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Events coming up
On 15th April 2012, Ed's friend Ashley Breeze is running the Brighton Marathon and is raising funds for the SDBTT chairty in memory of Ed. Best of luck Ash!
On 25th June, Sue and Kevin Timmis, Ed's aunt and uncle are walking the West Highland Way, trekking 94 miles over the course of 8 days. Best of luck to Sue and Kevin who'll no doubt be in need of a stiff G&T at the end!
Events undertaken
On 1st April Henry and Owen Dyson and Byron Vincent ran the Sussex Marathon, all in very respectable times for possibly the hardest,hilliest marathon they could have chosen for their first one. All will be aiming to join a fellow runner who was clocking up his 800th marathon!
Throughout Brain Tumour Awareness month, Rosemary Dyson hosted another series of successful tea parties, raising a grand total of £178 in aid of funds for SDBTT.
Throughout the year Carmella Fryer, Edward's grandmother continues to raise money through coffee mornings and with a total as at March of £60.
In the second week of February, friend of Edward's family Tim Waite conquered Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania and chose to raise money for SDBTT in memory of Edward. Tim successfully undertook this spectacular challenge with a retired GP, so in good hands and raised an incredible £858! You can still sponsor Tim at his fundraising page here http://www.justgiving.com/Tim-Waite
On 12th November 2012, Henry Dyson and Ashley Breeze undertook the Men's Health Survival of the Fittest challenge, Survival in the Smoke at Battersea powerstation, London to raise funds for the SDBTT charity. Well done on completing the challenge boys!
On 9th October 2011 a team of runners, Owen Dyson, Henry Dyson, Isabel Dyson, Nicola Cresswell and Bernie Cresswell successfully ran the Royal Parks Half Marathon as part of the SDBTT team.
To complete their fundraising target, a successful Race Night raised £470 in Redgrave and two separate quiz nights raised £646.28 in London and £626 in Deal. £238 was given through direct sponsorship, thanks to the generosity of staff and friends at Sir Roger Manwood's School and Lloyds Market charity awards donated £1,000, on behalf of the Lloyds charities trust. Many thanks to everyone who helped the team far exceed their target of £2,500 - including all the generous supporters who sponsored through this JustGiving site.
On Friday 26th August 2011 a childhood friend of Ed's, Penny Matkin undertook the incredible Ultra Tour du Mont Blanc (UTMB) - a stupendous race of 101 miles, circumnavigating Mont Blanc, travelling through three different countries, climbing and descending a total of ten peaks which total over 9,000 meters ascent and descent. Penny completed the challenge in just over 41 hours non-stop coming 559th out of over 2,000. Such an incredible achievement, well done!
Penny raised £1,595 doing this challenge and you can still sponsor her at her fundraising page here: http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/PennyMatkin
Throughout Brain Tumour Awareness Month in March 2011, Rosemary Dyson, Edward's mother held a series of SDBTT ‘Raise a Cuppa’ tea parties and raised £110.
Friends of SDBTT Edward Dyson Group got busy throughout March 2011 selling SDBTT raffle tickets helping to raise £340 during Brain Tumour Awareness month - contributing to the incredible grand total of £19,000 raised through the raffle.
All this fundraising is in memory of Edward Dyson
Edward Dyson died on 13th February 2009 at the age of 30 after battling a brain tumour for two years. He was survived by wife Victoria and 15 month old son Harry.
Following his death, his family set up a friends group in his name, within the Samantha Dickson Brain Tumour Trust, with the aim of raising money and awareness to help the charity continue it's groundbreaking and hugely important work to help people and their families affected by brain tumours and perhaps one day find some answers that will change the devastating effects of this disease.
Two years after Edward died, this group exceeded any initial fundraising expectations through sponsorship, donations and giftaid to raise over £27,000 in Edward's name. We are so grateful for the sterling efforts made by his friends, family and friends of the family who have been critical in helping to keep this going and always welcome any new fundraising/awareness raising ideas or just donations in loving memory of Edward.
Find out more information about the SDBTT charity, Edward and fundraising already carried out by the group, by clicking this link: http://braintumourtrust.co.uk/helping-us/groups/edward-dyson-friends-of-sdbtt-group/
