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Joel Bearders Fundraising Page

GAYNOR BEARDER is raising money for Children's Heart Surgery Fund
“GAYNOR BEARDER's Fundraising Page”

on 1 November 2007

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1 in 125 babies are born with CHD. CHSF supports Leeds Congenital Heart Unit, it's patients and their families. We fund lifesaving equipment, parent accommodation, staff training, and a family support service. 100% donor-funded, we can only do this with your help. Empowered lives, because of you.

Story

<p><span style="font-family: Verdana; color: #ff0000;">Hi, Joel here again!!!!!&nbsp;,&nbsp;</span></p> <p><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Amazingly &nbsp;I am&nbsp;3 years old&nbsp;now, but when I was just&nbsp;one </span><span style="font-family: Verdana;">day old&nbsp;I was diagnosed with a Congenital Heart Defect, called 'Critical Aortic Stenosis'. My mummy and daddy were utterly heartbroken to be told I would&nbsp;die within a few days.&nbsp;Miraculously, the wonderful team on ward 10 at LGI saved my life. Following that,&nbsp;my heart&nbsp;played many tricks on me&nbsp;&amp; I have been very up &amp; down,&nbsp;nearly dying&nbsp;three times in all. You can see how&nbsp;well I am doing at the moment, but I will&nbsp;have to have at least three lots of Open&nbsp; Heart Surgery to patch me up &amp; keep me going.&nbsp; </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-family: Verdana; color: #000000;">Mummy, Daddy, &amp; my big brother Lucas are over the moon that I'm still here fighting - so&nbsp;they are going to give as much as they can to help other children with&nbsp;heart problems. Our amazing friends &amp; family have helped us&nbsp;raise just over &pound;3500.00 so far. Our&nbsp;fabulous 'curry night'&nbsp; raised over &pound;3000.00 &amp; my special&nbsp;friend Sonia ran the Great North Run &amp; raised over &pound;500.00,&nbsp;then crazy Jodie jumped out of a plane and raised even more money on her own justgiving site too!!!!&nbsp;Following that, my mummy surprised us all by&nbsp;running (&amp; finishing!) &nbsp;the Jane Tomlinson 10k Run4All In Leeds!!</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: Verdana; color: #000000;">The&nbsp;&nbsp;more money we&nbsp;raise&nbsp;the better care me and&nbsp;&amp; my new cardiac friends will get - babies and children just like me. </span></p> <p><span style="color: #ff0000;">Will you support uour amazing charity ???&nbsp;</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: Verdana; color: #ff0000;">Can you help save little hearts like mine ?? &nbsp;</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: Verdana; color: #000000;">With our heartfelt thanks.&nbsp;</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: Verdana; color: #000000;">&nbsp;Love JoelyB&nbsp;(and his adoring family) &nbsp;x&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></p> <p><span style="color: #0000ff;"><span style="color: #0000ff;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Donating through this site is simple, fast and totally secure. It is also the most efficient way to sponsor me: Children's Heart Surgery Fund 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.<br /><br />Please sponsor us now xxx </span><br /><br /></span>Many thanks for your support.</span></p>

Donation summary

Total
£4,580.00
+ £124.10 Gift Aid
Online
£490.00
Offline
£4,090.00

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