Christmas Gala Dinner

This years Gala Dinner is taking place at The Spa Royal Hall, Bridlington on Saturday 17th December 2011. This is a wonderful evening to celebrate Christmas and an extra special evening. This black tie event includes a sparkling wine reception, 3 course meal and live entertainment.

Tickets can be reserved by contacting the Spa Box Office on 01262 678258

Hayley is top of the fashion stakes

Hayley Spiers, 23, was stopped by TV presenter and celebrity stylist Gemma Cairney on the high streets of Leeds recently with a friend.

Gemma was working undercover in Leeds as the Impulse Style Hunter in search of the best-dressed girls on Britain’s high streets.

Hayley was picked alongside four other girls as Gemma thought not only did they wear great outfits, but they also put Leeds on the fashion map.

All five girls, including Hayley, went through to the public vote via the Facebook fan page and Hayley was crowned regional winner after polling the most votes – achieving regional style queen status and also winning £250 of high street vouchers.

Hayley then went on to a heat-to-head with winners from the other Style Hunter locations – Manchester, London and Birmingham.

Hayley was crowned the overall winner and received £750 of vouchers to splash out on the new season’s hottest collections. Kind hearted Hayley who went to school with Katie decided not to spend the vouchers on herself but to donate them to the charity for raffle prizes. A massive thank you to Hayley from Katie Walker Cancer Trust for her very generous donation.

Christmas Gala Dinner 2010

A night of glitz and glamour raised over £2,500 for the charity.
A total of 280 people attended, and were entertained with live music from The Retro-fits, Keeley Baraugh and Yorkshire Coast’s Got Talent winner Leanne Burton, table magicians and comedy from panto star Ricky K.

A sparkling wine reception greeted guests, before a three course meal, silent auction and Raffle. The night was compered by Tony Peers.
The event was held in the Royal Hall at Bridlington Spa and continues to grow each year.

Quiz Success

Richard “Wraggy” Wragg held his annual Christmas Quiz at the Friendly Forester on the cold snowy evening on 21 December 2010.

Quiz teams packed into the venue to help raise money for the trust.

Wraggy and his two good friends Dom Standing and Carl Firth donned their superhero outfits and raised a total of £616.19.

The evening involved the Christmas themed quiz, a charity raffle and a Play Your Cards Right game for which Wraggy donated the £200 prize.
Wraggy who has done sponsored walks and quiz nights for the charity this year said “It was a fantastic night and we packed out the pub and raised a fair amount for the charity.

Wraggy, Dom and Carl have in fact raise over £5,500 for the charity to date and they thank the generosity of everyone who takes part and donated at each event.

Katie Walker Cancer Trust cannot thank the three friends enough for all their fundraising efforts and hope that they continue over the coming years to support the trust.

Yorkshire Coast’s Got Talent 2010

There was glitz and glamour everywhere on Saturday 18th September at the Revelstoke Hotel, Bridlington at the final of Yorkshire Coast’s Got Talent.
Following eight weeks of heats to find the cream of the crop of local musical talent 15 acts came together to impress a panel of top judges in an attempt to take home the £1,000 prize.

Read about it here

Seaside Sparklers Raise funds for Charity

Busy Lifestylers the Seaside Sparklers turned their hand to fundraising for Katie Walker Cancer Trust on Sunday 4th September 2010. The team made up of Alanis Beckitt, Naomi Benson, Elizabeth Kynaston, Emmie Beckitt and Emily Kynaston have had a hectic summer working for charities and chose to support Katie Walker Cancer trust.

The Girls held a Tombola at their Church Hall and worked tirelessly aiming to raise £100.00 for the charity and all their hard work paid off when they raised £110.00. A special thankyou to the girls for choosing to support our charity and working so hard on the day to reach more than their target funds.

Alanya socks it to raise money for Charity

Alanya Machen won the Miss Eco title at Miss Scarborough earlier this year, impressing judges with a dress made of odd socks.
Rather than just hang up the dress in a wardrobe, she decided to put it to use as the focus of a competition to raise cash for charity.
She invited people to guess how many socks made up the dress, and over 200 people entered, paying £1.00 each to guess.
There were joint winners who will share the prize of six months window cleaning from P & G Window Cleaning Services as their prize.
Alanya raised £203.00 and the funds were shared by Katie Walker Cancer Trust and Room 34 Charity
.Katie Walker Cancer Trust would like to thank Alanya and Pete Machen for their support.

