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| Ellie's Trust - News |
| 12 months of fundraising |
31/01/2012 |
 Ellie's 2 sisters and 6 of her closest friends are planning 12 events in 12 months of fundraising in 2012. Their aim is to remember Ellie and raise funds for Ellie's Trust. Their first event was a pub quiz which was a great success and raised over £500. Well done girls and thank you |
| March Awareness Month |
24/02/2010 |
| Wear a Hat for March Brain Tumour Awareness Month
As part of Brain Tumour Awareness month The Ellie Savage Memorial Trust is calling upon it's supporters to hold a series of ‘Hats on for March’ events at local businesses, schools, colleges, churches, pubs, clubs and other community groups. Ellie's Trust is joining forces with fellow brain tumour charities throughout the country to run this campaign1.
Local organisers are being encouraged to pick a date in March and hold a ‘Wear a Hat’ day for brain tumours and donate a pound (or more if they so wish) to go towards brain tumour support and research.
Local Wear a Hat day organiser, Wendy Savage, Chairperson of The Ellie Savage Memorial Trust says: ‘Every year 16,000 people in the UK are diagnosed with a brain tumour. More children and people under the age of 40 die of a brain tumour than leukaemia or any other cancer and five year survival is still only 14 per cent.
‘Put another way only 14 per cent of people diagnosed with brain cancer survive beyond five years compared to 50 per cent for all other cancers – and sadly brain tumour research is woefully under funded.
‘Brain tumours are indiscriminate in the people they affect: young or old, male or female, with no regard to race. The prognosis is dependent on the type of tumour and its location in the brain; even a benign brain tumour can be life threatening. What’s more a benign tumour may become cancerous over time. Advances in surgery can delay the inevitable, but can leave debilitating side effects. Radiation therapy and some drugs can prolong life, but as yet there is no cure. To date, we don’t fully understand the behaviour let alone the cause.
‘By holding a ‘Wear a Hat’ day in March we hope both to raise awareness of this disease and to encourage people to donate towards helping us to raise the funds to find a cure’.
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| March is Brain Tumour Awareness Month |
22/02/2010 |
 Would you like to organise an event for Brain Tumour Awareness month in March. Check out our 'Raising Funds' page for ideas. You can also ring Wendy on 01502 539 509 or email elliesav@hotmail.com to tell us about your event or to get some support to hold one. |
| Daring Domi!! |
22/02/2010 |
| Another school friend of Ellie's is taking part in a Sky Dive to raise funds for Ellie's Trust and celebrate her 21st birthday. Good Luck to Dominique Tuttle and her friend Sally who is also taking part and raising money. |
| 21st Birthday Sky Dive |
22/02/2010 |
 Thank you to Callum Barber who celebrated his 21st birthday with a sky dive and raised money for Ellie's Trust |
| Sponsored Skydive |
16/02/2010 |
| 21st Birthday Jump |
| Grants for families |
10/03/2008 |
| This past year has seen the number of applications for financial grants almost double. Sadly this reflects on the fact that there are so many local families who have a child with cancer or a brain tumour. Here at Ellie's Trust we make every effort to process these appplications as quickly as possible to ensure that a helping hand is there when these particular families need it most. |
| Saffron Walden Golf Club |
10/03/2008 |
| ...have chosen Ellie's Trust to be their 'Charity of the Year' after being nominated by the club's semi-professional golfers. He put Ellie's Trust forward as a charity he would like to see benefit from the fundraising activities that take place at the club throughout the year. The club have so far donated £2,000 of a pledged £8,000. |
| Oulton Broad Ladies Evening Club |
10/03/2008 |
| ....chose Ellie's Trust along with Lowestoft Mobility to be their chosen charities last year. Each charity was presented with a cheque for £931 thanks to the fundraising during the preceding year. |
| 50th Birthday Bash |
15/03/2007 |
Many Thanks to Derek Atheridge who held his 50th Birthday Bash at The Corton Inn to raise funds for Ellie's Trust. Derek sold 300 tickets to family, friends and work colleagues and invited them along to a fabulous evening of live music from Triple Threat and The Floating Greyhounds A total of £1700 was raised |
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