You can find footage of this event on our facebook page.
17th September 2016
The Family Fun day at The Badger Pub in Watford
A big Thank you to Nikki Mahoney (Ossie's God Mother) , with Darren & Stacey from the Pub and everyone else that helped to make this event a success and raised Ossie Boys Fund £1600.
4th June 2016
Sheila Osmond who is a friend of Ossie's Grandmother Sue, Had a fantastic night she paid for a live band, organised a raffle and an auction at her local sports & social club in Mill End Rickmansworth.
With a tremendous raised total of £4327.25
A massive thank you to all that had taken part in this event and made it such a success.
24th April 2016
Matt Clements Ran the Marathon in 3 Hours 50mins and raised £825 for Ossie Boys Fund
It was a tricky event to organise, im so grateful to those that helped. Nick for organising the wrestling. My committee for being the fantastic group of girls and their partners. The photos from Richard at Lolli Pop Pics have been amazing. Andy for doing the lighting on the night for us. Stephen the DJ for being the pro that he is. The Dancing Girls from Klick Academy are so talented. The Hooligan's coming down from Norwich again for Ossie made my night, along with meeting Julia.
4th September 2016
Bingo Night
Kayley Baker who's daughter was diagnosed with a brain tumour in 2015 raised £341 for Ossie Boys Fund at her monthly Bingo night that she started to raise funds for Brooke.
Brooke has been treated at GOSH & UCLH she is currently in remission.
Thank you Kayley.
Kate and her team raised a tremendos amount £2014.08 with this event and hope to plan another one later in the year
21st October 2016
Im pleased to say that The Hooligans made it back down from Norwich and Nick from FTWUK organised another action packed night for Ossie and Friends to enjoy.
£2000 was raised at this event.
30th April 2016
Robyn Payne, Liz Payne, Scott Payne, and Brian Handman took part in Tough Mudder to raise funds for Ossie. They successfully completed it and raised £471 for Ossie Boy's Fund.
22nd May 2016
Laura Creamer/Brooks who is an old school friend of Ossie's mum organised a sponsored walk from there local Tesco in Birmingham into the city with The Children Hospital as a pit stop break before turning around and walking back. Total miles 10 with the total funds raised £1816.86.
Well done girls
13th March 2016
Lauren, Darren and Charlotte have taken part in two challenges so far
The Chiltern Warrior Obstacle Race at Chiltern Open Air Museum on the 13th March and The Colour Rush Obstacle Race at Windsor Race Course on the 7th May 2016.
Raising £1200 for Ossie Boys Fund
7th May 2016
Sara, Luke, Taylar, Kelly, Lauren, Charlotte and Danielle at The Color Rush Obstacle race on the 7th May 2016. This event raised £1100 for Ossie Boys Fund.
22nd May 2016
Leanne who is also a god parent to Ossie toke part in the Watford Colour run raising a total of £795 for our charity. Well done!
11th September 2016
Jackie Mc Peak ran the Two Arms on Two Legs Aylesbury 10K to raise funds and managed to raise £150 running along the canal and completed it in 1 hour 21 minutes. Well done Jackie
24th July 2016
Laura an old school friend of Ossie's mother Karly who organised the sponsored walk in Birmingham in May has also set up a Zumba Marathon, this toke place at Our Lady of Fatima RC Church, 23 Upper Meadow Road, B32 Birmingham at 2pm.
The girls all did a great job raising £312.60.
This looked so much fun we will try and set this up in Watford area.
Daybreak Nurseries - Laura Orawski
Historically, across all Daybreak Nurseries sites we raise money for various charities over each year, we take part in the bigger nationwide events and also the smaller local events, raising money for a whole host of charities.
This year we, as a company have decided to fund-raise slightly differently. I have decided to focus all our efforts on one cause, with all money raised at various events / activities specifically going to one brave little boy, my godson Ossie.
There are four daybreak sites that are raising money for Ossie with a variety of events. We have already held a superhero day at one site, raising almost £300. Some parents have donated using my GoFundMe page and in one month we have raised £1000.
On the week of 9th May at the Shepherds Lane site we have a Sports for Ossie week for daybreak children, that includes various sporting events across the whole week, with children being sponsored by parents to take part in the activities. This will also be happening at two of the other sites in coming weeks.
