Thank you

The Etape 2010

Charlie Whitfield completed the Etape which is the first stage of the Tour De France. The stage this year was in the Pyrenees - and it was 181 kilometers and 4000 meters of vertical gain. Charlie completed this incredible challenge in 10 hours. Well done Charlie and thanks

The London to Paris Bide Ride

Matthew Smith and Colin Ashby successfully completed the London to Paris Bike Ride in aid of The Lily Foundation.  It took 4 days to compete the challenge.  Well done and thank you.

The Dartford Half Marathon

A huge thank you to the Bridie Bear's Team.  The team consisted of 22 runners, all of whom completed the Dartford half marathon in memory of Bridie Stuchbury. Bridie died from Alpers Disease (a mitochondrial disease); Bridie was 15 months old. Click here to read Bridie's story. The team are hoping to raise in excess of £6,000. Well done guys and thanks x

London to Brighton Bike Ride 20th June 2010

Thank you to David Darsey and all the staff at Erith Contractors who rode in this years London to Brighton Bike ride representing and raising money for The Lily Foundation.

London BUPA 10K 31st May 2010

Well done to everyone who ran for The Lily Foundation on this Bank Holiday Monday. Gavin, Simon, Kelvin and Martin all running in memory of Dexter Osborn, Laura and Mark running in support of Gary who suffers from Mitochondrial Disease and Emma, Sarah, Lynne, Dianne, Lisa, Henry and the group from IT Talent, Brian, Julie, James and Samuel all ran to represent and raise funds for The Lily Foundation.  Thank you.

Sainsburys Collections May 2010

Thank you to everyone who helped The Lily Foundation with bucket collections for the two weekends in May.  We collected over £1200 over these two weekends.

Bristol 10K 9th May 2010

Thank you Melanie and staff at National Friendly for running and representing the Lily Foundation in the Bristol 10k.  Well done and thanks.

Monmouth Comprehensive School

Thank you to all the staff and students who organised a cake stall to raise funds for the Lily Foundation. They rasied £485.00. The school voted to supported The Lily Foundation after learning about Charlie Camis and his struggle living with Mitochondrial Disease. Charlie is the grandson of a member of staff at the school.

Thank you to staff at HSBC Weybridge

Thank you to all the staff at HSBC Weybridge for their efforts in organising a fundraising evening at a local Indian Restaurant.

The Lily Foundation Sponsored Swim 8th May 2010

The Virgin London Marathon 25th April 2010

A huge thank you to everyone who took part in the Virgin London Marathon for The Lily Foundation. Thanks to Emma, Terry, Adrian, Marie, Laura, Stephen, Andy,Dave, Jamie, Ronnie, Robert, Clare, Michelle, Stephen, Ian and Suzanne. A great achievement. Thanks and well done.

Silverstone Half Marathon March 14th 2010

Well done to Stuart, Rod, Mark, Ellie, Anna, Chris, Jan, Nigel, Reshmal, Sam and Gary, for running the Silverstone half marathon on behalf of The Lily Foundation. Thank you and well done!

Thank you to staff and students at Lewes Old Grammar School

The staff and students of Lewes Old Grammar School took part in a sponsored walk in July 2009 to raise funds for The Lily Foundation and their own school trip to Africa. The weather was not very kind on the day of the walk, but by the time the heavens opened the students had walked 8 miles and most decided to make the trip back too.  So a huge thank you to you all. Thank you too for giving us the opportunity to meet you when we were presented with the cheque.

Susie Kyd

Susie is mentioned below for her amazing efforts in raising money for The Lily Foundation by walking 106 miles along the South Coast Path from Exmouth to Poole.  Susie raised a staggering £5500 for The Lily Foundation. Susie works for Kiln a Lloyds syndicate and applied for an award for The Lily Foundation given to members of staff of Lloyds for contributions to charity.  Susie was successful and on 4th December we were invited to receive a cheque for £1000 from Lloyds market Charitable Trust, presented by Grahame Chilton. Thank you

David Curtis and friends

David (Lily's uncle) has raised another £500 for The Lily Foundation by holding a third 'Electronox' XMAS special on 18th December 2009.  These events have now raised a huge £2000.00 for the charity. Thanks guys.

Whyteleafe Netball Club

Whyteleafe Netball Club hosted an auction night on Saturday 17th October.  There aim was to raise funds for their club and The Lily Foundation.  The girls at the club worked so hard organising the event and ended up with 63 lots for auction. The event raised a staggering amount of money, and with Barclays matching up to £750 and Mercers matching up to £300 the club raised a fantastic £2160 for The Lily Foundation and £2160 for Whyteleafe Netball Club. Thank you.

Andy Bushnell-Wye - The New York Marathon - Sunday 1st November 2009

Once again we were represented on international streets, when Andy pounded the streets of New York in aid of The Lily Foundation. Andy completed the marathon in an impressive 4 hours and 5 minutes in a truly fantastic atmosphere with the supporters lining the New York City Streets shouting 'Come on Lily' and then taking a second look when Andy ran past!  Thank you Andy and congratulations.

Jessica Wright - The Richmond Riverside 10K - Saturday 17th October 2009

Jessica beat the one hour mark in the Richmond Riverside 10K in aid of The Lily Foundation. Well done and thank you Jessica and thank you for supporting The Lily Foundation.

Stephen Osborne - The Chicago Marathon - Sunday 11th October 2009

Stephen joined 42,000 others to run in the Chicago Marathon in October. He completed the marathon in a magnificent 3 hours and 26 minutes. A truly amazing time beating is target set at 3 and half hours.  Congratulations. Stephen is a loyal supporter of The Lily Foundation, this is his 4th sponsored event for the charity. Thank you and well done.

