Supporters - Thank you
. . . to all the competitors in the Widbrook Challenge Tennis Tournament
who raised an excellent £1700 by pitting their tennis talents against each other throughout May,
June & July.
Winners of the Mixed & Men's Doubles with Playground Chairman, Barrie Peroni.
. . . to the pupils of Caldicott School
who put huge amounts of energy into their school fundraising and
collected a tremendous £685, which they presented to Playground Manager,
Gary Warrington, and Trustee, Karen Roberts.
. . . to the students of Redcliffe School
who pulled out 
all their fundraising stops, making cakes, doing sponsored swims and all manner of other energetic activities to raise a mega £3703 to buy us new sit on diggers for the sandpit and to support the Playground's Summer Respite Scheme.
. . . to everyone who attended this year's Taplow Village Ox Roast
and contributed a fantastic £524.50 to the Raffle in support of the Playground.
. . . to NDS, InterServe, Johnson & Johnson & MARS in the Community
who have TRANSFORMED the Playground, with fantastic clearing, painting and creating, making us look fabulous in time for the summer!
. . . to the Holy Family SVP, Langley
who presented us with an incredible array of items from our Wish List.
. . . to Uel Magowan
and The Odney Club, Cookham,
who donated £692 from the proceeds of the Club's NGS Open Garden on 25th April. Thanks to Uel's most entertaining demonstration on how to make the perfect hanging basket a few days later, a further £600 was raised to help the Playground.
. . . Kevin Pugh
whose participation in a huge range of events, including the Reading Half Marathon, the Maidenhead Easter Ten and, most impressively, the London Marathon, has raised in excess of £2000.
. . . to Claires Court Schools
who not only came down and entertained the children during the Easter Holiday, but also donated £5528, raised through during the school's charity week.
. . . Mr. Panesar of Fix An Auto
who amassed an astonishing £2000 in sponsorship by taking part in last year's Boundary Walk.
. . . to Alex Prior & the Four Young Virtuosi
who helped to raise £6000 at the concert they put on in aid of the Playground. Many thanks, too, to SGI-UK at Taplow Court for allowing us to use their fabulous conference centre and to Summerleaze Ltd. who brought together the performers from all over the world.
. . . to Tim Nelis, Suran Kularatna & Chris Webb
who between them raised nearly £400 by their participation in the Maidenhead Easter Ten.
. . . Simon Milford
who ran the Reading Half Marathon and collected £152 in sponsorship.
. . . to Maidenhead Ladies' Circle
who wrapped Christmas parcels for people in Maidenhead Town Centre and raised £337.
. . . to the students of Thorpe House School
who raised a fantastic £2,000 for the Playground through school fundraising activities, including Rowing The Thames on a rowing machine.
. . . to the students of Dolphin School
for raising an impressive £1011.56 at their School Fair and through their Dressing Up Day.
. . . to Madico Graphic Films, to Datapulse
and to Wyeth, to Henley Software and to NDS
for making generous donations to the Playground in lieu of Christmas cards and gifts to, and from, their customers.
. . . to the Maidenhead Advertiser's
Community Appeal
which raised £360.46 to go towards the Playground's Christmas Party.
. . . to Eton Action Fair
who chose the Playground as a beneficiary of the fair, donating a superb £2160.
. . . to the Executives Association
Thames Valley
whose Christmas Raffle raised £520 for the Playground.
. . . to the parents and carers of The Stingrays & Scorpions of Maidenhead Boys & Girls Football Club
who took the positions of their children for a charity football match, raising a tremendous £703.
. . . to St. George's School, Windsor Castle
who donated a fabulous £3750 following their fundraising Summer Ball.
. . . to Ridgeway School
who raised a terrific £120 through their Table Tennis Tournament.
. . . The Greyhound in Eton Wick
who raised a most welcome £320 through their Firework night collection.
. . . to Kelly Furnell
who swam 50 lengths of the Windsor Leisure pool and raised a superb £800 to buy a
special trike and a giant bean bag for the Adventure Playground.
. . . to the HIGHLAND CHALLENGE TEAM
who completed a five day challenge to climb, Britain's highest mountain,
and navigate 2-man canoes through the Great Glen, coast to coast via Loch Ness, Loch Oich, the River Lochy and the Caledonian Canal (a distance of 65 miles).
Gilbert, Jamie, Sam & Tim raised £2010.70, which with Gift Aid added, comes to an absolutely magnificent £2247.62 - and this is how they did it:
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. . . and they're away!
. . . to the Windsor & Maidenhead Symphony Orchestra
who put on a fabulous summer's afternoon concert at Taplow Court to raise funds for the Adventure Playground.
. . . to O2
who came down on a mission to improve . . . if it stood still long enough, it got painted . . . !
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Painting the building
Painting the Gate
Painting the Shed
Painting the Sensory Garden
Painting the Swing
Painting the Waterplay
Painting the Boat
Building (what, not Painting?) . . .
. . . a ramp for easy access!. . . to Dair House School
who raised £300 from the school's performances of Joseph and brought down a HUGE cheque to the Adventure Playground.
. . . to MARS in the Community
who, on 4th June, did a magnificent job in transforming the seriously sad shed in the Bike Bit into simply stunning storage . . . and there was chocolate as well . . . !
. . . to Johnson & Johnson
who worked their socks off
to turn this
into this
. . . to CANAN FLACK
who ran 13.1 miles in the Reading Half Marathon and raised over £600 to help support the Playground.
Canan was one of nearly 17,000 runners who took part in the race which was held on Sunday 29th March 2009.
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| Canan on the run . . . ! | Canan with her medal |
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. . . to everyone at SEGRO
for their tremendous donation of just about EVERYTHING from the Wish List
. . . to the FOCUS GROUP at Amersham & Wycombe College
who, on 1st May, presented the Playground with a wooden 'scrambler' bike along with loads of items from our WIsh List, bought with money they had raised by holding a Coffee Morning.
. . . to THE ODNEY CLUB in Cookham
who donated £773.03 from their Open Garden on Sunday 26th April.