Wraggy’s Easter Quiz

Richard “Wraggy” Wragg held his ever popular Quiz night on Tuesday 6th April in Katie’s memory. Richard is a very valued supporter of Katie Walker Cancer Trust and with this quiz and play your card right game which he held at the Friendly Forester pub he raised £280.00

Cheltenham Festival Preview Night

Tony McCormick organised a festival preview night in March and Raised £90.00.
The event was hosted by Graham Orange (Go Racing) and Ross Brierly (William Hill) and special guest on the evening were Sean Quinn (Assistant to his father John Quinn) and Russ James (Trainer/Jockeys Agent).
Funds were raised by a door entry fee and the monies raised were shared between Katie Walker Cancer Trust and the Malton Fire Fund.Thank you to Tony and his special guests

Sponsered Trek by the Foresters Team

A group of drinkers from the Friendly Forester pub in Bridlington swapped their pint pots for collection buckets and raised £930.00 through a sponsored walk.
The four friends, Richard “Wraggy” Wragg, Dom Standing David Hartley and Chris Biggin meet regularly in the pub and decided to walk 20 miles from Scarborough to Bridlington in January.They battled against freezing conditions to complete the trek in just under 6 hours.
A big thankyou to the lads who even wore fancy dress for supporting the charity.

Cruisers raise cash for our Charity

Bridlington Cruiser pulled together to raise £473.00 fo our Charity.Over 300 cars from as far afield as Hull and Chesterfield attended the event, which took place at Legends Café on Bessingby Industrial Estate in February.
The meeting marked the start of the Cruise Season in Bridlington and was the first time they had met for charity.

Many thanks go to Stephanie Bain for putting our charity forward and to all the members for their kind generosity.

Charity Christmas Quiz Night

It was freezing cold and snowing but people turned out to this charity night to raise £850 in Katie’s memory.
The fund-raiser was organised by The Friendly Forester pub in Martongate, Bridlington, two days before Christmas and the money came from donations on the night including a raffle and a wheel of fortune game.

It was an absolutely fantastic evening, despite the weather and the credit crunch people came, the pub was so packed it was like New Year's Eve, there wasn't a seat left.
A big Thank you to Wraggy, Dom and Carl for all your fundraising help over the past few years. We really hope you keep it up.

** This was a Black Tie Event **

Saturday 12th December 2009

Christmas 2009 celebrations were kicked off in plenty of style this year at our Christmas Ball.

The Event was held at the Spa Royal Hall, Bridlington
Following the Champagne Reception & Professional Photographs a 4 Course Christmas Dinner was enjoyed by all.

After the 4 course Christmas Dinner there was live entertainment with Jade Adams and Stacey Hunt. Bernie Clifton drew the raffle, and for those who didn’t want to stop dancing a disco hosted by DJ John Tough complimented the evening.

Following the raffle and silent auction the event raised £3,000 this year. Thank you to everyone who supported the event by supplying raffle prizes and for those of you who purchased tickets.

Bungee Jump

On the 1st February 2009, Helen and Dean left to go travelling around Australia. After being there for 7 months they decided that while they were in Cairns they would complete a Bungy Jump to raise money for Katie Walker Cancer Trust. Helen had always wanted to do a bungy jump and Dean had always said he wouldn't do one, so they came to a compromise they would do a TANDEM. On the 14th September they were taken to the Cairns Smithfield Tower bungy site which is 50m/164ft high and looks out over Cairns, it was then when the reality of what they were about to do kicked in, but they were determined to do it for Katie. After climbing to the top, Helen was a little nervous but more excited, whereas Dean was petrified, they were strapped in and Dean went as white as a sheet and then that was that - THEY DID IT. After completing the tandem they made the decision to go a second time each but this time individually and backwards and again completed they both completed the bungy.

