Our Christmas Lunch for 2018 will be held on Saturday 8th December at the Yarrow Hotel, Ramsgate Road, Broadstairs, CT10 1PN. We will meet at noon for drinks and lunch will be served at 12.30.
Our booking form can be downloaded by clicking here http://mnda-eastkent.org.uk/pdffiles/ChristmasLunch18.pdf
Our menus is shown below. We look forward to seeing friends old and new.
On Sunday 1st July, MNDA
East Kent entered a team in the KM Charity Group Dragon Boat Race. Our team was made up of members of the Lawrence family from Folkestone. The team were entered into three races, impressively winning two and coming second in the third race.
In our final race, we were pitched head to head with the team from MNDA Mid Kent, who were the fastest team on the day. It was a very close race, we managed to beat Mid Kent but due to their faster times in earlier races they went through to the finals. Congratulations to the team of MNDA Mid Kent!
MNDA East Kent has entered a team into the Dragon Boat Race at Mote Park Maidstone on July 1st 2018.
Our team will comprise of up to 17 members and will row at least 3 x 1000 metre races. The team competed last year winning both races they entered and we look forward to greater success in 2018.
We will be holding a support picnic for our members and members of the other Kent Groups. We hope there will be a great turn out to support us and enjoy a great picnic in we hope, glorious weather.
We hope to raise some funds from this day out and ask anyone who wishes to support our efforts to visit https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/dragonboatrace-eastkent and donate what you can.
Huge thanks from the MNDA East Kent Dragon Boat Team and to all our supporters.
The Wealden Business Group have supported MNDA East Kent throughout the past 2 years, organising 3 major fundraisers, as well as weekly collections.
More than 60 people attended a race night in the Little Silver Hotel. This was a thoroughly enjoyable evening and raised a considerable sum for MNDA in East Kent.
A Murder Mystery Evening at Little Silver Country Hotel in Tenterden. The case was The Curse of the Willoughby Diamond. The evening started with champagne followed by an excellent 3 course meal to die for!! During the meal the actors presenting the murder mystery developed the plot of the murder and murder w
as indeed committed.
The Black Tie dinner and charity auction held at The Little Silver Country Hotel, Tenterden on Saturday (17 March) raised more than £4,000. The event, which included a fizz reception, auction of promises and disco was in aid of the Motor Neurone Disease Association. The dinner marked the culmination of two years of fundraising for MNDA by the Wealden Business Group.
The grand sum raised by these events was £10,579.81 which was presented to Clive Hudson, Chairman of MNDA East Kent Group on April 18th, by Martin Tickner.
MNDA East Kent would like to thank the members of Wealden Business Group for their generosity and support.
Kent Company Pearson Whiffen Recruitment are running a 5 a side Football tournament on Saturday 2nd June, starting at 8.30. All proceeds from the day will be shared by the Kent Branches of MNDA.
To enter a team please contact Rob at rob@pearsonwhiffen.co.uk
We are looking forward to a fabulous day attending this event and hope to see many of our supporters on the day.
Grateful thanks to Pearson Whiffen Recruitment Ltd. for selecting MNDA to be the charity to benefit from this competition.
Our Spring Lunch will be held at The Yarrow Hotel, Ramsgate Road, Broadstairs on Saturday 28th April starting at 12 noon.
This will be our 5th Spring Lunch and we expect it to as enjoyable as previous years.
The cost is £13.50 for a 3 course meal. People living with MND and their carers come as our guests without charge.
You can download a copy of the booking form here http://mnda-eastkent.org.uk/pdffiles/SupportLunch2018.pdf
We look forward to receiving your booking and to seeing you on the day.
Some years ago a group of bus drivers on the Loop (for those not from Thanet, the Loop is circular bus route around Thanet), noticed that there were many great pubs on the route and it was decided by the group of young men that it would be great to visit each one.
It started as a fun event but soon morphed in a charity fund raising event. Over the years this group of young men have raised many thousands of pounds for local charities, including Pilgrims Hospice, Beach within Reach and Caring for Connor amongst others.
One of the regular travellers was John Rawlins, who sadly died of Motor Neurone Disease earlier this year. The group has decided to raise funds for MNDA in East Kent in memory of their great friend.
This year the journey started and ended at Weatherspoon’s in Ramsgate and collectors travelled by the Loop to Westwood Cross on to Margate, round to Broadstairs, then on to Ramsgate stopping at over 20 hostelries on the route.
Pubs and customers gave generously to the group as they travelled around in fancy dress. The fantastic sum of £578.51 was collected and this will be used to support people living with MND in East Kent.
MND is an incurable disease which kills 6 people every week, and life expectancy after diagnosis is usually short, so there is a great need for urgent support for anyone diagnosed with this awful disease.
The MND Association in East Kent would like to thank all the collectors for their generosity of time and for the fabulous fancy dress. We would also like to thank all the pubs visited and all the customers who gave so generously. Thank you all very much.
Over 1200 runners turned out on a bright but cold day, for the annual Saltwood Boxing Day Run. This is a record number.
Jim and Astra West’s granddaughter Maisie Davies ran and Jim and Astra collected £83.83 in a bucket collection.
Thanks to Maisie for running and completing the course.
Jim West collected a cheque for £2750 from Greg Boarman the Saltwood Run Organiser and a cheque of £250 from Folkestone Channel Rotary.
Huge thanks Jim Boarman, Folkestone Channel Rotary and all the runners who have made such a huge contribution to MNDA East Kent over many years.
Thanks also to Jim and Astra West for the days collection and to their Granddaughter Maisie for running.
The East Kent Group met on Saturday for an open meeting for people living with MND, their carers, friends, family and volunteers.
We had 23 attend in all and we had the honour of a visit from Councillor Colin Spooner The Sheriff of Canterbury, who addressed the meeting. Huge thanks to Colin for making the time in his busy schedule to visit with us.
Other contributors were Chairman Clive Hudson who spoke briefly about fund raising plans; Judy Keay who spoke about our Association Visitors; Lynn Hudson who spoke about our monthly Tea by the Sea meetings and finally Katy Styles who updated us on current campaigning activity.
We enjoyed sandwiches and cake prepared by the committee members and lots of warm hearted and friendly conversation.
In all a great meeting.