2011 NAS Alton Fundraising event.
 | Sue Homer, Lara Bishop, Sarah Powell and Dawn Allen raised over £2,000 for NAS Alton when they walked for 7 hours up Mt Snowdon. We would like to send out a massive thank you to these amazing ladies for their wonderful effort and for raising so much money. Who would have believed that this picture was taken at the top???? They look so good! Congratulations ladies and thank you x
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 | This year NAS Alton is one of two charities that Councillor Saunders has chosen for the charities of the year. We at NAS Alton would like to wish Hampshire Open Sight (Alton Blind Club), the other chosen charity our best wishes. We would like to take this opportunity to say a warm thank you to Councillor Saunders for choosing us.
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Other events that are raising NAS Alton much needed money
In April our Branch Officer Gail's husband Andrew is running the Brighton Marathon in aide of NAS and NAS Alton. He has been collecting sponsorship like crazy and has also been training hard. Good luck Andrew and thank you so much to all his generous sponsors. Photos to follow.
We were delighted that the Harvest Church at the Alton Maltings Centre put us forward to be one of the charities collected for at their Christmas Day offering service 2010. We were equally delighted to hear that this raised several hundred pounds for us and cannot thank them enough.
The Church of the Good Shepherd in Four Marks and the Rotary club collected for NAS Alton at their wonderful carol singing evening , 2010 outside of the Windmill Pub in Fourmarks. A big thank you to them for thinking of us and helping us raise awareness and funds.
In November we were delighted to find out that Greggs had donated £1000 to NAS Alton, to support our after school clubs.
In October 2010 one of our members, Hayley Smith bravely ran the Bupa Great South Run in a fantastic time of 1hr 42 and came 9519 of about 23000. She raised nearly £200 and we are so grateful and proud of her efforts! Thank you Hayley.
Well done Hayley!
In October we were surprised and delighted to receive a £1000 from the Emilienne Charitable Trust.
Hilary Mcewen
A massive thank you to Hilary Mcewen for her brilliant efforts completing the Crondall Triathlon on Sunday 6th June 2010 and raising nearly £600!
What a wonder woman! http://www.justgiving.com/HilaryMcEwen
SPONSORED BIKE RIDE
http://www.justgiving.com/catherinebikeride
RAISE MONEY FOR US by shopping on-line!
Now you can raise money for our branch each time you shop on-line (whether it is car insurance, groceries, ebay, amazon, and so many more). All you have to do is click on the link below and get through to your favourite site if it is listed there. Then NAS Alton will get a % of your shopping bill. For example spend £25 with WHSmith and we will get 88p. Easy as that!
http://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/
SPONSORED WEIGHT LOSS
As from Jan 1st 2010 our Branch Officer Gail aimed to
shed 50lbs in aide of the branch by the end of the year. She finally reached her target on the 10th November. Thank you to everyone who donated. See the JustGiving website for
details.... http://www.justgiving.com/shrinking-gail
TABLE TOP SALE
Monday 16th November 2009 @ Bushy Leaze Alton
We made £44.10 and had a good time! We hope to have another soon! Thank you to Claire, Diane and Gail for coming and helping and donating items. We also recruited two new members to our growing group!
A further £32 was raised at our 11th December meeting!
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We have been awarded £200 from Sainsburys Local Hero's Scheme. This is a scheme where Sainsburys employees who volunteer or fund raise for charity can apply for money for a charity of their choice in recognition for their work. Thank you to Bobby for putting our name forward!
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In the summer of 2009, students from Loughborough University undertook the 5 peak challenge (climbing the 5 highest mountains in Britain in under 72 hours! ) One of those students are long term friends with a member of our group and was absolutely delighted when she named NAS, Alton Branch as her designated charity.
We are so grateful for Carly, not just for thinking of us, but for all her efforts to raise nearly £700.
Thank you. Your money will help so many families affected by Autism in the Alton area get the support they so need.
http://www.justgiving.com/carly5/
