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May 2012
BBC Documentary 'Great Ormond Street' gives real insight into our brave 'Treasure Box Children'
The second series, BBC documentary 'Great Ormond Street' which is filmed over the course of a year, features unprecedented access to doctors from the children's hospital Great Ormond Street as they make some of the hardest choices in medicine. When medical technology seems to offer so much, every parent with a sick child will hope that something can be done, but doctors must decide when enough is enough. For the first time on television, cameras follow Great Ormond Street Hospital's doctors into the meetings where they come face to face with the most difficult ethical dilemmas on a daily basis.
The first episode of the second series on Tuesday 8th May on BBC2 at 9.00pm featured two of our wonderful and brave treasure box children. It was especially tough for Indee's parents and family to watch as it brought back so many memories, we hope the series brings much needed awareness to this ilness which is the number one childhood cancer and the least funded by the government, we send all our love to all the familes who are took part in the series. Follow the six part series next week BBC2, Tuesday at 9.00pm.
To watch the series and read more information go to the BBC website here.
Grace appears in 'Pick Me Up' Magazine
Well done to Grace Kemp and her wonderful Mummy Judith, who you will know have pledged to fundraise for Indee's charity for the year. Grace has been through so much over the past 18 months with her own fight with her brain tumour, we are so proud of her and her family. Grace appeared in Pick Me Up magazine this week talking about her fundraising and The Indee Rose Trust!!
Thank you Grace and Judith for your continued support.
April 2012
Our wonderful Marathon Runners!
Special thanks go to our wonderful Marathon Runners who took part in the famous London Marathon, we are so proud to have you run for a charity at such a fantastic event! Well done to you and thank you to everyone who donated! Here is a photo of one of our wonderful marathon runners, Warren Sparkes of 'Team Sparkes'.
Warren Sparkes said "I did it! Thanks to my bruv and everyone who been so kind with their support. We couldn't have done it without you."
March 2012
But I'm only a child ball, The Park Lane Hotel, London
We are so proud to have been chosen for a second year running as a beneficiary of Clare Brooking's wonderful charity ball, many wonderful charities were also chosen: The Willow Foundation, Caron Keating Foundations, Sparkes to name but a few, it was a wonderful night where Clare raised over £30,000 for these children charities. A huge thank you to the wonderful Alex Galea, who donated a personal cheque of £2,500 to our charity on the night. A wonderful generous man who we were very proud to meet.
Thank you to our dear friend Clare, for our valued, continued support, we really do appreciate it.
Local boys run for our charity!
In March 2012, a group of local Canvey schoolboys took part in a sponsored run to raise money for our charity.
Byron Brackett, 12, Martyn Lacey, 12 and Harry Harrison 12, who attend the Castle View School, organised and completed the run to raise money for the Indee Rose Trust.
The three youngsters go to school with Indee’s brother Finley, and were so moved by the charity’s good work they felt compelled to do all they could to further their cause.
Byron’s mother Sally Brackett, 38, of Gainsborough Avenue, Canvey, said: “I am so extremely proud of them for coming up with the idea themselves and putting in all this hard work for such a worthy foundation.”
Eleven pupils took part in event, running from Canvey Rugby Club, in Dovervelt Road, to the Labworth Cafe, in Western Esplanade, Canvey and managed to raise £85.
Following their success, Byron, Martyn, and Harry are looking into organising another sponsored event to raise even more money our charity.
October 2012
Indee Rose Masquerade Ball raises £10,000!
Our first Indee Rose Ball was held on Friday 21st October in the Pavillion at The Orsett Hall Hotel. A great time was had by all at Indee's Masquerade Ball. Every single person dressed to impress and wore their masks. We were so pleased on the way the evening went and we were delighted with the proceeds from the raffle and auction we raised over £10,000! Thank you to everyone who was there and made the night so brilliant - a night to remember and we will be having another next year.
Big thanks to Ellie Gunter a 13 year old singer with a big voice who wowed the crowd. Sharon Meagor of Vision Balloons in Essex who decorated the whole event with her lovely balloons, they look amazing. Please take a look at her website www.visionballoons.co.uk. DIVAlicious - Danielle Walsh and Kirsty Sweeney and James Bayford of JBS Sounds who entertained everyone all night with superb singing and fantastic music (take a look at their video's on YouTube here). We would highly recommend these guys for weddings and events. Thank you to Richard Beckford who fascinated our guests with his fantastic magic tricks and to Cheryl Johnson of Feel Good Photo's who created some stunning photos of the night, take a look at some of the photos from the night here . All of these wonderful people generously offered their services for free all night THANK YOU you made the night!
