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Above the landlord of the New Inn Westwood, Mike Taylor and his daughter Hannah presenting Robin with a cheque of £238, the amount raised from their quiz sales. Thank you not only to them and it's customers for their generosity but also a former member of staff Nathaniel Baine for promoting the quiz.
On behalf of all of us here at the Trowbridge Fund Raising Branch of the Bath Cancer Unit Support Group, I would like to offer our sincere thanks to everyone who participated in not only selling but to everyone who actually purchased the Quiz. Thanks to all this effort by everyone the Bath Cancer Unit Support Group has received the magic sum of £4,605.
Hopefully you will participate in Issue 9, due out November/December. Thank you all again Robin Dallimore ********************************************************************************************************************************************************  On the 31st March at the Royal United Hospital in Bath, HRH The Duchess of Cornwall and the Mayor and Mayoress of Bath attended the 25th anniversary celebrating the founding of the Bath Cancer Unit Support Group.The Duchess presented £1000 Certificates to local organisations and individuals, who had raised and donated in excess of £1000 to the Cancer Unit, please see parent website for details. The Certificate featured here for "Exceptional Contribution towards the work of the Charity was presented to certain members of the Trowbridge Fund Raising Branch amongst them: Our Chairman – Tino Polledri Hon Sec – Jeanne Ingham-Law Member – Robin Dallimore Member – Ros Dymond on behalf of her late husband Mike, a former Editor of our Newsletter, Supportline ****************************************************************************************
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Pictured L to R: Martin Bax, Customer/Stalwart Fund Raiser for BCUSG Tino Polledri, Vice Chair of BCUSG and Chair of the BCUSG Trowbridge Branch Reg Jefferies, Committee Member of the Trowbridge Branch and Web Liaison Charlie Thomas, the manager of the Griffin Inn
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Geoff Parselle and Pat BCUSG's intrepid camera man
Geoff is of Welsh descent, being born in North Wales in 1945. at the age of 15, he joined the RAF as a "Boy Entrant" and trained for 18 months in all aspects of aerial and ground photography. On completion of this intensive training he was then posted to several UK stations which involved processing and developing survey filming from the V Bombers and Lightning aircraft (RAF flying display team of the 60's). He then spent time in Cyprus with Hunter aircraft, was posted back to the U.K. and promptly got married (1966) before a posting to Germany, again with Hunter aircraft. Geoff and his wife Pat spent 3 years there before returning to the U.K. After a year or so in the U.K., Geoff had an unaccompanied 10 month posting to RAF Gan, an Atoll in the Maldives before returning to the U.K. and specialising in recce and survey processing and printing interpretation. Geoff decided to leave the RAF in 1975 and joined Polaroid at St.Albans for a short period before taking up a post with the M.O.D based in Whitehall. in 1979, Geoff was posted to Blandford Camp in Dorset, having an interesting and enjoyable time for the next 8 years running the School of Signals photographic department, subsequently being posted to Foxhill in Bath, primarily supporting the Navy's technical side. Geoff retired in 2005 (MOD rules!!) with his last task being the photography and videoing of the vast underground complex at Corsham. Geoff has many interests and enjoys amongst others, hobbies that include Pat his wife, family life, DIY, gardening, Caravanning and Classic and Kit cars, being the proud owner of blue open topped Lomax 223 (a poor man's imitation Morgan!) Should you come across Geoff when out and about or at any of our Fund Raising Events (he makes no charge for his services to the Cancer Unit), be sure to say hello and give a big smile for the camera! Keep up the good work Geoff, it really is appreciated. ******************************************************************************************* Pictured below L - R
Dennis Overton, Trowbridge resident, Mike Smith, Leader of the Mike Smith Orchestra & Singers and Tino Polledri, Chairman of the Fund RaisingTrowbridge Branch of BCUSG
Prior to the Charity's Fund Raising Concert, organised by Dennis at the Frome Memorial Hall Saturday 29th. October 2011
Picture, courtesy of Will Nicol - Somerset Standard ****************************************************************************************** Pictured below: Dennis (left) presenting a cheque to the Chairman of the Trowbridge Fund Raising Branch of the Bath Cancer Unit Support Group The amount was the proceeds received from the "Big Band Charity Concert" organised by Dennis in conjuction with the Trowbridge Branch at the Frome Memorial Theatre on October 29th. and included a substancial retiring collection. Our sincere thanks to all who attended and supported this event, already we are looking forward to next year where if you missed this years performance and having hopefully read the
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Griffin Inn of Frome receiving their belated £1000 plus certificate from Tino Polledri Chairman of the Trowbridge Fund Raising Branch of BCUSG. In this last financial year the Griffin Inn of Milk Street have donated £1327 to the Unit whose owner, Rik Lyall said: "The certificate represents the ongoing generosity of our customers who feel very strongly about the charity and the good that it does"
review under Current Events, you just maybe able to "see and hear" for yourself. Thank you.