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NUKE THE LEUK
’04 - Lap
9
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09/04(11/04) |
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Monthly standing order from a shy, team
sparring partner of old… |
25.00 |
| Chris
Alston sold his trackday space for Silverstone on Blatchat |
25.00 |
| Martin
Couzens sold a set of harnesses on Blatchat to Piers Mason |
50.00 |
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Baywatch 2004, Ray Hutchins & Chris Clark et al |
418.00 |
| Bruce
Woodhouse supplied a Caterham alloy gear knob to Steve Newman |
10.00 |
Curborough sprint, donations from:
BMRMC marshals club £50
individuals £10 |
60.00 |
| Roger
Swift sold a Curborough DVD at the Caterham Academy training day |
10.00 |
Le
Sept, pledges to push Rebecca Dean into the swimming pool at
Nimes
organised by Marius Offermans |
224.28 |
| And a
donation from Paul Howarth "for letting us visit
Dijon" |
71.43 |
Ted
and Valerie Honey, raffle gifts donated by Valerie for the recent
‘Spanish Reunion’ at Whoop Hall raised |
35.00 |
Nick
Addison, Le Sept 2003 DVDs
(Bring total to £1,262.38) |
24.00 |
| Nick
Addison, Year in the life of the Club 2004 DVD, pre-launch orders |
12.00 |
| Howard
Donovan, in connection with Steve Howard leaving his car keys
somewhere! |
5.00 |
| Jason
Boud for Mav’s courier service |
13.00 |
Paul
Davis Trackday photos:
Jason Boud £10
Andy Vicars £10
Steve Winterberg £32
Mike Taylor £10
Chris Alston £6
Simon Kavanagh £10
Delbert & Delberta £20
Norman Verona £10
(Brings total to £124.00) |
108.00 |
| Rob
Manser lent Alex Moore a copy of La Passione |
5.00 |
| Mark
Collins gave two door sill protectors to Jorgen Falkboll in Denmark |
10.00 |
| Brands
Hatch Trackday, Keith Pickin, passenger rides |
620.00 |
Arnie
Webb, Blatchat auction of a signed Audi shirt to Chris 'Nemesis'
Matthews
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100.00 |
| John
Aston bought a key ring from a Blatchat advert |
10.00 |
| Nifty
gave Mike Rowland a spare key ring for his new 7 |
5.00 |
Steve
Cragg, Sponsored ‘No Smoking’ effort
(Brings total to a smoking £1,692!) |
149.00 |
| Steve
Cragg, supplied a gearstick gaiter to Steve ‘Battered old
Supersport’Corcoran on Blatchat |
5.00 |
Norman
Verona’s South Yorkshire Police 'Blue Light Show'
(Brings total to a stonking £8103.00) |
2000.00 |
Mark
Durrant, in his second season of the L7 Club Speed
Championship, pledged a tenner for every
improvement in lap time over year one and a
further tenner for every class win. A very successful second season with
wins at Llandow, MIRA and Aintree, with several new personal bests
including the time for the 3rd place at
Curborough means a healthy wad for LRF. "It was
good to know that some good has come out of
me having fun!", says Mark
(Super season Mark, well done and congratulations on your success!) |
70.00 |
| Peter
Truman passes the proceeds of Gary Guest’s Low Flying Auction |
65.00 |
| John
Fletcher tea and bun money from the Langstone Sailing Club bash beforethe Le
Mans trip. Glad the memory has returned after your head banging, hanging in
the straps kerfuffle during the Bordeaux Blat! Trust the wee beastie is back
on it’s wheels again! |
25.00 |
| Terry
Field partly for some Brands Hatch prints from Paul Smith and for thanks to
a lady called Gwen! |
75.00 |
Barbara Swift Blatchat Smiley stickers
(Brings total to £1,355) |
70.00 |
| Mike
and Roz Jones ‘cleaned up’ from the sale of some tyres |
20.00 |
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| This
month's total: |
4,319.71 |
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Last Month's
total so far: |
21,605.45 |
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2004 total so far: |
25,925.15 |
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Plus Fundraising 1992 - 2003 |
166,738.53 |
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£192,663.68 |
Just a thought, but NtL
is ever growing with more and more members approaching me with fundraising ideas
(and long may it continue!) and while our charity endeavours for Leukaemia
Research Fund are as a result of events, activities and club life, you lovely
lot are so enthusiastic and generous that my monthly reports seem to taking over
the magazine! It is a problem of success rather than failure but I do have a
sense of unease about the quantity of reporting necessary to give the required
credit to everyone involved and any less than positive perceptions this may
cause. I have always felt it right and proper to acknowledge all contributions
and efforts but fear it is turning into simply a list of names, amounts and
initiatives rather than an interesting read! Any views or ideas on acceptable
alternative reporting methods would be most welcome please.
