PLEASE MAKE A DONATION OF £15.00 IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO JOIN US FOR THE EVENING, BUT FOOD IS NO LONGER AVAILABLE TO ORDER. HOPE TO SEE YOU ON THE NIGHT!

Please read River's story below the information about our Halloween event.....

WHAT WE ARE DOING TO RAISE MONEY IS A… 👻

🎃 Halloween Extravaganza 🎃

At

Tye Barn, The Tye Road, Great Bentley, CO7 8QX

Adults only.

6.30pm to 12am.

Please come and join us!

With every donation each person makes then, on arrival they will receive supper of rice with either curry or chilli – veg options available – (please state choice of supper when making your donation)

If you are local and would like free transport to and from venue please state when purchasing tickets to arrange.

👻 Dress code for the evening – either fancy dress or orange/black or both 👻

🍷 🍺 Please bring with you any alcohol and soft drinks you want to drink during the evening. (Plastic glasses will be provided on arrival)

💰Don’t forget your pennies, 💰 Come and join in the fun, 🥳 Some of the highlights to look forward to are below:-

Weather permitting 🌛 - enjoy your supper sitting under the stars in a beautiful garden

👻complimentary hot drinks will be available throughout the evening

💀 auction lots and raffle tickets available to purchase on the night

💀 Live music with Lucy, to get the party started!

🔨 8.30pm raffle/auction will commence

👩‍🦳 Followed by ‘Nannie Jude’s head shaving event’ 👨‍🦲

💃🕺Then the dance floor will be open to dance the night away. 🕺💃

Please read why we are holding this event for River........

Just4Children are fundraising to provide River with the physio, treatment and specialist equipment needed for her to be able to be more independent and reach her milestones more easily.

River is a miracle baby who was born in 2022. River is severely delayed in her milestones due to her life's journey, thus far. River needs ongoing physio therapy and specialised equipment to give her every opportunity to live her best life.

River was born unexpectedly just over 10 weeks early in Sri Lanka due to her Mummy experiencing an abruption of the placenta. River weighed 3.5 pounds and was in NICU for the next month due to complex health complications including developing epilepsy and experiencing a brain bleed grade 4. Then at two months old and weighing 5 pounds and defying the odds, River flew home to England with her Mummy and Nanny.

Within two weeks of coming home, River developed hydrocephalus and needed a lifelong shunt inserted into her head to save her life. In the past year she has had a number of hospital admissions, due to unexplained episodes of stopping breathing, needing a shunt revision due to it getting blocked and pneumonia to name but a few reasons for her visits to hospital.

River is a little ray of sunshine in her family's lives and is a ray of light to all those who meet her as she radiates love. River is growing stronger physically day by day, but due to her complex health needs and developing cerebral palsy she does regress at times, but always bounces back.

River needs ongoing physiotherapy sessions as regularly as possible to enable her to grow stronger and develop physically. She has learnt to roll and is working on making this a regular movement. She needs to develop her physical core to enable her to learn and develop the movements while she also needs this to enable her to sit up and work towards crawling and walking. No one is able to say at this stage in her life what affect the brain damage she has will have on her developmentally, but we know she will achieve with all the love and support she has around her and due to her own determination and motivation to live her best life.

Every medical professional involved in River's life, agree physio is essential for her to develop her gross motor skills, so enabling her to physically work towards meeting her physical milestones of sitting, crawling and walking.

River is being raised by her Mummy as sadly her Daddy died aged 32 of a heart attack on the day she found out she was pregnant. Sadly, he never got to hear the wonderful news he was to become a Daddy.

Due to River's ongoing complex health needs, physical needs and continual appointments, Mummy is unable to work at this stage in her life, so financially it is difficult. Therefore Mummy and River have moved in with Nanny and Grandad so they can physically help out and to alleviate the financial pressures of living costs and ongoing costs to support and meet River's needs.

The goal of this Charity Event is to raise money for River's Mummy to put this towards her taking River to Canada for an intensive course of DMI physio therapy (Dynamic Movement Intensive). The cost of the physio alone is £4000 for a month's intensive physio treatment, with flights and accommodation costs on top.

Thank you in advance for taking the time to read River's life journey to date and for supporting this Halloween Charity Extravaganza for River.