On Monday 14 June, Mike Tomlinson visited St Gemma’s Hospice in Leeds to hand over a cheque from the Jane Tomlinson Appeal for £37,500. This donation will help kick-start St Gemma’s £339,000 campaign to refurbish their 20 patient bedrooms.
Read more in the Yorkshire Evening Post article here.
We are lucky to have some amazing people raising funds for the Appeal through a range of challenges. On Friday 11 June, Emily Macaulay and Sue Jewell will set off from Exeter to run the 330 miles from Exeter to Leeds, you can read more about their challenge and sponsor them here www.justgiving.com/exetertoleeds.
The intrepid ‘Webbed Feat’ team are aiming to complete a relay swim across the English Channel, you can sponsor them here www.justgiving.net/webbedfeat
Congratulations to everyone who finished today’s Hull 10K.
The winner was Martin Hayes in 34 minutes 45 seconds and the first female was Harriet Canter in 38 minutes 58 seconds.
Among the thousands of runners who joined the start line in glorious sunshine were the Lord Mayor of Hull, Coun Karen Woods, Hull City keeper Matt Duke and Hull KR coach Justin Morgan.
The atmosphere in the city centre was electric, with huge crowds of spectators lining the route to cheer the runners on and it was great to see lots of runner’s wearing the new Jane Tomlinson Appeal running vests.
Read more at www.runforall.com
Yesterday (Sunday 9 May) saw the second Jane Tomlinson’s Arena Group Junior Run and Mini Fun Run.
Among those who ran were a team of patients and staff from the children’s X-ray unit at Leeds General Infirmary. Money raised from the event for the Jane Tomlinson Appeal will help pay for the refurbishment of the children’s waiting area in the paediatric x-ray and ultra sound department at LGI.
Three-year-old Zoe Arnold from Methley took part in the Mini Fun Run with her parents Andrea and Jon. Zoe who has Down’s syndrome was born with a hole in heart and had open heart surgery at only three weeks old. Zoe and her family were fundraising for both the paediatric x-ray and ultra sound department and the children’s heart surgery ward at LGI.
To read more and view photos of the day, visit www.runforall.com
Major Phil Packer, Jackson Williams, Kirsty Snellgrove and Bill Gulliver have been shortlisted for the Jane Tomlinson Inspiration Award 2010.
You can read more about the award and the amazing nominees here http://www.runnersworld.co.uk/motivation/jane-tomlinson-inspiration-award-shortlist-2010/5016.html
On Sunday 21st March, Rebecca, Mike and Steven travelled down to the English Institute of Sport in Sheffield. Becca was taking part in the Sport Relief Heptathlon.
The challenge involved 3 teams of six celebrities/sporting personalities taking part in the 7 events hurdles, sprint, high jump, long jump, shotput, javelin and a team relay. Each team was captained by a BBC Look North presenter (Harry Gration lead out ‘Harry’s Heroes’, Tanya Arnold had ‘Tanya’s Titans’ and Paul Hudson was in charge of ‘Hudson’s Shower’).
Becca was a part of the all-girl Tanya’s Titans (at least it was supposed to be all girls but Paulette Edwards had to pull out and Jonny Nelson took her place, becoming an honorary Titan for the day).
Becca was entered in the High Jump (probably not her natural forté) and the 200m. Unfortunately she didn’t manage to clear the first height at the high jump (although it was a little unfair as she was up against a field including Nick Robinson-Baker – an olympic diver and therefore quite bouncy, 6 foot-plus ice hockey legend Ron Shudra and GB volleyball player Rachel Newton – also, very tall). She fared far better in the 200m metres, coming 4th, although was possibly aided by Paul Hudson spectacularly falling over…twice.
It was a great day featuring a large and vociferous crowd and commentary by Jessica Ennis and highlights should be on BBC Look North, tonight (monday 22nd march) from 6.30pm.
If you’re a fan of quirky comedy such as the League of Gentlemen, then take a look at ‘This Is Jinsy’. The pilot, which was produced by a friend of the Appeal, airs this evening on BBC3 at 9.30pm. If the pilot is a success a series will be made.
“Loved it. makes the mighty boosh look like Terry and June!” Matt Lucas
“Watched it and really enjoyed it – sort of the Goons for a new generation.
Takes League of Gentlemen and Father Ted to their unnatural conclusion” Graham Norton
“a lo-fi joy to behold” Time Out
“as infectiously funny as an over stuffed owl. A full series please” Radio Times
For the second year running, Chrissie Wellington has won the The Jane Tomlinson Award for Outstanding Contribution to Triathlon at the 220 Awards ceremony in London.
Further details here: http://www.220triathlon.com/news/220-triathlon-awards-2010-winners
The nominations are open for this year’s Runner’s World ‘Heroes of Running Awards 2010′ which includes the The Jane Tomlinson Inspiration Award category.
Last year’s winner was the amazing Rosie Swale-Pope who ran over 20,000 miles around the world from her home in Wales. It was a journey which took her almost 5 years and saw her brave temperatures of -62 degrees in Alaska. She wore out 46 pairs of trainers and faced wolves, polar bears and wild dogs in her completely unsupported adventure.
Rosie is now planning to run 26 marathons in 26 days! You can read more about her here http://www.rosiearoundtheworld.co.uk/.
The closing date for nominations to the Runner’s World ‘heroes of running awards 2010′ is Friday March 12, and full details can be found here http://www.runnersworld.co.uk/motivation/heroes-of-running-awards-2010/4868.html
Welcome to the new website for the Jane Tomlinson Appeal. We hope you like the changes we’ve made, there is now far more information available about the charities that we support, the challenges that Jane undertook and our wonderful fundraisers and volunteers.
So take a look around, if you have any comments or would like to get in contact then please just give us a shout!