Rachel Olney
Stuart Olney
Fundraising for The British Red Cross Society
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Hello - thanks for visiting this page.
We've set this page up in memory of Stuart Olney. A husband, father, business partner and friend.
If you would like to donate in his memory please feel free to do so and leave a message.
All money raised will be donated to fund the life-saving work of the British Red Cross.
The Red Cross is a simply incredible organisation that helps people whose lives have been hit by crises and disasters both overseas and in the UK. See www.redcross.org.uk
Here's a shopping list that gives you a flavour:
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UK |
International |
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£1 |
could buy 3 foil blankets for use by evacuees and survivors of an emergency |
could buy 16 one-litre sachets of oral rehydration salts to help treat people with cholera |
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£3 |
could provide hot drinks and snacks to a family of four after a fire |
could provide educational support, like uniform and stationary, for an orphan or vulnerable child in South Africa for one year |
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£5 |
could helptrain someone in life-saving first aid skills |
could help keep someone warm and dry in a war-ravaged area by providing them with a blanket |
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£10 |
could buy a first aid kit for Emergency Response teams to use in the UK |
could buy five jerry cans to enable a family to transport and store water safely |
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£20 |
could pay for a ‘Parcel of Hope’ that contains food, milk and other essentials to support people returning from hospital |
could vaccinate eight children against a preventable disease like measles or polio |
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£25 |
could buy 75 foil blankets for use by evacuees and survivors of an emergency |
could help provide a home based care kit which will provide care for around 10 bedridden or housebound people a month for 12 months |
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£50 |
could fund first aid training for a profoundly disabled person |
could provide basic food supplies for two vulnerable families in Mongolia for a year |
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£100 |
could provide transport for a vulnerable person after a stay in hospital, and someone to stay with them while they settle back into their home |
could help twenty five people in West Africa by providing feed for their animals
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£250 |
could provide food, drinks and refreshments stock for 50 vulnerable people displaced from an incident |
can provide a year of weekly individual and group counselling sessions for those who have been affected by war |
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£500 |
could help to pay for 100 people to be trained in life-saving first aid skills |
could help provide 22 families who have lost everything in a natural disaster like floods or an earthquake with life-saving food parcels for one month |
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Many, many thanks