to Breast Screening at NGH to purchase

a new specialist chair to be used in mammography.Our three therapists, Sue, Karen and Heather are really enjoying their

sessions with our ladies.

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DARE TO BARE CALENDARHuge congratulations to Loraine, Amanda, Lucy, Debbie, Nila and Jayne

for raising £10,000 following sales of their very different calendar – in memory of past committee member and friend, Katie Scofield. They

presented £5,000 to Crazy Hats and £5,000 to Cransley Hospice at The Park Hotel on Sunday April 28th. We thank them so very much for their ingenuity, their hard work, commitment, dedication and enthusiasm in

seeing this unique fundraiser through from beginning to end. We feel sure they will have wonderful memories for life having done this.

Well done ladies!

NEW WEBSITEPlease make time to look through our new website – we are thrilled with it and thank Gavin and his team from In HouseMedia (Northampton) for their patience in building it for us. There are still pages to add but we would be grateful for any

feedback and ideas.

It’s a Joy!Special thanks to talented artistBrenda McKetty who recentlyorganised a 6 week drawing courseat Colemans Craft Warehouse inRushden. (Thank you to Colemansfor allowing us to use their spaciouscraft area.) The ladies who attendedthoroughly enjoyed the opportunityto learn new skills – with a specialcertificate of achievement beingawarded to Debbie Hill who madethe most progress! Well doneDebbie! If you are in Ketteringbetween now and June, please

make time to go along to the Alfred East Art Gallery, where Brenda and a few of hertalented colleagues, have put on a wonderful exhibition of their work. We went alongand were immediately inspired by such a marvellous collection of prints, paintings,sculptures and drawings, all of which are for sale. It is a ‘MUST SEE!’

HOLIDAY HOME – Hunstanton / NorfolkWe are now taking bookings for our beautiful holiday home – for

either 3 night stays (over a weekend) or 4 nights (week days). Eligible to patients who have, or have had breast cancer. Please contact us

or speak to your breast care nurse who can refer you.

Following surgery for breast cancer are you unsure? If so, why not come along to a bra fittingevening that we have arranged with Amoena – as per poster? They will have specialist bra

fitters who will measure and advise you as well as showing us a range of their unique lingerie.It is a free event but we are having to limit numbers to 100 so please get in touch if you are

interested in coming along.

Do you know your correct bra size?

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JUST KIDDING!!Neneview Dairy in

Stanwick, who specialisein artisan goats cheese

and rearing goats, had anopen weekend for Crazy

Hats whereby visitors(and there were plenty of

them) could see the‘kids’ at play and help to

feed them, as well asbeing able to purchase

artisan food products from the many stallholders there. It was certainly something different for Crazy Hats and we weredelighted that they will be making a donation to us from the proceeds. I think you will agree the ‘kids’ are gorgeous! (I couldn’t resist having a hold – and was told I was a ‘goat whisperer’, as my ‘kid’ promptly fell asleep in my arms.

Other news and up-coming events . . .Over the past few weeks we have been out and about givingtalks to various groups, attending a fashion show at Heidi’sBoutique in Wellingborough; having our feet seen to by ourpodiatrist ‘Christine’ who will be visiting next on Tuesday 28th May

(Please let us know if you would like an appointment -£17.00 per ½ hour session). Wehave attended a Ladies Lunch at

Rushden LAMS who have chosen usas their charity for the year and we

have attended a Meeting at theNorthants Business Club who also

have chosen us as their charity – forthe second year running. Sam Cunningham (from TropicSkin Care) came along to our evening group to talk about

her products; we went along to Victoria Primary Academy tojudge their Easter Hats and we organised our own Easter

Hamper Raffle at the office whereby visitors donated ‘yellow’items which were made in to many different hampers and

tickets were sold – over £200 was raised.Sales Director from Avon, Paul Stephens, successfully ran The London Marathon for us – more news on this to follow.

Thank you and WELL DONE Paul!!

Coming up we have a Quiz Night organised for July; we will be attending Earls Barton Carnival, Thrapston Charter Fair and Rushden Party in the Park.

We still have several tickets available to go and see the stage version of Les Miserables on Thursday May 30th at Milton Keynes. Please contact us if you are interested. All tickets for the Christmas Carol Concert at The Royal Albert Hall in

London have been sold.

I will update you again in a couple of months with more happenings and dates.Until then, keep well and, if you are passing, please do come and see us.

Thank you to everyone for your loyal support.

. . . and don’t forget to register for the walk!!

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