Thank you to our Sponsors of the night who were Clubsports, Aspect Contracts and Sprayrite Panel Craft. Thank you for supporting The Indee Rose Trust we really do appreciate it.
Thank you to my sister in-law Perri Dopson who really did work so hard organising this event - you done so well and should be proud of yourself.
Lastly a big thank you to every single person who was there. We met some familiar faces but there were also new faces which we had the pleasure to meet. A really good crowd, thank you for making the night very special. Think Indee would be very proud.
Roll on next year when we do it all again!
Simon Kalp was kind enough to take snaps all night of our party, take a look at the fabulous album on facebook here. Thank you Simon!
September 2011
Aldo Zilli cooks up a storm with our wonderful Geoffrey
The wonderful Aldo Zilli created an amazing surprise for one of our treasure box children Geoffrey. Aldo invited Geoffrey along with his family to cook at his restaurant Zilli Fish in London. Geoffrey had a wonderful time and his Mum and Dad said it was a fantastic day.
Aldo tweeted: "Fantastic to meet Geoffrey today, top kid and very brave family so proud x......it's been an emotional day for me and Nikki after meeting Geoffrey, age 14, who has tumours to his spine. God bless him".
The Indee Rose Trust would like to say a huge thank you to Aldo Zilli and his wife Nikki for creating this wonderful experience, we really appreciate your support.
Argos helps The Indee Rose Trust
Argos in Pipps Hill, Basildon Essex have very generously donated a gift voucher worth £750.00 to The Indee Rose Trust. We would like to thank everyone at Argos, Pipps Hill for the very kind donation and also a huge thank you to David Jackson, (Russell's uncle) who put the trust forward to fundraising!
This will help so many children smile and will create some fabulous treasure boxes!
August 2011
Indee Rose Trust Celebrity Football Event - line up announced....
Our annual celebrity football event takes place Sunday 14th August 2011 at Concord Footbal Club on Canvey Island. The event starts at 12.00pm, but gates open from 11.00am.
Last July Johnny Eames our patron and the crew at the TKO Boxing Gym in Canning Town organised a celebrity football tournament, on Canvey Island, Essex, to raise funds for the Indee Rose Trust. The event was a massive success that not only attracted stars from the world of boxing, television and music but also raised in excess of £20,000 for this worthy cause.
On August 14th Johnny, and boxing stars Matthew Macklin, Kevin Mitchell, Ricky Burns, Barry McGuigan, Paul and Stephen Smith, Willie Limond, Tony Oakey, Wayne Elcock, Ross Minter, Martin Power, Steve Collins, Kell Brook; and will be joined by celebrities such as Alex Reid, Johnny Borrell (Razorlight), Mark Wingett (Jim Carver – The Bill), Stephen Bell (Coronation Street), various members of the Eastenders and Shameless cast and many more to be announced at the Concord Rangers FC ground on Canvey Island for the second annual Celebrity Football Tournament, in aid of the Indee Rose Trust,
Russell Dopson and Johnny Eames at the TRAD TKO Gym in London - Photo Gianluca (Rio) Di Caro
Johnny, who earlier this year was himself diagnosed with cancer, is clearly determined that this years event will be even more successful than the last, as he made clear when he said earlier, “Last year’s was fantastic, we raised over twenty grand, which far exceeded anything we were looking at doing. But that’s made me greedier to raise even more this year really.
We’ve been a little bit slow getting it off the ground this year, for certain reasons , certain things have been going on in my life which didn’t allow me to get involved quite as early as I planned to, but hopefully those problems are dealt with now and we want to move on to help out a worthy charity, which I am proud to be patron of.
I’m privileged to know the parents of young Indee, Russell and Jane, and privileged to be able to raise money to help children suffering with the same disease. This year’s event is hopefully going to be a lot bigger than last years, we’re sitting down at the moment and planning out how it’s going to go, what players we have coming this year.
Because of the lateness on starting things this year we’ve missed a few of the players, but it’s still basically the same sort of response as last year.
Paul Smith’s Pick Pockets celebrate after winning last year’s tournament - Photo Gianluca (Rio) Di Caro
Paul Smith’s pickpockets, who won it last year, are coming. Graham Earl’s got a team, which he seems to want to have a bet he’ll win it outright this year.
