A Night at the Races

A night at the Races at Fleming Park Bowling Club proved a huge success and raised £1058.38 for Sophie's Appeal.

Our sincere thanks goes to our Sponsors
Eco-Carcare, SBS Ltd, Holiday Inn ,Eastleigh, Hamilton Parker Buckingham, Falconhigh, Hampshire Field Fencing, Cafe Rouge Express and Rich Martin Plastering.

Thanks to all who attended enjoyed the flutter and won!
Many thanks for your generous support.

Bishopstoke Carnival

Penny and Sue spent an enjoyable day at at the Bishopstoke Carnival. Despite the appalling weather there were still plenty of people there to support Sophie's Appeal and the tombola stall was once again very popular.

What great team spirit!

Body Shop Opens for Sophie's Appeal

Charity Patron, Sarah Beattie was pleased to be asked to open the newly refurbished Winchester Body Shop.

Customers to the store were able to browse the new displays, learn a little about Sophie's Appeal and support the Appeal by spurring on Ben is his eye watering leg waxing charity collection.

Over £260 was raised on the day and our thanks go to Alison and the team for chosing to support Sophie's Appeal

Vintage Fun at the Ageas Bowl

Sophie’s Appeal was pleased to hold a stall at the Yellow Vintage Fair, held at the Ageas Bowl (home of the Hampshire Cricket team).

Visitors were to able familiarise themselves with the work of Sophie’s Appeal, while the younger visitors tried their hand at Hook a Duck , and guess the name of the Polar Bear, before rain stopped play!

Milk Bottle Tops Collection

The Holiday Inn, Eastleigh continues to collect plastic milk bottle tops and the sorters and packers have just bagged their 4th ton. That is enough milk bottle tops to fill the entire ground floor of an average 4 bedroom house from floor to ceiling!

The milk bottle tops that you collect are sorted by our volunteers to ensure that we only retain suitable tops. These are then recycled and the plastic is used to make items such as children's garden slides and other garden furniture.

If you would like to collect washed milk bottle tops with the kite mark 2, please drop at any of the following collection points:-

Holiday Inn, Leigh Road, Eastleigh
Sainsbury's Store, Eastleigh
Cafe Rouge Express, Southampton

For further information about our recycling scheme, please contact edwina.martin@ihg.com

Cherbourg FC Summer Fundraiser

The 8th Annual Six-a-side Tournament took place on the 20th July 2013. In stark contrast to last year the sun shone all day. New entrants AFC Bishopstoke lifted the Winner's Trophy in the senior section beating AFC Spirit in the final. Fleming Legends won the junior final with Ze Germans taking the Runners up Trophy.

Our thanks go to the officials of the d
ay and to Crestwood College for the use of their facilities.

Nick's London Jaunt

Nick Hall ran the British 10K London road race in sweltering heat recently in support of Sophie's Appeal.

Nick said,

'I want to get back into running and what better way than to raise money for a charity in memory of a special little girl who was close to my late fathers heart.'

Nick completed the race in a creditable 1 hour 15 minutes.