In total Helen and Dean have raised £494.33 for Katie Walker Cancer Trust.

Trio Raised Funds

Inspired by the story of Katie, Luke Cater, 14, and 15 year olds Scott Johnson and Liam Robinson have raised £500 in their latest event a sponsored walk from Bridlington Harbour to Danes Dyke three times.
The Friends efforts are even more impressive given Luke’s own health problems.

Luke was diagnosed with cancer at just 21 months old and had a kidney removed and endured Chemotherapy with has damaged his heart. He now has celiac disease but after hearing Katies story decided he wanted to do something in her memory.

Well done boys for your efforts.

Play Your Cards Right Evening

Richard Wragg, Carl Firth and Dom Standing organised a play your cards right evening at the Friendly Forester Public House in Bridlington. They raised £564.98 for the fund and since the Friendly Forester has been supporting our fund they have raised over £2,100.00.

We would like to thank Richard and the staff at the foresters for all their support and fund raising throughout the year.

London Marathon

James Drury, Katie’s Business Studies Teacher ran the London Marathon in Katie’s Memory.

A big thank you to James for remembering Katie and raising £570 in her memory.

James is pictured on the right of the picture.

** This was a Black Tie Event **

Saturday 20th December 2008

Christmas 2008 celebrations were kicked off in style this year at our Christmas Ball.

The Event was held at the Spa Royal Hall, Bridlington

Following the Champagne Reception & Professional Photographs a 3 Course Christmas Dinner was enjoyed by all.

After the scrumptious 3 course Christmas Dinner there was live entertainment with the Motown Knights. And for those who didn’t want to stop dancing a disco hosted by DJ John Tough complimented the evening.

Following the raffle and silent auction the event raised £2,500 this year. A good amount following the late change of event.

Bungee Jump

One of Katie’s School friends did a sponsored bungee Jump.
Rachel Edmonds did the only bridge bungee jump in the UK that is available to members of the general public. The jump height is 160 feet.

The jump took place on Sunday 20th July 2008.

Well Done Rachel, We knew you could do it.

Coast to Coast

On August the 2nd, over a 11 day period Kenny Thompson walked 200 miles across England in order to raise money for the Katie Walker Cancer Trust.

Kenny raised £172.00 with his sponsorers pledging on his Just Giving Page

Great Yorkshire Run

Andy one of Katie’s old school friends wanted a challenge. He chose to do the Great Yorkshire Run. The inaugural event attracts thousands of runners from all over the UK to Sheffield for the 10km road run and once again thousands took to the streets for the city's second staging of the event.

Andy completed the event which took place on Sunday 7th September 2008.

Mount Meru and Kilamanjaro Trek

Sharon Marshall left her home in Sheffield on 28 September 2008 and began with the ascent of Mt Meru which is 4566m (14,976ft) high which acted as the warm up for the big event of Kilimanjaro which is 5894m high and the "Roof of Africa". The trip involved 11 days of demanding trekking through game park. bamboo forest, moorland, volcanic craters as well as the glaciers at the summit of Kilimanjaro itself. She stayed mainly in a tent

Its was basically the equivalent to climbing Scarfell Pike every day for 11 days, except on the last day, when she set off at about 1am in the morning to reach the summit of Kilimanjaro and Sunrise before making the descent right back down to the bottom - around 15 hours trekking in one day!!!.

She is paid for the trip herself and therefore all the sponsorship raised is making it directly into Katie's research fund. If there are any corporate sponsors out there who still would like to contribute, we are willing to hear from them

Please contact us should you wish to sponsor Sharon or visit the website

Charity Collection Boxes

We have over 30 collection boxes in Shops and Public Houses in Bridlington. We would like to thank everyone who has accepted a box for raising money for the charity and keeping Katie’s memory alive

Bridlington Ladies' Circle has been busy fund- raising and made £1,150 for the trust.

The Katie Walker Cancer Trust was their charity of the year and they held raffles, a Christmas bazaar and a Valentine's ball to raise cash.

The ladies recently presented a cheque to Katie's parents Mick and Julie Walker during a night out at El Gringos in Bridge Street, Bridlington.

