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The Oxford UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS Charitable Headlines
Issue 15
In this issue
Top chef Raymond Blanc at the Children’s Hospital cookery club
PAGE 4: Sir Christopher Ball puts
his heart into the Echo campaign
Celebrity chef launches Fun Run
Celebrity chef Raymond Blanc served up a
winning recipe for the Oxford Children’s
Hospital at the launch of the 10 th Oxford
Mail OX5RUN.
The event, a five-mile fun run around the
grounds of Blenheim Palace, raises money
for thousands of babies and children treated
here each year.
Last year nearly 1,000 people took part,
generating more than £60,000 for cuttingedge medical equipment, such as a mobile
intensive care unit and a room where teenage
cancer patients can relax.
We want to make this year’s event – on
March 25 at 10.30am – the biggest and best
yet and hope to raise a whopping £100,000.
Also at the launch were nine-year-old Mya
Harris and father Dale, a long-term supporter
of the Children’s Hospital, who has run the
race every year since it started. Mya, who has
spina bifida, has had a number of operations,
including three in the past 12 months.
Raymond Blanc, who fired the starting gun for
last year’s race, joined in a cake-making session
at the Children’s Hospital cookery club.
He said: “I’m proud to support this wonderful
cause once again.”
Oxford City 1,500m athlete Hannah England,
a silver medallist in the World Championships,
has also endorsed the OX5RUN. She said: “I
am delighted to lend my support. The event
raises money for a great cause and I hope that
as many people as possible turn out to make
the day the best yet.”
The event is sponsored again this year by the
Oxford Mail, Allen Associates, Jack FM and
retailers at Witney’s Marriott’s Walk.
PAGE 6: Pictures from the latest
‘It’s Not Just a Walk in the Park’
Many of those running are parents whose
children have been treated at the hospital
and dozens of local businesses also take part.
You can choose whether to run individually
or to get together a team with friends, family
or colleagues.
For more information
or to register online:
visit: www.ox5run.co.uk or
www.orhcharitablefunds.nhs.uk
email: charity@ouh.nhs.uk
or call: 01865 743444
News for Supporters of Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals Charitable Funds
PAGE 10: Together we can do
more
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Stop Press special…
Festive fundraiser
⫸ L
ast year, Charitable Funds raised £7m to
support the work of the Oxford University
Hospitals NHS Trust. Almost every part of our
hospitals benefitted from fundraising. Working
together, we are able to do so much to help
patients here and keep changing lives for the
better. Thank you for your continued support.
n November 1 last year, the Oxford Radcliffe
⫸ O
Hospitals NHS Trust merged with the Nuffield
Orthopaedic Centre (NOC) and has changed its
name to Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust
(OUH) to reflect our close partnership with the
University.
he new Trust is made up of four
T
hospitals – the John Radcliffe
Hospital, the Churchill Hospital, the
Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre and the
Horton General Hospital.
TV presenter Angela Rippon and
the Wallingford Parish Choir were
the stars of the show at a fundraising
evening in December.
Guests, who included supporter
and event organiser Paula Cameron
and Cancer B enef ac tor B oard
Chairman Neil Ashley, were treated
to Champagne and canapés at The
Shooting Lodge on the Wellbarn
Estate in Moulsford near Wallingford.
All proceeds went to the Oxford
Children’s Hospital.
⫸ O
xford is the number one
place for medicine in the world
– it’s official! The University
of Oxford, in partnership with
University Hospitals, topped a major
international university league table
in the clinical, pre-clinical and health
category.
he Times Higher Education World
T
University Rankings 2011-2012 saw
Oxford overtake the previous number
one, Harvard, to take the top spot
for medicine.
his is a huge endorsement of the talent, capability
T
and dedication that we have here in Oxford.
Keep on running
Simon and Karen Lovett raised £375
for the Women’s Centre’s Silver Star
unit when Simon took part in the
Salisbury Half-Marathon.
Karen, who has a very rare condition,
became poorly before the birth
and the couple spent three weeks
in a Silver Star family room where
Georgia was born in April 2010.
Karen said: “We received the most
fantastic care from the doctors and
midwives of the Silver Star, including
the much-needed emotional kind.”
