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Oliver has been accepted for SDR surgery, it will be sometime in October, we will let you know when we have an exact date
Check back soon for updates on Oliver's progress and details of funds raised
11 March - Oliver's story has been published online on the Staines News Website and should go to print next week. You can read the article here
13 April - Look out for Oliver on page 7 of the Heathrow Villager this coming week (commencing Sat 17th April). Online version available here
18 April - Many thanks to Laura, Nicky and their team of helpers for the recent Jumble Sale. An enormous amount of time and effort was put in to organise the event and their hard work was rewarded when they raised a fantastic total of £725 !!! Thank you so much to everyone who contributed to the success of this day.
 
21 April - This past Sunday saw an army of little children walking around Virginia Waters Lake in a sponsored walk for Oliver. An event organised by Julie-Marie, it was blessed with glorious sunshine and a fantastic group of little walkers. All of the children completed the walk and were given a gold medal for their efforts. Thank you so much for all the parents that allowed their children to help out and more importantly to all the children that did the hard work. As soon as all the sponsorship money is collected, we will update this page with the total amount raised.
 
29 April - Thanks to the staff in Designer Services at Thames Water, an office collection raised £68
Thanks to everyone who has paid in their sponsor money for the recent childrens walk. We are still waiting for a lot more to add to our total though (estimated £1000), can we ask that anyone who has sponsor money outstanding to pass it to us or deposit it directly into Oliver's Account (bank details on donate page)
6 May - A staff collection and cake sale at Purple Parking has raised £380, thank you to Fiona for organizing this and to all the staff for their kind donations.
12 May - Laura raised £100 from a car boot sale with items left over from the recent Jumble Sale. Thames Water & Rumbles Cafe have deposited a further £65 from collections, thank you to all involved. Our campaign is gathering pace, Tumble Tots have told us that they will hold a sponsored roly poly in all of their groups in the week Jun 14-18, this could involve up to 200 children participating. Oliver's school have advised us that they will be holding a weekly cake sale to help raise funds. The Royal Oak, Bookham is hosting a weekend of events this coming Bank Holiday, all details of this are on Fundraising page.
19 May - Thank you to all the staff at DHL Poyle where a collection tin raised £125
23 May - The Buffet / Dance held this past Friday at The Royal Naval Club, Hanworth was great success. A grand total of £1330 was raised including 2 generous donations from The Buff's at Exeford Lodge and The Pride of Sunbury Lodge. A sincere thank you to Arthur for all of his hard work organizing the event.
29 May - Pippins School in Colnbrook kindly held a cake sale in aid of Oliver and raised £60. Staff at Honda also held a cake sale in the office and raised a further £40. Duncan and Giri both donated all their winnings of £45 from the last SWAGS golf day. Thank you all.
30 May - All the money collected from the sponsored children's walk at Virginia Water last month totalled an amazing £2069 !
7 Jun - Lots to report, this last week has been very busy!!! Firstly news of the sponosred fishing trip, the "3 Steve's" fished non stop for 7 days and nights. Asking for sponsors to donate for every fish caught over 15lbs, they totalled £515 - brilliant !!!!
The Royal Oak, Bookham held a fun day this past Bank Holiday weekend. Events included a hog roast, firkin push around the village and a bizarre game of "dwile flonking" (pictured below). Although I'm told there were rules, it seemed to be nothing more than an excuse to drink as much free ale as possible for the contestants !!!! Thank you to Dwayne, all the staff and the customers who have now raised £505 with this event and a fun day back in Easter.
On June 2nd, Matt & Glen took part in their sponsored skydive. Falling from 10,000 feet, both landed safely without any incident and are now collecting all their sponsor money. We will update you with a total amount when collected.
June 4th was a kid's disco at Stanwell Village Hall. All the kid's seemed to enjoy themselves with music, hot dogs, tombola and tuck stalls. Thank you to everyone who helped organize the event and run the various stalls, you all raised £565 !
Jun 5th was a wacky race night at The Wheatsheaf. A raffle and lucky dips were held along with the main race night game. Adam won 1st prize and chose a meal for 2 at Terrazza, Steve was 2nd and chose a day for 2 at Kempton. Kat and Alan tied for 3rd and both agreed to auction off the remaining prize of British Superbike Grand prix tickets. We must thank the above mentioned for kindly donating the prizes and for everyone who turned up and helped raise £769.
Yesterday saw the annual Ashford on the Map event. Pauline and members of the Ashford Rotary collected for Oliver in front of a 6' high banner which was kindly produced by Alan and his team at Display Signs, Uxbridge. Thank you to everyone.
 
  
12 Jun - We have so far collected £1935 in sponsorship for the skydive, but there is still a lot more to come. A golf day at Houslow Heath golf course was held this morning, with a percentage of each green fee going to Oliver's Fund. An excellent total of £318 was collected, thank you to everyone who got up extra early to play and to Gordon and Michael for organizing it. Thank you to "Product Fair" who held a demonstration at Kew and very kindly donated their profits to the cause. The weekly cake sale is proving to be very popular at Stanwell Fields, this week raised £90 and brings the total after two sales to £145. Thank you to all the parents and pupils for donating the cakes and to all those who purchased them.
14 Jun - As promised above, we can now confirm Oliver will have his pre-op on Monday 18th October and his SDR procedure the following day. This means we have just 18 weeks left, if anyone can help us in any way then now is the time.
17 Jun - Oliver is on page 7 of Staines News this week. You can read the online version here
21 Jun - We have received a very generous cheque through the post from an anonymous donor and we have no way of thanking you, so if you are reading this then thank you so very kindly. Tumble Tots completed their week of sponsored roly poly's and we will update the website when we know how much was raised. The picture below is the group of children that Amelie participated with. Last weeks cake sale at Stanwell Fields raised another £75, an ongoing success. Congratulations to Tania who completed the London to Brighton bike ride in 4 hours and 45 minutes. Thank you to you and the rest of the riders for helping Oliver.
4 Jul - Congratulations to the 4 climbers who tackled the 3 peaks challenge. Phil, Dan, Mark and Darron have so far deposited over £8000 into Oliver's account for climbing Ben Nevis, Scafell Pike and Snowdon in 24 hours. A fantastic achievement and the total is still set to climb further. Thank you to Pensworth Dairy whose milkmen have been distributing contribution envelopes to help collect sponsor money.
 
