Our Great Events

Bank Holiday Monday - a day that the majority of us enjoy to have a lie in, do some gardening, meet up with friend for lunch - but not our runners.  Fifteen of you took to the streets of London to complete the BUPA London 10K for The Lily Foundation.  All our runners completed the course in very good times indeed.  One of our runners finished in 40mins - well done Martin!!  Thank you all very much you are all superstars!

If you are interested in running this race next year.  We do have guaranteed places for this event.  To find out more information get it touch with Liz - mailto:liz@thelilyfoundation.org.uk

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Thank you to everyone who attended the Lily Foundation Race Day and Football Legends Lunch.  We had fantastic weather to enjoy the races.  Brighton Race Course once again ensured that the food was magnificent and that the booze followed continually.  Some of us got lucky, others not quite so much! We were joined on the day by a number of football legends, including Alan Curbishley, Lee Dixon, Jimmy Case and the best football commentator on the telly - Jonathan Pearce!! Sky's 'At The Races' also took an interest in the foundation airing an interview with Alan Curbishley and Liz Curtis later in the evening.  We raised over £4000!!!!  Thank you.

 

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Thank you to everyone who attended this years Midlands Golf Day.  It was a brilliant day. Once again Sapey Golf Course was in great condition enabling the golfers to enjoy a fantastic round of golf. Thank you to Mark Lawrenson who joined us once again, helping Jonathan Pearce to host the dinner and the prize giving. We raised just over £2000 on the day - thanks to you all. A special thank you to Bruce for organising the day and to Jim and Anne Preece for hosting the day.

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This year marked our second Lily Foundation Sponsored swim.  Thank you to everyone who took part either with the organisation of the day or in the swim itself.  Once again we exceeded our expectations with over 60 swimmers.  We set ourselves a huge challenge this year to swim 71 miles which is the distance between The Needles Isle of Wight to the Channel Island of Alderney.  We did not quite make the distance falling just 4 miles short.  Once again the children aged between 3 and 14 swum exceeding well many of them non stop for the full three hours clocking up a number of miles between them.  Well done and thank you to everyone. A special thank you to Annie and Olivia for organising the cake sale and to all those who spent the night before and morning baking! A great day was had by all and we are hoping to raise in excess of £1000.00

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Well done all of our 18 runners who ran in this year's Virgin London Marathon.  Some of you went out there to run a fast time, others just wanted to get round. All you of you achieved this so well done and thank you.  What an achievement!

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Thank you to everyone who came to The Lily Foundation 3rd Annual Ball on March 13th 2010. A huge event this year raising a magnificent £36,500. Well the night was full of surprises with the World Heavy Weight Champion dropping by for a chat with our very own Jonathan Pearce. We were also joined by cast of the Bill including Lucy Speed who plays DC Stevie Moss, Sally Rogers who plays Sergeant Jo Masters and Simon Rouse who plays DC Jack Meadows.  Presenter of BBCs Football Focus Dan Walker and footballers Mark Bright, Geoff Thomas, Robbie Earle, John Salako ,Rufus Brevett and our forever faithful Tony Gale helped us to raise awareness and funds for The Lily Foundation. We were gracefully dancing to the sounds of the Ratpack Boys who stunned the audience during dinner as The Singing Waiters. They created a relaxed and comfortable atmosphere which ensured a great night was had by all. The auction was our most exciting to date thank you everyone who took part and those with the successful bids.

Let us not forget the purpose of the evening - we handed over a cheque for £70,000 to aid research and training into Mitochondrial Diseases.

Thanks to everyone!!

 

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A huge thank you to Kevin Day who organised this event and managed to put together the following line up; our comperes for the evening Kevin Day and Andre Vincent did an amazingly brilliant job at warming up the crowd to meet Jason Manford, Jo Brand, John Maloney, Terry Alderton a our surprise guest of the evening Jack Dee. The Comedy Store was buzzing! To finish the evening off we were joined by former footballer Edgar Davidds who watched on from the stalls. Thank you to all the hilarious comics who gave up their time to support The Lily Foundation with fantastically funny stand up comedy. One lady said to me at the end of the night "I am glad it is over as I don't think I can actually laugh anymore! We will announce how much money we raised very soon.

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A huge success once again. Looking forward to the next one!

Thank to to everyone who came along and supported the Christmas Tree Festival at Saint Augustine's Church and a huge thank you to Catherine Hill who organised the event and choose to support The Lily Foundation. We entered a tree of course and we won the vote for the best decorated tree! Thank you

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Thank you to the Designer Baby Show for inviting the Lily Foundation to the exhibition on Sunday 15th November.It provided us with a great opportunity to meet a new audience and spread the word about the aims and vision of The Lily Foundation. We held a tombola stall for which the prizes were donated by the companies exhibiting on the day.  We raised £150 so thank you very much.

Whyteleafe Netball Club hosted a charity auction on Saturday 17th October.  The club worked so hard to make this evening a huge success.  Thank you to all the companies that donated prizes and to Barclays Bank and Mercers who have matched some of the funds raised. The evening raised a magnificent £2160 for the Lily Foundation. Thank you.