⫸ T
he breast screening unit at the Oxford
Cancer Centre in the Churchill Hospital has
gone completely digital, thanks to a campaign
that raised £100,000.
he advantage of digital scanners over the T
old-style analogue ones, is that they make it
quicker and easier to read and diagnose images,
and so may detect cancer at an earlier stage,
something that will hugely benefit the 28,000
women who are scanned at the unit each year.
Remember, we have a team dedica
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Fundraisers’ News
Thank you to all our fundraisers whose energy, enthusiasm and imagination continues to inspire. Do let us
know what you are up to and we will try to include your picture. Call Sarah Vaccari on 01865 743428.
Strictly Come
Fundraising
Trophies, sequins and frocks were
under the spotlight as law firm Darbys
staged Strictly Come Darbys Take 2 to
raise funds for The Purple Garden at
the Oxford Cancer Centre. Darbys
colleagues, family and friends were
coached in a ballroom dance before
appearing in front of an audience and
judges at last November’s event.
Out on a limb
Bra-vo for Athena
Local business women stuffed a bra with business cards to pledge support for
a breast screening appeal. Networking organisation Athena held a lunch at the
Oxford Centre where the women heard about the drive to raise funds for digital
imaging equipment at the Oxford Breast Screening Unit.
Dinner time
A British Damage Management
Association dinner in December raised
£1,026 for Oxford Children’s Hospital,
including more than £500 from a raffle.
BDMA member Emma Dadson, pictured
far left with BDMA chair Don Pringle,
nominated the charity after her child was
treated in the hospital.
Golfers’ stroke of genius
The 75 brave supporters who took on
a 100ft-abseil challenge in September
raised more than £30,000 for the
Oxford Children’s Hospital.
Among them were four colleagues
from Abingdon-based pharmaceuticals
company Evotec, who raised more
than £500.
Landing up in the bunker helped golfers at a Witney club raise £1,500 for heart
patients. Each time members at Witney Lakes went wrong at the 15th hole, they
put money in a box for the Oxford Heart Centre. Over a year this added up to
more than £400, while the rest of the cash was raised through an open day.
ated to helping your fundraising efforts. Call us on 01865 743444 or visit www.orhcharitablefunds.nhs.uk
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Have a Heart…
Our hospitals serve a population of just
over two million and it is estimated that
as many as one in four of these people will
require treatment at the Oxford Heart
Centre over the next ten years.
Imaging patients’ hearts is a critical process in the
assessment of heart conditions, and it is recognised that
echocardiography is the best way of doing this.
We want our internationally-recognised clinicians to
work in a world-class Echocardiography Unit.
Our campaign to raise £1m to open the new Unit by
the end of this year has raised just over £300,000 so
far, and now we really need your help to achieve the
remaining £695,000.
A recent inspiring presentation by Professor Adrian
Banning, Dr Saul Myerson, Dr Jim Newton and Dr
Bernard Prendergast, included live demonstrations of
why this type of cardiac imaging is so vital to improve
diagnosis and treatment.
The planned new
Echocardiography Unit
will include same-sex
rooms for patients and
more consulting areas
to improve privacy and
reduce waiting times.
We also plan to purchase state-of-the-art
echocardiography machines which will give much higher
image quality than previously available, with 3-D images
of the heart.
The new Unit will allow our clinicians to increase
the number of scans, diagnose more precisely the
underlying condition of the heart and give them the
ability to perform more complex assessments so central
to the life-saving procedures carried out here.
These amazing developments will not take place
without charitable funding, which is why we need your
support.
Echocardiography uses ultrasound to show moving
images of the heart, and more than 15,000 take place at
the John Radcliffe each year.
Come and find out more by attending the next
presentation by our cardiologists and surgeons,
scheduled for this Spring.
At the moment, our facilities are spread across two
floors and three separate areas in the hospital, and
need updating.
Register your interest by contacting
Marianne Julebin now on 01865 231523,
or email her at marianne.julebin@ouh.nhs.uk
YOU can donate £1 to £10 to the Heart Centre Campaign by texting OXHC12 to 70070
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‘I had to do something to show my gratitude’
After a glittering
career in academia,
including a
knighthood for
services to education,
Sir Christopher Ball
could be forgiven for
taking life easy.
