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Further tothe Augustmeeting of JCF London, the volunteers agreed they would raise funds for the year 2013/14 and 2014/15to help Alexander Divine Children’s Hospice Serviceand Children in Distress. Fundraising will continue until the end of April 2014 with financial distributions being made in May 2015.

Jaden says “having to deal with the “there’s not much more we can do” must be unbearable,but when it is your child I cannot think of the devastation this must cause. My heart really goes to those all over the world that face this every day. I have recently become involved with ADCHS who supply end of life care for lots of families in my local area. There is a shortage of end of life nurses and carers and with the nearest children’s hospice being 60 miles away I would like to support ADCHS with their desire to build a state of the art children’s hospice in Berkshire.”

London JCF’s second charity is Children in Distress in Romania. Jaden has had a close connection with CID since being introduced to them by classical crossover singer Jennifer Crestol. Since meeting Jennifer, JCF has despatched toys, children’s clothing and medical supplies. Jaden has also taken part in a few charity fundraising musical events when visiting Bucharest. While visiting Romania he also made a point of spending time with the CID children in care. His last visit was just before Christmas 2012 – you can see the short video he made by clicking HERE

To donate to these or any of our causes please go to Our Causes page

Further to the recent Jaden Cornelious Fundraising AGM held on 20 July 2012, during the year 2012/13 we are pleased to say that the following donations have been made:

Blind Dog Rescue UK – 100.00

Penbode Vets (donation towards operation for blind dog) – 50.00

Pink £ Blue for Two (Breast £ Prostate Cancer charity) – 1,062.81

Olivia Newton-John Cancer £ Wellness Centre – 1,062.82

Cure Breast Cancer – 1,062.81

Access Sport (raisedby the Nature’s Miracle campaign)- 300.00

Sports Able (raisedby the Nature’s Miracle campaign) – 300.00

YMCA Family Y (raisedby the Nature’s Miracle campaign) – 300.00

Barry Portelli help with hospital cancer care transfer costs -100.00

Our Disappearing Planet – 200.00

Stroke Association – 160.00

Hillside Animal Sanctuary – 100.00

Animals in Distress – 150.00

Age Concern (designated charity for 2012/13) – 1,750.00

British Heart Foundation – 695.00

British Institute of Brain Injured Children – 210.00

Emmanuel Stepping Stones – 75.00

Feline Network Cat Rescue – 297.00

Lampard Community School Choir – 156.40

Motor Neurone Disease Association – 200.00

Northam Lodge – 1,000.00

North Devon Hospice – 599.70

The Voice FM CIC – 329.00

West Down Community Shop – 170.00

The above was raised by a variety of events including car boot sales, sponsored walks, pub quizzes etc and the main event the Big Sheep Firewalk.

Besides the above we also shipped childrens clothes and medical supplies to Romania.

Our designated charity for 2013/14 is Dogs Helping Kids and fundraising for this will culminate on Saturday 15th March 2014 when we hold our sponsored Firewalk challenge courtesy of Rick Turner at the Big Sheep.

JCF is most grateful for the support given over the past year to enable us to continue to help so many good causes.

If you would like to join the JC fundraising team please contact cathy@jcfundraising.com

Cathy Edwards

Treasurer JC Fundraising

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Sunday 21st July 2013 saw the third annual North Devon Tarka Trail sponsored hike. Numbers taking part are growing each year and this year was no exception with 9 participants plus Dominic the GSD. The route taken was from the Buffing Billy, Torrington to the Braunton Visitors Centre, as distance of just over 20 miles.

Most of the walkers were raising funds for Dogs Helping Kids but the walk was open for people to raise funds for the charity of their choice so Blind Dog Rescue UK and South West German Shepherd Dog Rescue (Bideford) will also be benefitting.

It’s anticipated that in excess of 500 will be raised for DHK.

Another sponsored hike is planned for July 2014. This will be added to our events page in due course.

Jaden Cornelious Fundraising welcomes 5 new volunteers to the team.

From the West London area JCF is pleased to have on board Torron-Lee Dewar, Julia Romp, Dorota Pasko and Helen Gill.

Torron’s interests include helping people, fitness, travel, dance and the arts. He is also a motivational speaker and runs the award winning Alliance Dance Unit. Torron was especially honoured to be a torch bearer at the 2012 London Olympics.

Julia likes working with animals and loves being part of fundraising events. She tells us she likes dressing up as Donald Duck, Minnie Mouse or Peppa Pig so is already working with animals and has the best of both worlds! Keep checking back on our News page and Events page to see when Donald Duck is going to make his (or her!) next appearance for JCF.

Helen works with children with special needs and her interests include going to see West End musicals and photography. She says she is quite organised and has a great sense of humour – look out Jaden – someone’s going to keep you on your toes!!

