Who's been supporting us?

A few of the people and organisations who've been supporting us recently. A big thank you to all of them, and equally to all our other supporters whose efforts don't feature here.

Fundraising for us recently are:

The Sheffield Fans Derby	Sheffield Theatres	Steve Stevens
Morrisons supermarkets	Sheffield Woodturning Club	The Hickey family
Taylor and Emmet	Panache Lingerie	PwC
White Lion and Mahogany Newt	Armadillo Storage

Armadillo Storage

Space is always a premium for any business. St Luke's is delighted to receive ongoing support from Armadillo for its storage needs.

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White Lion team In memory of Drew Archbould who died at home at the age of 44 last December, his friends and family organised a fundraising event at St Luke's in gratitute for the "wonderful support" that the hospice's community team gave to him and his family.

Drew was well known on the Sheffield rock scene, and for his motor racing skills. A tribute gig at the White Lion, Chesterfield Road featured Mahogany Newt and Chris MacMahon of Treebeard. The tribute night raised more than £680 for St Luke's, and special thanks go to landlord Danny for his support, and the musicians, who generously donated their fee for the night to St Luke's.

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PwC

Enthusiastic runners from accountancy firm PwC have raised £4,000 for their official charity, St Luke’s. The company put a 14-strong team into the Sheffield Half Marathon, raising a final total of £2,000, which was then doubled by PwC through its matched giving programme.

Taking part were colleagues David Thurkettle, Julia Delaney, Nick Cook, Matt Kaufman, Kelly Marshall, David Banks, Robert Whitehead, Tom Corns, Nick Hedley, Geoff Taster, Neil Baxter, Chris Robson, John Roberts and Sarah Maloney.

Director David Thurkettle commented:“I am pleased that so many staff took part in the run to raise funds for St. Luke's. This reflects really well both on our staff, who put themselves through blood, sweat and not a few tears, and on a great cause, St Luke's Hospice. We're delighted to be able to help support such an iconic charity in Sheffield, one that provides wonderful care to so many people, and one that touches so many people's lives.”

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Sheffield company Panache Lingerie held a charity Easter raffle in aid of St Luke's, selling tickets to staff and visitors, The event was a great success, raising a total of £252.50 for us. Pictured right are some of the Panache employees who took part and a selection of the prizes - the white chocolate Easter bunny was a specially popular incentive to buy a ticket.

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The Sheffield Fans Derby

The Sheffield Fans Derby presented a cheque to St Luke's representative Mike Reader at half time during the April 2011 Sheffield Wednesday v. Colchester United match. The cheque, for £1, 701, was for funds raised for St Luke's from the October 2010 Fans Derby match.

The Fans Derby is played twice a year between Sheffield United and Sheffield Wednesday fans, Players are sponsored to play the 90 minute game and the money raised goes to their chosen charity.

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Sheffield Theatres

Sheffield Theatres staff recently chose St Luke's as their charity of the year, and their first fundraising day, of several planned, included fancy dress, a cake bake and bucket collections at performances. It raised an impressive £621.

St Luke's and Sheffield Theatres share a 40th birthday this year - the Crucible Theatre opened in 1971 - so it's great to be able to link up with another Sheffield institution.

Find more photos of our supporters' fundraising activities on our Facebook page,

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Steve Stevens

Brighton-based nightclub boss Steve Stevens is heading for a place in the Guinness Book of World Records after completing a marathon solo disco dancing stint at the Aneglik nightclub in Worthing in memory of Rebekah Stanley, a St Luke’s patient who lost her battle against cancer last year.

Steve decided to take to the dance floor and smash the world record of 123 hours and 15 minutes. He danced for a dizzying total of 131 hours, with rest periods of five minutes in every hour. And even though he kept energy levels at a maximum with a diet of fruit, porridge, jacket potatoes, chips, lasagne and protein drinks, he still managed to lose a quarter of a stone over the five days.

“I had 15 DJs supporting me and playing some fantastic music and I’ve always been a dancer, so I really enjoyed every minute of it", said Steve, as he visited St Luke’s to hand over the proceeds of his record-breaking session.

“At four of five in the morning I’d be falling asleep and dancing at the same time but there were plenty of people there to call out my name and keep me going and as soon as the sun came up I’d be fine again."

Steve's amazing feat has so far raised more than £1,800 for St Luke's.

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Morrisons supermarkets

Morrisons selected Help the Hospices as its charity of the year 2010-11. That meant all the money raised at the five Sheffield stores came to St Luke’s.

A whole range of events, including a football match, sponsored walk, dress down days and bucket collections, raised an impressive final total of £23,457.

“We've been bowled over by the level of support from Morrisons,” said Hannah Jordan, our Corporate and Trusts Fundraising Manager .

“£23,000 can do so much in helping us to maintain our high level of care for our patients. We're very grateful to Morrisons, to their generous customers and to all the volunteers who gave their time to help with our bucket collections throughout the year.”

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Sheffield Woodturning Club

Wooden bowls Sheffield Woodturning Club chose St Luke's as their Charity of the Year for 2010-11 and have raised £1,700 for us. Club members have also kindly put their craft skills at our disposal by turning beautiful individual fruit bowls for the use of patients in our In Patient Unit. The bowls are in Sycamore wood, treated with a food-safe finish.

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The Hickey family

Kenneth Hickey spent only a few days at St Luke’s as his long battle with cancer came to an end last year. Now his family have become enthusiastic fundraisers for St Luke’s – starting with a donation of £2,265.

“My dad arrived at St Luke’s on the Thursday and died on the Sunday but in that time the standard of care was unbelievable,” said daughter Gemma. “We can’t praise what they did enough. It wasn’t just about my dad – it was about caring for the whole family and supporting us through a very difficult time.”

Gemma and mum Lynne held their first fundraising event at Firth Park Bowling Centre, where Kenneth had been bowling for more than 30 years.

“We had so much support that night, it was unbelievable,” said Gemma. “The place was packed. We’ll definitely be doing other things for St Luke’s in the future – in fact, we want to hold at least one fundraising event every year because it’s the least we can do for the hospice!”

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Taylor and Emmet

Sheffield solicitors Taylor and Emmet have adopted St Luke's as their charity of the year, with a target of raising more than £2,000 for us. Recent events were their pancake day lunch for staff, which raised £150 towards the target and a cake bake (pictured right), with a prize for the best cake, which raised £130 and generated an enthusiastic queue at the cake table.

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