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NOTTINGHAM CABBIES’ FUND DRIVE FOR ‘SUNSHINE GIRL’
A disabled young girl received a special Christmas
present
after a local taxi firm helped to buy her a new wheelchair. Jessica Searle, five, from Jacksdale was diagnosed with cere- bral palsy at birth. The NHS wheelchair she has always used to get around is bumpy and uncom- fortable, according to her father and full-time carer Warren Searle. But
thanks to a
fundraising drive by village-based taxi firm Brian’s Taxis, young Jessica has been bought an all-terrain wheelchair to help her get out and about. Warren told the East- wood Advertiser: “The new chair is really great. It is going to get her out in the fresh air
without a struggle and without the hassle we had with her old wheelchair.” Jessica, was six in Jan- uary, is known locally as the ‘sunshine girl’ because she is always smiling. Her dad Warren first got in contact with the taxi company in Sep- tember. He got talking to the firm’s joint owner Lisa Benford in the Jacksdale Primary School playground while they waited to pick up their children from the school. Warren told Lisa that he was desperately trying to raise money for a better wheelchair for his daughter but was struggling to meet the £2,000 price tag. Lisa’s team took to the task straight away. “Lisa put some posters
up in the taxi rank,” said Warren, “And it just spi- ralled out of control from there really.” The firm went on a number of sponsored jaunts for Jessica. Lisa herself
raised
£600 by ‘sphere-rolling’ in Westwood, where she bravely climbed inside an inflatable ball and rolled down a hill at high speed. The firm held a raffle and two of the firm’s driver’s even auc- tioned themselves for blind dates to raise more funds. Overall the cash-rais- ing cabbies gathered £2,500 for the cause - giving £2,000 to Jessi- ca’s family and the remainder to the vil- lage primary school. Lisa said: “It was amaz- ing, the response was absolutely brilliant.”
VOLKSWAGEN KUDOS TM BURTON TAXI FIRM SUPPORTS HOSPITAL PATIENTS
Staff from a Burton taxi company have packed shopping bags to help raise more than £600 for a hospital charity. Workers from Ambassa- dor Cars,
in Derby
Street, joined volunteers from the Burton Hospi- tals League of Friends for the event at Sains-
burys, in Union Street. League
chairman
Pauline Spratt said the firm’s staff had prom- ised to bolster the total by donating tips from hospital patients they transport home. She told the Burton Mail that the £623.54 raised by the bag pack
was included in the £2,500 the charity gave Queen’s to buy presents for patients. Mrs Spratt said the league had also pledged to give the hospital about £5,000 to support the move to high definition televi- sions in wards.
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Shrewsbury has raised more than £20,000 for charity in the last seven years after organising dozens of gigs and events. Philip Welsby, 62, topped the milestone after raising more than £5,000 for Help for Heroes. He organised a gig at the Wheatsheaf pub in Frankwell on August bank holiday. And in October he held a Tom Jones and Neil Diamond tribute night. The prolific fundraiser, who has worked for Comet Cars for the last 12 years, handed over the cash to Help for Heroes. Some of the causes he has helped include Sev- ern Hospice, Diabetes UK, West Midlands Air Ambulance and Alder Hey Children’s Hospital in Liverpool. He began fundraising seven years ago after deciding to host a reunion event at the Lord Hill Hotel
for
friends he had grown up with in Old Heath, Ditherington. He told the Shropshire
BRIGHTON TAXI FIRM’S
Brighton and Hove Streamline Taxis has raised £500 for the Martlets Hospice by selling raffle tickets to staff. All the prizes were
FUNDRAISER FOR LOCAL HOSPICE Organiser
donated by local busi- nesses and taxi drivers. The top prize of a £100 hamper was won by Mark Wilkinson, a Streamline driver.
Roberts Sharon told the
Brighton Argus: “I thought we could raise a £100 or so but £500 is brilliant.”
Taxi driver Philip Welsby Photo courtesy of The Express and Star
Star: “It was great, we had people come from South Africa and Aus- tralia for it and we raised around £2,500 each for Severn Hos- pice and Diabetes UK. It is just a thing I like doing, getting every- one together, and to know the money is going to help a good cause is great. I know a lot of people and every- one enjoys the gigs.” He said he decided to choose Help for Heroes
this year to do his bit for Army veterans. He said: “The money will help ex-soldiers and their wives. Some soldiers who come back from war find it difficult to get jobs and hopefully this bit of money will help them.” More
events are planned. He said: “I would like to thank all the friends who have helped me set up these events over the years.”
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