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Lennox and Tommy’s Ten-Mile Fundraising Cycle Challenge
We’re so chuffed to be doing ‘another’ big Sunday shout out to our young supporters who always go the extra mile for our Cars – in this case it’s an extra TEN miles !! Lennox and Tommy, both 10 years old, and great school pals, are taking on a cycle challenge in aid of our…
Read MoreKings Head £1200 Donation to our Cars
During the November 2020 nationwide lockdown, Kings Head supreme Quiz Master Simon Davidson set up an online quiz through their Facebook Page Event Page. Initially began as a quiz event for their pub regulars to keep the brains ticking over and prevent pandemic boredom setting in, Simon’s online weekly quizzes quickly became the stuff of…
Read MoreThe Salmon City Blues Band Presents Our Cars With £500 Raised From Live Gigs
Our tremendous thanks again to our very talented friends, The Salmon City Blues Band, for their continued and generous support. Neill Berry Snr (band guitar and vocals) recently presented our Treasurer, David Cowan, and our Secretary, Shona McClymont, with £500 raised from takings of a number of live gigs performed in the latter part of…
Read MoreBerwick Galedin Vets ‘Team Dippers’ Raise £2190 for Cancer Cars
Many thanks to Berwick-upon-Tweed’s Galedin Vets who formed a team to take part in the 2021 Boxing Day Dip. Lauren Vallance initiated the idea of putting together a team for the annual Spittal Beach Boxing Day Dip event and it was Angela Brown who suggested they did so in aid of Berwick Cancer Cars. What…
Read MoreGed’s Butchers Annual Christmas Raffle Raises £300
Our good friends at Ged’s Butchers are always such great supporters of our Cars and their Christmas Raffle is always a very popular annual event. Our thanks go out to all the staff and customers for helping to raise £300 in the Ged’s Butchers 2021 Christmas Raffle. There were 39 prizes in all including meat…
Read MoreJewson Berwick “Wheelbarrow of Booze” Raffle raises £455
Our huge festive thanks go out to Jewson Berwick who presented us with £455 from sales of their raffle tickets. Their fantastic, festively tipsy “Wheelbarrow of Booze” raffle (wheelbarrow, lights and tinsel all included…!!!) was organised by our very good friend and supporter, Ellis Baverstock. Many congratulations to the very lucky winner, Walter Cochrane. What…
Read MoreThe Lookout Café raises £1068 for our Cars
Throughout the year our fantastic friends at The Lookout Café, nestled on the banks of The River Tweed next to Berwick Old Bridge, have again been very busy raising money for Berwick Cancer Cars. The staff collected donations made by their café visitors and second hand book sales, and through the sale of handmade key…
Read MoreBoxing Day Dip Sun 26th December, 2021
Sunday 26th December, Spittal Beach, Boxing Day Dip !! POST UPDATED 07JAN 2022 : For this year’s Boxing Day Dip we were absolutely thrilled to announce we had several brave North Sea dippers doing it for our Cars and between them they raised an INCREDIBLE £5486.50! We’ve had to delay our THANK YOU post because…
Read MoreOur Marvellous Marathon Man
Steve Flook, one of our terrific team of Volunteer Drivers, recently completed his 20th marathon, travelling down to Derbyshire to take part in the Tissington Trail marathon in Ashbourne. Finishing 3rd in the male over 60s category Steve completed the marathon in a time of 3h 53m. Fantastic result !! During his time as a…
Read MoreBerwick Cancer Cars ‘GNR40’ Team Fundraisers Make The News
With over 50 runners ‘Team Cancer Cars’ were out in force at the Great North Run 40th Anniversary Half Marathon and raised a record-breaking £32,000. Read our story on the Berwick Advertiser Facebook page Visit our Great North Run website page !!
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