Fundraising News
Recent Fundraising Events
Easy Fundraising
Do you shop online? Using the website ‘Easyfundraising’ means that you can raise money for Dyscover every time you shop – at no cost to you. Over 2,000 stores are on the site. To find out more and register, just click at the bottom of the Easyfundraising box to the right. Each time you shop you must first go into www.easyfundraising.org.uk and search for your shop from their site.
Please view our ‘Wish List’ here. Thank you.
Top Draw Christmas Presents
Our Top Draw shares make ideal Christmas presents for family and friends and are great to pop inside Christmas cards! Shares cost £10 with half of your subscription going to Dyscover with the rest distributed as prizes. Each share is entered in a quarterly draw and the super bonus draw in December so why not give a loved one the chance to win some cash prizes throughout next year whilst also helping Dyscover! Contact Liz for more information lgrace@dyscover.org.uk
Ride London 2022
The world’s greatest festival of cycling returns on Sunday 29 May 2022, with a new format and an exciting new route and we have 4 places to take part and fundraise for Dyscover!
RideLondon-Essex 100 is a unique opportunity to ride 100 miles on traffic-free roads through the heart of London and neighbouring Essex. It will start and finish in the centre of the capital, with 60 miles of rolling roads through some of Essex’s most beautiful countryside and villages in between. For more information about taking part in this iconic cycling event to help raise money for Dyscover, please do contact our Community Fundraising Coordinator Liz. lgrace@dyscover.org.uk
Easy Fundraising
Please do remember to use Easyfundraising when you do your Christmas shopping.
Over 6,000 shops and sites will donate to Dyscover Ltd at no extra cost to you – so you can raise donations when you buy gifts, decorations, your festive food or anything else. This means more than gifts for loved ones, it means donations that help make a difference!
Please sign up and help us raise more https://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/causes/dyscoverltd/
Curry Night
We had a very successful Quiz and Curry night last night at the Ashtead Balti – over 50 attendees enjoyed wonderful food and company. Simon Edmunds was the perfect quiz host with lots of interesting, challenging and thought provoking rounds of quiz questions . The evening included a great raffle which raised over £300 and even a funny ‘heads or tails’ game … thanks go to our Liz, Simon, the staff at the restaurant, all those who donated raffle prizes and those that attended the event. The total raised is over £800 – Thank you!
London Marathon Success!
Congratulations to our runners Jo Curtis and Mandy Nickerson who completed the London Marathon on Sunday and to Carol Reed who completed the Virtual London Marathon to raise funds for us. We would like to say a huge thank you and well done to all of them for such an amazing achievement! This was Mandy’s second time running the London marathon for Dyscover and Jo’s first ‘real life’ marathon after running the virtual marathon for us last year. Between them they have raised an incredible amount of money for this year’s event…a combined total of £4575!
Posted 7th October 2021
Flamingo Christmas Cards
We’re delighted that Sarah Stanley is again supporting us through the sale of her beautiful and popular Flamingo Paperie products.
Sarah is offering a ‘virtual’ service and will donate 15% of the sale of Christmas products and 10% of everyday products to us. She can also provide stickers to inform recipients that the products are sold in support of Dyscover.
Please let her know if you would like a brochure or browse her website: sarahstanleycards.co.uk
Please note: Sarah is only able to make these donations on orders direct to her, NOT via her website. Please contact Sarah sjmstanley@aol.com
or Phone: 01372-270454/ text 07973-257375
Delivery will be direct to you if preferred, at £3 p & p or pick up at Dyscover HQ on dates TBC approx 7 – 10 days following your order: Last order date for Christmas in 30th November.
Posted 27th September 2021
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Posted 27th September 2021
2021 London Marathon – just days away
We have two runners in Sundays London Marathon! Jo Curtis was set to run the London Marathon for us in 2019 but got injured. In 2020, because of Covid, she had to do the Virtual marathon instead. Jo is determined! This year, on 3rd October, she will finally run the real London Marathon. You can support her at: https://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/JoCurtis8
Mandy Nickerson will be running her second London Marathon for us!!!! Support her at: https://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/MandyNickerson1
We’d like to wish both Ladies the very best of luck ahead of Sunday.
Posted 19th September 2021
Sue’s Open Garden – The Firs
On Saturday, our amazing gardening volunteer Sue Edwards very generously held an Open Garden at her home in Tadworth to raise money for us. It was such a lovely day with lots of people coming to enjoy her beautiful garden. The event was a huge success raising £631.95! A huge thank you to Sue for all her hard work and to all the volunteers that helped on the day or made a cake.
Posted 2nd September 2021
Squires, Cobham – Charity of the Year!
We are delighted to have been chosen as Squires (Cobham) Charity of the Year! Liz and Alice went along to launch this partnership and meet the manager Sam and the rest of the staff team including Madison the cat who likes to spend her days lounging around at the tills!
We look forward to arranging some fundraising events with them over the coming months so please look out for more information very soon!
Posted 2nd September 2021
Charity Golf Day
We are very proud to have been chosen as the Captain’s Charity at Tyrrells Wood Golf Club. They are holding a Charity Golf day to raise fund for us on Friday 24th September! Please do book your place and join us at this event or email lgrace@dyscover.org.uk for more information.
