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Upcoming Events Recent Events Past Events
• BCRT Patients' and Supporters' Conference - 14th July 2007
The BCRT Conference was a huge success. For some photos from the day Click here. To read all about whar happened at the conference, please see pages 4 and 5 of our Autumn 2007 Newsletter. Click here.
• Bláthnaid Foley Trust - 2nd July 2007
Dr Ian Lewis, Chair of the BCRT Scientific Advisory Panel, was delighted to be invited to Sligo, Ireland to give a talk to Trustees and supporters of the Bláthnaid Foley Trust. However when the aircraft Dr Lewis was travelling from Dublin to Sligo in was struck by lightening and had to return to Dublin, the talk had to be cancelled. He eventually made it to Sligo by car late in the evening and gave a talk to the Trustees. Fiona Foley, Bláthnaid’s mother, said “We were delighted to present Ian with a cheque for the sum of €25,000 to initiate sponsorship of research into Ewing’s Sarcoma, from The Bláthnaid Foley Trust. These funds will be allocated in Bláthnaid’s name and we will be updated on a regular basis by the BCRT as to progress in any related projects.”
• Leeds 10K Run For All - 24th June 2007
A fantastic day was had by all 56 BCRT runners and their supporters on Sunday June 24th at the Leeds 10km Run for All! A huge thankyou to everyone who took part, banner holders/supporters, Esporta gym for letting us use their showers and Sandinista Bar for hosting our post-run brunch - those smoothies were delicious!! As soon as all sponsor money has been collected, I will confirm how much we have raised, but we are very hopeful of reaching our £10,000 target - watch this space!
It's not too early to sign up for the BCRT team for next year - the list is already started and places will fill quickly, so please e-mail if you would like to be part of Team Bones on Sunday June 22nd 2008!
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• Race for Life in memory of Laura Michêlle Weston - 24th June 2007
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• Sponsored Bike Ride - 10 June 2007
I started my ride at 9.00am in the morning, and the weather was probably perfect. The ride started and finished at the Taunton Vale Sports Club, Taunton, Somerset, and I was aiming to raise money for the Bone Cancer Research Trust since a friend of the family was diagnosed. I aimed to complete a 28mile course, yet a little detour in my route cost me 4 miles and I ended up riding 32miles! I got around the route in about 2 and a half hours- without pushing! I raised around £70 for the event, which I was very pleased with. Mike Howe.
• 3rd Annual CHORF Charity Golf Day - 8th June 2007
The event started with soup and sandwiches at noon and a shotgun start at 1.30 pm. There were prizes on Par 3s and longest drive on 17th hole. A "hole in one" was sponsored by Two Mills Honda which gave everyone the chance to win a £28,000 Honda S2000 Sports Convertible.
While many top golfers will have been making their preparations, perhaps fine tuning their game in readiness for this year's Open, Liverpool's Nick Dougherty found the time to support the 3rd Annual CHORF Golf day at Wallasey.
Nick's father Roger had previously played in the CHORF - Christopher Hardman Osteosarcoma Research Fund - Golf Day at the famous links, an event in memory of 15 years-old Christopher Hardman who had died in 2004. In advance of this year's event, Nick sent a golf driver for auction on the charity day saying that if it made more than £500, he would come and play a 4-ball with the highest bidders.
The auction of the driver made £2,600.00 for CHORF - which is how Nick arrived to play in torrential rain and incidentally, make a lot of friends at Wallasey. Christopher's father, Chairman of the Trustees of CHORF and a member at Wallasey joined in the bid for the driver and played in 
the 4-ball with cousin Bryan Hardman from Northampton and Peter Cain, also a member at Wallasey said: "Nick was absolutely fantastic, brilliant. He was true to his word, found the time and did indeed break from his preparations from the Open to come here. He chatted all the way round about golf and other things and was just so helpful making time for photographers and to chat to everyone. Yes, he gave us a couple of tips on chipping for example. It poured all the way round but it did not make any difference. He just got on with it and still went round under par.
