We had a wonderful day handing out presents to the Children at St George’s Hospital in Tooting Thank you very much to the play specialists for all their help. Thank you to the trustee families, Darren and James Bowler , Amy and Anna Hancox and Henry and Christian Blandford for being amazing Santa helpers!…
We have a few bits of news so thought it would be a good idea to do a quick blog post to update our friends and followers on what has been happening. We are almost ready for the Santa visit on the 21st December, as usual Pete will be donning the Santa outfit and will…
We are thrilled to announce that Waitrose Sevenoaks have chosen The Christian Blandford Fund as one of their three charities for December’s Community Matters!! This is a scheme whereby at the end of your shop you are given a green token to place in a box of the charity you’d most like to support. At…
Kevin Britt is doing the London night rider event and raising money for The Christian Blandford Fund. Kevin writes The night rider event is a 100k 62 mile ride around London taking in 50 of London’s most famous site including the Olympic park, Tower Bridge, Canary Wharf, Piccadilly Circus, Trafalger Square, the Royal Opera House and the London Eye. There are over 4000 riders raising funds…
Christian used to love going to Stagecoach in Tonbridge, and I received this lovely email from Wendy who runs it… I just wanted to get in touch to let you know that on our last day of term (28th March) our students will be having an informal Medieval Market for parents and friends. We would…
On November 20th Claudia opened the house to about 80 friends who came along to support The Christian Blandford Fund, and do a spot of Christmas shopping. Coco Cuscino brought along beautiful bespoke cushions, soft furnishings and gifts, Anahita displayed luscious smelling homemade beauty products and Phoenix had a table overflowing with gift wrap, cards, note books and…
Thank you to the fantastic Lancashire foundation who donated £3,400 to pay for an amazing piece of kit (http://www.accuvein.com/) that makes inserting cannulas (needles for blood) much less painful for children. We have bought four of these wonderful machines together with Samuel’s Charity. Thank you to Adam King for putting The Christian Blandford Fund forward for…
Sam is Christian’s Aunty and is running a half Marathon at Bournemouth marathon festival for the Christian Blandford Fund. Here she is with Christian the day after he was born. Like all the members of our large family, Sam was very supportive through Christian’s illness and we are very grateful that on top of that…
Thank you very much to the (slightly crazy) Val Brand who jumped out of a plane for the Christian Blandford Fund. She raised over £750 which is an amazing achievement. Here she is… September 2012 Thank you to Ava and Ellis McNally who made some lovely bracelets to sell at school and raised nearly £100…
Darren Bowler, one of our trustees was once known as “the fat controller”. Amazingly, he is doing an incredible iron man event in Switzerland in a couple of weeks. It involves a 3.8k swim (in the lake with 2500 others) , 180km cycle (through the Alps) and finally he has to run a full marathon….