  
Stanwell Bowls Club hosted the annual Wheatsheaf v 5 Bells match. A fun event, which raised £316 for Oliver, thank you everyone.
Thomas, yesterday completed his sponsored walk around Richmond Park to help his brother. A great turn out of over 20 family and friends walked as well to keep Thomas company. It was a very hot day which meant all the children had a well deserved ice-cream break half way round (below). Thank you Tom, we are very proud of you xxx
  
Mrs Draper (who helps Oliver with his physio at school) has set up an eBay store for Oliver, selling adults and children's clothing. The link is below, please pass it on to all your friends and family, not only can they find a bargain but they will be helping Oliver as well.
http://shop.ebay.co.uk/olivers_fund/m.html?_nkw&_armrs=1&_from&_ipg&_trksid=p4340
13 Jul - We are so close to reaching the £30,000 milestone. The total has climbed over £5000 in the past week alone, this is because of all the sponsor money from various events being collected and deposited. If you have sponsored anyone for an event and haven't passed on the money, then please do so - we are getting closer to our target everyday. Tumble Tots sponsor money collected £1024.40, London to Brighton bike ride has so far deposited £525, Thomas's walk £430, Skydive £2300 and the 3 peaks climbers are just a couple of pounds short of an astonishing £13,000. These amounts are still set to climb further and we will advise when all the money has been collected.
20 Jul - Thank you to all the generous staff and customers of The Hope Inn, Stanwell Moor. Oliver's collection box on the bar was so full that a separate collection was started and totalled a fantastic £583. The eBay sales are going well and new items are still being added, please keep checking the link above.
26 Jul - School has finished for the summer but before they broke up, all the children from Year 2 at Stanwell Fields took part in a sponsored spelling test. Thank you to all the teaching staff for organizing this and of course all the clever little pupils who got so many spellings right. The children collected £304.20 from all of their generous sponsors.
2 Aug - Our total has now risen to nearly £34000. There have been donations from all the members of the SWAGS golf society, the Lion Club and the Indian Gymkhana Hockey Club, Osterley. More sponsorship money has been collected for Tom's walk and Oliver's Grandad Steve raised £465 by selling donated items on eBay.
On Saturday, The Overlook played a gig for oliver at the Stanwell Village Hall. It was a fantastic night and everyone seemed to have a really good time. The music was great and over £900 was collected that night. Thank you to the band members Nick, Iain, Micky, Marcello & Rhonda, you guys rocked !!!
  
12 Aug - We really must thank Chris and Dionne Murphy in Dundee for their wonderful efforts. They read about Oliver on a website and decided they would like to get involved and help, despite not knowing him and living so far away. After finding a venue and getting local companies to donate prizes, everyone that attended their quiz night raised a brilliant £1005 !! Thank you so much for all of your hard work, it is greatly appreciated.
This past week we have received more sponsor money from various events and a contribution from a recycling company, organized by Kim at Plane Handling for all of their used printer/copier toners.
30 Aug - We have received yet another generous cheque through the post from the donor mentioned on 21 Jun. Stuart, we have no way of contacting you to pass on our gratitude. If you are following Oliver's progress on this site then thank you, your generosity is greatly appreciated and has gone a long way to helping Oliver's cause.
22 Sep - After 6 long months of fund-raising, we are delighted to say that we have reached our target amount. The initial payment required by the hospital has been received, the flights and accomodation are booked and we are now just waiting for Oct 16th to arrive.
We received the most touching contribution of our campaign from Tony Connor, after his wife Viv, sadly passed away. Tony requested that instead of flowers at her funeral, a donation to Oliver's Fund should be made. A sum of £1500 was donated at a very difficult time, thank you so kindly.
Thank you to all the members of Hope & Opportunity Lodge, Ealing who donated £700 towards our cause.
The cake sales at Stanwell Fields school which took place at the end of the summer term raised £651, thank you to all the staff, parents and pupils for their help.
Jimmy Dyatt completed his bike ride for Oliver and Gerry Igoe organized a dinner dance for Oliver this past week, thank you both for your efforts, they are greatly appreciated.
Our final event took place this past Friday at the Ship Hotel, Weybridge. The Black Tie event was a chance to say thank you to everyone and celebrate the end of our journey with those in attendance. Everyone who attended dressed for the occasion, were treated to a 3 course meal and disco. Some were lucky enough to win some fantastic raffle prizes like flights to New York, Wii Fit consols and coffee machines.
  
As we have raised enough money for Oliver's operation, any more money that comes in will help Oliver on his return to the UK. This will include extra physiotherapy sessions and any equipment needed to help give Oliver the best chance of reaching his predicted outcome.
Thank you to everyone who has helped us get this far, we wouldn't be here without you. We will continue to keep you updated with Oliver's progress with regular updates from America on the My Diary page
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