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NAVY NEWS, FEBRUARY 1991
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appeal W H I L E enjoying a two-day standoff in Douglas. Isle of Man. the Island Class patrol vessel HMS Shetland look part in the Children in Need appeal and raised £530. Members of ihe ship's company targeted the town's pubs and hotels reqnesting donations and despite the driving w i n d and rain they even auctioned off their clothes to raise money for the appeal. HMS Shetland's commanding officer, I'eter Meicalf RAN. also did his hit by competing in a sponsored run from Douglas to Peel on the west coasl of the island. Keep-fit fanatics from Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, also burned oil a few calories in a sponsored aerobics session in aid of Children in Need. Over 200 willing participants fro m D a r t m o u t h A e r o h i e s Club. Dartmouth United FC and Stoke Fleming FC'gathered in the college's Quarterdeck under the guidance of instructor Clare Tarr to raise £2.127.
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STUDENTS who have served at the RN Regulating School, HMS Nelson (Whale Island), during the last 12 months have helped raise £300 for the Catherington Wards for children at St Mary's Hospital, Portsmouth. The cheque presentation was made by Officer in Charge of the Regulating School Lieut.-Cdr. John Jacklin, Course Instructor MAA Kevin Williams and students of LR(Q)C4S who completed their course last month. Pictured on Catherington Ward 1 are, back row, from left, Lieut.-Cdr. Jacklin, Nurse Fox, WRENSTD Eileen Gibson, AB(M) Mark Emanuel, NA(AH) Brian Petty, CK(C) Andrew Leddington, NA(AH) John Gibson, WRENWTR Ann Averre and MAA Williams. Front row, from left, are MEM David Gormley, Mrs Francis with her son Saul (3), Mrs Bloska and her son Samuel (17 months) and LMEM(M) David Simpson.
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WHEN Pam Piner, Jean Corney and Judy Cunningham decided to cycle from Gosport to Gloucester family and friends sponsored their marathon efforts to raise money for the Patients' Welfare Fund at RNH Haslar. nities for refreshments organThe three-day bike ride inised by pit-stop manageress cluded overnight stays in AnAnn Ryder. dover and Cirencester and Pam, Ann and Jean prethere were plenty of opportusented Surgeon-Capt. Ian Jenkins and Chief Nursing Officer Virginia Fisher with a cheque for E155. The cycling trip also raised E155 for Gosport War Memorial Hospital.
Wrens pool all their resources WRENS based at HMS Taniar, Hong Kong, have contributed £220 from the proceeds of their annual poolsidc party to Interaid, a local charity which helps lo educate needy children in Asia. The cheque was presented to Father Adare Gudalefsky, of I n t e r a i d , by Lieut. Isabel Markowski. The rest of the money raised at ihe party went to the'WRNS Benevolent Trust.
A cake originally made to celebrate the 50th anniversary' °' the Battle of Taranto was presented to Mcneague Hospital by Cdr. Adrian Munns. head of the Supply Department at RN air station Culdrose. The cake was modelled on the aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious and was made and decorated by POCK Stuan Motr under the guidance of WOCK Terry Davidson. O D D
HMS Sherwood, RNR Noitingam. has raised £400 for the
Shepherd School for handicapped children in Nottingham. The Writers branch organised a c h a r i l y n i g h t where members of the unit, families and friends supported a range of stalls, raffles and competitions. D
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A successful "Famine Lunch" consisting of soup and bread and hosted by Mrs Cindy Langton, wife of the captain of HMS Daedalus, Capt. Richard Langton, raised £320 for ihc Save the Children Fund, boost-
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VOLUNTEER bands of HMS Collingwood, Dryad and Nelson raised £415 at their annual Christmas concert held in aid of "Leukaemia Busters", the Childhood Leukaemia Research Foundation at Southampton General Hospital. The concert, one of a 'series to raise money for various charities, was held at the Navy's Weapon Engineering School, HMS Collingwood, and further concerts, held at
HMS Dryad and HMS Nelson raised money for families with children suffering from cerebral palsy, and the RN and RM Children's Trust. Pictured during the concert at HMS Collingwood are Drs. David and Bee Flavell, of Southampton General Hospital, Alison Hoffman and Maria West (HMS Dryad), Vicky Bradford (HMS Nelson) and CSgt. Phil Watson.
ing the total raised by the Daedalus wives to nearly £500.
n a n Thanks to last year's summer show ai 11 MS Sultan, a donation of £8.000 has been made to Ihc King George's Fund for Sailors. D D D The P l y m o u t h branch of Cancer ana Leukaemia in Children (CLIC) has been given a "helping hand" by the WOs* and Senior Rates' mess at [IMS Raleigh. A c h a r i l y e v e n i n g raised £400 for the organisation which provides s u p p o r t for both patients undergoing treatment and iheir families. Over Christmas the mess played host to children from Freedom Fields Hospital in Plymouth when they watched the dress rehersal of Raleigh's panto and CROCK Mick Rolhery baked a special cake enjoyed by 70 young patients al their Christmas party. Money for CLIC has also been raised at a horse racing night and by holding raffles. D D D The Pclersficld A u t i s t i c Community, in Preston have b c n c f i t t c d by over £1,000 thanks lo HMS Inskip.
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The 45 personnel at the Navy's transmitting station in Lancashire held a charity evening during which £511.44 was raised and a further £550 was collected d u r i n g a scries of -social evenings held by the Senior Rates" mess and the North West RNA.
SOME of the homeless and needy in Southampton enjoyed a warm meal over Christmas thanks to HMS Osprey. The Rev. Simon Stephens, assisted by STD Mark Sergeant and WRENSTD Clair Goodare, pictured above, organised a food collection and personnel serving on the base voluntarily raided their larders to provide tins and packets of food. The collection was distributed by Major G Kent of the Salvation Army in time for Christmas.
RAINBOW'S POT OF GOLD HUNGARIAN-style conductive education, the treatment of cerebral palsy, is now available in Hampshire thanks, in pan, to the efforts of the WOs' and Senior Rates' mess at HMS Dryad. For the past 12 months their fundraising has benefited the Rainbow Centre at Furzcbrook
School, near Farcham, and they were on hand when the centre was officially opened by Bun-
glc, TV's famous rainbow bear. Representatives from the mess were also delighted to hand over a cheque for £1,800 to one of the centre's pupils Thomas Somerset-How, son of the chairman of the Rainbow Centre Trustees.