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<strong>fundraising</strong> <strong>news</strong><br />
12<br />
Celebrate with<br />
The <strong>Fellowship</strong><br />
The <strong>Fellowship</strong>’s Celebrate scheme enables members, their families and friends<br />
to support The <strong>Fellowship</strong> and our work by donating money in lieu of gifts.<br />
Once you register to join the scheme, we can send you donation cards and prepaid<br />
envelopes to send out, maybe with your party invitations. When anyone<br />
donates in lieu of a gift, we send them a thank you card. You get a list of all<br />
donors, as well as a certificate showing the total amount raised. Donations can<br />
also be made online.<br />
Joe Fisher will probably be a familiar name<br />
to many of our members as he has always<br />
played a big part in <strong>Fellowship</strong> matters,<br />
having been a Trustee for many years and<br />
now a Patron.<br />
Joe hit his 90th year in June (although you<br />
would never guess it) and instead of presents at<br />
his party he asked his friends and family to make<br />
a donation to The <strong>Fellowship</strong>, thereby raising the<br />
absolutely fantastic sum of £1,595. Many thanks<br />
for your generosity, Joe, and may we wish you<br />
good health and happiness in the years to come.<br />
Joe writes:<br />
What do you give a man on his 90th<br />
birthday?<br />
As my 90th birthday approached I pondered<br />
how best to celebrate what is quite a milestone<br />
in my life. Perhaps a cruise? I even consulted the<br />
list of 50 things you should do before you die.<br />
See the Taj Mahal? Sunset over the Pyramids?<br />
Each time I came back to the same conclusion.<br />
What I really wanted was to be with my dear<br />
family and close friends, especially those who<br />
have meant so much to me over many years,<br />
so I decided to throw a party. Then suddenly a<br />
thought struck me! OMG! No-one comes to a<br />
party empty-handed and I would end up with<br />
umpteen bottles of aftershave (more than I could<br />
ever use), designer socks (I have drawer full from<br />
previous birthdays, mostly unworn), whiskey (I<br />
rarely touch it), books (I was given a Kindle for my<br />
89th) and enough wine to drown in!<br />
Joe and his wife Christine.<br />
I also thought with horror of the waste of money<br />
when there are thousands of people with polio,<br />
many living lonely lives, some having lost their<br />
nearest and dearest, some experiencing Post<br />
<strong>Polio</strong> Syndrome (PPS) who now, more than ever,<br />
need the services and help of The <strong>British</strong> <strong>Polio</strong><br />
<strong>Fellowship</strong> of which I am a Patron. I contacted<br />
Marianne at Central Office and told her that I<br />
would state on my invitation:<br />
STRICTLY NO PRESENTS but if you would make a<br />
donation to The <strong>British</strong> <strong>Polio</strong> <strong>Fellowship</strong> I would be<br />
thrilled.<br />
She produced a flyer, which I included with each<br />
invitation, plus an envelope addressed to The<br />
The <strong>British</strong> <strong>Polio</strong> <strong>Fellowship</strong>
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