..oo00oo..
 Finally
managed to wangle a picture of my car in Low Flying thanks to Chris Rea’s
generous gift to LRF. The idea was to have a back drop of 7’s lining up behind
Lol while he presented the painting to Caroline King and Stephanie Grant from
LRF at the recent Brands trackday for safe keeping, but just as the cars were
about to come out for the first session in the afternoon the weather turned
nasty so we had to take the shots before the rain came and dissolved the
picture! Just got this off before the rain started. Looks lonely I know but
behind the cameras were around a 100 club members looking on in support.
We have been tossing various ideas about on how to maximise the proceeds from
the sale of the painting and so far the best option seems to be to auction it at
the Botham Celebrity fund raising dinner next spring where there will be many
well heeled celebrities waving their cheque books about…
Left to right: Caroline King and Stephanie Grant from LRF, and Lol and Dor
Pilfold on behalf of
Chris Rea and the club. The very pretty car on the left with two of the pretty
girls is, of course, mine!
..oo00oo..
And just look at
this fine bunch of fundraisers:
New initiatives for 2004:
Matt Norris’s Plymouth to Dakar Challenge
The Challenge is to simply drive a £100 LHD banger (not my 7!) the route from
Plymouth to Dakar with the principle aim of helping some Charitable causes in
Senegal and The Gambia. The rally is totally unsupported, crosses the Sahara
Desert and covers over 4000 miles. On arrival in Banjul, Gambia - the vehicles
are auctioned for local use and all monies raised from the vehicle sales go to
local needy charities.
The team to watch out for is teamStrangelyBrown,
dressed in full tweed attire and piloting our legendary 1984 LHD Sierra 1.6
Laser Auto. teamStrangelyBrown members BigDave,
SkinneyDave and myself Keep-it-nailedDave (aka Mat Norris) will be leaving on
Boxing day 2004 and hope to get to Banjul within 3 weeks. teamStrangelyBrown
will be donating sponsorship raised to 3 charities Neuk the Leuk (LRF), Motor
Neurone Disease Association and The Imperial Cancer Research Fund - please
support these charities by supporting us fools.
For more information, and to download a sponsor form if you feel inclined to
support us pretty please, and to check our progress or just for a good laugh,
please visit our website
www.strangelybrown.co.uk
..oo00oo..
Any chance I.
Thompson £5, Mrs. A. E. Howley £5, & E. C. Downer £5 could reissue their cheques
for their Nokia logos please? Cheers!
..oo00oo..
Barbara Swift is distributing the
definitive ‘get to know’ Curborough Sprint Circuit DVD. Please contact Barbara
on B.Swift@btopenworld.com
..oo00oo..
Nifty has produced a DVD of some
Radical footage. Please contact Nifty on
niftys@btopenworld.com
..oo00oo..
Nifty has come up with another fund raising idea
for moving parts about the country from Blatchat sales:
"Dear All,
Over the last day or two I have been grateful to find volunteers to get some
wheels to Scotland and have myself volunteered to move an engine from Essex to
the Midlands, in both cases in return for a donation to Nuke the Luke.
This has led on to correspondence with Steve Winterberg and now the hatchings of
a plan to organise a voluntary courier service for parts bought and sold on
Blatchat, with the “cost” being a donation to Nuke the Luke.
The current idea would be to have a co-ordinator who would hold a database of
all volunteers and their necessary particulars. The necessary particulars would
cover what sort of vehicle would be available, personal restrictions on the
choice of what might be carried (gearboxes to BGH on the passenger seat of the
wife’s MGF may not go down well), any restrictions due to health (thinking of
lifting heavy items here) and most importantly, frequently travelled routes.