Instead, the 76-year-old is spearheading the Oxford
Heart Centre’s campaign for a new echocardiography
suite with more energy and verve than most people
half his age. A super-fit marathon runner, he completed
an amazing ten marathons in ten days, despite being in
his 70s.
Last summer, after suffering a series of heart attacks
and having triple heart bypass surgery, he volunteered
his experience to lead the fundraising appeal.
Two years later, he founded and was first to finish the
10 in 10 challenge, a gruelling 262-mile course in the
Lake District, running 10 marathons in 10 days.
“There are about 2.2m people who live in the Oxford
area and for whom the JR is their hospital,” he said.
“We know the incidence of heart disease is such that
one in four people will need that heart unit at some
point, so it is essential to us that it should continue to
be the world class unit that it is. For that we must all
cooperate to provide the unit with echo technology
that is essential for its work.”
Please help us by making a donation, organising your
own fundraising, or joining one of our events.”
To find out more, call 01865 743444, email
charity@ouh.nhs.uk or visit www.orhcharitablefunds.nhs.uk .
Donations should be made payable to the Heart Centre
Campaign and sent to Charitable Funds, Manor House,
Headley Way, Oxford, OX3 9DZ.
“The heart unit gave me back my life and I feel
much gratitude for that,” he explained. “It was quite
unexpected when I had my heart attacks. I was in
training but the running wasn’t going well because I had
to keep stopping and clutching my chest.
“I thought it might be my age and that perhaps my
lungs were going, so I didn’t take those symptoms very
seriously.
“But when I found myself walking through the middle
of Oxford and having to sit down on a wall just to get
my breath back, I began to think something might be
wrong,” he added.
“At A&E they were just wonderful. I was taken to the
heart unit and eventually ended up having surgery.
Afterwards, I thought ‘I have got to do something to
show my gratitude’.”
Sir Christopher completed the London Marathon in
2003 at the age of 68 then ran the length of the River
Thames, which at 182 miles is the same distance as
seven marathons, in just seven days.
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• Fresh Cards & Gifts
• Monsoon Accessorize • Wallis
• Café Rouge • Frankie & Benny’s
• Hackett’s to Go • New Look
• Cineworld – 5-screen cinema
• Past Times • Fat Face
• Whittards of Chelsea
• For competitions and up to date
information please visit our website
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info@marriotswalk.co.uk
Tel: 01993 704262
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Cancer update
Louise Simmons, left, with her family and, centre, on the Walk. Above right, the Barker family
Walk the walk…
More than 150 people took part in the fourth It’s Not Just
A Walk In the Park, raising funds to help thousands of cancer
and heart patients across the region. Some have had treatment
themselves, others walked with, or in memory of, relatives
and friends who have had treatment and for many, it was a
challenge to reach the finish line.
The three-mile sponsored stroll around the park on October 31 raised
£20,000 for the Oxford Heart and Cancer Centres.
Among those who took part was freelance editor Ann Hunter, of Osney
Island, who has beaten cancer 11 times. Ann, 74, was with her daughter
Alison Aisher, 50 and granddaughters Alexandra Gray, 26 and seven-yearold Sophie Aisher.
Walking in memory of Andrea Barker, who lost her battle with cancer in
2009 at the age of 42, was her husband Stephen Barker, sons Jacob, 16 and
William, 13 and Stephen’s mother June Barker.
Ann Hunter (centre)
with her family
Jayne Grainger
walked three miles
in fancy dress
Kidlington mum Louise Simmons came with six-year-old son Joshua and
husband Alan Hill to raise money for the Oxford Heart Centre where her
father Gerald Rice was treated after a heart attack. Louise said: “If it wasn’t
for the team at the Heart Centre, dad wouldn’t be with us.”
Jayne Grainger, who had a 39-pound ovarian cyst removed at the Churchill
in 2010, took part dressed as Daisy Duck. Jayne, who raised almost £1,000
through sponsorship, said: “How on earth can I ever thank or repay the
care and kindness shown to me? Without these wonderful surgeons and
nurses, I know I would not be here.”
