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YOUR HARLOW met with Harlow based Essex Ghostbuster Ricky Westall to discuss what it means to be a Ghostbuster in Harlow today, and how he hopes to tackle cancer, as well as the supernatural, by walking eight miles in full Ghostbuster get up. Tell me…
Letter to Editor Support Diabetes UK I am looking for enthusiastic volunteers in or near to Harlow, Essex to help me collect donations for Diabetes UK in your local Tesco store. I signed up as a Team Leader for the Big Collection because I recently…
HARLOW Council has a collection box for used postage stamps in its reception at the Civic Centre in Harlow on behalf of St Clare Hospice. The charity, which was set up in 1990 and provides palliative care at its hospice in Hastingwood, is looking for…
Tickets for the event, sponsored by Bidwells, cost £6 (adults) and £2 (for 16-year-olds and under – under-threes free). Accuro’s events co-ordinator Ruth Davies said: “We are hoping families, friends and jazz lovers will come along to not only enjoy the gardens and Barry Tyler’s…
STRUGGLING for ideas to keep the kids entertained this Bank Holiday weekend? Then why not head down to Miller & Carter in Harlow for a family fun day in aid of St Clare Hospice. With temperatures expected to soar this weekend, the London Road steakhouse’s…
THE SUCCESS OF A Foodbank is a hard one to quantify. It is hardly a thing to celebrate and yet the work of Gary Knott and his team has to be lauded. If it was not for them, who would have stepped forward. Harlow Foodbank…
AVA McCarthy is one helluva girl. At just the tender age of two years old she’s leading a quest to fight childhood cancer. TWO-year old Ava has Stage 3 Wilms Tumour with complications. The cells found in Avas tumour don’t represent a normal Wilms. Ava…
THOSE little stamps on the corner of all your letters can still bring in hundreds of pounds for St Clare Hospice, which has joined a specialist company to help us manage donations. And if you still have old foreign currency – Spanish pesetas, German Deutsche…
AT the end of July 2013 Harlow Foodbank has fed over 8,000 people in crisis with emergency food in Harlow and the surrounding area since it opened in April 2009. In the last financial year the foodbank collected over 23 tonnes of donated food from…
FOUR INTREPID walkers who are also partial to being talkers raised over two thousand pounds on a 50 mile trek for MedEuip4kids. Terri Howard, Veronoca Johannsen, Tina Fawcett and Tanya Batram made the 24 hour trk. In the ladies own words. “WOW we made it…
HARLOW FOODBANK worked like Trojans all weekend to help feed the hungry and the needy in the town. They were at Tesco’s in Edinburgh Way and Church Langley and were helped by a very very charitable Harlow public. They collected 1504 kgs of foodstuffs in…
By Sarah Pusey HUNDREDS OF “VISIONS IN PINK”, lit up the Harlow sky-line on Saturday as the Moonlit Walk took place. YourHarlow reporter, Sarah Pusey took part and reported from the scene. “Donned in pink, myself and 864 walkers took to the streets of Harlow…
THE COMMUNITY WAS out in force last weekend as Harlow 5 Aid was being promoted at The Water Gardens. YourHarlow spoke to Harlow Town’s Jill Dumoulin about the event. Football teams from Harlow primary and secondary schools will take to the pitch at Harlow Town…
TAKING part in the St Clare Hospice Midnight Walk has become an annual event for Theresa McKeown Field who has taken part in each of the five previous fundraising nights. Theresa will be maintaining her record of having never missed a St Clare Hospice Midnight Walk when she takes part in the sixth walk this year with her sister, Caroline McKeown and friends Julie Dickson and Ann Buck. Theresa, of Great Plumtree, Harlow, said: “I’ve done every one of the Midnight Walks. It’s all for such a good cause. I enjoy walking and it’s a great way of raising money doing something that I like doing.” Like hundreds of the other walkers, who can chose between a 5km or 10km route, Theresa and the others will be entering into the spirit of the evening – Saturday, July 6 – when walkers set off from the Water Gardens, Harlow, at 10.30pm. “We dress up in pink – hats and scarves and ears! It’s all part of the night and gets you into the spirit of the night.” Theresa, who works as a teaching assistant at St Alban’s Catholic Primary School in Harlow. has already received about £70 in sponsorship thanks to the support of work colleagues, family and friends. She says she usually raises about £150 on average for the Hospice by taking part in the walk. “The work the Hospice does is fantastic,” Theresa added. “They rely on fundraising. I’ve known people who have gone into the Hospice and know what marvellous work they do. “It’s nice being able to do something for them.”