Us runners up – TKO Boxers – I’m pretty confident as I’ve got a few ringers up my sleeve.
Indee Rose are going to field a team this year, and they seem confident that they’re gonna win it, they’ve been training for it for three months already, and that’s just to get their beer bellies off.
Boxing News are gonna put a team in them self, they won the wooden spoon last year, but I’m sure that Tris (Dixon) from Boxing News has got a few tricks up his sleeve as he doesn’t want to get disgraced like last year. All in the fun of it.
Ringtone Gym are putting together a music and boxing team headed up by Ben (Day) himself and his mate Johnny Borrell, from Razorlight, they enjoyed last year so much they decided to put their own team together this year.
We’ve got a team of Paddy’s coming over and Ricky Burns is bringing a team of Jocks down from bonny Scotland.
Sam Webb clears his lines as Pat McAleese blocks - with his hand! - Photo Gianluca (Rio) Di Caro
Our sponsors have come forward a lot this year, we only need one more team to do, which I’m pretty certain will be covered by end of play. We are still looking for certain sponsors, one to pay the hotel bill for all the traveling teams. The other sponsor we are looking for is on the catering side, we’ve got an after tournament party for the players and their families and are looking for someone that does catering.
The event this year is going to be covered by Sky Sports, Ed Robinson himself came down to the gym last week and did an interview to promote the event and he’s assured ne that he is going to give the event some coverage this year on Ringside, which’ll be great for potential sponsors, if they sponsor the right team you’re going to get some good coverage, although every sponsor is going to have his name on the front of the shirts, so there’s going to be plenty of advertisement for the team sponsors. It’s worth getting involved if only to help these youngsters that are suffering with this terrible disease.
Ben Day, Johnny Borrell and Ricky Hatton at last years event - Photo Gianluca (Rio) Di Caro
I’m pretty certain that we can top the twenty thousand that we raised last year and hopefully double it. Get your fingers on the phone and ring me up and get your pledges going.”
Indee Rose’s father Russell Dopson then added “Last year was amazing, I couldn’t believe how many stars we had turn up.
We had over three thousand people turn up on the day and we managed to raise twenty thousand pounds, which was well above our expectations.
Everyone is buzzing about this year, I can’t wait to get it all going and am really looking forward to it.”
This year’s TRAD TKO Boxing Gym promoted Boxers and Celebrity Football Tournament, in aid of the Indee Rose Trust, kicks off at 12:00pm at the Concord Rangers FC, Thames Road, Canvey Island, Essex on Sunday 14th August 2011.
Tickets for this special event, priced: Standard: £10.00 and V.I.P. £20.00, are available on-line from www.tkoboxoffice.com or in person from the TRAD TKO Boxing Gym, Gillian House, Stephenson Street, Canning Town, London E16 4SA
Children’s tickets, priced £2.50, will be available on the day.
For further information either call the TRAD TKO Boxing Gym on 020 7474 3199 or see www.indeerosetrust.org or facebook.com/theindeerosetrust
April 2011
Indee Rose Trust win 1000 toys from Offers on the Web
Thank you to everyone who voted on this great competition, for those who missed this, Offers on the Web worked in conjunction with The News of The World newspaper offering 20,000 toys to 20 children's charities! Each week you can vote for your nominated charity to win 1000 toys , you had to nominate your charity and vote all week and we won the second week's competition!!
Follow their page on facebook: http://www.facebook.com/offersontheweb?sk=wal
Thank you to everyone who voted, these toys will help create lots of treasure boxes, we are so pleased!
February 2011
Baring Asset Management supporting The Indee Rose Trust!
We are pleased to announce that The Indee Rose Trust has been chosen by Baring Asset Management as their Charity for 2011.
Any money raised by Barings over the year will go towards the following projects at The Indee Rose Trust holiday home:
- Converting the integral garage into a special room for the children which includes an electric hospital bed, sensory lighting, alarm buttons etc
- Alterations to two bathrooms which need disabled w.c facilities and wheelchair access
This is a great opportunity for us to work alongside such a well known financial institution as Barings and to help us raise more awareness.
Jane Allen said: "We were over the moon when we found out that we had been chosen by Barings, we really appreciate their support and look forward to working with them this year! Money raised by Baring Asset Management, will go towards improvements at the holiday home we offer to families, this will really benefit the children".
