Dearham Boys & Girls raise money for Team Evie
Tuesday 9th May 2017Greg Johnston, co-founder of the ‘Team Evie’ charity in Cumbria, has been back to visit the 1st Dearham, seventeen years after gaining his President’s badge as a member of the Company. Greg returned to collect a cheque for £634.92 which had been raised to help his work with sick children and their parents.
On collecting the cheque Greg said “I have very warm memories of my time in the Brigade and I really appreciate all the efforts of the boys and girls. Thanks to people like them we can make a stay in hospital a little less daunting for children and their parents”. Greg founded the charity in 2015 with his wife Jill shortly after losing their six-month old daughter Evie. Since then the charity has raised over £65,000 which has helped fund a whole host of projects to help buy equipment, toys and books for children’s wards and for use in the homes of sick children.
The charity’s latest scheme has been a bereavement support group which meets on the first Thursday of every month in Victoria Hall, Cockermouth and provides a counselling service to parents who have lost babies.
The cheque was presented by members of the Company including, Ben Nicholson who raised £321 in a sponsored one-mile swim in Lake Windermere.