The Royal Parks Half Marathon - Sunday 11th October 2009

Thank you to Joanne, Lisa and Danielle who ran their first half marathon in memory of Liam Gard who lost his life to Mitochondrial Disease in August 2008. The girls raised over £4000 between them in aid of The Lily Foundation.  Thank you and well done!

The Great North Run - 20th September 2009

Steve, Dave, PANTS and Andy took part in the famous Great North Run all running for The Lily Foundation.  Thanks guys for choosing to support us and raising a huge £800. I know you all had a great day and hopefully next year we will be up there with you cheering you on!

Denise Claxton - The Surrey Badger Half Marathon - Sunday 6th September 2009

Thank you Denise who took part in her first half marathon after taking up running in July. A fantastic achievement Denise. Thank you and well done.

The Fresh 'n' Lo Great Scottish Run - Sunday 6th September 2009

Thank you to Alison and Rhona who ran in Glasgow's 10k on Sunday 6th September. They ran in memory of Dexter who lost his life to Mitochondrial Disease aged just 2 days old. Wearing their Lily vests and pink tutus Alison and Rhona caught the attention of the local press and radio stations helping to spread awareness around the country. Well done and thank you.

Susie Kyd - 106 mile walk from Exmouth to Poole - August 2009

Thank you Susie who has raised over £5500 by walking from Exmouth to Poole in memory of beautiful Florence. It took just under a week starting on the August Bank Holiday weekend. Well done on this huge achievement and thank you for supporting the Lily Foundation

The Little Dragons - Sponsored Kickathon July 2009

Thank you to all the Little Dragons from Martial Lifestyle who took part in a sponsored kickathon. Between you you managed 20,000 kicks in one afternoon and raised £205.00 for The Lily Foundation. Well done and thank you.

The Lily Foundation Sponsored Swim - Saturday 11th July 2009

Thank you to Jackie, Janine, Lindsay and Maxine who organised this event and a huge thanks to everyone who took part.  We will do this again next year

City to Coast Bike Ride - Sunday 28th June 2009

Once again we had a number of cyclists who set themselves the 60 mile challenge to ride the C2C. This ride includes the grueling Devils Dyke. Well done to Mandy, Jude, Rebecca, Chetana, James, Abby and Charlie.  A very special congratulations to Minnie (11) and Martha (9) who joined the race at the half way mark and cycled 30 miles (including Devils Dyke) for the Lily Foundation.  Well done girls!

Warlingham Fair - Blanchman's Farm - Saturday 20th June 2009

Thank you to Helen and Graham from the CR6 magazine who for the second year running choose to support the Lily Foundation at this annual event. The CR6 ran a tombola stall raising over £400 for The Lily Foundation.

A huge thank you to Jan Jackson. Jan hosted a stall at Warlingham fair selling goods that have been hand crafted by herself and a group of friends.  Jan raised an amazing £400 for the Lily Foundation.

Thank you to Rowland Brothers (Funeral Directors) choose to support the Lily Foundation as their local charity at this event, raising just over £100 in the balloon race.

Football Tournament at Freedom Leisure, Hassocks - Saturday 13th June 2009

It was a very hot Saturday and many of you had turned up to play in the first Lily Foundation/Freedom Leisure Football Tournament where a just 'a little' out of shape! To say the least many of you found this a grueling task.  But a great day had by all. Thank you to all those who took part, including the referees and congratulations to Als Fish and Chip Bar for taking the title. We hope that this is the first of many such tournaments.

Nikki's Pampered Chef Party - Pampered Chef Host Josie Wilkins - Friday 5th June 2009

Thank you to Nikki for hosting a pampered chef party with a difference!! Nikki's guests managed to buy enough stock to raise an impressive £75 for the Lily Foundation. Thank you to Josie for being such a great Pampered Chef representative and putting up with a very drunken 'mob'!! Sorry the photos have been censored from this evening!

The London BUPA 10K - Monday 25th May 2009

Well done and thank you to our team of runners who ran the streets of London in the London BUPA 10K. We had an impressive 20 runners in the Lily Team which consisted of Helen, Claire, Nikki, Ross, Simon, Gavin, Kelvin, Daniel, Chris, Jane, Mark, Madeline, Lisa, Olivia, Mark, Bob, Debbie, Lynne and Rachel. Once again congratulations. We will have places for this event next year for those of you who are itching to do this again!

Just Walk - May 2009

Thank you to Nicki, Helen and Tina who took on this 60K hike across the South downs for a second year running.  They say it was sheer determination to beat the time from the year before that enocuraged them to go for it this year.  Well done girls you raised over £1000, and definitely beat your time! Thanks.  

The 2009 Flora London Marathon - Sunday 26th April 2009

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 and thank you once again for choosing to run for The Lily Foundation.

The Military 10K Run - Sunday 22nd March 2009

A big thank you to all from Martial Lifestyle who took part in the 10K Military Fitness run and raised over £900.00 for The Lily Foundation. A muddy experience by all accounts! Well done and thank you.

Brighton Half Marathon - Sunday 22nd February 2009

A huge thank you to all our runners in Brighton. Clare, Marc, Dave, Gwen, Gillian, Sarah, Claire and Stephen all competed in the Sussex Beacon half Marathon in aid of the Lily Foundation. We have full admiration for you all. All the effort and training has paid off. Congratulations.

Congratulations to Tala too, who competed in the Youth Race in Brighton.  It was her first race and we saw her come sprinting to the finish line.  Well done Tala.

Dave Merritt - Ultra Marathon - Saturday 7th February 2009

Dave, Lily's dad ran a 50 mile Ultra Marathon from Reading to Oxford.  It was cold and the ground was full of snow.  To read about Dave's day and see some pictures click here.

Dave completed the ultra in 11 hours and 20 mins!  Well done you !!!