Thanks for taking the time to visit this JustGiving page in order to donate to Pete’s Dragons, a local charity that offers support and help to people living through the suicide of a loved one. 

For the second year on Boxing Day, 20 months since the loss of our beautiful Andrew, a wonderful event has again been organised by some of Andrew’s friends to remember him on one of his favourite days and sporting events of the year! Andrew loved to watch, play, manage and talk about football so this is a fitting tribute and space to remember him. Margaret, Nikki, Isabella and James are raising money for Pete’s Dragons a charity which has provided ongoing love and support. 

We appreciate that Christmas is a family time and many people are away for Boxing Day and can’t attend the match so if you would like to donate please do so.

A poem below which brings comfort in the darkest hours by Henry Scott-Holland: 

Death is nothing at all. 
It does not count. 
I have only slipped away into the next room. 
Nothing has happened. 

Everything remains exactly as it was. 
I am I, and you are you, 
and the old life that we lived so fondly together is untouched, unchanged. 
Whatever we were to each other, that we are still. 

Call me by the old familiar name. 
Speak of me in the easy way which you always used. 
Put no difference into your tone. 
Wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow. 

Laugh as we always laughed at the little jokes that we enjoyed together.
Play, smile, think of me, pray for me. 
Let my name be ever the household word that it always was. 
Let it be spoken without an effort, without the ghost of a shadow upon it. 

Life means all that it ever meant. 
It is the same as it ever was. 
There is absolute and unbroken continuity. 
What is this death but a negligible accident? 

Why should I be out of mind because I am out of sight? 
I am but waiting for you, for an interval, 
somewhere very near, 
just round the corner. 

All is well. 
Nothing is hurt; nothing is lost. 
One brief moment and all will be as it was before. 
How we shall laugh at the trouble of parting when we meet again!

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I can not wait my love ♥️, Nikki