We have a family fun day in the process of being planned, open to the general public in the Summer (date TBC), which will include a day of raising money for Ossie by way of cake sales, raffle, sponge the staff, activities on the main field, auction and much much more…………….. full details will follow when confirmed.
Some other events / activities include:
Quiz nights
Christmas Fair
Sponsored activities
Donation days
Sports days and graduation ceremonies
The managers of the 4 sites have been extremely proactive and enthusiastic with my request for fund-raising across the year. We are so excited to raise as much money as we possibly can.
Laura Stevens, Nursery Manager and the team from Amersham Chiltern Avenue (ACA) says…..
‘’When I heard about Ossie and the devastating illness that he has I wanted to do more than help. No child or family should every have to suffer and watch their loved ones go through such a horrible experience. When Laura Orawski (Rickmansworth Town Centre Manager and our Senior Company Manager) had requested she wanted the nurseries to fund-raise I was nothing but on board with this.
Speaking from experience and watching loved ones in my family suffer there is nothing I want to do more than help, raise money for further treatment and let Ossie experience all the things in life that we take for granted.
As a team at ACA we have thought of many different fund-raising ideas that we wish to do. We spoke about staff netball competitions, sponsored walks, sponsored dances and many more to come over the coming months!
The team spoke to the children and they understand that Ossie is very poorly and he needs our help. The children really want to plan a summer party! The children have told their teachers they wish to dress up as super heroes and have a fun day in the sunshine. We will be planning our summer party with the children and letting them lead telling us what they wish to do to help us raise money for Ossie.’’
Claire Thurgood, Nursery Manager from Rickmansworth Shepherds Lane (RSL) says…
‘’This year, fundraising for Ossie not only means all the money we raise goes to a little boy who really needs it, but it’s supporting a local family who many of us know. Not only is Laura Orawski, our Senior Manager, his godmother but Ossie’s cousin attends here at RSL and his Auntie Becky used to work here too. Knowing that the money we raise this year could help Ossie get the treatment he needs means so much to me and all of us at Daybreak. Ossie and his family need our help and with everyone’s support, we will hit the £500,000 target!’’
Details of all forthcoming events will be added as they are confirmed.
28th May
Kate Ellis, is also fund-raising, she has known Lee and Karly for many years. She owns a barber shop in Rickmansworth, The Barber Room. Ossie will only let Kate cut his hair!
On 28th May Kate opened her shop, The Barber Room, and all haircuts were for donations only. It was a fun day, with a face painter from Daybreak and with a street party feel to the day.
7th May 2016
Thomas is the brother of Jamie (who plays football with Ossie) and wanted to do a sponsored swim to raise some funds. He managed to swim 122 lengths in an hour and aimed to raise £200, but actually ended up raising £624.
Ossie inspires us all and Tom came up with the idea of the swim as he swims for a club and wanted to help.
16th November 2016
This event is the best yet raising a smashing £7500 and with a memorable night for Ossie with the bonus of loads of gifts. A massive thank you to Luke Chambers & Mitch Tilson who know Ossie through Nikki one of Ossie God Parents. Well Done Guys you did such a great job
26th June 2016
One of our committee members Becky organsed a meal at The Sizzler Indian restaurant in Watford.
We charged £20 a ticket with half of that paying for the food and half to the Charity. With a fantastic raffle as well as the food profit we raised a grand total of £1706.00
Well done to Julie & Janet and all your helpers this event raised over £1000.
That's fantastic support from Ossie's School.
Becky, Gary, Lewis, Hayley, Jay and Ryan all went to war for Ossie, completing The Warrior Adrenaline Race
9th April 2016
Everett Rovers U10 Blue Boys Vs Parents
Raised £100 for Ossie Boys Fund
Thank you so much guys
16th September 2016
The Leavesden Studios Cake Sale organised by one of our committee members Renate, who has known Ossie since he went to Nursery school with her son.
Renate with help from her work colleagues managed to raise £506.28. Well done girls.
