STUDENTS from Scalby School indulged in a plethora of fun activities in memory of a former classmate.

The Year 11 pupils took part in ELLIEFEST at Scarborough Rugby Club, to raise £460 for Ellie’s Fund, set up following the death of 14-year-old Ellie Othick-Bowmaker from a brain tumour last year.

The day featured a host of events including rugby coaching, Zumba, beauty treatments, bands, dancing, a prom dress viewing and even sumo wrestling.

Student Niikan Tehrani said: “I enjoyed the event because it was great to spend time with our year group doing fun activities to raise money for a good cause.

“I hope that we do this again in future because days like these are what you will remember when you look back at school.”

Felloe pupil Ayse Aydemir added: “I really had a great time because all the activities were well organised and not the kind of thing you do every day.

“It was really good to know that while we were having fun all the money was going to such an important cause.”

UPM Raflatac shapes up to donate EUR 50 000 to charity

(UPM Raflatac, Tampere, 19 November 2010) – UPM Raflatac is donating 50,000 euros through a global exercise campaign to the well-being of children and youths. The biggest individual sums will be donated to the Candlelighters association (6,000 euros) and Ellie’s Fund (5,000 euros) in Scarborough, UK, and the association ELER (5,000 euros) in Nancy, France. Globally donations are made in 13 countries.

Candlelighters is a childhood cancer charity and Ellie's Fund raises money for research into childhood brain tumours. The association ELER helps children in an intensive care unit.

The Every Body Counts exercise campaign inspired over 1,300 employees, over half of UPM Raflatac personnel, worldwide to take regular exercises to earn points for their teams. The goals of the two-month campaign were a healthy lifestyle, personal wellness and enhanced team spirit.

From 167 teams, the three best globally and two best locally were able to donate a sum to registered organizations of their choice. Where possible, they followed guidelines that the organizations should be local and support children's and youths’ exercise and wellness

"The Everybody Counts programme has been a great success. Over 1,300 participants exercised for an amazing total of over 40,000 hours. In addition to improving personal fitness the aim was to build team spirit and well-being at the workplace. And of course, one of the main sources of inspiration for all the participants was the possibility to help children and youth in need", says Jussi Vanhanen, President, UPM Raflatac.

For further information, please contact:

Ms Elisa Nilsson, Vice President, Communications, UPM Raflatac, tel. +358 40 500 3150

About UPM Raflatac

UPM Raflatac, part of UPM’s Engineered Materials business group, is one of the world’s leading suppliers of self-adhesive label materials and the world’s number one producer of HF and UHF radio frequency identification (RFID) tags and inlays. UPM Raflatac has a global service network consisting of 13 factories on five continents and a broad network of sales offices and slitting and distribution terminals worldwide. UPM Raflatac employs 2,600 people and made sales of approximately EUR 0.95 billion (USD 1.3 billion) in 2009. Further information is available at www.upmraflatac.com

In March this year I made a video with - and for - Raflatac. It is now available on YouTube - here is the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xP4GEo7FtYU&feature=youtu.be



The photo is me with two of the winning teams - both of whom chose to support Ellie's Fund.

We would like to invite you to join us with our launch of ‘Raise Your Hats for Research 2012’

Brain tumour research is desperately underfunded – for every £100 raised for research into cancer, only 70p is invested into brain tumour causes and cures. It is imperative therefore, to progress brain tumour research in the UK, that funds are generated through community, corporate and commercial activity to ensure the handful of brain tumour research centres that exist across the UK can carry on the work they do to make a difference to the patients of the future.

To enable the recently launched Translational Neuro-oncology Group at LIMM (Leeds Institute for Molecular Medicine), based at St James Hospital in Leeds, to not only continue but to grow and develop a group of ladies who have all been affected by brain tumours in some way decided to come together to produce a tasteful semi nude calendar with little more than hats for cover.

The knowledge that a semi nude calendar of ladies affected by cancer was not a ground breaking concept did not deter Carol Robertson of Brain Tumour Research and Support across Yorkshire and Tina Boden, Trustee of Ellie's Fund – Brain Tumour Trust, from developing the idea for ‘Raise Your Hats for Research 2012’. Whilst asking ladies from across the Yorkshire and Humber region to get involved it soon became very apparent that 2012 could end up having twice as many months as any other year for Millenniums to come. Suddenly 34 ladies all wanted to come together to ensure this calendar was a success and would generate significant funds for the Leeds Lab that they now see as their own.

Get Ahead Hats from Snainton were kind enough to lend the ladies some of the most beautiful hats around and a fantastic day was had by all at the photo shoot at the home of Barry Hickling who most generously allowed the ladies and their support team to take over his residence and gardens for the day.

''Louise was the first one of us to get the ball rolling. She had heard about Heather because of all the fund raising she was doing and through a friend learned about Ellie’s song which, encouraged her to find out more about Ellie.

Inspired by Ellie and a friend who had died from a brain tumour two years before, she wanted to do something positive to raise awareness and money so, decided to run the London Marathon in Ellie’s name ( as you do!)

A girlie night in at our friend’s house brought us two fitness freaks together and before I knew what was happening, Louise had my name down for the marathon and we were out training in the rain & wind – thanks, Louise.

Unfortunately just as we’d got up to about ten miles, Louise sustained ligament damage, tendonitis and a sprained ankle but being the trooper (stubborn sod) she is kept on running. It wasn’t until she had to stop running in agony that she finally listened to sense and agreed to rest it.

But, we’re not the type of women who are happy to sit around for 6 weeks & wait for Louise’s ankle to get better so we decided to bike until she was well enough to run again.

Not content with running the marathon, it inspired Louise to want to cycle 40miles for Ellie’s fund and I (in a moment of genius/madness) decided to make it a hundred miles. Not willing to be outdone by me, she suggested we cycle to London. As a compromise we agreed to bike across the country to Blackpool in a coast to coast cyclathon.

So, this is where we are now, 12 months away from the 2012 marathon and at the start of planning our cyclathon. We’d really like to thank Heather for all her support and for setting up our fundraising site.

St George’s Day marks the start of Ellie’s Year: a series of events and feats of athletic endurance that will hopefully see us raise our target of £12 000 by the end of our marathon.

This is where you come in. Please help us smash our target by: sponsoring us; getting involved in our charity events and telling everyone what we are doing and why.

HUNDREDS of pounds have been raised by school pupils in Derby for Scarborough charity Ellie’s Fund.

The money was donated by Scarborough girl Eleanor Sharples, who studies at Repton School.

Each year the school raises funds before dividing it among charities put forward by the pupils.

Eleanor, 16, asked if part of the money could be given to Ellie’s Fund which was set up in memory of 14-year-old Ellie Othick-Bowmaker, who died last year after battling two brain tumours.

As a result the charity, which was set up to raise awareness of brain cancer, received £500 from the school.

Eleanor said: “Every year from September to December we raise a lot of money, then each pupil is given the opportunity to put forward a charity. Quite a lot goes to national charities, and charities which have directed affected “

“This year we raised £26,000 in total and I put forward Ellie’s Fund, which in the end got £500.

“Ellie was a special girl, and it is nice that I am able to represent her charity at my school all the way in Derby.”