10th Anniversary
GEMS Charity celebrates our 10th anniversary this year. To mark the occasion we have lots of exciting things planned throughout the year, supported by local businesses and the community.
Just to give you a taster of what’s to come:
Clutter Sale
May – Thursday 5, Friday 6 and Saturday 7: The Clutter Sale at The Railway Arms, we will be accepting your donations a couple of days before the event so please keep them safe until then.
Queen’s Jubilee
June – Thursday 2, Friday 3 and Saturday 4: Celebration of the Queen’s Jubilee at The Railway Arms, come along and enjoy BBQ, bouncy castle, bucking bronco, cake stall, tombola, raffle tickets for super prizes, name the large teddy and lots more fun for all the family. The team continue to work hard organising this amazing three day event, there are a few spaces left for stalls if you would like a stall please contact Jeff on 07874226051 or email jeffp62@hotmail.co.uk
Kelvin Capell Memorial
July – Sunday 3: Smeeton Open Gardens is back in memory of Kelvin Capell who was heavily involved in past open gardens and as many of you know he loved his plants. More information will follow. In the meantime if you would like to take part by opening your garden please get in touch with Anne at The Kings Head, phone Lyn 07715 114137 or email GEMS on the email below.
Leicester Racecourse
July – Wednesday 27: Charity Race Day held at Leicester Racecourse. We are so excited to announce we will be hosting a VIP event, packages are available now so please get in touch if you would like to enjoy a day at the races, sponsor a race or any part of the event.
Annual Golf Day
August – Friday 12: Our Annual Golf Day is back, teams of four, for more information please contact Lyn or Fred 07763 116049
Watch out for our ‘challenge 10’ activity…something for everyone to do and take part in!
All funds raised from our celebrations will go towards our current project of converting a balcony into a treatment space and refurbishing the existing treatment areas at the LRI chemotherapy suite. This will enable 40 more patients to be treated per week and reduce the waiting time for treatment all at a cost of £660,000 so every penny counts more than ever.
More information on each event will be published nearer the date, however please get in touch with us if you would like any more information on how you can help us celebrate our ten years of helping make the patients at LRI chemotherapy suite more comfortable during their treatment: gemscharity@gmail.com or phone (0116) 279 3814
If you unable to join us or these are not your type of events, please feel free to support us with a small donation by visiting www.gemscharity.com
Story of England – Michael Wood