For further information contact:
Media@indeerosetrust.org
December 2010
Igloo Nightclub, Liverpool support The Indee Rose Trust - New Years Eve!
We are so pleased to have been supported by Igloo nightclub in Liverpool, Igloo can be found on St.Peters Square, the “must do” destination for the more refined customer. This circuit of superb venues is a night out in itself, offering mature like minded people a selection of top drawer bars...and Igloo is a welcome and popular addition.
Igloo are holding a New Years Eve Party 'Las Vegas' style, raising funds for The Indee Rose Trust. We are honoured and proud to have been selected.
Thank you so much to Igloo, we wish we could be there for this fantastic night. If you are interested in attending this fantastic night please go to their website here.
November 2010
Jane Allen wins 'Real Mum of the Year 2010' on Bounty.com
We are pleased to announce that Jane has been voted the winner of Bounty Real Mum of the Year 2010! Nominated by her sister-in-law Perri Dopson, Jane fought off stiff competition from the other nine worthy finalists winning the hearts of our members with her true life story. As well as being awarded the title of Bounty Real Mum of the Year 2010, Jane and her family have won an overnight stay at one of the fantastically themed hotels at Alton Towers, along with a two day pass to the theme park and water park.
Jane said: “I was totally shocked to see I had been nominated but to be picked as mum of the year is amazing and I’m so pleased. For the last year and a half life has been tough as we lost our beautiful daughter Indee to an inoperable brain tumour in 2009. Indee is our inspiration for our charity The Indee Rose Trust, a charity that supports children with brain and spinal tumours, and winning this title has helped me realise that us mums especially with children who may have a serious illness are truly amazing. I have had the privilege of meeting so many of these wonderful mums and everyday their lives is one big battle fighting against their child’s tumour. Also I would like to thank everyone who voted for me as you have made my son smile as it has been a very tough year for him also. He's so excited about going to Alton Towers!”
For more information click here.
October 2010
Bumps & Babes Kids Show Supports The Indee Rose Trust!
The annual Bumps & Babes Kid Show in Southend, Essex will this year be supporting The Indee Rose Trust. The show will take place on the 23rd and 24th October 2010 at Garon Park Leisure, Southend.
The show is aimed at pregnant couples through to families with Primary school aged children - a great day out for all the family. Visit over 70 stalls of shopping and information for parent and parents to be including nursery items, clothes, toys, books, gifts, cards,
jewellery, handbags and so much more.
There will be tons of FREE entertainment including shows from JIMBO and The Partyman Crew, Bouncy Castles, Messy Play, Meet & Greet with Characters, Jo Jingles Classes and loads more you can also enter the BEAUTIFUL BABY & CHILD COMPETITION for the chance to win a modelling contract and be the face of next years show. Enjoy some of the fantastic culinary delights from sweets and chocolate, cakes and cookies to Caribbean cuisine or visit the Pamper Zone or bar.
For more information and to purchase tickets please go to: http://www.bumpsbabesandkids.co.uk/
We would like to thank the Ky Greenwood for organising and nominating the Trust, it is a great honour.
September 2010
Jane Allen reaches top ten finalist of 'Real Mum of the Year 2010, on Bounty.com
Our amazing Jane Allen has been nominated by her sister in-law Perri Dopson, to win 'Real Mum of the Year 2010' on Bounty.com. Out of hundreds of nominations, Jane, along with 9 other amazing Mummy's has been placed in the top ten finalists.
Please vote for Jane here: http://www.bounty.com/realmum/vote
Commenting on her nomination Jane said: " I was shocked when I first found out, I'm really touched. But I am just a normal Mummy, doing what I can to put smiles on all these brave children's faces"
Voting ends on 29th October 2010.
August 2010
Patrons of The Indee Rose Trust
The Indee Rose Trust are happy to announce and confirm our Patrons.
They are Dean Macey, Olympic Silver Medalist, David Tudor, Priest, Canvey Island, St Nicholas Church, Paul Smith (Professional Boxer) The British Super Middleweight Champion, Johhny Eames and Derek Grainger of TKO Gym, London and actress Kate Williams (Eastenders and Love Thy Neighbour). We have a fantastic team of people to help support the trust and we are looking forward to working with them all in the future.
Celebrity Football Event for The Indee Rose Trust raises over £20,000!
