|  |  | Fundraising News Archive for July - September 2004 |
 | FOOTIE FANS HOST HUGE TOURNAMENT |
| |  | | Euro 2004 may not have finished in glory for the English football team but a number of South Coast England fans were definitely sad to be coming home from Portugal after hosting a fantastic charity football tournament in aid of English and Portuguese leukaemia charities. | | Release date: 7th September 2004 |  |
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| BANANA ON THE LOOSE! |
| |  | | Watch out for the six-foot banana at the BUPA Great North Run on September 26th. | | Release date: 2nd September 2004 | |
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| EVERY PENNY COUNTS… |
| |  | | Thirty-four year-old Natalie Carrick is living proof of Leukaemia Research’s work to improve the lives of leukaemia patients. She benefited from new research and to return the favour she is hoping to raise thousands of pounds at the BUPA Great North Run on September 26th to help others like her. | | Release date: 1st September 2004 | |
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| CALENDAR GIRLS MAKE A MILLION! |
| |  | | Those sassy WI girls from the Britain’s best loved alternative calendar ‘The Calendar Girls’, have topped the £1 million mark in raising money for research into leukaemia. Angela Baker, whose husband John died from non-hodgkin’s lymphoma and was the inspiration for the calendar, picked up a cheque, for £22,666 at a Gala luncheon in the south of France this weekend, breaking the £ million barrier. | | Release date: 11th August 2004 | |
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| A VERY SPECIAL (BMT) BIRTHDAY! |
| | | | 21-year-old Anna George celebrates a very special anniversary this Sunday (18th July) when she takes part in the London Bikeathon - the capital’s biggest charity bike event - in aid of Leukaemia Research. The student from Twyford will be taking part in the event a year to the day she underwent a bone marrow transplant (BMT) to cure her leukaemia. | | Release date: 15th July 2004 | |
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| CALENDAR GIRLS OPEN PIONEERING CANCER RESEARCH UNIT |
| |  | | Their fundraising exploits may have taken them around the world to the Cannes Film Festival and the red carpets of Hollywood. But today (Monday 12th July) Yorkshire’s world-famous WI Calendar Girls are back on home turf to open a pioneering Leukaemia Research Unit at the University of York. | | Release date: 12th July 2004 | |
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