Adrian Crookes is fundraising for Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals Charitable Funds

Adrian's craniofacial & childrens fund

Asics Reading Half Marathon 2007

on 25/03/2007

Lucy & me 5 mins before her operation.

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Raising money for

Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals Charitable Funds

Charity Registration No. 1057295

The Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals (ORH) Charitable Funds is the umbrella charity for over 700 funds supporting projects across the ORH NHS Trust that enhance services and facilities for patients and staff. These range from support for particular wards, at the John Radcliffe, Churchill and Horton Hospitals, to larger fundraising campaigns to support major developments such as the new Oxford Cancer Centre, the Oxford Children's Hospital, the Geratology Appeal and the Oxford Heart Centre expansion. As one of the foremost teaching trusts in the UK, the Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals enjoy a national and international reputation in fields such as cancer and cranio-facial surgery. Please give generously - your support enables us to provide the best possible healthcare in the best possible setting, to a standard far higher than the NHS alone would be able to afford.

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Adrian Crookes

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Raised: 139%

Target: £5,000.00
Raised so far: £6,938.85

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My story

Thank you for visiting my fundraising page. I am running the Reading half marathon on Sunday 25th March 2007 in aid of the craniofacial unit charity and the Childrens hospital charity in Oxford (split 50/50) so please dig deep and sponsor me online.

Donating through this site is simple, fast and totally secure. It is also the most efficient way to sponsor me: Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals Charitable Funds will receive your money faster and, if you are a UK taxpayer, an extra 28% in tax will be added to your gift at no cost to you.

Many of you will know what Lucy (our daughter) had to endure in the first 18 months of her life, lurching from one illness to the next a few ending up in admissions to the John Radcliffe childrens wards in Oxford. Lucy then had to undergo major surgery to remodel her skull in August 2005 as she was diagnosed with a condition called Saggital Craniosynostosis. Lucy was one of the "lucky" ones, her condition was non-syndromic which meant that a one-off surgical intervention (although major!) should solve her condition (she will be reviewed every year until about aged 18). Many other children who have other types of synostosis are not so lucky and have to undergo years of painful reconstructive surgery and rehabilitation. This time in our lives was hugely difficult, the uncertainty, the worry, the decision making. It is, and will be for the rest of our lives, an inspiration to us to see how Lucy and other similar kiddies cope so admirably with these conditions.

The Craniofacial team in Oxford and the wider teams on the childrens wards are hugely skilled & committed to the cause. What would we have done without them? Well, we can only wonder, but this is our way of paying something back to them and to the other children they look after.

Thank you so much for spending your time and money to sponsor me.

Adrian

PS If you want to read more about Lucy's story please click here.

PPS If you want an example of another little boy's story who was treated in Oxford please click here. I am sure you will find it both emotional and inspirational.

PPPS If you want more general information about the Craniofacial unit in Oxford and the different craniosynostosis conditions then please click here

	Good luck Donation by Andrew Seaton 08/12/06	£10.00 + £2.82 Gift Aid
	enjoy! Donation by Nina Griffith 08/12/06	£10.00 + £2.82 Gift Aid
	Good luck Donation by Richard 08/12/06	£10.00 + £2.82 Gift Aid
	Good luck Donation by Sue Hanson 08/12/06	£20.00 + £5.64 Gift Aid
	Good luck Adrian Donation by lesley 08/12/06	£20.00 + £5.64 Gift Aid
	Such a great cause, all the best to you and Lucy Donation by Laura Sandrawich 08/12/06	£10.00 + £2.82 Gift Aid
	Donation by Rob B 08/12/06	£10.00 + £2.82 Gift Aid
	Good luck Donation by Catherine Mountford 08/12/06	£20.00 + £5.64 Gift Aid
	Shall watch your training progress with interest! Donation by Megan Turmezei 08/12/06	£20.00 + £5.64 Gift Aid
	Lots of luck Adrian! Donation by Alison 08/12/06	£20.00 + £5.64 Gift Aid
	Keep on running! Donation by Phil Rankin 08/12/06	£20.00 + £5.64 Gift Aid
	Donation by Helen Peggs 08/12/06	£20.00 + £5.64 Gift Aid
	Good luck Adrian... Donation by Jules Goodgame 08/12/06	£25.00 + £7.05 Gift Aid
	Donation by Mike Stranks 08/12/06	£10.00 + £2.82 Gift Aid
	Donation by SaraT 08/12/06	£20.00 + £5.64 Gift Aid
	Donation by Jacqueline Lamb 08/12/06	£10.00 + £2.82 Gift Aid
	have fun on the run Donation by Matt 08/12/06	£13.00 + £3.67 Gift Aid
	Donation by Nigel Woods 08/12/06	£20.00 + £5.64 Gift Aid
	Good luck Adrian Donation by Colin 08/12/06	£26.00 + £7.33 Gift Aid
	Good Luck Donation by Nigel B 08/12/06	£10.00 + £2.82 Gift Aid
	Good luck Adrian!! Donation by Tracey A 29/11/06	£30.00
	Wishing you the very best of luck. Donation by Sam Sudlow 27/11/06	£20.00 + £5.64 Gift Aid
	A very moving story Ade, so pleased everything turned out ok. Good luck Donation by john young 22/11/06	£50.00 + £14.10 Gift Aid
	Good luck xx Donation by Sharease Gibson 20/11/06	£20.00 + £5.64 Gift Aid
	You need an outfit dude! Watch out for the potholes and mince pies over Xmas... Donation by Nick Taylor 17/11/06	£50.00 + £14.10 Gift Aid
	Good luck; hope the knee holds out. Donation by Jake Sudlow 16/11/06	£30.00 + £8.46 Gift Aid
	Good Luck Ady Donation by Mick Greenwood 13/11/06	£20.00 + £5.64 Gift Aid
	Good luck mate - great idea! Donation by Rob, Lorraine & Joseph 10/11/06	£30.00 + £8.46 Gift Aid
	Good Luck Adrian! Donation by Carol John & family 10/11/06	£20.00 + £5.64 Gift Aid
	Best of luck Adrian xxx from us Donation by Beccs, Steve and Joe 09/11/06	£20.00 + £5.64 Gift Aid

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* Total raised online:	£4,809.15
Offline donations:	£2,129.70
Gift Aid plus supplement:	£903.13

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