A Goulish Total...

£ 13,492

What more can we say?

Not much really...

Eilidh is SO much closer to her Whizzy Wheels and we have you, you and you to thank for that!

So T.H.A.N.K. Y.O.U. !

Betty's Coffee Morning

We were taken by surprise this afternoon - and, by the sounds of things, so was Eilidh's Granny Ellen - by a donation from Betty (Ellen's best friend!) who held a coffee morning on Tuesday with some of her friends. 

They raised a fabulously fantastic £170...

Well done, ladies and thank you so very much!

Betty's Tea Room watch out; you have competition...

And an extra special thank you to Betty and her family, too

xxx

S.P.E.C.T.A.C.U.L.A.R Total!

Well since we last updated the total £802 has been donated - awesome!

So the new total stands at a S.P.E.C.T.A.C.U.L.A.R

£13,076!!!

WhoopWhoopWhoop!

Once again...
Thank You! xxx
From the bottom of our hearts

The Wheelie Good Night Out

Tickets are now available...

Fish Fans Donate

Haddington was visited by Fish Fans over the weekend as the FishHead's Club was in residence at St Mary's On Saturday...

Rock Chick Grannie, aka Eilidh's Grannie, collected donations from some fans and raised a fantastic

£170

F.A.N.T.A.S.T.I.C!

Many have also donated through Fish's Official Website over the past 4 weeks so...

Thank you!
Thank you!
Thank you!

4 weeks on...

... and we have made so much progress...

and there is still so much to happen...

and even more in the planning and yet to come!

It's just been so amazing!


We have until the end of November to raise the money for Eilidh's Snapdragon if we hope to get her Snappie in February, so we will continue on...

raising money and, hopefully, raising awareness of SMA and early mobility in toddlers like Eilidh and her wee friend Beatrice.


So please keep spreading the word...

And thank you all for coming with us on this journey.

xxx

News Flash!

Just took a phone call...

Allan Pratt and The Blues Council collected

a massive

£370

this afternoon.

Fantastic News...

Thank You to everyone involved and those who donated!

New Total!

Not much to say bar...

£12,274  raised to date!

Whoooopeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

How very exciting....

We are amazed really... and overwhelmed...

4 weeks into fund-raising and this is what we have achieved...

only £7634 to go!

Thank you to one and all... we are indebted to you all...

Great News...

The letter arrived from Joseph Patrick Trust today - the welfare fund of the Muscular Dystrophy Campaign...

We were very hopeful and had been waiting since they met on the 13th for news...

Eilidh has been awarded £900 towards the cost of Snappie!

Yipeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

A step closer to her Whizzy Wheels...

Thank you JPT

Roll Up, Roll Up... Get your tickets here...

Well not literally here...

The "Wheelie Great Raffle" Tickets will go on sale soon
£1 a ticket
To be drawn on Friday 17th December.
With some GREAT prizes...

1x4 Ball at Kintyre Course, Turnberry
Half a Day of Pampering at Stobo Castle
£100 Scotlandart.com Voucher
Orla Kiely Handbag
Magnum of Moet

So if you get a chance, buy a ticket and be in with a chance of winning a prize... you might win yourself a lovely Christmas present...  Go on, treat yourself!

The Glasgow Rocks!

The Glasgow Rocks, Scotland's only professional Basketball team, are to be involved in a fundraiser at Eilidh's Nursery in November.  

Careshare @ Heritage House's  manager Ellen is in the process of arranging this event which will involve the little ones shooting some hoops with the team and the staff taking on the Rocks in a shoot out...

Who says toddlers can't jump!

The Wheelie FUN' Raising Crew

There are 4 woman... or should I call them ladies, lassies or girls?...
There are 4 ladies who work with D...

Will I name them?
Will I?
YES!

Liz,
Diane,
Suzanne,
& Gillian.

And they are all working very hard to raise some pounds for Eilidh...

There's the "Gold Rush"
& The "Wheelie Wild Night" Out
& the Christmas Hamper...

They are knee deep in paper and staples as they print 3000 raflle tickets for
the "Wheelie Great Raffle"
and
Just generally spreading the word...

You are awesome!

You are great!

And we cannot thank you enough...
Will tea, cake and an Eilidh cuddle suffice?

It's 6am...

... and although it is 6am - and the birds are only just starting to sing thier beautiful chorus! - I am so very happy to announce that the total stands at a massive... drum roll please...

£10,998!

Yippeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

We were so very right to place our hope in mankind for we have been proven so right and are humbled each and every day by people's kindness, generosity and unconditional love...

Thank you!

P.S.  Sorry it's been so quiet here ... I've been away at my bestest friend's house celebrating her twins' 3rd Birthday... My friend is such a beautiful person, bestest friend and her little ones are trully gorgeous... We had a great time, thank you!

Wonderful Wednesday's Grand Total...

The last few days have been quite quiet at the Whizzy Wheels HQ but the donations still keep on coming!

Today's total stands at...

£10,548

Hooray!
Yipeeeeee!
WhoopWhoop!
WheyHey!

