The staff at EAC Language Centres' head office had their Christmas Lunch today and have very kindly donated money towards Louis' wheelchair instead of buying each other Secret Santa presents.
Together they have donated a huge £230!! Thank you all!
We hope you had a wonderful Christmas lunch with a lovely warm feeling of doing something fantastic (nothing at all to do with the mulled wine!)
We got stopped in the car park this morning as we were loading Louis into the school bus. Kelly wondered if she could give us money!
Kelly and her colleagues at Coda Octopus have raised £60 for Louis' snapdragon. Some of this money was raised by selling sock monkeys that Kelly's mum made!
Many thanks to Kelly, her Mum, her Grandma, Rob, Stephen, Phil and Karine :-)
Photo by Sunsetgirl
Last night at Heriot-Watt University, the University Choir and Orchestra were performing music from stage and screen at the John Archer Memorial Concert under the direction of Steve King.
There was amazing response to the collection at the interval, raising a total of £438.94 during the evening.
A big thanks to David Nisbet for organising this, and to Gwen Christie, Heather Cowx and Ginny Spencer for helping with the collection at the concert.
A couple of weeks ago there was a fashion show in Kirkcaldy in aid of Louis and his Snapdragon.
Its taken us a while to finalise figures but we are overjoyed to say that the event raised an incredible £1263.56!
There are a lot of people for us to thank!
Firstly can we thank Mind and Body Studio for organising the event. Their staff very kindly did hair and pampering sessions for donations. One of the instructors at the gym and some of the staff also did a demonstration of Zumba, which looked great fun!
Picante provided the fashion show for the evening, showing the highlights of their shop's handbags, shoes and accessories. They also very generously donated a percentate of their sales not only on the evening but for the rest of the week as well!
Also happening during the evening was a wonderful raffle (arranged kindly by Lorraine), candles, wonderful cakes and cupcakes for sale and gorgeous jewellery by The Glass Angel.
Thanks also go to the Strathearn Hotel for hosting the event and to Richard Barriball for being the compere for the night.
Louis, Malcolm, Isaac and Gabriel all had a fantastic time at the Santa Toddle on Sunday. The snow was deep on the ground but they all still had a ball (a snow ball!)
Thankfully the path where we were toddling was cleared so Louis was able to use his walker and walk on his own rather than be pushed in the buggy (and it meant Gabriel was able to take it easy in Louis' buggy!)
The boys got to meet Santa. Louis does not have a good track record with large people-sized dressed-up characters. He wailed last year when he saw Uncle Keith dressed as Santa. This year we had worked a bit on preparing him beforehand for meeting a person dressed in red with a fake white beard and loudly shouting "Ho, ho, ho".
I think we had done too much preparation as all Louis would say/sign to Santa was "toys please!"
It was a lovely afternoon though and we all had a great time. Thanks to everyone who sponsored Malcolm and Isaac!! They raised £198 Update: the Santa Toddle has raised an incredible £278! Thanks to everyone who supported this :-)
Louis took his camera. Here are some of HIS photos of the Santa Toddle:
Today's been a fantastic day for wonderful people giving donations towards Louis' snapdragon. This afternoon we heard that the the Kirkcaldy Raith Rotary Club are giving £500 towards the powerchair.
Rotarians are business and professional leaders who take an active role in their communities while greatly enriching their personal and professional lives. A Rotary club contains a diverse group of professional leaders from the community that the club serves.
If you are interested in joining the Rotary Club you can find a listing of the many clubs here. There's bound to be a club near you!
The club that has kindly donated to Louis' Snapdragon meet up at Kirkcaldy Golf Club, Balwearie Road, Kirkcaldy on Thursday mornings at 7.30am. They would welcome anyone who would like to come and share breakfast with them.
Many thanks to everyone at the Kirkcaldy Raith club. It's very much appreciated!
Our friend Robin will be doing a Tube Challenge on Monday 13th December. To help Louis get some wheels, Robin is going to be utilising his favourite wheels - those of the London Underground. He will be attempting to get round as much of the underground network as he can in one day.
Robin's plan is to make some sandwiches, pack a Thermos of tea, and get on a tube early in the morning, and trying to travel across the whole tube network in a day, taking photos at every interchange station where he gets off and changes.
You come in at this point by sponsoring Robin per interchange station he photographs. Any amount will do - if you set the amount low that just gives him incentive to change at every opportunity! Just comment on his blog stating how much you'd like to pay per station and Robin will post the photos of the stations on his blog on the 14th December as proof he got off and changed there.
Rock Radio have joined us to help raise money for Louis' Snapdragon! They are going to play an awareness raising advert on air regularly over the next four weeks.
You can listen to it here: Louis' Wheels
Thanks so much to Alan Dalziel of Motorrad and Angela Cassidy-Job of Rock Radio for arranging this for us! We love it!