When an item is required to be moved, either the seller or purchaser would
contact the co-ordinator who would then contact the most appropriate person, or
persons, to request whether they would be able to help. In most cases I envisage
that this would involve one or two people, but for distant destinations the
chain may be longer.
In return for the courier service the seller or purchaser (agreed between
themselves) would make a donation to Nuke the Luke, according to the
size/awkwardness of the item."
See
http://www.blatchat.com/t.asp?Id=61584 or contact
Nifty on niftys@btopenworld.com
to donate your services.
..oo00oo..
B I G S L I M
In the red corner stands gentleman Verona and in the blue corner stands
scoundrel Nemesis.
Verona has challenged Nemesis to a sponsored weight loss. Verona has bet the
scoundrel he can loose more weight over a year. The bet is for £100 which Verona
will pay NtL if Nemesis can loose more weight.
To make things interesting there will be a weigh in on January 4th (after the
Xmas pud) and again at Le Mans in June '05. The fat Bar Stewards weigh in at:
Verona 17 stone 10 lbs, Nemesis 17 stone 4 lbs
Totals pledged to date:
Nemesis ............£220
Verona .............£100
LET BATTLE & FUNDRAISING COMMENCE, see
http://www.blatchat.com/t.asp?id=63434
..oo00oo..
Regular
NtL initiatives:
Paul Davis, trackday photos at £2.00 each from his website.
Silverstone here:
http://www.blatchat.com/t.asp?Id=61689
Brands Hatch here:
http://www.blatchat.com/t.asp?Id=61914
Brands Hatch 20th Sept here:
http://www.blatchat.com/t.asp?id=64327
..oo00oo..
Brent Chiswick, 4 - 5 speed gearbox chassis conversion. Please contact Brent at
brent@idl-ductwork.co.uk for details.
..oo00oo..
Nick Addison's "Year in the Club
2004" DVD, contact Nick on nickaddison@btopenworld.com to pledge your assistance
gathering footage etc.
..oo00oo..
Richard Ince for the definitive
Nurburgring experience DVD. Email enquiries to
rince@b-m-s.co.uk
..oo00oo..
Jeff Deung for the loan of Scalextric
kit. Email enquiries to
pmhdpenn@netcomuk.co.uk
..oo00oo..
Nick Addison for copies of the DVD
compilation of the high jinks at Le Sept 2003, email enquiries to:
nickaddison@btopenworld.com.
..oo00oo..
Mike Blackadder for a copy of the
Caterham Academy 2003 Race series DVD. Email enquiries to:
Mike.Blackadder@cognos.com.
..oo00oo..
Barbara Swift for Smiley Stickers,
email enquiries to: B.Swift@btopenworld.com. Profits to NtL.
..oo00oo..
It's an amazing
amount of donations that come from the goodwill between club members offering
help, advice, parts and assistance to each other from a huge wealth of
experience and knowledge. A benefit that is totally unexpected when filling out
a club membership form and then getting involved. Maybe we should have a warning
on the form to the effect that membership to the Lotus 7 Club of GB is likely to
change your life - forever! All for the love of these funny wee beasties eh!
..oo00oo..
Under Gift Aid LRF can claim tax back on any donation, large or small, providing you are a UK taxpayer. This means that at
no cost to you they are able to claim back 28p for every £1 you give providing you pay income tax or capital gains tax to cover the amount they reclaim.
If you pay tax at a higher rate, you can claim further tax relief on your Self Assessment tax return.
LRF promise "If you wish, we guarantee not to use your details for any other purpose other than to reclaim tax on your donation. We won't pass them on to anyone else, send you newsletters or appeal letters - you won't hear from us again unless you want to. By agreeing to allow us to gift aid your donation, you'll be helping to increase it by nearly a third, without any extra cost to yourself, and with our low running costs, this will go straight into research. Thanks."
And just to
brighten up your pc screen surround or anything else that annoys you, get some
 Blatchat
stickers from Barbara Swift on B.Swift@btopenworld.com
Profits to NtL.
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