• Further fund raising in memory of Jenny Carvell - June 2007
Some of Jennifer’s former dance colleagues and friends from Chesterfield High School organised a Dance and Song Show which was held at the Ainsdale Methodist Church Hall at the end of June. They performed an array of songs from the Phantom, Miss Saigon & Chicago and showed amazing talent and star potential.
Out of the money raised on the evening, £120.00 was donated to the Bone Cancer Research Trust in memory of Jennifer. A big thank you to all the performers, teachers and support staff who helped organise this event.
A special thank you to Karen for nominating our fund and for remembering Jennifer (who was one of her former dance partners). I understand how difficult this was for Karen and appreciate her courage and support.
Lin Carvell.
• Wheely Good Time Had by All - 3rd June 2007
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• In Memory of Former Pupil Jennifer Carvell – June 2007
Chesterfield High School raised a further £300 for the Bone Cancer Research Trust. This was raised by year 13 students at their end of year Prom Dance. Each student donated £1 from their ticket and the Sixth Form Council held a raffle and change collection on the night of the event. A big thank you goes to all concerned for their continued support.
• Rhodri Jones Sponsored Walk - 20th May 2007
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• Chesterfield High School Liverpool - 4th May 2007
Former school friends and colleagues at Chesterfield High School in Liverpool, had a mufti day and several raffles at Christmas, raising a fantastic £2,000 in aid of the Bone Cancer Research Trust. They did this in memory of Jennifer Carvell to commemorate the fact that she would have been leaving the sixth form unit this year.
Mr Simon Penney - School Head, Kath Murphy- Deputy Head and sixth form teachers and school counsellors, together with two of Jennifer’s close school friends Sarah Scraggs and Alison Veners, presented the cheque to Linda & Tim at a special 6th form assembly held on 4th May 2007. Jennifer’s family, her close cousin Rachael Harvey and close friend Jessica Rice (also pupils at the school) where all in attendance.
The picture was taken at Jennifer’s memorial bench in the school quad. Local press were also there and will include an article in the local newspaper to help promote awareness of bone cancer and the charity. The sixth form pupils have also kindly paid an additional £1.00 per ticket to attend their leaving Prom Dance and intend to do further fund raising on the night by having collection buckets around to raise additional funds for the Bone Cancer Trust. A further cheque will follow on after this event.
A big thank you to everyone involved for all their effort and kind support.
• Mel King runs the London Marathon - 22nd April 2007
Mel King had applied to run the London Marathon for the last three years and was finally accepted this year. Suddenly she was faced with the reality of all the training and finding the best way to raise funds for her chosen charity. Speaking of Guy Francis as “an amazing individual” following his six year battle against bone cancer, Mel opened an online Just Giving site with the target of raising £1,000 for the Bone Cancer Research Trust of which the Guy Francis Bone Cancer Research Fund is a founder member.
Both the training and the fund-raising took off. Mel struggled with an injury but was determined to be fit in time. Guy’s parents realised that if Mel could increase her target to £1,500 and if this was reached, the charity started by Guy himself would have raised £100,000 by the 5th anniversary of his death, two days after Mel’s marathon run.
Two weeks to go and the target was reached. Mel was thrilled and driven on by so many people’s support for her in her efforts. On the day itself Mel wrote on her Just Giving site:- “I DID IT! 7:26:28 was the “official” time and I was a little disappointed but at least I finished … the heat was a big issue during the day and lots of water stations had run out when some of us got to them. Luckily my support team was on hand with water, fruit, ibuprofen, redbull…… Thanks to everyone who supported and donated – you know who you are!!!”
And we know who you are Mel. Someone with great determination and generosity who struggled through injury and pain to achieve a personal goal, at the same time raising a fantastic £3,450 to fund research into a devastating cancer, through which the outcome for future sufferers can eventually be improved.
