Upcoming knees-up and fundraiser

I have no idea if any of you are at all familiar with a little boy called Nicholas Robinson, who lived in Great Harwood, and had a rare and terminal condition called Alpers disease.

My band heard of his story and decided we'd approach the trust his parents set up to care for him (the Nicholas Appeal - thenicholasappeal .co.uk ) to organise an evening to raise money for them.

The result is an evening planned at Snuffy's in Great Harwood, on the 23rd June 2007. There will be 3 bands in total, and a DJ. Various raffles and auctions will be held to raise money, and the money rasied would have gone to the Nicholas Appeal themselves, and both Derian House childrens hospice (derianhouse .co.uk ) and the Rainbow trust (rainbowtrust .org.uk ).

Tragically, Nicholas died on the 10th May 2007, at just 3 years and 9 months old, but having consulted with the family and trust, it has been decided to hold the event in Nocholas' memory, and that all money should now go directly to Derian house and the Rainbow trust.

If anyone who visits this forum would like to come along, you are more than welcome. We're negociating a late license with Snuffy's, we have some fine stuff to auction/raffle (we've had stuff donated from premiership and other football league clubs, we're in discussion with local businesses), and we have plenty of media coverage of the event planned.

Most of all, we want to raise lots of money for these charities, and have a great evening dedicated to this little boy.

Thanks for reading.

[slinky]

so sorry to hear this 53 DN.............I will be away on that date!!!! but your all doing a fantastic thing xxxxx

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Originally Posted by 53 Degrees North

I have no idea if any of you are at all familiar with a little boy called Nicholas Robinson, who lived in Great Harwood, and had a rare and terminal condition called Alpers disease.

My band heard of his story and decided we'd approach the trust his parents set up to care for him (the Nicholas Appeal - thenicholasappeal .co.uk ) to organise an evening to raise money for them.

The result is an evening planned at Snuffy's in Great Harwood, on the 23rd June 2007. There will be 3 bands in total, and a DJ. Various raffles and auctions will be held to raise money, and the money rasied would have gone to the Nicholas Appeal themselves, and both Derian House childrens hospice (derianhouse .co.uk ) and the Rainbow trust (rainbowtrust .org.uk ).

Tragically, Nicholas died on the 10th May 2007, at just 3 years and 9 months old, but having consulted with the family and trust, it has been decided to hold the event in Nocholas' memory, and that all money should now go directly to Derian house and the Rainbow trust.

If anyone who visits this forum would like to come along, you are more than welcome. We're negociating a late license with Snuffy's, we have some fine stuff to auction/raffle (we've had stuff donated from premiership and other football league clubs, we're in discussion with local businesses), and we have plenty of media coverage of the event planned.

Most of all, we want to raise lots of money for these charities, and have a great evening dedicated to this little boy.

Thanks for reading.

think that is really good of you well done

Cheers!

The appeal & gig was featured on the front page of the blackburn and hyndburn citizen last night, and we've (the band and trust) got an interview on the bee on the 18th june no less!

should be a really good night.

Hello again!

The charity night was on Saturday.
We had 4 bands on in the end, not 3. I don't know if any lancsonline members came along, but if you did, you must have had a great night! It's was flippin amazing!!

We raised £1875, and there were loads of other things going on besides the bands. We had a local guy waxed, there were balloon raffles (much fun and chaos), loads of auctions (a signed man u top, a signed accy stanley top, signed burnley top, a portrait of bono - there were loads!)

Anyhoo, just thought i'd give an update. If you're interested, there'll be an article up on our website either tonight or tomorrow. its
www . 53degreesnorth.co.uk

cheers!