A few thank you's...

Just a quick note today (i'm getting ready for nightshift...) mainly just to say big thanks to a few folks.... - to Maureen and Gorden Allen for asking for donations at their Golden Wedding Anniversary party at the end of March - a massive £950 was raised for us through the kindness of their family and friends! :) We hope you all had a lovely night!! - to Mrs Sullivan (and Mr Sullivan, who we believe was also roped in!) for hand making so many lovely cards that were then sold by their daughter, Mandy (my mum's pal). Muchos love for all the hard work and effort that went in to making these - particularly once the demand grew for them - we're glad you didn't quite reach sweat-shop status! Also much love to most of NHS Tayside (mum's colleagues) who bought the cards and kept the up the demand! A huge £320 was raised!! :D - To Cousin Lisa for asking for donations at her big 40th in April. Lisa held a party in Peebles rugby club that was a fantastic night and included Irish Bingo and a bottle raffle (the McAdams came out well in this - 4 bottles of wine between Shona and I!!!) and raised a massive £680! - Also thanks to Nancy Fenton and her granddaughter Caitlin who have been involved in all the Peebles fundraisers and are truly the queens of the raffle! :D There will be more thanks to come over the next couple of months. Now a little update on up and coming events... May 5th (that's next weekend!!!) will see some brave folks, including Papa 'Cads do a sponsored cycle from Dundee to St Andrews - and back again! Here's hoping the weather holds out for you all and you get a chance to stop for a sneaky ice cream at the halfway mark! On May 19th we have a charity frock swap night arranged in Lanark at the Scottish Equestrian Hotel; complete with Frock Swapping, Catwalk, Raffle and auction. We're also having a table top sale in Shotts with various stalls on May 26th. There will be a beauty stall (pretty nails etc), fish and chips, cake and candy and various brik-a-braks and tombolas! Think car boot sale bargains, but indoors, safe from the rain!! :D June 22nd will be our final big fundraising night with "Music Against MND", a live music event in Old St Pauls Church, Edinburgh. There will be music from bands/acoustic acts and well as raffle, coin toss etc. And all for £5! Even better - it's bring your own booze so an incredibly cheap night out!! :D And finally, on June 23rd (hopefully with slight hangovers having attended "Music Against MND" the previous evening) a brave group of my pals shall be taking the plunge by skydiving in St Andrews! This will be our final fundraising event and hopefully by this date we'll have hit (or even exceeded) our target! And finally - just a big WootWoot!!!! to let you all know we've now hit the £10,000 mark - not much to go now!! As always we're so proud of, and grateful to, all our friends and family who have given their time and/or money to help us get this far. There's no way that 3 McAdams could have done this without you all! Muchos love The McAdam Clan xxx