Thanks to Burnden for this info on the other  thread

 

Just seen a post on my neices fb , turns out she is mates with Happys daughter ..... I don't know how to post a link here but this is what the post says ..

 

Ella Thompson

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In July 2020, my dad was diagnosed with a stage 4 glioblastoma - an aggressive brain tumour that has no cure, out of absolutely nowhere. We had no idea and overnight our lives were turned upside down. In August 2020 he underwent surgery, and then started chemotherapy and radiotherapy, and was lucky enough to be selected for a immunotherapy clinical trial. Thankfully, my dad is still with us a year on, but this condition has a 5 year survival rate of 20%. Glioblastomas affect only 0.00321% of the population. Or 3.21 individuals per 100,000. 

My mum has been absolutely amazing throughout this whole last year, from driving him to the other side of Manchester for his treatment everyday to giving my dad his medication each morning and night- she is such an incredible woman and I am so proud to call her my mum. 

To top it off, she’s running 5K everyday in October for The Brain Tumour Charity- a charity focused on research surrounding brain tumours and aiming to boost the survival rate past 5 years, and hopefully find a cure. 

If you could donate anything, it would mean the world, not only to my family, but also hopefully make sure in the future that no one has to go through what my dad has in the past 12 months.

Thank you 

 

https://www.thetwilightwalk.com/fundraising/marias-daily-run-for-neil

1 hour ago, Horwich said:

Happy’s daughter has just posted this on facebook 😢

Would just like to thank everyone so much for all the donations, we are absolutely over the moon. My dad can’t read or write anymore, so we have been reading him all your messages and he’s been smiling knowing how much everyone cares about him. From the bottom of our hearts, thank you ❤️

That's absolutely gutting ☹️

Over £2k now, brilliant work though folks

I messaged her directly after this post to pass a message on.

The reply I got was beautiful.  If you send her something to pass on to Neil I honestly think it means a lot to them all.

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Yes you can do! He loves hearing from people even though he struggles remembering, it always seems to brighten him up

 

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I’m with my dad now and I’ve just read it out to him and even though he struggles understanding people when they talk to him now, he knew what i meant when I said Lokomotiv Plovdiv!

I bet he did 😂

I don't know the bloke personally but I'm certain I'd recognise him from history, choked reading the message to Mrs Dimron.

It's a bastard.

Edited August 19, 20214 yr by Dimron

Wish Mrs Manc would stop chopping those onions whilst I read this

Nice to hear that he is aware how grateful we are for him and WWays

It is great to see a good chunk raised for Mrs happys charity run innit , now that is has gone over 2k she must be chuffed.

 

Can i suggest (or ask if there are any plans) to do some kind of fundraising at some point that will go directly to Neil and his family to help them out financially ? It can't be easy for them with Neil not being able to work for over a year now ... I know some on here have ran sportmsmans dinners / charity events and stuff and raised good money from them .  (Hope i am not overstepping the mark here and will delete this post no probs if so ) 

2 minutes ago, burnden said:

It is great to see a good chunk raised for Mrs happys charity run innit , now that is has gone over 2k she must be chuffed.

 

Can i suggest (or ask if there are any plans) to do some kind of fundraising at some point that will go directly to Neil and his family to help them out financially ? It can't be easy for them with Neil not being able to work for over a year now ... I know some on here have ran sportmsmans dinners / charity events and stuff and raised good money from them .  (Hope i am not overstepping the mark here and will delete this post no probs if so ) 

Sounds good - a big Wways gay pile on charity bash, all proceeds to Happys family. Anyone on here any good at organising this type of thing i wonder?

you would need definite numbers 

non refundable deposits

central location

ex posters to come

oh and a boxing ring for certain individuals

1 minute ago, Burndens Bogs said:

Sounds good - a big Wways gay pile on charity bash, all proceeds to Happys family. Anyone on here any good at organising this type of thing i wonder?

Plenty

Mad that this place alone spawned 2-3 sportsmans dinners and actually chartered aircrafts. Not to mention summer piss ups and away day pile ons.

Be fitting for everyone to come together, hopefully Neil can see what the place means to a lot people and the good that its done thanks to him.

casino's doing nowt at the moment , maybe he could sort it, time is of the essence

1 hour ago, victor meldrew said:

 

oh and a boxing ring for certain individuals

This would raise thousands 🥊

2 hours ago, gonzo said:

Plenty

Mad that this place alone spawned 2-3 sportsmans dinners and actually chartered aircrafts. Not to mention summer piss ups and away day pile ons.

