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My Personal Message Hey Guys,Thanks for visiting the Sharon Rice O'Beirne Melanoma Trust fundraising page. This is our second mycharity.com page for the melanoma trust, already we have raised €66,160.02 from all events done to date. All funds raised from this trust are donated to The Irish Cancer Society's Sun Smart Programme and research and awareness into melanoma skin cancer. This programme aims to raise Awareness regarding skin cancer prevention and the importance of early detection. The trust was set up in memory of Sharon, who on the 2nd of February 2008 lost her brave battle against Melanoma Skin Cancer. A cancer which is unfortunately on the increase in Ireland. The aim of this trust is to bring about an Awareness of this potentially fatal disease and to help fund Irish research in this particular area. Sharon's great strength and positive attitude throughout her illness has encouraged her family & friends to try and promote awareness of this devastating disease to more people who are potentially at risk. Thank you in advance for your generosity in supporting this worthwhile fund which we hope will be of benefit to others. For further information, call the National Cancer Helpline on Freefone 1800 200 700 or visit www.cancer.ie/sunsmart, or www.melanomatrust.com Please read a few words about the charity that I have chosen to support below. You can donate using the "sponsor me now" button below via credit or debit card. You can be assured that your transaction on the mycharity.ie website is very secure. You will automatically receive an e-mail from me thanking you for your support, and acknowledging the amount of your donation. Any donation no matter how small is hugely appreciated. Many thanks in advance for your support, The Rice & O'Beirne Families & Friends EVENT LOG: 2010 Women's Mini Marathon is coming up in June, sponsor cards now available. It's already been so busy for us this year with the continuous Ireland County Tops Mountain Challenge with Peter to the Coast to Coast canal walk with Brian and Dee to TV3 appearances by Bernie and so many other great events.. We'd like to thank everyone for all their support with fundraising and of course with the time that they have kindly shared with our cause for skin cancer awareness. Thanks to Derek for the Barcelona Marathon, Bernie for all the press coverage, Darren and David for their proposed 2010 Golf fundraiser and all other fundraising events being planned for the year. Good luck to everyone. It's early in the year yet, so we will be updating this section as the year goes on.. 2009 October 26th, we have a number of people competing in the Dublin City Marathon in aid of The Melanoma Trust, so get your cameras out and shouting voice in gear and give them all the support you can on the day.. Best of luck to all participating!! October 31st- PGA Charity Golf Day is our next big event. Thanks to the great imagination and support of Darren Dunning and David lambert, a charity fancy dress golf day is being held with lots of other activities available on the day for families & friends or for those who do not consider themselves golfers but would like to support! We're hoping to give a car away for a 'hole in one' prize and we hope to have a celebrity on board to present prizes to the golfers on the night... Music and Karaoke are planned for the evening time where we will be holding an auction and a raffle with some wonderful items on offer with special prizes going to the best fancy dress! Looking forward to the auctioning off of the ALL BLACKS signed rugby shirt for skin cancer. Please contact us for tickets to this special event.. MAY Bank Holiday weekend We took on the challenge of the Sheeps Head Way in West Cork to highlight Awareness of skin cancer in Ireland through The Melanoma Trust. Thank you to everyone who supported us with the organisation of and fundraising for the event.. It was such a great weekend and a great boost in our goal of getting skin cancer awareness out there. 2008 MARCH------------ Table Quiz hosted by Ulster Bank with all proceeds going to our trust JUNE--------------- congratulations and a huge thank you to all who participated in the Womens Mini marathon !!!!!!! Your contribution to the effort was a huge help and brought us ever closer to our goal!! Also big thank you to Billy Byrne for his fundraising in the Wicklow 200 cycle challenge.... JULY---------------- Thanks to all who ran the ADIDAS 5 MILE in the Pheonix Park, great event and some impressive times- thanks Gary Carroll for fundraising !!!! Also a huge thanks to the staff at CADBURYS IRELAND for their fundraising effort (Well done Noreen!!!) AUGUST Our big 132km, 5 day Wicklow Way Challenge walk was sucessfully completed on the 24th... All help with fundraising was greatly appreciated.. We have just updated our figure for money collected to date, we have done so well...! in total throughout the year we raised over €50,000!! A Special BIG THANK YOU to everyone who partook in the event & especially the following people for their time, effort and support throughout our first year: Eoin Reilly Noreen Mc Dougall Alli McGovern Billy Byrne Pat Beausang Joe Gavin Liam King Graham Union (driver extraodinaire!) Shane Haughney Ian Mc Keever The Courtyard Hotel Bobby Harper & co.(for all the Entertainment!) OCTOBER The Dublin City Marathon was completed by John Ryan, David Murphy, Lorraine & Peter Rice & Louise Gaffney.. Some brilliant fundraising and support shown by all..! NOVEMBER Thanks to Michael Fitzgerald for his fundraising efforts in the New York City Marathon and to Liz for her help.. MELANOMA TRUST website.. www.melanomatrust.com We have just set up a site with important information on melanoma skin cancer that also shows calender dates of other fund raising we are planning for this year. Please feel free to browse it, we will be updating it continuously with facts and events throughout the year. |
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About my charity The Irish Cancer Society is the national charity dedicated to preventing cancer, saving lives from cancer and improving the quality of life of those living with cancer through patient care, research and education. The Society is financed entirely by voluntary contributions from the public and receives no government funding. We rely on thousands of dedicated volunteers from around the country to help with our fundraising activities. We are the largest voluntary funders of Cancer Research in Ireland, and we also provide support and nursing care for people at every step of their cancer journey. Help us continue to deliver our much needed services throughout Ireland. To see a full list of our upcoming events, please see click here (www.cancer.ie/events) and get involved! If you are setting up a fundraising page on MyCharity.ie, please register your event with us first so that we can provide you with fundraising materials and assist you with your fundraising. Contact us at CallSave 1850 60 60 60 or email fundraising@irishcancer.ie. Thank you for joining us in the fight against cancer. Click here for more information |
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