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Thank you to everybody who came to Bagattis who made it another huge success.  Leon and Glenn performed thier magic and had everyone up dancing and singing!!! A brilliant night which raised £5500. Thank you Peter and your staff for having us once more, we are looking forward to next year!!

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What a fantastic day! The sun shone which enabled us to take full advantage of the beautiful surroundings of Silvermere Golf Club. A great round of golf (well fun anyway!), drinks on the veranda overlooking the lake, followed by an evening meal and a fabulous auction.  The auction included a round of golf with Tony Gale and Doug McCelland, a visit to Jeff Stelling's Soccer Saturday Programme and a round of golf at the prestigious London Club and signed sporting memorabilia

We raised a magnificent total of £6500. We would like to thank as always Tony Gale for co hosting the evening with Jonathan Pearce, our celebrity guests, Mark Bright and Lawrie Sanchez.  Finally thank you to all the staff at Silvermere for making us so very welcome.

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Thank you to everyone who took part in the first Lily Foundation Sponsored Swim. It was a fantastic day.  At the beginning of the day our aim was to swim the equivalent number of miles as the width of the English Channel. This is 22 miles. We smashed it!!!! Together on July 11th 2009 we swam 58 miles. Well done everyone.

In total 65 swimmers took part, our youngest unaided swimmer was 4.  It was infact the children who stole the show. A number of our swimmers aged 10 and under swam 2 miles and the majority managed 1/2 a mile at least. The under 16s clocked up 30 miles between them. It was great to see the children so involved, so dedicated and so passionate about helping the Lily Foundation reach the set target of 22 miles.

The day was a great fun day out for the whole family.  We will definitely be doing it again next year.

We hope to raise £2000.00

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The Lily Foundation and Freedom Leisure, Hassocks  teamed up to host a 6-a-side football tournament at Downlands School Hassocks. Seven teams competed for the 2009 Lily Foundation/Freedom Leisure Trophy.

The sun shone, possibly a little too much for those teams out there who were slightly out of practice!!!  Well done to everyone who took part.  It was a great day and a great turn out. 

A special thank you to ex Chelsea defender Gary Chivers and ex Charlton defender Steve Brown who starred in The Lily Foundation Team - who made it to the semi - final by the way!!!

Finally congratulations to Alan's Fish and Chip Bar in Hassocks who won the first Lily Foundation/Freedom Leisure Trophy

Following the resounding success of the 2008 race day, we were back to Brighton Racecourse.This year we took over the Prince Regent Suite, for another fun day of racing, drinking, betting, drinking, losing and drinking some more!!

Once again we were joined by Tony Gale who played host alongside Lily's uncle Jonathan Pearce and his colleague,the legendary John Motson.  The three hosted a magnificent auction which included VIP Michael Jackson tickets courtesy of Custom TV.  We would like to thank Graham at Brighton Racecourse for his contributions to the auction too, this included Cristiano Ronaldo Centenary PFA winner's medal and signed memorabilia.

Some of us were winners, some of us not so lucky, but over £6000 raised on the day helped The Lily Foundation reach a £200,000 milestone.  A fantastic achievement.  Thank you to everyone who has supported us to get this far.

Other guests included former Arsenal and England defender Martin Keown, ITV pundit and former Wimbledon player Robbie Earle, former Crystal Palace defender Gary O'Reiley, and Tommy Elphick and Tommy Fraser   from Brighton and Hove Albion.

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Congratulations to all of you who ran the BUPA London 10000 on Monday 25th May.  It was a very special day for The Lily Foundation as we were joined by a number of families who have been affected by mitochondrial disease and some families and individuals  currently facing the day to day challenges of this disease. We were honoured to have Ryan Wilson with us in London.  Ryan was there supporting his Dad Bob and Uncle Mark.  Ryan is 22 years old and has mitochondrial disease.  Ryan is standing with his Dad in the photos.

We really are beginning to make a difference.  Thank you

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A huge congratulations to the Lily team who ran in the 2009 Flora London Marathon to raise funds for the Lily Foundation. We are so proud of all of our runners and have the utmost respect for what you all achieved yesterday. The team included, BBCs Jonathan Pearce, Sky TV commentator Bill Leslie, BBC radio's Phil Parry, Dave, Michelle, Phil, Adrian,Clare, Natalie, Gillian, Sarah, Richard, Sarah and Dave.  Well done thank you once again for choosing to run for The Lily Foundation.

The 2009 Flora London Marathon was a very exciting day for The Lily Foundation.  We had a total of 14 runners (compared to 5 last year), all of whom ran with pride for the charity.  Once again we had amazing BBC coverage thanks to the efforts of Jonathan Pearce who worked hard promoting his run and The Lily Foundation prior to the race.  Once again we were fortunate to have the BBC interview Jonathan and Dave during the race giving another heart warming interview which reached millions.

Those of you interested in running the 2010 Virgin London Marathon don't forget to apply in the ballot which opened on 27/4/09. We will advertise any places we have on our website in due course.

Once again thank you to the Lily Team who ran the 2009 Flora London Marathon.

