Kier raises over £4,400 for charity
A Doncaster mental health nurse, Kier ‘Face the Fear’ Ellis, was matched against a much bigger opponent at the black-tie tournament at Doncaster Racecourse but came out on top, with a points win in her three-round maiden contest.
She joined other boxers at the multi-match fund-raiser for Cancer Research UK, single-handedly collecting over £4,400 in memory of Nick Beaumont, her ex-partner of nine years, who died from a cancerous brain tumour in January 2020.
Kier, 45, who works for Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust (RDaSH) as a community psychiatric nurse in the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service, said: “Nick was only 56, he died so quickly after his diagnosis. I needed something to help me get through it all, so nine days later I signed up for Ultra White Collar Boxing, which organises events for charity.
“It wasn’t easy but I’m really proud that I won. I did this for Nick and my boys and if the money raised prevents just one family from going through what we have, it has been worthwhile.”
Cheering ringside at the racecourse were Kier’s family and friends, including stepson Will, 22, and dad John Ellis. Younger son, Maxton, 7, says she is “the best fighter in the world”
Kier has worked for the NHS for 25 years and is also a black belt in kick boxing, a sport she took up 13 years ago. Her fundraising page is still open for donations:
www.justgiving.com/fundraising/Kiersten-Ellis
Emmaus Sheffield welcomes support worker Janine
City homelessness charity Emmaus Sheffield has appointed Janine Cotton as a support worker.
Emmaus Sheffield is the drug and alcohol-free project that provides a home, support and work for formerly homeless people in the city.
Through its Social Enterprise programme, it aims to provide meaningful work and enable the people it supports known as companions to eventually become self-supporting once more.“We are delighted to welcome Janine to the team in a post that has been funded by the Postcode Neighbourhood Trust,” said the charity’s Deputy Manager, Charley Fedorenko.
“She is working closely with the companions, helping them to develop their social skills and prepare them for a return to the wider community.
“That can mean anything from taking them for walks to going to the cinema – all those things that people take for granted but which people who have been homeless have missed out on.
“This is an important new role within the charity and one that we believe will enhance the lives of our companions enormously.”
The aim of Postcode Neighbourhood Trust, a grant-giving charity funded entirely by players of People’s Postcode Lottery, is to support smaller charities and good causes in the north of England to make a difference to their community for the benefit of people and planet.
To find out more about Emmaus Sheffield, its second-hand superstore and its collection service visit emmaus-sheffield.org.uk
Happy New Year from Let’s Save Consultancy Services!
I hope you all had a good rest over the festive period, drank and ate as much as you wanted to, received all your presents from Santa that you asked for, but most importantly – were you a good little boy or girl last year?
Were you leading by example in your charity? Were you ahead of the game with an amazing business plan in place for the next 1, 3 and 5 years? Did you write an amazingly diverse funding strategy that had contingency written into it? Did you set realistic and SMART goals for your income generation for the next 18 months? Did you apply for grant funding for what your organisation needed rather than just chasing the money? You didn’t? Don’t worry! 2022 is another year, last year is so, well, last year!
Call me ASAP and let’s get going. I still have spare capacity to work with you this month and have a reasonably FREE diary in February, so far, so let’s save you time and money and get this done, planned and let’s get your organisation’s activities, policies and procedures reviewed, planned and scheduled.
2022 has got to be an improvement on the last two years? Let’s go for it!
Redbrik Foundation donates £10k to local charities
Award-winning South Yorkshire and North East Derbyshire Estate Agents, Redbrik has donated nearly £10,000 to six local charities.
Fairplay, St. Luke’s Hospice Sheffield, Bluebell Wood Children’s Hospice, The Children’s Hospital Charity, Ashgate Hospice and Paces will benefit from the funds raised through the Redbrik Foundation.
After hosting and supporting many charity events over the years, the Redbrik Foundation was set up in 2020 to help children, young people, the elderly and those with disabilities in the Sheffield and Chesterfield areas.
Naturally, since the Foundation was set up in 2020, restrictions have limited the number of in-person fundraising events. However, Redbrik’s team came up with new ways to generate support for the Foundation and its charities at a time when they need it most.
The Redbrik Foundation has organised virtual events, and challenges and donations of Christmas presents to Sheffield Children’s Hospital two years running so that every patient receives a gift during the festive season.
The team tackled the Yorkshire Three Peaks challenge earlier this year, raising over £4,000, and held the very first – and very successful – Redbrik Foundation Chesterfield 10k in October. In addition, donations were raised through a match funding initiative whereby clients of Redbrik are given the option to donate £25 to the Foundation, which the company then matches.
Redbrik Foundation Trustee, David Cooper, said: “This is a proud day for everyone and thank you to anyone who has promoted, donated to or fundraised for the Foundation in the last year. One hundred per cent of all money raised is donated back out into the community to support the incredible work these organisations carry out every day.
“Rather than have a changing list of annual charity partners, we’ve decided instead that we’d rather have an ever-growing list of amazing charities to support, so watch this space!”
