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Please dig deep and donate now to my attempt to complete The Great Birmingham Run that we may, in Roger’s name, make a useful contribution to St Giles Hospice and help to ease someone else’s suffering.

At around 2am on Wednesday August 17th my dear friend and father in law to be Roger William Brown passed away unexpectedly at St Giles Hospice, Lichfield from complications associated with bowel cancer. He was only 58. I had the privilege of knowing him for six years.


Roger had been ill for approximately three years and underwent some fairly horrific “treatments” as he valiantly battled this awful disease. Aside from when at home the only other place Roger really felt safe and well looked after was at St Giles. As a tribute to Roger and a sign of my appreciation of the great work St Giles do I have decided to attempt the Great Birmingham Run. It’s no understatement to say this may turn out to be a foolhardy decision. I'm certainly not an athlete and I've only ten weeks to prepare. My objective is to run some of the course, crawl the rest and hopefully make it to the end!!!

Roger was a kind and caring man, one of the best I have known. He hated to see people suffer unnecessarily. Please dig deep and donate now that we may, in Roger’s name, make a useful contribution to St Giles Hospice and help to ease someone else’s suffering.

*For those of you that are interested - Roger spent many years as a professional footballer playing for Fullham (scoring 12 goals in one year as a center half!!), Norwich and Bournemouth. You can read the offical tribute to Roger from Fullham F.C at:

http://www.fulhamfc.com/Club/News/NewsArticles/2011/August/RogerBrownTribute.aspx

The picture I have chosen is of Roger in the dressing room after he scored the goal against Lincoln that secured Fullham promotion in 1982. You can check out this goal on youtube and in my videos section (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=5V-S-di3iEs).

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St Giles Hospice

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St Giles Hospice provides high-quality care for local people living with cancer & other serious illnesses & support for their families & helpers. Free of charge care is offered in Sutton Coldfield, Walsall, Whittington, between Lichfield and Tamworth & in patients’ own homes across the region.

Donations 42

From a former teacher of yours

Donation by Trevor Andrew Bishop on 25/11/11

£10.00

+ £2.50 Gift Aid

Collected by Jess from Nicola, Leanne, Trish, Ellen and Michelle at Absolutely Flab-u-Less - Pete

Donation by Jessica Liddle on 24/11/11

£22.00

+ £5.50 Gift Aid

On behalf of Diane and the kind people of Rothay - Pete

Donation by Diana + Rothay on 24/11/11

£28.50

+ £7.13 Gift Aid

On behalf of Auntie Margaret and Uncle Ken - Pete

Donation by Auntie Margaret + Uncle Ken on 10/11/11

£10.00

On behalf of Sue Brown, Rogers wife - Pete

Donation by Sue Brown on 02/11/11

£50.00

From all the kind people at the Hollies - Pete

Donation by The Hollies Medical Practice Tamworth on 02/11/11

£80.00

Well done Pete - we all knew you would do it and were behind you from the start of your training

Donation by Syncron UK on 02/11/11

£1,000.00

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Well done sorry its late! C u soon adam and jo xxx

Donation by wardy and jo on 29/10/11

£10.00

+ £2.50 Gift Aid

Hope you survived the "run" and raised the donation you aimed for - Chopper's Dad

Donation by Anonymous on 26/10/11

£20.00

+ £5.00 Gift Aid

On behalf of Dianne!

Donation by Peter Drakeley on 24/10/11

£5.00

A great cause & a great man, really proud of you. Good luck

Donation by David Drakeley on 20/10/11

£50.00

+ £12.50 Gift Aid

Good luck pete! will be there cheering you on!x

Donation by clare watkins on 17/10/11

£10.00

+ £2.50 Gift Aid

Good luck Pete Dad

Donation by William Drakeley on 17/10/11

£20.00

+ £5.00 Gift Aid

Good luck with the run - Roger Brown will always be a legend down at Fulham.

Donation by Gordon Gibbs on 07/10/11

In appreciation of an iconic Fulham player.

Donation by Tony Gilroy on 07/10/11

£20.00

+ £5.00 Gift Aid

Good luck Pete!

Donation by Frazer Tomkins on 03/10/11

£5.00

+ £1.25 Gift Aid

Good luck Pete, a great cause and will be great to hear how you cope with it, and how many beers of recovery you will need after!

Donation by David Malys on 03/10/11

£5.00

Good luck mate you'll need it ;-)

Donation by mark ashmore on 27/09/11

£10.00

+ £2.50 Gift Aid

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Good luck Pete. A fantastic cause mate, well done!!

Donation by James Boggild on 27/09/11

£10.00

+ £2.50 Gift Aid

From epsom raver FOF

Donation by DAVID WATKINSON on 27/09/11

Good luck Pete! Roger would be proud. Sending loads of love to you, Cassie and family, Lou, Kieren & Isabella xxx

Donation by Louise Coopey on 27/09/11

£10.00

+ £2.50 Gift Aid

Good luck Pete! Fantastic cause, love to you & Cassie and family, Marie, Trev & Teri Jo xx

Donation by Marie Trevelyan on 25/09/11

£5.00

+ £1.25 Gift Aid

Hi Pete My dad died of the same thing at 53. Good Luck! Simon

Donation by Simon McCarthy on 23/09/11

£20.00

+ £5.00 Gift Aid

One Fulham name which won't fade over time - Mr R Brown

Donation by Paul Johnson on 22/09/11

£20.00

+ £5.00 Gift Aid

Best of luck Peter. A worthy cause in honour of one of my childhood heroes.

Donation by Marc Weedon ("Burt", Friends Of Fulham) on 21/09/11

£10.00

+ £2.50 Gift Aid

Donation summary

  • * Online donations£1,680.50
  • Offline donations£0.00
  • Text donations£0.00
  • Total raised£1,680.50
  • Gift Aid£126.38

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