We went to visit Clic Court to see how we could help Clic Sargent and the families that stay there whilst the children are having treatment at the John Radcliffe hospital. When you are facing the unthinkable nothing else matters around you. However, the world still goes round and life outside still goes on. We … Continued
7 years into setting up the Ollie Young Foundation, with the help of you all, we have funded 9 years worth of research. Katie, our 3rd funded PhD student started her journey with the OYF in Portsmouth’s Cellular & Molecular Neuro-Oncology research group back in Oct 2016. 3 years on and she has successfully defended … Continued
Claire and Jason – we thank you once again for your support to our foundation by putting on a stunning display of Christmas lights and raising money for our charity! To everyone that went to see the light display on Culloden Way……THANK YOU so much for popping your pennies in our collection pot. You guys … Continued
What another amazing evening we had last night. The 20th night of Wokingham’s Living Advent Calendar was held at the Red Lion where Marisa and Jack put on a stunning performance. Beautiful voice Marisa!! We were the charity for the evening and we’d like to say another huge thank you to everyone who donated helping … Continued
We’ve had another amazing evening singing and dancing along to St Theresa’s Parents aka: Pauly Zarb, Kendel Payne and Gareth Ainsworth at The Redan as part of The Wokingham Living Advent Calendar. You guys are truly awesome and we are so so grateful for your support to the OYF. Not only have you raised the … Continued
Thank you, you lovely lot for supporting us down at Tesco in Wokingham yesterday. Popping your loose change into our pots raised £218.69. Wishing you all a very happy Christmas!
A massive shout out to Rachel and the team at Mizuno for raising over £368 at their Christmas fundraiser for Ollie. Mizuno have supported the OYF since the beginning through their cake sales, raffles and name the bear competitions, to name a few. This year with the added Xmas theme of reindeer food, hot chocolate … Continued
What a brilliant evening we’ve had watching RUDS (Reading University Drama Society) perform their 2019 Art showcase. There’s been a variety of dancing, singing, musicians, comedy…….you name it, they gave it!! What an awesome show guys. You should be very proud of what you’ve achieved and thank you so so much for doing so in … Continued
The West Forest Round Table give up their evenings to help charities, like ours, to raise money through their wonderful Santa Float. Each year Santa and his elves take a tour around Wokingham hoping to meet as many little (and not so little!) people and spread the magic of Christmas and create great memories. The … Continued
We were back at Ollie’s school for their Xmas fair today and we’d like to thank Hawthorns school PTA for organising a great event. With a new layout and a new game we were very well supported and had lots of fun. Thank you to everyone for helping us raise over £267 by playing our … Continued
Thank you #wokinghamwintercarnival for an amazing day. And thank you to all our supporters for helping us raise over £400. To top the day off we won ‘Gold Award’ for the excellence of our ‘space adventure’ stall which included our very own space bear ‘Rocket’ and space themed home made cakes
Thank you so much to the #WokinghamLionsClub and WADE for choosing the OYF to share the profits from their popular #wokycomedynight in September. It was a brilliant evening and we loved being a part of it thank you!
