Kevin Allen recently did a sponsored slim for Georgina’s Gang. He lost an impressive amount and was kindly sponsored by his colleagues at Kleinwort Benson in order to gain an even more impressive amount of £220.00, you could say his loss is our gain!!!! Thanks Kevin it is very much appreciated.
Kevin loses for Georgina
Posted by georgin1 on June 15, 2011
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A Surprise from L.A.C.E.
Every year Tim Langlois takes some beautiful pictures at the Hint of Pink Ball and Sue Kirk from L.A.C.E. has said to me many times we should get a big family picture done. Now it may sound silly but it is really hard to chose especially when Ian and I don’t get time to sit down and chose one together. Unknown to us Sue did some mufti days where she works at Norman Piette and with Tim Langlois’s help chose a picture for us, a picture for Jessica and a picture for my mum, all blown up and put on a canvus. I can’t tell you how touched we are, and we all shed a tear or two! The pictures are beautiful and Sue was so right! Many many thanks to Sue, Tim and the staff at Norman Piette
Posted by georgin1 on June 1, 2011
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Quiz Night
The quiz night was a great success, maybe a little too successful as it was jam packed! Firstly may we apologise to anyone who couldn’t hear properly or was squashed! Questions were supplied by Jarrod Avery and some were quite testing! The winning team was The Knights who say Nay with 132 points. Each member of the team received a bottle of wine and a special Georgina’s Gang Medal. The losers were very aptly named The No Ideas! and each received a wooden spoon. Many thanks to the KGV for the venue, Paula for the food, Jarrod for the questions Donna and Cathy for marking and to Jo for organising the event. As Jo said ‘considering I have never done anything like that before I had a great time and just hope I did ok’
Posted by georgin1 on May 22, 2011
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Lynn and Emily raise over £500 whilst fasting!
Mother and daughter Lynn and Emily Henningsen fasted for 31 days from 7th March to 7th April and raised a fabulous amount of money. Lynn laid off goodies like wine and anything with chocolate in it while Emily gave up everything with chocolate and crisps They raised £286.00 and Lynn’s company Microgen gave them £250.00 Thanks!
Posted by georgin1 on May 20, 2011
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Ian’s doing the Fathers Day Half Marathon
Ian has been inspired by the many runners he knows and is going to do the Fathers Day Half Marathon here in Guernsey. Ian and his youngest daughter Jessica do lots of events for other charities, it is their way of repaying everyones kindness to the family. With this in mind Ian has decided to run for the Niemann-Pick Disease Group (UK) The group do fantastic work with families facing this truly awful disease, they have a wealth of knowledge and help with both practical and emotional support. They are also involved in medical research and co-ordinate with top people all over the world.
The family know there will never be a cure in Georgina’s life time but aspire to helping all families with this disease and the ultimate goal is that no family will have to suffer the same fate.
If you would like to help and sponsor Ian you can contact us through this website or go click on the link below
Thank you!
When I was discussing this with Georgina I asked if she would have a message for Dad, she said she would say, ‘Where did you go Daddy? come back and give me my golden nuggets! You guessed it, it was at breakfast!
Posted by georgin1 on April 11, 2011
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Hint of Pink Ball 2011
Well we can’t believe it is over already and what a night! It was brilliant. We had Alison Castle singing with her band at the drinks reception, where we had free Pink Champagne, Tim Langlois took photos and made Georgina feel like a superstar, these can now be viewed and purchased at www.langloisphotography.com
Next we went into the Fontaine room where Ian did a little speech and Sarah presented a cheque for £1,500 to Jackie Imrie, the UK’s clinical nurse for Niemann Pick Disease. Ian finished off with some Georgina-isms. He had prepared a laminated sheet to show everyone what is happening and where the money is going just so that he didn’t rabbit on to long. During dinner the fabulous Lars Henningsen entertained everyone and we had some table games resulting in the presentation of several bottles of champers which went down very well. Jenny Kendall-Tobias from BBC Guernsey radio helped keep everything on track.
At dessert we had the raffle which included some fabulous prizes like a television, a PS3, Wii, various mobile phones, various vouchers, meals out, beauty products and more. Finally the totally awesome City Limits got up to play and I think the whole room got up to dance!
The adding up has been done and we raised a staggering £6,171.00 We are all over the moon, it is great to raise such alot of money whilst having an awesome time, thanks to everyone in the Gang, thats everyone that has ever donated in any way.
Posted by georgin1 on March 23, 2011
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Sorted
As promised I wanted to let everyone know that the boys are up and running and able to do your recycling for you. They will provide you with a box to put EVERYTHING in and a bag for PAPER and CARDBOARD, yes they will even sort it for you! Prices depend on how much you have and how often you require pick up however prices are as little as £2.00 a week! Contact Sam on 07781 435519 0r Pete on 07781 423430 or email sorted@cwgsy.net
Posted by georgin1 on March 23, 2011
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Local BBC news tonight!
Georgina and I are on the local BBC news tonight at 6.30pm raising awareness re Niemann Pick Disease Type C , the family and Donna were in the Guernsey Press yesterday as well, Georgina is loving the attention! If you want to watch the news report, here is the link, however it isn’t on for long. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00cpbsj
Posted by georgin1 on March 1, 2011
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Bridge to Sri Lanka and Georginas Gang are supporting each other
Bridge to Sri Lanka has a range of Handmade Bow ties and Ladies Evening Bags that are made in the Workshop in Sri Lanka – we are delighted to have them support our Hint of Pink Ball and invite you to buy loads! – the bow ties are silk and £14 each and the bags are also silk £12 each and they are lovely! – 50% of sales is being donated to Georgina’s Gang and they are for sale now and on the night!
please contact Sarah on 07781133502 or email sarahgriffith@hotmail.com
Posted by georgin1 on February 21, 2011
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Sorted
Sam, his daughter Millie and Pete popped round yesterday with some fabulous pressies for Georgina and a cheque for £600.00 from their Xmas tree recycling business. It was a brilliant success and they will be expanding the business, we will let you know when they are up and running. They informed us that many people gave them extra as a portion was going to Georgina’s Gang and they were delighted to pass on your best wishes. Thanks to Sam, Pete and everyone that participated.
Posted by georgin1 on February 6, 2011
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