Year Round

10,000 Mile Challenge

We’ve set ourselves an ambitious challenge to celebrate our 10th Anniversary: we want to walk 10,000 miles and we need your help! For more information about how you can help, and an outline of walks that have been organised so far, please see our 10,000 Mile Challenge page.

May 1st – 16th

The East Grinstead Decorative and Fine Arts Society are holding an exhibition to showcase the artwork of its members as part of the Museums and Galleries Exhibition at the Chequer Mead Theatre from the 1st to the 16th of May.

25% of all sales will be donated to Cecily’s Fund. We would like to thank the Society for their generosity and wish them every success for the exhibition. 

May 17th and 18th

Big Smiley Weekend

Join us for a weekend of fundraising activities. For further information, see our Big Smiley Weekend page.

May 17th

Cherwell Valley and Oxford Canal Walk

Join us, Alison and Basil Eastwood, the founders of Cecily’s Fund, for two linked 5-mile walks on Saturday 17 May and raise lots of money by getting your friends to sponsor you and contribute to our 10,000 mile challenge.

These two lovely walks form a figure 8 with our home at the junction point in the middle for the start at 10am, a soup, bread and cheese lunch in the middle and a celebratory mug of tea at the end.

For more detailed information, go to the interactive panel on the 10,000 Mile Challenge page.

Contact Alison and Basil Eastwood by telephone on 01869 345792 or by emailing stableyard@aol.com

May 17th

London City to Greenwich Walk

Walking from Bank station, via Tower Bridge, the Thames Path, Canary Wharf, under the Greenwich Foot Tunnel to Greenwich. Up to the Royal Observatory for the wonderful views, and back by Riverboat or DLR.

For more detailed information, go to the interactive panel on the 10,000 Mile Challenge page.

Contact Alison Cowie by telephone on 0208 543 1695 or by emailing alisonmcowie@blueyonder.co.uk

May 17th

Wetlands Walk

The London Wetland Centre is an excellent urban site in which to watch wildlife. Located on the banks of the river Thames in South West London, it is the home to rare and beautiful wildlife.

For more detailed information, go to the interactive panel on the 10,000 Mile Challenge page.

For more detailed information, go to the interactive panel on the 10,000 Mile Challenge page.

Contact Margaret Cartledge by telephone on 0207 267 3633 or 07909 585197.

On Saturday 14 June 2008 Cecily's Fund is organising another opera performance in the Cotswolds. This time we have the great privilege of using the grounds of Ditchley Park. The opera will be Mozart's Marriage of Figaro, and Ditchley will be a magnificent and suitably eighteenth century backdrop. It will again be a Black Tie occasion and will follow the pattern of previous years - tea at 4.30pm before we move into the main marquee. There Diva Opera, surely Britain's leading chamber opera company, will give another of their sparkling performances. For information and to reserve your tickets please contact Alison Eastwood by email or by telephone on 01869 345792

June 21st

Jonathon Thompson to perform in Petersfield

Singer Songwriter & Guitarist Jonathan Thompson will be performing his new album 'Songs of Rapture' on June 21st, plus special guests at The STUDIO @ TPS in Petersfield, - accompanied by Chris Banahan on keyboard & Mike Knee on electric bass. The songs paint dream like pictures of a spiritual hope in contrast with more gritty social issues. Other songs simply portray a new found love and romance. "Music is spiritual and a powerful medium to heal the mind, draw people together and provide identity" JT. Doors open at 7.30pm and advance tickets cost £6.00, £7.00 on the door. Proceeds will be going to Cecily's Fund.
To find out about Jonathan's music visit www.myspace.com/musicjonathanthompson
To booking information, email the Box Office, open Mon - Thurs, 9 – 3pm at: thestudio@petersfieldschool.com or telephone 01730 234641
For directions and links to the studio go to: www.petersfieldschool.com
Alternatively email Jonathan directly at meadowmusic@ntlworld.com

July 6th

British 10k London Run

Cecily’s Fund will have a team of runners at the ASICS British 10k London Run on Sunday 6th July. The race starts at 9.35am outside the legendary Hard Rock Cafe on Piccadilly. The route will take runners past central London's world famous historic and iconic landmarks. Please come along to cheer our runners on!

Feeling fit? There may still be time to enter the race and join the Cecily’s Fund team. Enter online at: www.thebritish10klondon.co.uk and then contact us for an information pack.

September 6th

Cecily’s Day

The former Archbishop of Canterbury will be speaking at a special communion service in Stonesfield on Saturday the 6th of September to mark the tenth anniversary of Cecily’s Fund. All are welcome to the service and to join in a picnic afterwards.

The service will be held in St James the Great Stonesfield at 11.15 and will have a particularly African flavour since it will celebrate the ten years during which Cecily’s Fund has enabled over ten thousand orphaned and vulnerable children affected by the AIDS pandemic to go to school.

After the service all are invited to join a picnic in the grounds of Stonesfield Manor next door – or in the St James Centre next to the church if the weather is wet. This picnic is an annual event. Supporters of Cecily’s Fund come together from all over the country bringing their own picnic for what is in effect the Fund’s very informal Annual General Meeting. For this tenth anniversary year they will be joined by representatives from the Fund’s partner organisations in Zambia and African musicians.

September 14th

Reebok Bristol Half Marathon

The Reebok Bristol Half Marathon will take place on Sunday 14th September 2008 and this year celebrates its 20th birthday.

The Reebok Bristol Half Marathon is one of the UK’s leading road races and is now one of the largest and most popular half marathons in the country with 15,000 places which fill within weeks of the race launch.

The Reebok Bristol Half Marathon will start and finish in Bristol’s historic Harbourside. The scenic course winds around the old city, past the Harbourside, through the stunning Avon Gorge, and under Brunel’s famous Clifton Suspension Bridge. The course offers great potential for fast times and personal bests.

Gold Bond Entries

Cecily’s Fund has 14 Gold Bond places available. If you would like to take one of these places, please contact the office on 01993 869005 or email helen@cecilysfund.org.

We ask you to pay £34 to secure your place and pledge to raise a minimum of £150.

You will receive a free Cecily’s fund t-shirt, a fundraising pack, support and advice. Cecily’s Fund is a small charity so we can give a personal service and we will be there on the day to support our runners. We can refund your entry fee after the run, provided you have raised at least £150 in sponsorship.

Ballot Entries

We welcome any runners with their own place who would like to raise money for Cecily’s Fund. You can apply for a place by visiting the race website www.bristolhalfmarathon.com and registering. Once you have completed your registration, please contact us for your free information pack to join the Cecily’s Fund Team.