PUPILS from Mayfield School in Whitehaven will enjoy the benefits of a live music performance thanks to a donation from rock star Francis Dunnery. The Egremont-born musician handed over £500 to the Whitehaven school, raised through the charity he set up in memory of his parents, the Charlie and Kathleen Dunnery Children’s Fund. The fund …
AMAZING that anyone turned up at all! A month’s rain had fallen on the previous day and the new channels were full of the story of the miraculous escape of mountain marathon walkers who were stranded in atrocious conditions. Drivers drove through partly flooded roads to get to Bowness Knott, and even at the start …
It’s an all-star line-up which has never been seen before in Cumbria – or anywhere else. Chris Difford from Squeeze, Phil Campbell from Motorhead and James Sonefeld from Hootie and the Blowfish are the illustrious bandmates coming together in aid of ex-It Bites star Francis Dunnery’s Cumbrian children’s charity. Every year Francis hosts a fundraising …
MARK GETS COUNCIL APPROVAL: Orgill School in Egremont has received a £3,000 boost from the Charlie and Kathleen Dunnery Children’s Fund. Trustee Mark Andrews presented the money to the school’s Children’s Council. The money will go towards projects such as refurbishing the playground. The money was raised from various events put on mainly by Mark …
Sellafield Ltd has announced that The Charlie and Kathleen Dunnery Children’s Fund (CKDCF), which works with children in the Egremont area, is its charity for 2007. The fund was formed in 2002 by local musician Francis Dunnery in honour of both his parents with the sole aim of raising funds for children’s health and educational …
“The only thing you get to keep is what you give away.” The theme message of the Charles & Kathleen Dunnery Children’s Fund fired more than a hundred walkers to stride out round the shores of Cumbria’s wettest and most inaccessible lake. They came from all over Europe and the United States to get to …
The staff of Orgill school were out together at The Ship Launch to enjoy a fanastic evening of fundraising and entertainment of thrilling quality all in support of their own school. Many members of the Dunnery family were present among the fans, and so were Tony and Pauline Bell, still passionately supporting projects to benefit …
The parents of Lisa Bell – the Wyndham School pupil who lost her life to meningitis last March – have received a donation in her memory. Tony and Pauline Bell were presented with £1,000 from The Charlie and Kathleen Dunnery Children’s Fund, and the money will go to the Meningitis Research Foundation in Lisa’s memory. …
THANK YOU FROM ALL OF US: Staff and pupils from Bookwell school are over the moon after receiving a £3,000 gift from the Charlie and Kathleen Dunnery Children’s Fund. Mark Andrews, right who runs the fund for musician Francis Dunnery presented head teacher Gary Postlethwaite with the money which comes from two fund raising weekends …
MEMBERS of west Cumbrian-born singer/songwriter Francis Dunnery’s children’s charity presented a £3,000 cheque to Bookwell School in his native Egremont. The money was raised during two weekends in July and October last year when the former It Bites front-man returned home to lead various fundraising activities. They included a pop quiz, musical jamming session and …
Bookwell School is rejoicing in a beautiful new library, superbly equipped with attractive books and furnished with child friendly carpets and bean bags. The library was officially opened by retiring governor and former kitchen manager, who was providing excellent dinners long before Jamie Oliver, Jennifer Carver. Herself a former Bookwell pupil, and mother and grandmother …
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WEST Cumbrian-born singer-songwriter Francis Dunnery has taken time out of his three-week European tour to visit his old school and hand over a £4,000 donation. Staff and pupils at St Bridget’s RC School, in Francis’s home town of Egremont, were thrilled when he called in on Friday. The money was raised during what has become …
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A concert in his own home town, in Egremont Market Hall on 24th July, is Frank Dunnery’s own way of paying tribute to his parents, Kathleen, who died of cancer on 7th May, and of his father, Charlie, also a cancer victim eleven years earlier. The Children’s Ward at West Cumberland Hospital will benefit from …