Afternoon Tea, Served in the Traditional Manner of Course!

Last week, Becky Chesters and Joan Wootton, served a traditional afternoon tea of scones, jam and cream with a choice of tea or coffee. Raising a total of £90, they were a real winner with hungry runners after the first few legs of the relay race!

Thanks not only goes to them, but also to Wrights Pies for donating the scones. 

Charity Mug Travels the World

Mug on the Great Wall of China

Check out where the Churchill Charity Mugs have been on their travels...

Thank you to Ian Wright and Charlie Wallin from IPS Ceramics for sending in their photos.

Taking in the spectacular views

Iain Wright with the mug

Charlie Wallin with the mug 

School's out for Churchill Fundraisers

With one of the biggest weeks in Churchill's fundraising calendar drawing to a close, we just wanted to say one last thank you to all who have been involved in one way or another. 

School's out for the week, so well done to all on the fancy dress efforts! 

Pop quiz: 35 years ago, to the day, a certain Churchill Employee was suspended from school for drinking on school premises. Who was it?? Answers to Helen Blackburn....

Churchill Class of 2013

Design Class

A quick game of Play Your Cards Right at Playtime 

Triumph Week for Churchill

All the weeks of hard work, planning and training came to close yesterday. In just 45 hours, well under our 48 hour time promise, the team of runners ran the distance from Stoke to the London Showroom. A week filled with fundraising and sponsorship we have now raised a further £5301.50, giving us a total of £21,777.24! 52% of the way there! 

Everyone completed the run, everything went to plan and all arrived home safe and well (apart from one of the team suffering a nettle sting on the bum...we won't mention any names or how that happened!). A massive thank you goes out to all runners who have taken part in the run over the past few days. The effort put in by each and every one of them has been incredible and lots of fun was had by all. In (rough) running order:

Cara Thomas 

Claire Gleave 

Diane Kempton 

Duncan Molloy

Cate Wood

Kate Cartwright

Amy Sellers

Sarah Hall

Steffi Jones

Louise Beardmore

Emily Myatt

Andrea Brereton

Dave Hubszer

Matthew Bradley 

Richard Bratton 

Jenny Gibbs

Michael Machin

Jordan Kempton 

Phil Smedley 

Mark Meaney

Rebecka Salt Mountain

David Plant 

Danny Tainton

Daniel Meigh

Ben Godwin

Ryan Burgess

Nick Plant 

Matt Lindop

Jerry Frost 

Steve Brown 

James Roper

Lisa Pauley

Ross Jones 

Mark Jones 

Angie Buckroyd

David Taylor

Donna Frosdick

Paul Smith

Also, a big thank you to all the drivers following the runners day and night! 

Ann Basnett

Ben Godwin

Dan Meigh 

Frank Browshill

Paul Urbanczyk

Paul Scragg

Well worth a mention has to be Paul Smith's Mum and Dad who allowed 3 of the runners a quick toilet stop after they got caught short on the dash past their house! They didn't fancy using the luxury Andrex toilet paper provided in the back of the bus for some reason...

The last leg of the journey, was a tough one to navigate through the busy streets of London, but Paul Smith sprinted over the finish line to complete the race ahead of the 48 hour time limit. Greeted by a cheering team of people from Churchill, including Jackie and Linda from the Cup shop, who somehow ended up chatting up a policeman... The run then ended with Paul having a celebratory brew out of the well travelled mug! 

In addition to the run this week, our 9 cyclists made it home from the Ruby Cycle Run on Sunday -
Paul H, Matt L, James M, Alan T, Karen , Matt D, Mark, Ben, Daniel. A huge well done to those also! Matt L, hope the sunburn goes down soon!

With more activities going on than can be mentioned in one blog post, I will keep you updated with all the other activities you have been taking part in over the coming week. Again, a massive well done, I'm sure you will all agree it has been an amazing week for all. 

Churchillian Effort

Well they think it's all over it is now! The mug landed at the showroom in Islington at 4.50 pm in just under 45 hours. They say a team is only as strong as its weakest link. The last 48 hours have proved we have no weak links. Massive thanks and well done Team Churchill. A few photos below more to follow.(sorry none of the show room yet)

Last stop Gondola

A quick final stop to say hello to Gondola home of Pizza Express, Ask and Zizzi

It's the final countdown!

It's the final leg now - David Taylor ran a strong section and I did a pb time so looking good and after a few showers the sun is shining!