YOU can donate £1 to £10 to the Cancer Care Campaign by texting OXCC12 to 70070
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Local company
donates £100,000
It’s all about the image
It was the perfect match when a top image
consultant laid on a glitzy event to raise
funds for imaging equipment at the Oxford
Breast Screening Unit.
Louise Martinez, co-owner of Electric Hairdressing,
hosted a pamper evening where guests paid £15 a ticket
to enjoy nibbles supplied by Malmaison and glasses of
bubbly. All proceeds from the evening went towards
the appeal for a digital scanner.
Oxford-based Amey has donated £100,000 for an
integrated theatre (CIT) and sponsored the Amey
Garden at the Oxford Cancer Centre.
This equipment is used for keyhole surgery, which
reduces recovery time and the risk of infection. It
also allows high-definition images to be broadcast
from inside patients’ bodies.
Much of the money was raised by Amey’s 11,000
staff, who staged a series of events including abseiling
100ft down the side of the hospital and took part in
the It’s Not Just a Walk in the Park sponsored walk
in Oxford University Parks.
Jane Baldwin, consultant radiologist and director of
Oxfordshire Breast Screening Services, said: “About
28,000 women a year are invited in for a mammogram
and that number is increasing. With digital scanners it is
quicker to read images and easier to store and transfer
them. Things show up better, which is good because we
can treat it at an earlier stage and outcomes are better.”
Amey Chief Executive Mel Ewell, far left, with Carolyn Barrett of
Critical Care, Kate Buchanan of Amey, Cancer Benefactor Board
Chairman Neil Ashley and Senior Charge Nurse Trevor Venes
Changing Rooms
Jo Lewis-Wood and Lucy Parsons of Oxford University Hospitals
with consultant radiologist Jane Baldwin
An appeal to transform the look and feel
of the Oxford Cancer Centre’s Cancer and
Haematology Day Treatment Unit has
raised £19,500 so far.
Ward Sister Elizabeth Flanagan and Manager of the
Day Treatment Unit, Jane Skelly, are leading the drive
to create a more positive feel to the Unit by adding
colourful artwork and furniture to provide comfort
and distraction for patients.
A horseshoe-shaped room, it accommodates 30
chairs and 12 beds but has little artwork and very
high windows which mean patients can’t look out.
The feedback the team have is that the room could
be more welcoming.
Louise Martinez (far right) with guests. (Photographs reproduced with
kind permission – Mark Spooner/Spooner Studios)
The appeal aims to raise funds to make the area
more sensitive to patients and those working and
visiting there to create a more pleasant, restful space
that lifts spirits and promotes healing.
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Children’s Hospital…
Team Scarlett
takes the plunge
A group of friends raised around
£9,000 for the Children’s Hospital
by abseiling 100ft from the roof
last September.
Harr y in
action!
Everybody was
kung fu fighting
Around 400 youngsters karate-chopped
their way through Oxford’s largest
martial arts class to raise £4,500 for the
Children’s Hospital.
And another 600 were there to cheer them on at
the Oxford Sport Traditional Martial Arts event last
October.
Senior instructor David Plested, a Black Belt 3rd
Dan, said: “A few of our members have to go to
the Children’s Hospital regularly for treatment, so it
seemed a great idea for our members to raise money
through sponsorship.”
Bryony and Dan Clarkson, whose
six-year-old daughter Scarlett is
being treated in Kamran’s Ward, were inspired to get
together with friends to tackle the daring descent after
watching Scarlett complete an abseil as part of a Kamran’s
Ward Family Fun Day.
This time last year, Scarlett was diagnosed with Acute
Lymphoblastic Leukaemia. Bryony explained: “Overnight,
we went from being an ordinary family to one going
through the most enormous ordeal imaginable.
“Scarlett is being expertly cared for by Kamran’s Ward,
the specialist paediatric oncology ward at the JR. To us,
this ward represents not only the lifeline of vital care that
Scarlett needs, but also a place where she can be cared
for in a positive and active environment, with plenty
to do and staff who are able to give time and energy
to helping Scarlett and children like her to get through
each treatment.
