Your Donations at Work

ROCK STAR FRANCIS HELPS RAISE £8K

EGREMONT rock star Francis Dunnery has helped raise £8,000 from his annual fundraising weekend. Francis returns home from the United States every year to host a weekend of fun, music and sport to...

CHARITY’S BOOST FOR DANICA

A EGREMONT teenager who is undergoing treatment after she was diagnosed with three brain tumours has received a charitable donation. Danica Maxwell, 14, is soon to have chemotherapy following the...

FRANCIS RAISES £500 FOR HOSPICE IN MEMORY OF PARENTS

PATIENTS at a Cumbrian hospice are to be able to enjoy the latest computer games thanks to a donation from a Cumbrian charity. The Charlie and Kathleen Dunnery Children’s Fund, which was founded...

FANS FROM ALL OVER WORLD EXPECTED AT DUNNERY GIG

TICKETS are on sale for a special charity concert with local guitar legend, Francis Dunnery. He will be performing at Whitehaven Civic Hall on October 24 in aid of the Charlie and Kathleen Dunnery’s...

MAYFIELD PUPILS ENJOY LIVE MUSIC

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...

DEFYING FLOODS FOR DUNNERY CHILDREN’S CHARITY

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...

£3,000 CKDCF DONATION TO CADAS

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...

£3,000 BOOST FOR SCHOOL FUNDS

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...

SELLAFIELD CHARITY OF THE YEAR – 2007 ANNOUNCED

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...

DUNNERY FANS STRIDE OUT FOR ORGILL SCHOOL

“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...

DUNNERY FUND GIVES HUGE BOOST TO ORGILL

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...

MONEY RAISED WILL HELP FIGHT MENINGITIS

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...