Most of these images were captured by Julia Walters from Wonderful Life photography. 07957 683558
Ossie is football mad (Watford Football Club Mad) and has been lucky enough to spend time with the team, one of the players even visited him in hospital just before Christmas 2015.
Ossie also loves wrestling, he has missed out on the WWE at the O2 Arena while he has been in hospital this Christmas 2015.
A member of the FTWUK wanted to do this event for Ossie to enjoy in Spring 2016 as a reward for being so strong. We are now turning this event into our 1st fund raiser.
This event was a massive success, A big Thanks to The Knight family coming down from Norwich and all the wrestlers that toke part in this event for free.
We are planning a Halloween themed match on 21st October at Watersmeet in Rickmansworth.
16th July 2016
Katie who is the owner of The Barber Shop and one of our committee members Laura (Godmother) organised Ossie Fest at The Half Way House, 91 Uxbridge Road, Rickmansworth, Herts. WD3 7DQ
With talented bands playing and Brandon Block doing a set! This was a fantastic event!
The kids had fun with the bouncy slide/castle and penalty shoot out. With face painting/cake sale and raffle it was a fun day for all who came.
The Total raised at this event was a huge £4817.80.
Events in the planning for this year
17th March 2017
Kids Disco
St Patrics Day for when Ossie comes out of Hospital. Details still be confirmed.
Friday 24th March 2017
7pm till 9.30pm a quiz night - 9.30pm till Midnight disco
Venue: West Herts Club, Park Avenue. Watford.
Flyer to follow
17th June 2016
Kelis Beauchamp cut off her hair and donated the hair to The Princess Charity which makes wigs for little boys and girls who have lost their hair, when receiving medical treatments.
Kelis also used this opportunity to get sponsors to raise funds for Ossie, Im pleased to say she has more than reached her target of £300. She raised a grand total of £413.
Christmas door wreath makingwork shop with Expressit Flowers. Thank you to every one that came to this event, your wreaths were very pretty.
You helped us make £590 for Ossie.
Well Done
A massive thank you to all that tooke part in this event and helped it be a massive success.
A special thank you to Richard from Lollipop Party Pic who captured the day and shared this link with us. Pictures are available to buy on a disk at The Barber Shop for £10
7th January 2017
What a great start to 2017, i cant believe how much fun Fight Klub was.
This event was a massive success rasing £1600 for Ossie. This was quite a team effort with Janet Kilpatric & Andrea Magill from our committee teaming up with Hugh Harper Shaper who is a Senior Master Insptructor at Harper Choi Kwang-Do Academy. This was not just another day at work for Hugh, the class was not held in the normal gym, it was in a hall at Bushey Arena with the lights out, disco lights on and DJ Energie on the stage.The Mayor Dorothy Thornhill opened the class with a speech then we all got rather sweaty and raised £1600 with help of a fabulous raffle and the sale of some handmade angels & cakes donated by a fight kulb. Massive Thank you to all involved.
We hope to set this up again soon. Watch this space!
2nd July 2016
The Woodoaks Association summer Festival.
We had a stool selling our T Shirts and wrist bands and a penalty shoot for the kids to take part in. We made £205 profit on this event and created awareness for our charity in the local area.
6th August 2016
Laura who is one of Ossie's God Mothers organised this event with her work at Daybreak Nurseries they did so well to create such a fun and active day for the kids raising £1296.95
17th July 2016
Heather Woodman an old school friend of Ossie's mum Karly
ran the High Wycombe half marathon to raise funds.
She made a total of £443.
She was 41st out of 243 and was the 19th female out of 103 in the race. Her time was 2 hours and 13mins. Well Done Heather
23rd April 2016
8th July 2017
The second round boxing night! To be confirm if this goes ahead. If it does its not for Ossie's Trial fund as that is closed and will be donated to a charity. This may be for Ossie's head stone
8th October 2016
Our very own dance competition. We invited young dance group's in the area to come and compete against each other for votes. Each member of the audience was given a vote token on arriving. They paid for extra votes for the group they enjoyed the most to win. The £200 cash prize was donated by Wimpy In Mill End. The Winner was Pink Academy in Denham.
Total raised on the night £994.70
This event was held at Mill End Sports & Social Club, Mill End Rickmansworth. WD3 UK