Thank You, Thank you, Thank You!

We do need to keep up the momentum, spreading the word far and wide.

The donations may well have started to slow down but our list of future fund raising events is growing fast...

Watch this space!

Once again, thank you all for coming on this journey with us - we are so glad that you are supporting Eilidh and her Whizzy Wheel Fund

xx

Oswald Gets in on the Act!

Oswald, a Glasgow band has pledged to organise a Fund-Raising Gig for Eilidh and her Whizzy Wheel Fund - how awesome is that!

How did this happen?  Tom, the lead singer's sister, Louise, works with D and the rest is history...

Check out their Website here 

their Facebook page

or "love" on YouTube...

More details of the gig to follow...

Super Sally!

Sally (in the middle) and team Logica

Sally Elliott ran the Royal Parks Half Marathon on Sunday in 2 hours 11 minutes and 5 seconds.

Well Done, Sally!

She said that it was "hot and hard" and that she has "lots of blisters" but that "running through London parks was beautiful".

And she raised a wonderful £385.49 (at least!) for Eilidh's Whizzy Wheels!

wheyhey, Sally!

Thank you so much, Sally and to everyone who sponsored her, too: we really are very grateful...

The Sunday Total...

... a whopping £1525 has been donated over the last 5 days...

whoooopeeeeeee!

taking our Grand Total to £9,693

wheyhey!

Many thank to everyone who has donated, especially Gruncle & Elaine who raised an amazing £329.38 at their Tea Party this afternoon with banana loaf, scones, muffins and cakes and lovely wares by Tea Jennys.  Thanks also to Tea Jennys for donating 10% of her sales to the fund.

yummy cakes!

Tomorrow expect a very exciting announcement... another fund raising event goes live...

The Blues Council

The Blues Council

Allan Pratt and his Blues Council are playing the Tyneside Tavern in Haddington on Sunday 24th October and rasising money for Eilidh.

It'll be a great session in a weekend of music in Haddington.

Thanks, Pratso for this...
Much appreciated
x

Lots of Viewers!

Hello to people viewing the Whizzy Wheels blog!

HOWDY!

The Daily Record has definitely helped promote the blog which is so fantastic - I could not have reached out to so many people so quickly... 750 pages were viewed yesterday...

So the word is very much definitely OUT!

It took me some time to read the article because for me it made it all seem so very much more real, but I am glad that I did read it because it was a lovely article - many thanks to Lisa!

It was so strange reading Eilidh's story in print, on paper, in a newspaper and a national newspaper at that.

I kept thinking:

"Is it us?"

"Is it our story?" 

"Surely not?" 

"It's surely happening to someone else?"

But it is happening to us and we are trully grateful for all the support we are getting, whether it be donations or in the form of offers of help. 

So, once again... a big thank you to everyone supporting Eilidh and her Whizzy Wheels...

Has the article resulted in donations?

Yes, a few have come directly from it ...

So... watch this space... the next total will be announced on Sunday night.

Have a lovely weekend, wherever you are, whatever you are doing...

In the News Today...

and here's the link to the online article

News Flash...

We are now ecstatic to announce that we have been granted £2000 by The Ceridian PayBack Foundation ...

Whoooopeeeeeee!

Taking our grand total to....
a
staggering

£8168!

Many thanks to Ceridian and the powers that be that approved the grant.
You have helped a young lady get her first whizzy wheels...

Drum roll please....

over the weekend we topped the £6000 mark...
hip hip hooray!
hip hip hooray!
hip hip hooray!

Thank you again to everyone who has donated to date...
and please keep spreading the word about Eilidh, SMA and her Whizzy Wheels!



(So the total now stands at £6,168.33 with £13,740 still to raise)

Run, Sally, Run

A friend, Sally will be running in the Royal Parks Half marathon in Hyde Park, London this Sunday.  Sally enjoys running - the maddie! - and has not sought any type of sponsorship in the past for her efforts.  But this year Sally is asking friends, family and colleagues from Logica to sponsor her with all monies raised going to the Whizzy Wheels Fund - how fantastic is that!


So a huge BIG "thank you" to Sally and to all those who donate!

And Sally, we owe you a mojito or two or three...

Update...Update...Update

The generosity continues...
A staggering £1802.37 donated in the last 48 hours
to take us to a grand total of...
£5817.33!

We are so stunned...
And everyone is getting on board with more fund raising ideas which is totally awesome!

Thank you for inspiring us to continue
and for all of your kind words and words of support...
they mean so much...

Now, there will be radio silence over the weekend...
This week has been exhausting and I need some time out...

But first it is the Muscular Dystrophy Campaign Conference in Glasgow tomorrow and Nicola Sturgeon is the Keynote Speaker who will no doubt be discussing the Mackie Report.  The Mackie Report,  which is the result of an Inquiry into the Provision of Services for Neuromuscular Disease in Scotland, emphasises that inequalities exist in the provision of specialist neuromuscular care and social care. 

I only wish that I could think of a sensible, well-thought out question to ask her.  I wonder if she will listen to what I have to say about our experience...