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Frank Bunting Project

Irish National Teachers' Organisation (INTO) is raising money for Friends of the Cancer Centre
In memory of Frank Bunting
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Each year Friends of the Cancer Centre funds life saving and life changing projects which make a real and positive difference to thousands of cancer patients and their families. The charity relies on donations from the public to be able to support these patients locally and across Northern Ireland.

Story

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">Our previous Northern Secretary (1991-2011), Frank Bunting passed away in August 2011 from a terminal illness.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">&nbsp;</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">Following his funeral a number of his friends and colleagues met to consider how best to commemorate his life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>One of the activities decided upon was to engage in a maracycle from Frank&rsquo;s birthplace in Belfast to the annual INTO Congress in Killarney a distance of approximately 300 miles, at Easter this year.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">&nbsp;</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">This event will be a major fundraising effort to help support the superb work being carried out at the City Hospital in Belfast in the area of cancer research and support for cancer patients.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>Frank, along with numerous others, benefitted greatly from the care afforded to him at the City Hospital.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">&nbsp;</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">Please donate to this worthy cause. In addition should anyone wish to take part and cycle a leg of the journey we would be happy to facilitate this. Please contact </span><a href="mailto:infoni@into.ie"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">infoni@into.ie</span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> or </span><a href="mailto:desmondmcdonagh@hotmail.com"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">desmondmcdonagh@hotmail.com</span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> or </span><a href="mailto:bmagill6@hotmail.com"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">bmagill6@hotmail.com</span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> as soon as possible.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">&nbsp;</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">Your sponsorship would mean a lot not only to Frank&rsquo;s friends and colleagues but more importantly it would make a real difference to those people who suffer from cancer.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">&nbsp;</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">Thank you,</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">&nbsp;</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">Gerry Murphy</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">Northen Secretary</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">INTO<br></span></span></p>

Donation summary

Total
£29,426.98
+ £37.50 Gift Aid
Online
£200.00
Offline
£29,226.98

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