Fundraising Events
2010
Footwear Friends at Newmarket Racing
Date: July 24th, 2010
A great day in great company at the UK's most famous racecourse Our Newmarket Day has become a regular fixture in the diaries of so many Footwear Industry Companies and Individuals as a result of three years of supremely enjoyable experiences at the Headquarters of Racing. Already half of the eighteen tables have …
Footwear Friends at Lords on Wednesday, 9th June 2010.
Date: June 9th, 2010
A very full day at the world's most famous cricket ground. We continue to provide our supporters with an oustanding combination of first class sport at world renowned venues in the company of our happy, close knot industry. Last June, over fifty members of the Footwear Trade enjoyed a marvellous day at Lords. …
2009
Footwear Friends at Wetherby Races
Date: November 14th, 2009
The Charity had involved the North of England for the first time with an event at Wetherby Races late in the year 2008. The occasion was much enjoyed by supporters and a sum of over £3,000 was raised. The most rewarding feature of the day, however, was the universal request that there should be …
Celebrating the Footwear Friends Designer Award
Date: November 3rd, 2009
This year the event was celebrated at the Geffrye Museum on another crisp dry night in November. Over 120 came to hear Alex Finlay talk of the challenges she faced to create her website business, "Fin's for him", how she coped and developed herself. The journey was inspirational. Richard Paice, past President, warmly thanked …
Footwear Friends at Leicester Rugby Club to see them play Northampton Saints
Date: October 31st, 2009
A party of 30 attended this fixture following an excellent and extremely liquid lunch at The Belmont Hotel in Leicester. Ivor Tilley who had brought a party of Northampton supporters very kindly donated a case of 12 bottles of wine which raised over £300 in a sweep on the total points scored in the match …
Tim Slack's L'Eroica Cycle
Date: October 3rd, 2009
We were greeted in Tuscany by fabulous weather and immediately set about taking in enough high grade carbohydrates to see us through the cycling, Pici con tartufo is seriously preferable to the average racing cyclists diet. I had persuaded Fiona my wife and two friends to accompany me and enter one of the shorter …
Mike Heron's Sponsored Row for Footwear Friends
Date: August 10th, 2009
Between 10th and 21st August 2009 I have to report that I did not complete the both way row of Coniston Water as planned. My wife Jutta came with me for a trial run on Tuesday, 11th August but everything went wrong. We had to wait for nearly two hours to hire …
Great Day at Lords
Date: June 26th, 2009
Footwear Friends and Supporters spend a Great Day at Lords. The date was 26th June and the weather was kind when over fifty supporters of our charity spent a wonderful day at the world's most famous cricket ground and, in doing so, thoroughly enjoyed each others' company, as well as the arrangements made for …
International Golf Championship of the Shoe, Leather and Allied Trades
Date: June 21st, 2009
The Committee of the Golf Championship organised another successful event at a new venue i.e. Slaley Hall in Northumberland. The Hunting Course was being prepared for the PGA Seniors Championship the following week and as a result was in excellent condition. All the players were accommodated in the adjacent De Vere Hotel, which provided first …
St. Marylebone Village Fayre
Date: June 14th, 2009
Shoe Shining took place on the pavement in front of James Taylor & Son's shop at this year's St. Marylebone Village Fayre, with donations being given to Footwear Friends and Teenage Cancer Trust. There was a lot of interest with many passers by commenting that they hadn't noticed our shop before. Other shoe shops might …