“We visit Kamran’s Ward on average once a week, each
visit being up to seven hours at a time. We will do this for
two and a half years. There are many families who stay
in for much longer periods. During this time the ward is
their home and without vital funds, many of the facilities
which they rely on would not be able to be offered.”
Julie Millard-Green, whose son Harry is a club member,
came up with the idea.
She said: “Harry is severe steroid-dependent asthmatic
and has multiple allergies, so has been in hospital many
times over the years.
“We have been involved in fundraising for the hospital
before – including the OX5RUN so thought it would
be great to do something with the karate club.”
David Plested added: “Harry is a real inspiration to
work with because he always trains really hard and has
a smile for everyone.”
YOU can donate £1 to £10 to the Children’s Hospital by texting CHOX12 to 70070
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Nursery Nurses walk
for Newborns
Novel idea…
Jess Sprake (pictured) used her writing skills to raise
£1,500 for the hospital’s Newborn Intensive Care
Unit.
She was sponsored to write 50,000 words of a novel in
November for NaNoWriMo (National Write a Novel
in a Month challenge), in memory of her nephew,
five-month-old William who was born in May 2011.
William’s mother and father Emma and Steven
Radley, with help from family and supporters, have
raised more than £8,000.
The hospital’s Newborn Intensive Care Unit
was also boosted by two nursery nurses from
William’s sister Eva Radley’s nursery, Scott’s
House in North Leigh near Witney.
Emma said: “The first six weeks of William’s life were
spent within the Newborn Intensive Care Unit at the
John Radcliffe Hospital.
Nikki Lane and Nadine Ludlow raised £650 in
December from an 11-mile sponsored walk from the
Evenlode pub on the A40 to the hospital.
“The fantastic team there kept him alive and enabled
him to have a chance of life, and for this his family
will always be eternally grateful.
PICTURED: Cynthia Charlett, Nadine Ludlow, Mel Peas, Nikki
Lane, Steven and Emma Radley with two-year-old daughter Eva
“Unfortunately William lost his fight for life on
September 29, 2011.”
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Other news…
Together we can do more
“
The hospital staff deserve every support in
the wonderful work they do, without the extra
stress of worrying about funds.
”
MRS Winefride Brack
Nick Maynard
Clinical Director of Surgery
“I can’t express my gratitude enough to them. They are
miracle workers and have kept me alive.” These are the
words of retired head teacher Winefride Brack, who gives
£5 a month every month to Oxford University Hospitals.
Mrs Brack, who lives in Chipping Norton, has Waldenström’s
macroglobulinemia, a form of blood cancer also known as
lymphoplasmacytic lymphoma. Since being diagnosed in
the 1990s, she has attended the Haematology Unit at the
John Radcliffe where she is under the care of consultant
haematologists Dr Tim Littlewood and Dr Andy Peniket.
She added: “It is a small way of paying them back and setting
up a standing order is the easiest way to do it.”
Andrew House, Head of Major Gifts, said: “Mrs Brack
gives regularly each month and as an Oxford University
Hospitals patron, her gift is invaluable to us. Knowing what
is coming in gives us a much clearer idea of our income
and allows us to budget for expenses that are coming up.
“We can better plan for major expenditure, such as buying
expensive pieces of equipment that are beyond the reach
of the NHS budget. This ensures Oxford is leading the way
in innovative and effective treatment.
“Whether it is £2 or £50 a month, when people set up
a standing order it makes a huge difference to what we
can achieve.”
Make a HUGE difference
Gifts from patrons are vital to Oxford University Hospitals and every donation helps change the lives of
thousands of patients from across the region.
Working together, three hundred Bronze patrons paying just £3 per month would bring in at least £900 each month,
while the same number of Silver patrons paying £10-24 per month, would guarantee at least £3,000 – enough, for
example, to fund an infant overhead warmer needed for the operating theatres.
As a Diamond patron, pledging £200 or more a month, your support goes even further – the donations of 300
Diamond patrons would fund two Echo machines, giving heart patients and clinicians access to the very latest
digital technology.
The more people who give even a small gift each month, the bigger the difference we can make because together,
we can do more.
