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A Christmas Present for Rosemere from Normoss Round Table
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Event Date: Tuesday, 13 December 2011
Normoss Round Table Lodge No 8741 gave Rosemere Cancer Foundation a boost to the charity’s funds with an early Christmas present at the lodge’s ladies’ evening. Rosemere’s Chief Officer Sue Thompson and her colleague fundraising coordinator Laura Stephenson came along to the event which was held at Cleveleys Masonic hall to receive a cheque for £1,400 from WM Pat Deakin on behalf of the lodge.
Rosemere has long been Normoss Round Table’s favourite charity and over the eight years which the lodge has met at Cleveleys following its move there from the former North Blackpool Group, Normoss has supported Rosemere in the valuable work which it provides for the local community to the tune of £10,000. This continuing tradition is in memory of the support that former lodge member, Norman Bradshaw, used to give by running marathons to help raise cash for the foundation.
Over the years the lodge’s fund raising has taken many forms, one of which was a sponsored climb by its current WM Pat to the base camp of Mount Everest! This summer’s event was a more gentile affair, but nevertheless as important, of a themed barbeque with some lodge members, their wives and guests dressed in costume. £1,400 was raised by all manner of audience participation sports - one of which involved the ‘gunging’ of good hearted members, local Blackpool comedian Tony Jo and others whilst they were helpless in a set of stocks.
Ever more adventurous Pat Deakin has an ambition to top everything that has gone before in the lodge’s support of Rosemere by climbing the highest peak in Venezuela, Pico Bolivar, in 2012.
Pat and the lodge are conscious of the work that the foundation does in raising funds for research, patient welfare projects, training and additional equipment for the one in three of us who will get cancer during our lives. Based at the newly expanded Cancer Centre in Preston and in units throughout Lancashire and South Cumbria, Rosemere Cancer Foundation aims to provide the very best of care for patients wherever they are treated.
On behalf of all those who will ultimately benefit from Normoss Round Table’s gift Sue and Laura, who is responsible for fundraising in the Preston and Chorley areas as well as the Fylde Coast, thanked Pat and the lodge for its continued generosity.
Picture: Rosemere Cancer Foundation’s Laura Stephenson and Sue Thompson with Pat Deakin.