• Roz Tranfield’s Wing Walk – 18th April 2007
On the 18th of April 2007, Roz Tranfield, Owner of Roz Tranfield Beauty Centre, Wallasey, Wirral, Merseyside took to the wings of a plane in order to raise sponsorship for CHORF. She managed to raise approximately £3,000.00 and here's how she did it!
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• Slave Auction – Helston, Cornwall - 7th April 2007
I carried out a fund raising event in loving memory of my boyfriend, Gary Scott, for what would have been his 22nd Birthday. Knowing his wicked sense of humor I decided to organize a Slave Auction, with all of his friends offering to sell a service including Slave for the Night, Car Washing, Photographer and a Chef.
We had a total of 19 Slaves taking part and even the DJ put himself up at the end of the night!
It was amazing how kind the local community were in donating raffle prizes we managed a total of 33 prizes and raised £400 with the raffle alone! We had a variety of prizes ranging from your usual vouchers through to Quad Biking tickets and a box of 20 Cornish Pasty’s!
The night went fantastically well with everyone bidding high and we managed an overall sum of £1,580.00.
• Yorkshire Aerobathon - 26th March 2007
In February 2004 Katie was diagnosed with Osteosarcoma age six years old. After three months of chemotherapy, her right tibia was removed and replaced with a prosthesis, followed by another six months of chemotherapy. Katie was having physiotherapy and doing fine until November 2005, when she fell and broke her femur on the same leg. This caused Katie a lot of set backs and physiotherapy is still ongoing. However she is doing remarkably well and proved this by joining in the Yorkshire Aerobathon along with her Mum and Auntie and raised £575 which she has donated to the Bone Cancer Research Trust.
• Sponsored Swim in Memory of Laura Weston – 18th March 2007
Thirty students from Droitwich Spa High School took part in a sponsored swim in memory of fellow pupil Laura Weston. They raised a fantastic £1,653.44. A huge thanks to everyone involved.
• Talk Of The Coast Show – 29th October 2006
Carl Schofield brought his variety show and his performers from Blackpool to the Leasowe Castle Hotel, Wallasey, Wirral on the 29th of October 2006 to help raise funds for CHORF.
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• Sponsored Climb of Snowdon - 16th September 2006
In loving memory of Jennifer Carvell and in aid of The Bone Cancer Research Trust.
Climbers – Lin, Tim & Adam (aged 8), Claire Derek, David, Beryl, Liz, Stew, Nicholas, Gill, Jules, Ian, Nicola, Dave, Ryan (aged 11), Kate, Paul, Wendy, Terry, John, Janet, Sue, Brian, Andy, Ruth, Steve M.
A big thank you to all the climbers and to all the people who kindly sponsored this event. A grand sum of £4,685.10 was raised in total. A special thank you to our family, Littlewood’s friends and colleagues for their support, in particular Paul Daley's sponsorship collecting at the Liverpool office on behalf of Paul Cryer, also to Steve Michael who between them raised over £1,400. A beautiful day was had by all and everyone felt a great sense of achievement, not only because they had climbed over 3,700 feet, but more importantly because they had done this in aid of such a good cause. Although everyone was aching for days afterwards, hopefully we can arrange yet another climbing event next year of either Scaefell Pike in the Lake District or Ben Nevis in Scotland, if anyone is up for the challenge of joining us. We will provide details on the website early next year for those interested. Remember, we are the very fortunate ones able to climb, just think of those who are diagnosed with Bone Cancer every year who are possibly not!
• Adam Dealey Golf Day 15th September 2006
The 11th annual Adam Dealey Golf Day was held on Friday at Shendish Manor and attracted 18 teams including players that had flown in from as far a field as Portugal and Switzerland. The winners this year were locally based Capital Shopfitters with another local team No Girls Allowed coming in third. The best local individual scores were Richard Trott (BT Global) and Paul Newark (No Girls allowed). A car was put up for a hole in one by Toyota GB but unfortunately it was not won.
