Highdown Sponsored Run
This is a copy of the newspaper article reporting on Lauren Cummings hard work for me:
An 11-year-old Highdown schoolgirl organised a run for her classmates to raise money for a family friend with cancer. Lauren Cummings of Badgers Rise, Caversham organised a sponsored cross country run around Highdown School field. She is raising money for Dawn Hughes, 41, a mum of three from Buxton Avenue, Caversham, who has been fighting breast and bone cancer for four years. Dawn, who works at the BBC’s Monitoring Station in Caversham, is flying out to Leonardis Klinik in Bavaria for treatment, but the travel and medical care is expensive.
Family and friends have already completed a sponsored cycle ride from Reading to Portsmouth in October and now Lauren has decided to play her part. She said: “Dawn is friends with my mum and I’m good friends with her oldest girl. I wanted to help so I asked if I could raise some money at school and had to go to lots of meetings to get permission.”
Lauren has already raised £50 herself and persuaded some 50 classmates to join her. She has also been raising money with a ‘guess how many sweets are in the jar’ game.
Mrs. Hughes said: “The whole Cummings family have been fantastic in organising a number of fundraising events. It is wonderful that Lauren, a girl of 11, has approached the school and done all this herself, and that she and her friends are all so keen on helping.”
Thanks Lauren. To see a picture of the children go to my Wigs to Wishes picture website.
An 11-year-old Highdown schoolgirl organised a run for her classmates to raise money for a family friend with cancer. Lauren Cummings of Badgers Rise, Caversham organised a sponsored cross country run around Highdown School field. She is raising money for Dawn Hughes, 41, a mum of three from Buxton Avenue, Caversham, who has been fighting breast and bone cancer for four years. Dawn, who works at the BBC’s Monitoring Station in Caversham, is flying out to Leonardis Klinik in Bavaria for treatment, but the travel and medical care is expensive.
Family and friends have already completed a sponsored cycle ride from Reading to Portsmouth in October and now Lauren has decided to play her part. She said: “Dawn is friends with my mum and I’m good friends with her oldest girl. I wanted to help so I asked if I could raise some money at school and had to go to lots of meetings to get permission.”
Lauren has already raised £50 herself and persuaded some 50 classmates to join her. She has also been raising money with a ‘guess how many sweets are in the jar’ game.
Mrs. Hughes said: “The whole Cummings family have been fantastic in organising a number of fundraising events. It is wonderful that Lauren, a girl of 11, has approached the school and done all this herself, and that she and her friends are all so keen on helping.”
Thanks Lauren. To see a picture of the children go to my Wigs to Wishes picture website.
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