Make your valuable token gesture at Wymondham Waitrose

Waitrose in Wymondham is helping shoppers to support Star Throwers throughout February through the store's charity token scheme. 

Every month, shoppers are given a token at the checkout, which they can place in one of three boxes at the exit. Each box is allocated to a different cause, and the share of the monthly "pot" of £1,000 a charity receives is directly proportional to the number of token votes from customers.

The community scheme from Waitrose will donate £2.28 million to 6,840 local charities and good causes over the next 12 months, as chosen by its customers and employees.

So have a root around in those shopping bags, handbags and in the car for all those tokens and help the work that Star Throwers is doing by visiting the Wymondham Waitrose in February and putting your token in the Star Throwers token box.

Thank you to Waitrose and everyone who supports Star Throwers through this great scheme.

Why not also drop-in to the Star Throwers centre on Melton Road, or give us a call on 01953 423304 and buy one of our re-usable fabric shopping bags!

A brief tribute to Julie Beardmore

This wonderful woman came to Star Throwers when we needed someone to help us on the administrative side as we had evolved much faster than anticipated.

Her presence was immediately apparent as she worked to improve the office side. She was highly respected by one and all for her organisation skills, ability to interact with all the volunteers and her humour.

Sadly, she passed away suddenly following a short illness but we will never forget her input to our charity and she was a true Star Thrower.

Wymondham students release Christmas charity song

The musical talents of a group of students will be helping to support a pioneering charity in Wymondham.

Five sixth-formers from Wymondham High School have written and recorded their own Christmas song.

But X Factor winner Matt Cardle should not worry about the recording pipping him to the coverted festive number one spot, the upbeat single called Christmas Time is only being sold locally to raise funds for the cancer charity Star Throwers.

Tom Morris, 18, from Wreningham, said: “Christmas Time is a classic up-beat Christmas tune with a popular feel and influences from other sub genres. Acoustic guitar, piano, drums and digital mixing is included along with both solo singers and acapella choral sections. 

“The project is part of the school’s extracurricular activities which encourage us to get involved in community projects. I am hoping to study music technology at university so I was keen to get involved.

“We were very keen to support Star Throwers because it is a Wymondham-based charity which does really important work helping local people who are facing a very difficult time in their lives.”

The CD is available from the high school and Star Throwers in Melton Road.

Our thanks go to the team behind the charity single Christmas Time - Harry O' Callaghan,Tom Schutze, Alice Ewer, Tom Morris and Will Phillips.

Article and picture from www.edp24.co.uk

Stars help Wymondham cancer charity

A former champion boxer, ex-Norwich City manager and British paralympian helped raise hundreds of pounds for a Wymondham cancer charity. 

Star Throwers received a financial boost when a guest speakers night at Wymondham Town Football Club generated just over £1,400.

Norfolk boxing professional Jon Thaxton, former Norwich manager Ken Brown, and shot putter Danny Nobbs, who represented Great Britain in the Beijing Paralympics, were the speakers at the sold-out charity night on Wednesday. Wymondham mayor Colin Foulger also added.

Les King, life president of Wymondham Town Football Club, who organised and spoke at the event, said it was an excellent evening.
“It was very good and I am pleased with the support considering the bad weather and there were a lot of good people supporting a very worthwhile cause,” he said.

Star Throwers was formed in Melton Road, Wymondham, by oncologist Henry Mannings a year ago and continues to gather momentum as a centre of support and advice for cancer patients.
“I am overwhelmed by the support not only from Wymondham and Attleborough, but further afield from North Norfolk, Great Yarmouth and Suffolk. It is tremendous how it has taken off” said Dr Mannings.

Top picture shows Tina Martins, Michael Armstrong, Wendy Winterbottom, Les King, and Henry Mannings with a £1,400 cheque for Star Throwers cancer support. Bottom picture shows Jon Thaxton one of the guest speakers who kindly supported the event.

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Coffee Morning proves to be a great success

Thank you to all who attended our coffee morning on Saturday December 4th and we were delighted to welcome Wymondham Mayor, Mr Colin Foulger, who has selected Star Throwers as his chosen charity. It was particularly special, as the premises have been open for just over a year now and we were very pleased and humbled to see so many visitors on the morning.

One very special visitor was Aimee Kitchen, who recently donated £5 of her own money towards the cost of replacing our signs after she read in the local newspaper that they had been vandalised. Aimee, aged 8 from Wymondham, enjoyed having her photograph taken with the Mayor in front of our new signs.

The new signs have very kindly been designed and produced by Chris Bartlett of Bartlett Signs, so many thanks to him.

That's a funny way to get to the pub!

A big thank you to Chris Harvey from Wymondham. At the end of the summer Chris did a bungy jump at the Windmill Pub in Wymondham and has raised just over £200. Thank you and well done!

 

Thank you Sally

Sally Williams (below) with her two sisters and Mum following a fundraising event earlier in the year. It was wonderful to see the whole family support for each other during Sally’s illness and we will never forget her wonderful smile!