Dorota (aka Dottie) also works with children with special needs and is very keen to help fundraise with JCF. Infact Dottie has a head start on the other new members as she helped the JCF team on their sponsored piercing and head-shave day in August 2012 when money was raised for breast cancer charities.

From the Wigan area of the North of England we’re pleased to have on board Georgina Green.

Georgina’s interests include fundraising, cooking and camping. Although the only volunteer in the North, so far, Georgina has already made a start on fundraising and is in training to do the Wigan 10k in September for the Derian House Children’s Hospice. If you would like to sponsor her please click HERE to go to her Just Giving page.

JCF would love to hear from you if you would like to know more about being a volunteer so please email cathy@jcfundriasing.com if you are interested.

Dog’s Helping Kids is JCF’s nominated Devon charity for 2013/2014.

DHK is North Devon’s unique charity (register number 1148913) and their mission statement is “Dogs Helping Kids are dedicated to using highly trained dogs to help children and teenagers non-violence, empathy, respect, kindness, love responsibility, friendship and trust” and their vision statement is “to have a dog working and helping in every school and library in the United Kingdom”.

When the choice was made for JCF to support DHK the volunteers were unaware that Jaden had been invited to become their Patron so it’s rather nice to be raising funds for two good reasons!!

It takes approximately 3,000 over a 18-24 month period to fully train a DHK dog and the cost includes smaller items such as a collar, harness, lead and coat then going up to the more expensive items such as educational training material and insurance.

DHK offers the following services: DHK School Dogs; Classroom Canines; Listening Canines; Reward Canines; Therapy Canines; Educational Talks for Schools, Colleges and Youth Groups; Educational Courses for Teenagers on Dog Trainingand Behaviour; Puppyand Doggy Preparation for Childrenand Bringing Up Baby; Workshops for Teachers and Educational Staff – Preparation for and Learning About School Dogs

To see more information about Dogs Helping Kids please go to their website www.dogshelpingkids.co.uk

If you would like to donate to DHK click on the Donate button below (orgo toOur Causes page) and keep checking our News and Events pages from time to time to see how you can take part in any of our fundraising events.

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The aim of organising the firewalk was to raise funds for Age Concern Barnstaple £ District but walkers were also invited to take part for the charity or cause of their choice. As a result of the firewalk over 5,000 was raised for good causes and they include the following:

Animals in Distress – 125.00

British Heart Foundation – 695.00

British Institute of Brain Injured Children – 210.00

Emmanuel Stepping Stones – 75.00

Feline Network Cat Rescue – 297.00

Hillside Animal Sanctuary – 66.44

Lampard Community School Choir – 156.40

Motor Neurone Disease Association – 200.00

Northam Lodge – 1,000.00

North Devon Hospice – 599.70

Stroke Association – 139.00

The Voice FM – 329.00

West Down Community Stores – 170.00

Sponsorship for Age Concern totalled 1,179.20. Entry fees taken on the gate on the night of the walk came to 272.00 which the Big Sheep have very kindly donated to the cause.

Along with the above and money received during the year, JCF was pleased to be able to hand over a cheque to Rose Marshall and Andrea Scott from Age Concern Barnstaple £ District for the sum of 1,750.00.

Look out for news about the 2014 firewalk at the Big Sheep with Blaze Firewalking!!!!

Age Concern Barnstaple £ District is now 1,750.00 better off at the end of the JCF 2012/2013 fundraising campaign. The money was raised by the JCF volunteers who organised events including quiz nights, a Tarka Trail sponsored walk and the main event was a sponsored firewalk at the Big Sheep, Bideford.

A cheque was presented to Andrea Scott and Rose Marshall from Age Concern by JCF volunteers Cathy and Tanya along with Nicola Hall from the Big Sheep. Andrea said the money would be used to continue funding their Telephone Care Line which helps supportthe elderly who are house-bound or isolated. There are many such people who dependonthe Care Lineas ameans of communicationand they look forward to a weekly phone call from an Age Concern volunteer just for someone to talk to.

JCF would like to thank Rick Turner, Nicola Hall, Claire Payne and all the staff from the Big Sheep for their help and support to make thefirewalk such a successful fundraiser and we look forward to working with them again at the Festival of Flame in March 2014. Details will follow in due course.

Two volunteer presenters from The Voice FM (the local radio station for North Devon) and their friends have set themselves a challege to cyclefrom Land’s End to John O’Groats in August 2014 to help raise funds and awareness for SUPED (Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy). Roy Grimes andLee Wardlewill bejoned by Sean Henson, Jon Lloyd and Steven Oatsto take part in the challenge they’ve called “Chubb’s Cycle Challenge” and would love to have your support and you can do this by going to their Just Giving page by clicking on this link or the photoabove.

Pop by their website or Facebook page to read about their training updates!!