Thank you to all of you who got in touch with your thoughts and advice on my dilemma. I really do have the most amazing family and friends ❤️
So, I now plan to do what you have all advised and pursue both options – Moscow and Sheffield – at the same time. This means that we will soon be relaunching our fundraising campaign.
Here are some quick updates on where we are now …
Gung Ho – on 6th April Niamh, Becca, Tiah, Duane, Alex and Matt took part in the Manchester Gung-ho inflatable 5K and managed to raise £125. Thank you so much guys ??
As you know, Bobby completed a sponsored fun run a few weeks ago and has raised £250 …amazing! Well done Bobby ??♂️
Glenda has had a couple of very small wins on the lottery (building up to that big one! ??)and Kyra has been saving her ironing money for me …another €45 …thank you both ?
Jimmy and Gill collected £93 from visitors to their brewery tour and £152.50 from hosting a film show. Thanks for your generosity ?
I’ve also been trying to live as frugally as possible and managed to save £1000
Our total now stands at …
This is an amazing amount of money to have raised by a small group of people, with no experience of fundraising. If we can get to at least £25K, I think I could borrow the rest and continue fundraising once I’m well enough. I’m starting to feel this could be doable!
We are starting to bounce some new ideas around and to resurrect some old ones and hope to have some exciting news on future events very soon.
I will keep you updated on any news from Sheffield (the lead professor is at a neurology convention in America this week so nothing new to report).
Obviously, if the Sheffield option comes off, we will have some decisions to make on what to do with the money raised. We have decided that if this happens, we will contact individual donors and give them the following options…
- Return the funds to them
- Donate the money to help others seeking HSCT
- Use the money to help support my recovery
I will keep you updated on this as things progress.
Thank you again for all the support, encouragement and kind words that have come my way since my last post …I already feel much more positive and hopeful ??