Winter Raffle 2021 – Prize Winners
Our Winter 2021 raffle was drawn on the evening of Saturday 6th February 2021 at the Virtual Winter Ball. Below are a list of the prizes and winners. Winter Ball Raffle Prize Winners 1st Breadsall Priory Night B & B with Golf , 596, Izzy Vickers 2nd Smart TV, 636, Trudi Mellor 3rd Lewis Hamilton signed cap […]
Winter Raffle 2021 – great prizes, how to buy tickets
Our Winter 2021 raffle is announced and will be drawn on February 6th 2021. Tickets are now on sale £1 each or a book of 5 for £5. Fantastic prizes to be won:First Prize: One night B&B for 2 at Breadsall Priory Hotel including a round of golf Second Prize: Smart TV worth £150 Third Prize: Signed […]
WTF Winter Ball 2021 – Coming to you ‘Virtually’
Great news – although we can’t meet in person because of COVID-19, you will still be able to don your glad rags and dance the night away at our Virtual Dinner Party. Saturday 6th February is the date, and near a computer screen is where you need to be and the event will stream live into […]
WTF awarded National Lottery Community Fund grant of £6400 towards wellbeing libraries in schools
The Will Garvey Trust Foundation has been awarded £6400 by the National Lottery Community Fund to support our work on Wellbeing libraries for schools. This is such good news. It will have a significant impact on what we can do and it means we are able to provide a wider range of resources (including kindles), for […]
Wayne’s Run – a challenge met and £470 raised for WTF
One of our amazing supporters, Wayne, woke up one day and decided to join a local couch to 5 K. It was quite a journey, but what a result ! And £470 raised too. Little did he realise that it would lead him to embarking on months of training, come rain or shine, or even […]
Dan Edwards’ awesome Gameathon for WTF raises £467
Gameathons are an annual event for Dan. This year he has raised money for Will Garvey Trust Foundation and raised a whopping £467 – BIG BIG THANKS Dan !! Direct from Dan: I did a 24 hour continuous gaming stream (which I have been doing annually for a few years now, for a bit of […]
‘Fan dance’ raises an amazing £1,087 for WTF
Tom, Felix and Pete completed the Fan Dance, raised an amazing £1,087 for the Will Garvey Trust Foundation and to their great credit, finished third overall. A remarkable achievement, we are so proud of you and grateful for your donation to us. Here’s what they told us…. What is the Fan Dance ? We are […]
Quiz night at the ‘Stute’, March 1st 2020
We enjoyed the first Quiz Night to be held at the Stute, home of the ‘Elks’ Ilkeston RUFC – and what a night it was! Despite many of the Stute’s regulars leaving right after the Rugby International had finished (lesson learned there), there were still a few left who joined in with the fantastic turn out of […]
Quiz night 22nd November 2019
Another wonderful quiz hosted by the innovative and teasing Quiz maestro – Kevan Garvey. A raffle again was held on the night with prizes kindly donated by local businesses (see Our Friends page) and some card bingo games at the end tested the talents of the assembled quiz participants. Food and equipment was generously provided by […]