If you would like to know more about setting up a standing order to the hospital, please contact
Andrew House on 01865 743427.
YOU can donate to support causes across our hospitals by texting GIVE19 to 70070
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Torch-lite:
News in brief from around the Trust
Day room opens in
memory of Roy
It was an emotional moment for 86-year-old
Gladys Hudson when she opened a day room
on the Stroke Unit in memory of her late
husband, Roy.
Gladys and her family spent two years raising £4,000 to
refurbish the room and transform it into somewhere
patients and their families can relax and talk to doctors
in private. Now, it includes a sofa, armchairs, coffee table,
dining room table and chairs, wall-mounted plasma TV,
lamps, scatter cushions and pot plants.
In lieu of having any 21st birthday presents, Matthew Evans
donated around £500 to the Oxford University Hospitals
general fund. Matthew who was involved in a car crash in 2010,
organised a charity evening in Bicester last September.
JJ, a marketing communications agency from South Oxfordshire,
decided to support the Oxford Children’s Hospital by carol
singing outside Sainsbury’s at Heyford Hill the week before
Christmas. They raised £268.40 from appreciative shoppers.
Thank you to Vinculum women’s networking group for adopting
us as their Charity of the Year and supporting our breast
screening unit with their Christmas raffle.
Tunde Oshilesi from Burger King has been bringing in money
from collection tins at restaurants since February 2006. They
have raised a staggering £6,812.67 for the Children’s Hospital.
Special thanks go to Julie Bourchier and Combe village for raising
more than £1,000 at their cream tea last year. Also, to Jane
Mozumder for raising the same amount at a curry luncheon in
Summertown. Funds from both events go to the Cancer Centre.
Each year we send a Christmas card to our supporters, thanking
you and inviting you to return the enclosed gift tag with a
donation. Any message you write is displayed on the Christmas
tree in the atrium of the West Wing/Children’s Hospital. Many
of you have been generous enough to enclose a gift and these
have raised an incredible £10,000.
Gladys Hudson, sitting, surrounded by her family
(Photograph courtesy of Oxford Mail/Ed Nix)
Gladys, from Carterton, and her five daughters Ann, 59,
Shirley, 58, Carol, 56, Helen, 54 and Jo, 51 handed over a
second cheque for £1,600. Also there to see it were four
of Mr Hudson’s 21 grandchildren and his great grandson
four-year-old Harry. His brother Maurice, 89 and sister
Mary, 82, travelled from Bristol and Chippenham to be
at the unveiling in November.
Mr Hudson suffered a stroke in 2009 and while he was
being treated at the unit, his family noticed there was no
area for patients and their families coming to terms with
difficult situations.
They raised the money through car boot and garage sales,
raffles and catering at parties and Gladys’ granddaughter
Becky, 25, raised £500 by having her head shaved.
Gladys explained: “When we lost Roy we wanted to do
something that would help other families.”
Deputy ward sister Ruth Bennett said: “The new day room
looks absolutely fantastic and it’s lovely that someone’s
taken the time and effort to do this.”
WHAT’S ON:
For details of all events go to www.orhcharitablefunds.nhs.uk or call 01865 743444
2012
Sunday 22 April and
Sunday 17 June
The Abseil raising funds for:
• Coasters
• Post Acute Unit
• IMPS
• Silver Star
• Heart Centre Campaign
• Cellular Immunology Research
• Ward 7B
• Acute General Medicine
• Heads Up
• Cancer Care Fund.
Wednesday 14 March, 2pm - 5.30pm – The Oxford
Biomedical Research Centre on the Churchill Hospital
site will once again be holding an Open Day with lots of
interactive research exhibits. For more information,
visit www.oxfordbrc.org
Sunday 25 March, 10.30am – Oxford Mail OX5RUN
10th anniversary five-mile fun run
at Blenheim Palace raising
funds for the Children’s
Hospital and Fund for
Children. Register online at
www.ox5run.co.uk
Friday 22 June – Children’s Hospital Golf Day at Studley
Wood Golf Club near Headington. Contact Penny Hambridge
on 01865 743445 to find out more.
We’re on
search under ‘ORH Charitable Funds’
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