The Indee Rose Trust celebrity football event was a great success, with celebrities including Iron Maiden, Johnny Borrell, Ricky Hatton and David Haye (to name a few) in attendance and over 3,000 people attending we managed to raise over £20,000 pounds in ticket sales, auctions and donations on the day.
Thank you to the great Johnny Eames and Derek Grainger of the Ultrachem TKO Gym, who organised everything and managed to book all of these great celebrities. Thank you to all of the celebrities and footballers that took part.
With the great Paul Smith 'Pickpockets' winning the final, Paul has promised to help organise the next event in 2011!
July 2010
Indee Rose Trust chosen as Sainsbury's Local Charity of the Year!
The Indee Rose Trust is very proud to have been chosen as the local charity of the year for the Canvey Island store.
"We are so happy to have been chosen as the charity of the year and we thank everyone who voted for us" said Jane Allen and Russell Dopson.
Celebrity Football Event for The Indee Rose Trust
On Sunday the 25th July some of the biggest names in British Boxing, along with stars from TV, Film and Music, will be gathering at the Brockwell Stadium in Canvey Island to participate in a football tournament to raise funds for The Indee Rose Trust, which provide support to children recovering from brain and spinal tumours.
The tournament, which is organised by renowned professional boxing coaches Johnny Eames and Derek Grainger of the Ultrachem TKO Gym in Canning Town, will include teams headed by WBA Heavyweight World Champion DAVID ‘HAYEMAKER’ HAYE, former undisputed Light Welterweight King RICKY HATTON, WBU Lightweight World Champion WILLIE LIMOND, European Champion DARREN BARKER, British & Commonwealth Super Featherweight Champ KEVIN MITCHELL, British Super Middleweight Champion PAUL SMITH and Commonwealth Champions RICKY BURNS & TONY BELLEW.
Joining the aforementioned professional boxing champions will be Olympic Gold Medallist JAMES DEGALE, World Amateur Champion FRANKIE GAVIN and Olympian BILLY JOE SAUNDERS.
From the world of television and film, actors GERALD KERNS & CIAREN GRIFFITHS, both of whom are currently starring in the hit TV series SHAMELESS, and former English Super Featherweight Challenger and CORONATION STREET star STEPHEN BELL will be guesting on the National Journalists team.
Rock superstars IRON MAIDEN, who are favourites to win having former MILLWALL, WEST HAM UNITED , TOTTENHAM HOTSPURS, MANCHESTER UNITED & ENGLAND star TEDDY SHERRINGHAM as their striker, will be representing the music biz along with RAZORLIGHT frontman JOHNNY BORRELL, who will be guesting on the ULTRACHEM TKO GYM team.
Tickets are priced:
Adults: £10.00
Children: £5.00
and are available from The Ultrachem TKO Gym, Gillian House, Stephenson Street, Canning Town, London E16 4SA - Tel: 0207 474 3199
Or go to www.tickets.justlisten2this.com the purchase online.
June 2010
'A walk for Indee'
On Sunday 27th June hundreds of people turned up to take part in our 'Walk for Indee,' which was a 4-5 mile walk aroundCanvey Island seawall to raise funds for our Treasure Boxes. The day was beautiful, very hot and a great success! Thank you to everyone who took part in this years walk for Indee, we managed to raised approximately £3,000.
Gulls Proud To Support The Indee Rose Trust
Canvey Island Football Club is extremely pleased to announce an exciting charity event to take place at the Brockwell Stadium on Sunday 25th July 2010.
Some of the biggest names in British Boxing, along with stars from TV, Film and Music will take part in a football tournament to raise funds for The Indee Rose Trust, which provide support to children recovering from brain and spinal tumors.
A club spokesmen said 'As a club we are extremely honored to host such a high profile event, which will raise key funds for an excellent charity in The Indee Rose Trust. We hope the local community embrace the event and come out in numbers to help raise funds and cheer on the likes of DAVID HAYE, RICKY HATTON, TEDDY SHERRINGHAM & IRON MAIDEN'.
The Club are continuing to build community partnerships and are proud to officially announce the Indee Rose Trust as the Club's offical charity for the 2010/2011 season alongside St Luke's Hospice.
April 2010
Indee Rose Trust chosen for Clare Brooking's charity ball
The Indee Rose Trust has been chosen as one of three charties at "But i'm only a child" charity ball which takes place in November 2010.
The event which is organised by Clare Brooking is an annual event and raises funds for three charities each year.
The IndeeRose Trust is very proud to be taking centre stage at such a prestigious event.
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