Be fitting for everyone to come together, hopefully Neil can see what the place means to a lot people and the good that its done thanks to him.

Be good to get the club involved - after all, WW has, as you say, played a massive part in boosting interest/attendance in all sorts of circumstances, from the greatness of Euro trips down to away followings in tougher times.

Not on Facebook, so is there a mechanism to get messages to him through here? Are his WW "messages" able to be passed on?

7 minutes ago, SatanGreavsie said:

Be good to get the club involved - after all, WW has, as you say, played a massive part in boosting interest/attendance in all sorts of circumstances, from the greatness of Euro trips down to away followings in tougher times.

Not on Facebook, so is there a mechanism to get messages to him through here? Are his WW "messages" able to be passed on?

We can get messages to him

11 minutes ago, Horwich said:

We can get messages to him

So if we send a WW message to him, or you, or? Just wondering who we send them to in the first instance...

11 hours ago, victor meldrew said:

you would need definite numbers 

non refundable deposits

central location

ex posters to come

oh and a boxing ring for certain individuals

i would say our place  LOV of Prem Suite

12 hours ago, burnden said:

It is great to see a good chunk raised for Mrs happys charity run innit , now that is has gone over 2k she must be chuffed.

 

Can i suggest (or ask if there are any plans) to do some kind of fundraising at some point that will go directly to Neil and his family to help them out financially ? It can't be easy for them with Neil not being able to work for over a year now ... I know some on here have ran sportmsmans dinners / charity events and stuff and raised good money from them .  (Hope i am not overstepping the mark here and will delete this post no probs if so ) 

Sounds like a great idea. 

When we play Wigan away in April we could do a mass walk from the unibol to the DW what is it about 8 miles? Imagine if we could each raise £100 from our own friends and family members 

Watch  the match, get back have some sort of function all proceeds go to Neils family 

Edited August 20, 20214 yr by Rudy

2 hours ago, Rudy said:

When we play Wigan away in April we could do a mass walk from the unibol to the DW what is it about 8 miles? Imagine if we could each raise £100 from our own friends and family members 

Watch  the match, get back have some sort of function all proceeds go to Neils family 

Up for that; great idea

Stejay 👏👏

Ste has magaged to secure a £1000 donation from someone at BWFC who wishes to remain anonymous 👏👏

The donation will be made very soon

BWFC have also donated some prizes for us to auction. We will post more info asap

Here is the message Neils daughter has just sent me

Oh my goodness Stu, we are absolutely speechless. Thanks do not even cover it, my mum is in tears. Please can you thank everyone for us, especially Stejay. We honestly can’t even comprehend how much wanderers ways have done for us in the past few days, thank you all so much

😢👏

 

amazing stuff.

Nice one steejay and everyone 

3 hours ago, Rudy said:

When we play Wigan away in April we could do a mass walk from the unibol to the DW what is it about 8 miles? Imagine if we could each raise £100 from our own friends and family members 

Watch  the match, get back have some sort of function all proceeds go to Neils family 

In essence yes.

Only concern would be the obvious with it being against Wigan. Wouldn't want anything to detract from the effort etc.

Alternatively, a walk fron town centre to the unibol, match and maybe event there afterwards?

Tip top Steejay , proper dust in mi eyes reading ellas message to Horwich .

This place is fucking ace !!

2 minutes ago, Tonge moor green jacket said:

In essence yes.

Only concern would be the obvious with it being against Wigan. Wouldn't want anything to detract from the effort etc.

Alternatively, a walk fron town centre to the unibol, match and maybe event there afterwards?

That would be good. Shorter, for those a bit knackered, but long enough to get attention, keeps it "in house", can shake buckets at passers by etc (though that's tougher nowadays as people will have less physical change on them, though publicity could encourage them to dig out their old stashes - might be happy to get rid of stuff).

Maybe other club forums could help, though possibly we've spent too long slagging them off 🙂

Though the forum of the team we're playing that day could be involved, especially if they have no great beef against us. Sunderland in January?

Are the "vloggers" still going? They have reach beyond just Bolton...

Just now, SatanGreavsie said:

That would be good. Shorter, for those a bit knackered, but long enough to get attention, keeps it "in house", can shake buckets at passers by etc (though that's tougher nowadays as people will have less physical change on them, though publicity could encourage them to dig out their old stashes - might be happy to get rid of stuff).

Maybe other club forums could help, though possibly we've spent too long slagging them off 🙂

Though the forum of the team we're playing that day could be involved, especially if they have no great beef against us. Sunderland in January?

Are the "vloggers" still going? They have reach beyond just Bolton...

Yeah town to the unibol sounds good