We are very pleased to announce that we have joined forces with Ninehundred Communications, a Doncaster company who will be supplying any communication equipment needed to run our events free of charge, and are already making moves to help promote and generate funds for the Trust. The first event they will support will be the Lilli May Fun Run providing two way radios, earpieces, t-shirts and safety vests for use by...
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Footballing Legends Three generations of top flight footballing legends joined ex-Rovers legends to raise in excess of £25,000 for The Eve Merton Dreams Trust at the Keepmoat Stadium, in a match sponsored by Minster Law Ltd. The match was a follow up to the event played in 2013 and was once again a success. Played in the baking Sunshine and to a crowd of around 1600, the legends and fundraisers...
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On Thursday 27th October I was invited to the Pride in Doncaster Awards as a shortlisted finalist in the Fundraiser of the Year category for 2011. Each category had been narrowed down to a shortlist of two by a panel of judges representing Doncaster Council and the Doncaster Free Press. It is obviously amazing just to be nominated for this kind of thing as it shows the work we are doing...
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DHL Donate £1000.00! After our write up in the Doncaster Free Press Chris Taylor (above), a former school friend of Martin, made contact with us to pass on his condolences and to inform us he would be recommending our Charity to his bosses at DHL. On December 23rd 2011 we received a Call from Gaynor Wood of DHL informing us that they would like to make a £1000 donation to The Eve...
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Doncaster’s BT call centre recently asked its employees of 1000+ people to vote on the sites Charity Partners for the next 12 months. The chosen charities would then be the call centres focus in any fundraising events over the coming year. Employees where given a choice of 5 charities including, Bluebell Wood, Cash For Kids, Scotty’s Little Soldiers, Firefly & The Eve Merton Dreams Trust. We were very excited to...
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Slimming World groups of Balby & Warmsworth have chosen The Eve Merton Dreams Trust as one of their chosen charities to help raise funds for. They’ll do this in the number of different ways including sponsored weight loss and a sponsored walk. We cannot thank the Slimming World members of Balby & Warmsworth enough for their support and wish them every success.
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Abigail Cook’s Wish List Appeal was set up in the name of a beautiful 7yr girl from Warmsworth who is unfortunately suffering with a very rare terminal condition. Abigail’s situation was made known to us by one of our loyal supporters Mark Pender and was later to become the first recipient of our yearly “Eve’s Grant” donation. Brave Abigail made a wish list of things she’d love to do, these...
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National Lottery Grant – Awards 4 All scheme – As of March 4th 2013 The Eve Merton Dreams Trust has been officially accepted and granted lottery funding for a year project, “Raising Awareness to the Community”, to assist us to reach as many people in our Doncaster area as possible. The project will help us to make the charity name a recognisable feature in the general public. With the help of...
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