The golf was followed by a sit down meal in the marquee attended by 180 people including a table made up of Adams friends: Daniel Moody, Charlie Scott, Sam Chapman, Mark Brennan, Tom Fendick and Richard Edis, all of whom attended Southill School or played football for Hemel Lions. This year a friend of Adam's brother Justin, Dean Carroll who had played earlier in the day with Las Lomas Four, won the main prize at the evening function which was a weeks all inclusive holiday for two at The Beach Club in Antigua.
Adam died in July 1995 at the age of ten years after losing his fight to overcome the terrible childhood cancer Ewings Sarcoma and a fund was then set up in his memory and the highlight of fundraising each year is the golf day. This year the event raised £17,500 and took the total raised over the past eleven years to over the £220,000 mark. All funds raised are now channelled through The Bone Cancer Research Trust of which Adam’s father John is a trustee and is used for research into both Ewings and Osteosarcoma. Ewings Sarcoma is a bone cancer that affects some 80 children each year and sadly receives little central funding for research and has to rely on donations from families who have been affected.
One of the purposes of The Bone Cancer Trust is to raise awareness of bone cancers in children which hopefully will lead to them being detected quicker and giving a greater chance of being treated successfully. In addition more monies can be raised and coordinated for the research into these terrible cancers. Trustees include leading medical professionals Ian Lewis and Rob Grimer, a leading bone surgeon based in Birmingham. The funds raised through The Adam Dealey Foundation have been an inspiration for setting up this national charity.
Adam’s parents John and Marian and his brother Justin would like to thank everyone who has helped in any of the fundraising events or donated monies or prizes.
• Coast 2 Coast 2006 - August 2006 - Southport to Hornsea - 155 miles
19th August
Wet and windy start at Southport 7.15 a.m. everyone ready to go, good start everyone in high spirits, even the weather can’t keep us down. First stop 22 miles far side of Preston.
Yuk! Big lorry just overtaken us and sprayed us from head to toe in wet, cold, muddy, gritty water that’s freezing cold. Not the best way to spend a Saturday getting swelled by lorries ever few miles. Great timing everyone keeping together supporting each other having a ball, laughing and joking the miles are soon being eaten away.
Finally arrived at Silsden at 2.15 all ready for a hot bath to warm up and get clean. Let’s hope for better weather tomorrow. We are all looking forward to the bar b que tonight hopefully will be like last year and the sun will finally show it’s face for the last few hours. Early to bed to be bright and bubbling full of energy for tomorrow.
20th August
Silsden all meet at yesterdays finishing point today we are joined by Andy. Everyone all rearing to go, and guess what the sun is shining what a great start to the day. We always start the second day with a hill you can’t get out of Silsden without going up a hill well you can’t have everything, but we certainly make a lot of noise going up Cringles trying to wake up family and friends who are to lazy and tired to get out of bed to see us off!
Quick stop at the top for inhalers and drink we have all done this hill so many times before but it still gets you first thing in the morning, here comes the fun bit down hill all the way to the first roundabout of the day. First stop will be the far side of Otley.
What a great day this is going to be have just arrived at Otley and we have got through to radio Leeds I did an interview with them a fortnight a go and now they are going to give out, up dates of our route over the radio as we text them through out the day, brilliant, asking drivers who see us to toot their horns in support!
Far side of Harrogate and pit stop for refreshments MacDonald’s are really supportive letting us use their facilities, mind all the men do get a breakfast and coffee. As the support car drivers and passengers always get breakfast at Southport on the first day. Our first donation from customer who has heard about us on the radio great!
Always stop just outside of York, going through York is such good fun! We all ring our bells and honk our horns as we go through, people who are out and about always response in a positive manner, lifts our spirits. Now have to concentrate none of us have done this route before so must be careful not to miss any signs or take any wrong turns.
Great route didn’t go wrong and met up with support cars okay on other side. Weather fantastic has been sunny all the way so far, not to hot just right. Heading towards Hull to go through Beverley really nice route.
