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RELEASE Pub spins out £2,500 for Christie's
Better still, they then found that the treadmill would cost less than expected, leaving them with a surplus towards other equipment for the soon-to-be-built Rehabilitation Centre - a key project of the £25m 'Christie's' appeal for Manchester's famous cancer centre. Thanks to tremendous efforts by many customers, the Spinners had actually raised close to £2,500. Another customer, John Cunniffe promptly made up this 'short fall' by having his head shaved. Christie's carries out some 3,000 patient treatments a year on people from the Wigan and Leigh area - but John was oblivious to this bald fact when he volunteered for the crop. Which is why Spinners landlords Richard and Wendy Tomlinson (with the cue and cheque) have now been able to present precisely £2,500 to Christie's regional appeals officer Christine Blease (second right). Together with other customers - some on kitchen duties - Richard had also spent 24 hours pocketing pool balls non-stop. Their 'Christie chaos' all began when another customer Christine Hale came looking for 'a hairy chest' to wax for her training as a beauty therapist! Paul McDonald volunteered - provided he was sponsored for Christie's. Next Vicky Kelly of the Spinners' bar staff offered to have her hair dyed shocking pink. "Then we thought if we are going to do that why not have a full fun day for Christie's? So we had the lot - go-karts, stocks, stalls and a barbeque," explained Richard. Even better was the news for another bar staff member June Warburton of Hindley. Christie's have been treating June for lymphoma and, shortly before the cheque presentation, June (behind second left) learned she is now in remission from the disease." It was particularly because of June that we all wanted to do something to help the hospital's £25m centenary appeal," added Richard, "but her good news has really put the icing on the cake for us."
Ends For further information: contact Richard or Wendy : 01942 510065 |
General Charitable Fund Registered Charity No 1049751 |
Having run a fabulous fun day and then a pound producing pool marathon,
staff and customers at The Spinners' Arms, Hindley Green, were
delighted to top more than the £2,325 they had targeted to buy a clinical
treadmill machine for The Christie.