Local Charities supported include:
• The Joseph Foote Fundraising Trust – see details below.
• Cure Leukemia – see details below.
• The Shakespeare Hospice in Stratford on Avon.
• Warwickshire & Northampton Air Ambulance.
• Stratford & District Ambulance Association.
• Stratford St Johns Ambulance.
Local Community Projects supported include:
• Heart stop machines & first responders for Long Marston, Bidford and Quinton villages.
• Speed visors in Long Marston village.
• Improvements to community buildings such as Admington and Quinton Village Hall, Long Marston Village Hall and Preston on Stour Village Hall.
• Local community groups, such as Quads Drama Group in Quinton.
• Community churches in Long Marston, Quinton and Preston on Stour.
• The Open Space Project in Long Marston.
• Youth and children's facilities including Alcester Children’s Group, Quinton Youth Group, Quinton skate park and Welford on Avon Scout Group.
• Local schools, such as Friends of Quinton Junior School.
• Warwickshire Country Parks.
• Local sports clubs, including sponsoring Shipston on Stour Junior Rugby Club on their 2011 tour to Somerset and providing funds for Ilmington, Quinton and Welford cricket clubs.
National Charities supported include:
• Cancer Research UK
• The Douglas Bader Foundation
• The Challenger Trust
The Joseph Foote Fundraising Trust
The Joseph Foote Fundraising Trust charity was formed in 2001 after Joseph Foote was diagnosed with a brain tumour, aged only two. Joseph’s cancer returned numerous times and after many operations and removals of the tumour it eventually claimed his life in August 2007 – aged just nine years old.
Two children every day are diagnosed with this form of cancer in the UK alone, and thousands more worldwide. It has taken over Leukaemia as the leading killer and continues to take so many young lives each year.
Joseph’s father, Andy Foote, set up the charity which has so far raised over £1.5Million and has been supported by the GlobalGathering team since its formation
Achievements so far by the Joseph Foote Fundraising Trust include:
• Laboratory with £1Million worth of ‘state-of-the-art’ research equipment
• 12 full time scientists
• Largest collection of Paediatric brain tumour tissues worldwide for research.
• Live cell lines growing in the lab (these are very difficult to culture) that will advance our research – only a few people worldwide have managed this.
• We have identified the 3 genes that are responsible for the success of this disease and are now testing drugs to target those genes without damaging healthy ones.
More finding is needed for the following:
The charity hopes to start human clinical trials within the next three years with the new drug being developed. It will take nine years to complete the trials, but by then they will be saving lives and close to the cure. Fundraising is needed to achieve this breakthrough that could save the lives of thousands of children each year.
And finally, the charity keeps back approximately 5% of the funds each year to help the children that are undergoing gruelling chemotherapy treatment or for the less fortunate that have been told there is no hope left. The charity offers these children and their families a “wish”, they are sent on a holiday or to meet a star or even they just receive a gift, what ever they wish for.
The charity needs your help and together we can make a difference. To make a donation or hold a fund raising event please visit www.josephfoote.co.uk or contact the charity on 0121 744 1444 or email: info@josephfoote.co.uk.
Cure Leukaemia
The Cure Leukaemia Appeal is a multi-million pound project launched in 2004 to create a world class centre of excellence for clinical leukaemia research at University Hospital Birmingham.
To date Cure Leukaemia has:
• Raised £2.4 million to build the Centre at University Hospital Birmingham, which is now fully operational.
• Leveraged free drugs for clinical trials, which are having a worldwide impact.
• Funded salaries for 15 research nurses over three years.
• Funded patient care and patient support groups.
• Purchased state-of-the-art equipment to support the research.
More funded is needed for the following:
• More research scientists.
• More research nurses.
• Haematology units throughout the Midlands to extend the impact of the clinical research currently taking place at the Leukaemia Centre.
• Ground breaking clinical projects.
• State of the art equipment such as a blood count machine at £40,000 each which are desperately required.
• Purchase of drugs for further clinical trials.
Supporting Cure Leukaemia is helping a Midlands charity to provide a better,
brighter future for 125,000 leukaemia patients in the UK and ultimately throughout the world.
• There are 25,000 new patients diagnosed every year with more than 20 different forms of blood cancer.
• There has been an 80% mortality rate amongst adult patients with leukaemia – now a reducing figure due to the impact of the new clinical research.
• The 1,500th bone marrow transplant has now taken place at the QE hospital.
Please visit www.cureleukaemia.co.uk.