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Thank you to all the staff at Sapey Golf Club for hosting the first Lily Foundation Midlands Celebrity Golf Day on Thursday 23rd April 2009. During the day the sun shone, bacon rolls and pints of beer were welcomed on the 10th hole and a great round of golf was enjoyed by all. In the evening, guests were treated to hilarious stories told by BBC Match of the Day commentator Jonathan Pearce, who was joined by his colleague Mark Lawrenson and ex Crystal Palace and England midfielder Geoff Thomas, Aston Villa's European Cup Winner Gary Shaw, Aston Villa's League Cup Winner Pat Herd, Aston Villa's League Cup Winner and Manager of Southampton Chris Nicholls and former West Brom midfielder Darren Bradley.  We were also joined by Professional Golfer Paul Eales winner of 1994 Extramadur Open.

 

The day raised £2281.68.  Thank you to everybody who took part.

Thank you to everyone who came along and supported the Lily Foundation at our Second Annual Ball, which raised £33,000 on Saturday 7th March.  Hosted by Jonathan Pearce and comedian Mike Osman, everybody had a fantastic evening.  We were joined by former footballers and managers, Geoff Thomas, Mark Bright, Rufus Brevett, Kit Symons, Alan Pardew and Alan Curbishley, BBC sports presenter Ray Stubbs and actress Lucy Speed. Our compere and auctioneer for the night was the hilarious Mike Osman who entertained the guests and made them spend their money!! We also heard from Dr Mike Champion, metabolic consultant at Guys and St Thomas to tell us how our money is being spent. Guests then danced into the early hours of the morning, to music from E2.

The night was made even more special as the Lily Foundation handed over a cheque for £43,000, taking our total raised for the Guys and St Thomas' metabolic fund to £100,000. Click here to read the full story

 

Thank you everyone once again.

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A sell out crowd at the Comedy Store, London Picadiliy were treated to a celebrity line up Arthur Smith, Marcus Brigstocke, Chris Cohen, Russell Howard, Sean Lock, Kevin Day, Paul Zennon, Jo Caulfield and Terry Alderton. This night of comedy raised £6500 for the Lily Foundation. We want to say a huge thank you to Kevin Day for organsing the event - and watch this space there are all ready plans for 2010 Comedy Gala in aid of the Lily Foundation.

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For the second year running Peter Bagatti and the Lily Foundation teamed up together for a great night of fabulous food, fine wines and raising lots of money for the Lily Foundation.

Leon and Glenn once again got everyone on their feet and tables and in the mood for a good night.  Almost 90 guests raised £7,000 for the Lily Foundation, through a raffle and auction.

Keep your eyes open 2009 dates for this event - a Lily family favourite

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We had 9 runners running for The Lily Foundation in Sunday's Great North Run including BBC's Jonathan Pearce and Ray Stubbs. We had a great time in Newcastle, brushing shoulders with the elite.  The Red Arrows and Chris Hoy stayed in our hotel!!!

Well done everybody and thank you.

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This was our first golf day in aid of the Lily Foundation.  The sun shone brightly for a fabulous day of golf.  We want to say a huge thank you to our sponsors for the day the National Federation of Demolition Contractors, and to all the celebrities that showed their support.

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On a sunny May afternoon, over 200 people flocked to the South coast for The Lily Foundation Race Day at Brighton race course. In an exclusive course side marquee, guests including Arsenal and England’s Martin Keown and Lee Dixon, former Wimbledon footballer Robbie Earle and the legendary voice of football John Motson, were greeted by a champagne reception, and feasted on a fabulous four course lunch. The day was hosted by comedian Mike Osman, whose hilarious stand-up routine throughout the auction laughed the money out of everyone’s pockets. We raised £15,000.

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Thanks to the Amida Health Club, The Lily Foundation was chosen as their charity partner for The Fashion Rocks fashion show. Over 300 guests attended to watch the models walk the cat walk dressed by boutique store Twice As Nice. £8,500 was raised on the night by auction and raffle

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A huge congratulations to Jonathan Pearce and Dave for completing the 26.2.mile marathon through the streets of London.
 
Well done to you both.  We would also like to thank Pete Colley, Paul Turner and Jason Buckner who also ran the Flora London Marathon for the Lily Foundation .  Between you all sponsorship from the marathon raised over £15.000.

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Organised by specialist company Jascots, The Lily Foundation wine challenge was our first event in the City of London. In the exclusive ANDAZ hotel (formerly known as The Great Eastern Hotel) in Liverpool Street, over 80 guests from the world of finance joined our loyal hosts Jonathan Pearce and Tony Gale in tasting, scoring and taking part in a quiz about the world of wine. £6,500 was raised on a night that was thoroughly enjoyed by a new and important audience.

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The inaugural Lily Foundation Ball was held at the Selsdon Park Hotel, South London. With 400 guests attending including West Ham manager, Alan Curbishley, former Fulham manager Chris Coleman,  England rugby legend Brian Moore, BBC’s Ray Stubbs, Kevin Day and Gavin Peacock and former West Ham and Everton striker Tony Cottee. The evening was hosted by Jonathan Pearce, Tony Gale and comedian Kevin Day and raised a huge £43,000.

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