Thank you to Barb and John from the King of Wells who recently held a quiz night and raised £235. THANK YOU!!
Jo’s Tough Mudder – August 2019
Jo who works at Mike Morgan Electrical Services (MMES) braved the mud at Tough Mudder to raise money for The Josh Evans Trust Fund.
Final amount to be confirmed but we just wanted to say THANK YOU JO! What an amazing way to raise funds.
Active Somerset, NCS – Fund Raiser
We have received some amazing news during July! Active Somerset, team 5 (National Citizen Services) chose to support The Josh Evans Trust Fund and raised an amazing £1025!
Here’s what they had to say…
“Our NCS team worked very hard in such a short space of time to raise an outstanding amount of money for The Josh Evan Trust. It meant a lot to me when our team told me how they chose this diabetic charity knowing how much it can impact myself and my family. It’s been great working along side Team 5 for this social action project.” Team
Leader-Joe
One of the young people from the groups stated “Some of the team had experienced the effects of diabetes through family and friends and wanted our social action project to be more personal.
On the first day we decided we wanted to do a fete, a walk and a sponsored silence. Thank you to local business owners who donated lots of prizes for our raffle, thank you to our families for making cakes to sell and the support advertising on local social media sites.”
“It’s amazing to see how much of an impact a small group of young people can make. Team 5 managed to raise £1025 in just over a week which is such an outstanding amount of money! I loved the fact the team chose the Josh Evans trust as their charity, as they really wanted to raise money to support people with diabetes but they wanted to keep it a local charity because they are aware how much even the smallest donations can make such a difference to smaller charities. I hope this inspires other young people to get involved around their communities in the future.” Team Leader – Eleanor
Great work Team 5, this is an amazing achievement
Alfie’s Disco for Diabetes
Alfie’s Disco Fund Raiser
This week we went to Ilminister to receive a cheque from an inspiring young man called Alfie. Alfie has diabetes and has received support from the Josh Evans Trust Fund, but wanted to help others and give something back.
Alfie had an idea to put on a disco in his Garden, he asked a friend if he could borrow his disco equipment and invited all his friends to join him. They had a great time and raised some money.
But it didn’t end there, Alfie wanted to help more people and decided a bigger disco was needed, he stood up in his school assembly and told everyone why he raised money for The Josh Evans Trust Fund and how he was going to raise some more money by having another disco.
This second disco was a great success and lots more fun. In total Alfie, his friends and the school have raised £350 for the Josh Evans Trust Fund.
We are constantly amazed at the lengths young people will go to to help others. Keep up the great work Alfie, we will make sure the money you have raised will help other children and their families with diabetes in Somerset.
Thank you so much.
Harley Davidson Club Somerset
Yet again a generous donation received from HDC Somerset, thank you so much for your continued support.
Austin and Barbs Crafts pay dividends for Trust FUnd
Austin Baker and Barb King showing off there creative skills to raise money foe JETF.
Austin raised money running a stall at his local school.
Barb, continues to support the Trust by attending various craft fayres and as Trustee’s were astonished by her amazing creative talents, thanks Barb for all your hard worker over several years of supporting our Trust.
Pynes of Somerset Bike Night
Kilve Activity Trip 2018
Our annual trip to Kilve took place again this year in early August.
It was great to see the team building and sharing of experiences of diabetes which took place amongst our young people. We know the friendships forged during this weekend are continuing via social media.
Thank you to the Kilve team for there help and support and to the Musgrove team for organising.
Thanks again to all our supporters who make this trip possible, were already booked in for next years trip.
Iron Man Rob takes on Weymouth 70.3
ob Hanlon-Webber is taking part in the Weymouth 70.3 Iron Man
Rob is in training to take part in Weymouth’s 70.3 Iron Man, consisting of a 1.2 mile sea swim, a 56 mile bike ride and a 13.1 mile half marathon to finish with.
Robs Story
6 years ago my 23 month old daughter became very ill, she was almost lifeless on the sofa it was the Easter bank holiday and the GPs were closed so we took her to A+E. A few hours later she was diagnosed with an ear infection and we were sent on our way. A few days later and our daughter had become seriously ill. She wasn’t moving and had lost an enormous amount of weight. She was pale with large dark rings around her eyes. On the Tuesday we took her to the GP where they immediately did a blood test and her blood sugar levels were off the scale. The GP rang Musgrove where we had to take her immediately and the staff were waiting for us. Our daughter was then diagnosed type 1 diabetic and spent the next 5 days in high dependency. Our lives, including her 4yo brother and hers were never going to be the same again. We knew nothing about diabetes let alone care for a 23 month old diabetic. After coming to terms with this we were introduced to the Josh Evans Trust Fund and were given books supplied by the trust fund to help us with our homework. Since being introduced to the trust fund we have had days out and Christmas trips with all the other diabetic children which is amazing for our daughter to see other children the same as her. Please help me raise funds for the Josh Evans Trust Fund. so they can continue supporting families in Somerset. Thank you Rob.
You can support Rob with his fund raising and motivation by visiting his Just Giving Page here: https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/rob-hanlon-webber
Santa Express 2017
Santa Express 2017
Another fun trip again this year.
A group of 40 children and parents went on the steam train from Bishops Lydeard on a rather chilly Saturday afternoon. The children had a gift from Santa, a magician entertained us all, there were little treats to eat and drink and a we had a good old ‘Christmas sing song’.
Everyone says how much they enjoy the trip and it is super to see so many excited little faces…
Thank you JETF for helping make many little dreams come true throughout the year.
