Members of our Group are again joining in with
Cancer Research UK for the ‘Relay for Life’ to be held on the Bank Holiday
weekend 25th/26th August. It is a fabulous event for
Teams, who have been fundraising all year, walking the track of the National
Sports Centre for the 24hrs. We register…
A BIG Thank you to The Peel Charity Shop who presented us with a cheque for £1500 recently. They do a fabulous job in helping all sorts of charities, on and off the Island. They are celebrating their 10th Anniversary and at the presentation, gave a total of £30,000 to 20 different charities …
Members of the
Pensions and Income Support Dept. at Markwell House, Douglas formed a charity
team named ‘Parteeys’ (Manx for Team Spirit) 
in November last year.
L to R on the photo are; Mike Callister, Glennyse Corkill, Sue Carbutt, Lindsey Webster and Louise Jones.
Their idea is to raise mon…
Staff from the
Payments dept. at Barclays Wealth in Douglas chose Isle of Man Breast Care as
their ‘Charity of the Year’ for 2011 and have raised a massive £4172 for us. 
Photo is L to R; Rowita Taisia, Annette Gilbert (Treasurer), Chris Bowers, Sharon, Kirstie Powell.
Events including a sponso…
St Johns farmer Kenny Sloane of Patrick Road continued his long support for us by again raffling one of his whopping big Turkeys at the final St Johns Christmas Mart. The mart is being demolished and moved to a new site at Knockaloe Patrick. The turkey was auctioned, put back and bid for again unti…
Orla, Katie, Ellen and Lilee Fox have raised an amazing £400 for IOM Breastcare. They made Christmas decorations, Christmas cards and calendars last year and sold them to family and friends. They made angels, snowmen, reindeer, Santa and everything Christmassy. The enterprising girls have bee…
A BIG Thank you to Celton Manx who have offered to help with our costs for staging Fashion for Life 2011. They are giving us £1500!! It costs so much to get the Show together so this will be a fantastic help.
Cancer Research UK held the second 'Relay for Life' at the National Sports Centre in Douglas on Saturday 27th and Sunday 28th August. It's a 24hr team based walking relay and community fundraising event to support the vital work of Cancer Research in the UK. 30 Teams entered which had tents/marquees…
ALAN GUALT, a colleague from the Post Office, has just finished twisting arms to collect his sponsor money from the Parish Walk and sent us a cheque for a whopping £602! Thank you so much Alan. He’s already started training for next year!!!”
'All the Corporate Tables are sold but the £10 seated tickets are available for sale at all the usual outlets for the Villa Marina. Hurry up and book your friends seats together!'
Shelley, on the left collected £382.50 and Bernice who collected £132!! 
They were part of 'Team IOM Breast Care' and there's more to come in yet.......'
Sharon represented the Charity on the 7th July at Government House to meet The Duke of Gloucester. He met with a small group of local charities and was very interested in what IOM Breast Care do for the Islands women.
Thank you so much to the Team from PKR(Isle of Man)LLC who raised £132.50 from sponsorship for The Parish Walk.
We all completed our goals and thanks to our supporters we raised £300. Bernice and I reached Rushen (19 miles) 20 mins before the cut off time in 5hrs 09mins.
Shelly reached Peel (32.5 miles) in 8hrs 35min and Mike completed the full 85 miles in 21 gruelling hours! Shelly and I followed Mike from…
Glynys Ward, a dear friend and member of The Group since the early days,
sadly passed away on June 5th. Glynys was an amazing lady and an inspiration to us all. We will all miss her dearly. This years' Fashion for Life in October will be dedicated to her memory.
Team 'Bosom Buddies' Parish walk
Sharon is taking to the roads for the Parish Walk on June 25th
with friends Gellion, Shelly and Bernice. ‘Just to Rushen, nothing too
ambitious! It’s our first attempt and Shelly has been our Coach, she’s
done it before. Rushen is 19 miles but you never …
Barclays Payment Department held a Sponsored Wax recently and raised a fabulous £330! The screams of
the men could be heard all over the Island! Maybe us girls will have
earned some respect now. Not such softies after all are we?
Thank you to all those involved, especially the victims, I mean vol…
Charity of the year !!
We're BARCLAYS PAYMENT DEPT. 'Charity of the year' !!
Barclays Bank Payment Dept. have chosen us as
their ‘Charity of the Year’ They hold a fundraising event each month and
Barclay’s match whatever they raise. How great is that!
IN MEMORY
Regretfully we report the death in early February of Penny Kaneen.
Penny was one of the four ladies who, along with Ann Byrne,
gave life to ‘Isle of Man Breast Care’ Penny was a sweet gentle lady,
always there to help and listen. She fought a very brave battle with her
cance…
Alliance & Leicester Donation
Christmas and 'Dress Down' donation
We received the money raised from the Alliance and Leicester
Twelve Days of Christmas’ appeal and also their ‘Dress Down’ days from
July which was £150 which was then matched by the Bank. They have also
included IOM Brea…
