Chris Sykes was
presented with a certificate of achievement from Jeff Ennis for raising
over £10,000 for charity. The presentation took place at Brierley Village
club on Saturday 1st October 2005.
Local
charities that have benefited from Chris's hard work over the last eight
years include; Leukaemia
Research, the Special Baby Care Unit at Barnsley & District
General Hospital, Grimethorpe St John Ambulance and the Multiple Sclerosis
Society.
Chris spends hours writing to
various organisation around Great Britain and one of these was the BBC. He
received a reply from them stating that they get so many requests they
were unable to help. John Ruane from the Hilltop estate overheard Chris
mentioning this to a member of the club and advised Chris to write back to
them stating that "The letter was
a repeat just like their programmes". Nice one John.
The photograph opposite shows Chris presenting Ian
Walker from Norwood Drive a cheque for nearly £1,500 which were the
proceeds from an auction Chris held in Brierley club in October 2004. The
event was in aid of leukaemia research of which Ian was a recent sufferer
