Friday, 18 May 2012

Update - Update - Update - Update 

A HUGE thank-you to everyone in the Institute who helped out with raffle prizes and donations of cakes, and an even bigger thank you to everyone who supported our efforts, adding a whopping £437 to our fundraising.

A magnificent day's work!

Cake Sale Day!!!


Early indications suggest a fantastic response to the cake sale and raffle; end of day totals will be announced soon......

Thursday, 17 May 2012

With only three days to go until the big day the Drug Discovery team are in a baking frenzy ahead of our Cake Sale at the Paterson Institute.

Just to update on the fantastic raffle prizes which have been donated by local businesses to support our fundraising for CRUK:

Thanks again to everyone for your prize donations and sponsorship, you have all be very generous!

Wednesday, 16 May 2012

Into the final week, and the last "usual" group Tuesday training run is complete.  Lovely weather, too, with hail, sleet and a brisk breeze.  Sunday must be better, surely??

Meanwile, we're all delighted to have passed the £1,000 mark through on-line donations; thanks to everyone who has sponsoerd us, including Sandra from Bruker UK, our latest corporate sponsor!

Friday, 11 May 2012

With just over a week to go until the big day sponsorship keeps rolling in and the training continues! Thank you to everyone so far for your support.  We're in the green wave for the run, with the starters' gun setting us off at 12:10 pm, I'm sure you'll be able to spot us in the lab coats!

As well as the Cake Sale at the Paterson Institute on Friday 18 May we're also holding a raffle, with prizes donated from generous local businesses, they include:

So if you're around on Friday 18 May come along and get yourself a ticket for the chance to win these excellent prizes and support CRUK in the process!

Friday, 4 May 2012

Stunning fundraising progress continues as the Drug Discovery Unit approaches our big run.  Huge thanks to our new sponsoring suppliers Radleys, SLS, Accelrys and Smith Scientific for helping us on our way.

The big question in our minds now is "Can we surpass half of our fundraising target by the Bank Holiday"......??