Friends and family texting us to let us know it’s raining in Hornsea so maybe weather is about to change at some point for us. Still sunny at the moment everyone doing so well, all together in pack only member to get wet and muddy is Paul but he is going through every puddle he can find. Bitten of more than he could chew with last puddle didn’t look to deep but wow almost came of his bike now he really is wet and muddy but still happy! (well each to his own).
Brilliant ride we are just coming into Hornsea nearly lost Paul didn’t read the sign, he’ll catch up, arrive at sea 4.15 still sunny. Yes! Number four under my belt.
We raised £1,800 - half to Candlelighters and half to the Bone Cancer Research Trust.
Cyclists :-
Debbie McCartney, Becki McCartney, Simon McCartney, Julie Rampling, Jessica Fielding, Nic Martin, Sammy Wilson, Paul Bradley, and the 2nd day Andy Bamford.
Support –
Craig Houchen, Bernie McCartney, Penny McCartney, John McCartney.
• The Danish Bike Ride for Sarcoma Research and Awareness
1st July to 7th July 2006
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This was a Liddy Shriver sarcoma initiative project. Chris and myself took part and it was a wonderful experience. Meeting everyone that took part was a privilege. We took in Lego land, and everyday we cycled to our next destination. We took in the beautiful Fyn peninsula. There were about 60 in the group, made up of parents of lost children to sarcoma, survivors who were marvellous, research scientists, doctors and nurses who deal with sarcoma in their everyday lives. We have lovely memories of Denmark and lovely memories especially of the brave survivors of sarcoma they have a special place in our hearts forever.
We were proud to give Bruce and Beverly Shriver 10,000 dollars from Ireland for Ewing Sarcoma research.
Next year the cycle will be in Vermont USA.
Click here for information (PDF document).
Patricia Smith
• Kenny McCabe Benefit Evening - Glasgow
A benefit night took place on Saturday 11th March 2006 at Redhurst Hotel, Giffnock, Glasgow, in memory of Kenny McCabe, who died December 2005, of Ewing's Sarcoma at the age of 48.
The night included a buffet supper, a live band, an auction, various raffles and a disco.
There were some great auction lots and raffle prizes - a round of golf including dinner for 4 people at the championship course at Turnberry! David Beckham's Manchester United shirt he wore in the European Cup Final was even up for grabs!! There were also cases of wine, signed Celtic and Rangers shirts, vouchers for spas, reflexology etc, designer sunglasses and meals for two at various restaurants.
The night was a huge success and lots of money was raised - the final figure is still to be confirmed. The money raised will go to the Bone Cancer Research Trust and the Sarcoma Fund at the Beatson Oncology unit Glasgow.
• Fashion Show
On 13th of October 2005 the CHORF Fashion Show took place at Leasowe Castle Hotel on the Wirral. With
clothes provided by The Pink Rooms, Cello and Scandal and various models including actors from Hollyoaks, the show was a real winner with the crowds and £5,500 was raised for research!
• Concert
CHORF (The Christopher Hardman Osteosarcoma Research Fund) held a concert on September 10th 2005
at the Liverpool Philharmonic Hall hosted by Jodie Marsh and Neil (Razor) Ruddock. The event was a huge success, raising awareness of Osteosarcoma and at the same time raising a massive £6,000 for research.
• Race for Life
Lin Carvell and Jen's Auntie Claire did the Race for Life 2005 and raised £500 for the Bone Cancer Trust. Lin has entered again this June 2006 with two of Jen's Aunties, Claire & Jacky and Jen's teenage cousin Rachael. Do get in touch if you would like to sponsor them...
• Sponsored Walk
Sara Davies (a friend of Jennifer Carvell), Becky Hughes, and friends did a sponsored 18 mile walk, a car boot sale and a collection in school lunch-hours and they managed to raise £1,000 for the Bone Cancer Research Trust - fantastic!