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at a time but they sold well and helped so much in attaining the £150,000 – quite quickly.
In 2004 we sadly lost Lesley but her legacy lived on. The following year her family organised a fantastic Rock ‘n’ Roll Dinner and Dance at Wicksteed Park which progressed Rock ‘n’ Roll Evenings at the Athletic Club in Kettering with ‘The Senators’ playing. We loved going along to those evenings, organising the raffles and having a go on the dance floor! Alan and his group members and all the group’s followers always made us feel so welcome. Lesley’s son, Martin, organised several golf days for Crazy Hats – his firm selling bathroom furniture – so every time we went to receive a cheque the Evening Telegraph photographers made us sit in a bath – or on the toilet!
Jacquie, my niece, used her artistic skills and
designed us a beautiful ‘Hang on in there!’ card – of a
little cat (with a pink mortar board on) lying peacefully
in a hanging bra. She was heavily involved with a
nationwide scrapbooking group and often wrote
articles for craft magazines. With her contacts, she
managed to get black and white stamped cards out to
people and asked them to embellish them and return
them to her so they could be sold to raise funds for us.
The response was incredible and the embellishments
so clever. Jacquie also taught is how to make ‘phone danglers’ using a variety of tiny beads, to which we added a pink bow charm and gave out to patients.
Staying with family, Paul, ‘King Paul’, as I fondly call him – my nephew, ran a lucrative Recruitment Business in Northampton – Impact Recruitment – and not long after we became established he initiated ‘Dress Down Days’ whereby staff were allowed to come to work on Fridays wearing casual attire – but having to pay for the privilege. Paul raised thousands of pounds and with a great team behind him went on to organise many other fundraisers,
the best being a Comedy Evening at Franklin Gardens (Saints Rugby Club). Every year he and his whole family always took part in our Walks and Charley, his eldest son, even ‘Dressed Up’ during his final days at Moulton School, before moving on to University. I think we can safely say that ‘craziness’ runs in the family!!! Not to be outdone, his wife, Angela, and many of Impact’s female employees and friends ran in
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