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Our heartfelt thanks to Gordon Borer, and all his generous friends, who supported Sullivan’s Heroes through Gordon’s birthday Facebook Fundraiser. Gordon’s generosity in foregoing gifts on birthday this year raised a fantastic £130 for Sullivan’s Heroes and the disabled children the charity is supporting. If you’d also like to follow suit and raise funds for Sullivan’s Heroes in lieu of gifts for a birthday, event or special occasion it’s simple to set up a Facebook Fundraiser and share with your supporters – ...

Thank you so much to RBS and Natwest, along with their employee Patricia Graham, for their recent fundraising towards ‘Mylo’s new downstairs bedroom’. Patricia recently bravely took part in a sponsored abseil of the home of Scottish Rugby Union – Murrayfield Stadium, Edinburgh – to raise funds towards 2-year-old Mylo’s project.  The works to Mylo’s house, for which £40,000 is required above the Disabled Facilities Grant awarded for the project, will extend and adapt the family home to provide a downstairs accessible ...

Our huge congratulations and sincere thanks to Ben Lippiett, who did Sullivan’s Heroes and all his supporters proud yesterday, running the mighty London Marathon 2021 in phenomenal timing! After two years of ardous training for this epic marathon – postponed last year due to Covid, when Ben, undeterred, ran the Clarendon Marathon in its place for his ‘Virtual London Marathon 2020’ – Ben at last was able to run the streets of London yesterday, completing the 26.2 mile course in an amazing ...

Join Sullivan’s Heroes for one month of coming together for better!  Support Sullivan’s Heroes here! You can do your ‘5K for May’ anywhere, anytime, with anyone.  You can run, roll, walk, cycle or even swim if you want to... it's about getting out and feeling good while doing it.  Support Sullivan’s Heroes here! Take part as an individual… or as a team … or even nominate 5 other people to take part. Then simply donate your £5 to Sullivan’s Heroes – to provide life-changing home adaptations for the ...

Friday 30th April 2021 would have been Captain Sir Tom Moore’s 101st birthday and the one-year anniversary of him completing the now famous 100 laps of his gardens.  Support Sullivan's Heroes here! To mark this momentous date, the ‘Captain Tom 100’ asks people to dream up a fundraising activity based around the number 100 – and complete this between Friday 30th April to Monday 3rd May 2021. It could be a 100-minute silence or baking 100 biscuits; a 100-stair climb through to ...

We are excited here at Sullivan’s Heroes that Ben Lippiett is on track for tackling the mighty London Marathon 2021 in October to raise funds for the charity!  Postponed from April last year, the London Marathon will go ahead this year at the later date of Sunday 3rd October 2021. No longer a stranger to marathons – as Ben most generously ran the Clarendon Marathon last year as part of the Virtual London Marathon, to raise funds and awareness for Sullivan’s ...

Our sincere thanks to The Rotary Club of Banbury Cherwell for their generous organising of an interactive online quiz night recently to support ‘William and his great glass elevator’. The proceeds from the quiz together with funds kindly donated will provide a fantastic £1,500 towards home adaptations for 5 year old William, to meet the £20,000 funds required above the Disabled Facilities Grant awarded for his project. The building works will create a new bedroom and bathroom for William, where he can ...

Our sincere thanks to Neil Payter Ocean Racing who will be undertaking an enormous sailing challenge this May onboard his race yacht Cariberia. Setting sail from Plymouth on 9th May 2021, Neil will be participating in the OSTAR (Original Single-Handed Transatlantic Race) – sailing single-handedly 3,000 miles across the North Atlantic to reach Newport, Rhode Island, USA.  Neil will generously be supporting both Sullivan’s Heroes – towards vital home adaptation projects for the disabled children the charity is helping – and ...

Our thanks to Banbury Cherwell Rotary Club for their generous organising of an interactive online quiz night to support ‘William and his great glass elevator’. All proceeds from the quiz will go towards home adaptations for 5 year old William, providing funding towards the £20,000 required above the Disabled Facilities Grant awarded for his project. The building works will create a new bedroom and bathroom where William can have his complex needs managed safely, plus a through-floor lift to access his new ...