Chloe Revell, Laura Cliffe
and Rachel Longstaff sit in the car while
Kelly Palmer, Katie Temple and Emma
Steptoe shake their buckets.

AFTER 24 hours sat in a car in Tesco's car park, £1,048 was raised.

Chloe Revell, Laura Cliffe and Rachel Longstaff were in the car for a full 24 hours – and allowed themselves only three toilet breaks.

The 20-year-olds, who managed to get very little sleep, decorated a car with banners and balloons and friends volunteered to hold collection buckets.

Julie & Micky Walker and The trio would like to thank Tesco for allowing them to hold the event at short notice and reserving a place for them in front of the store. They also thanked the public who supported them and chatted to them throughout the day.

Bridlington School

Bridlington School pupils organised a fun day event at Bridlington Rugby Club. Even though it rained very heavily on the day a fun day was had by all. As you can see from the photo they didn't let a little rain stop them!!

They had a bucking bronco, bouncy castle, bbq (which was taken to the oven for obvious reasons) and sumo suits!! Even though it did rain they had a fantastic event!! They managed to raise £120! However there are still collections been taken from around the school!
Eastfield Garden Centre donated a gazebo, and they also had the help of the Bridlington RUFC!

Over all it was a fab event and everyone seemed to enjoy themselves even though it was torrential rain!

Sponsored Bike Ride

Stockport to Hornsea – Jamie Stuart and two friends did a bike ride from Stockport to Hornsea in Katie’s memory. The proceeds were split between Macmillan Cancer Support and Katie Walker Cancer Trust.

The boys raised £130.00

Headlands School

At the end of the summer term last year, students from the Headlands School Sixth Form Charity Committee organised a Bring-and-buy sale in aid of Katie Walker Cancer Trust. Students of all ages in the school brought many things for the Committee to sell such as homemade buns and cakes, toys, books, and other bric-a-brac. The event was open all afternoon to students and even parents came to have a look after school. The event went incredibly well, selling nearly everything, and raising £350 for the Trust. The Committee chose to give the money to the Trust because it was in memory of a former Headlands School member.

Showcase Night

Duncan and the Gang at Friendly Foresters held a showcase night on Sunday 16th February in Katie’s Memory. LOCAL acts showcased their talents at the Friendly Forester pub on Sunday 17 February and raised £710.00 for the Katie Walker Cancer Trust.

The full night of entertainment was organised by East Coast Entertainment.

The acts that performed included Stu Montana, , Kiren, Paula Rogers, Nick Roak, Graham Alan, Bobby Scarecrow and Star Is Born Karaoke.

Charity Auction

Friendly Foresters Public House in Bridlington held a Charity Auction Night on 4th January 2008.

Duncan and his regulars raised £523.00 from selling the old pictures and Bric a Brac from prior to the refurbishment.

Christmas Ball

We held our first Christmas Ball on Friday 14th December 2007 at Marton Hall, Sewerby. All who attended had a fantastic night and Marton Hall has already been booked for 20th December 2008. Our aim from the Ball was to raise £1,500.00. A big thank you to everyone who attended. We raised £2,250.00

Special Thanks must go to Jade Adams for her fantastic performances and local Bridlington band Infinity for another show stopping performance and finally James and the Staff at Marton Hall for the perfect venue and great meal and service.

For more info re Jade Adams visit www.jadeadamsmusic.com

Bag Packing

We held another bag packing day at our local Morrison’s Supermarket in November. This time we raised a grand total of £1354.91. The staff at Morrison’s kindly agreed to Katie’s friends and family to do another day on 21st December this time for packing bags from 5pm to 9pm we raised £527.66

A special Thank you to all the Staff and Management

Pink Day

White Rose Lodge Residential Home in Bridlington held a Pink Day in Katie’s Memory. They raised a fantastic sum of £201.00

Pavilion Night

The Pavilion Bar in Bridlington organised and evening of entertainment in aid of Katie’s Trust with local acts giving their time. A good night was had by all. £605.00 was raised on a very cold and rainy evening.

Easter Raffle/Name the Bunny

This raffle was organised by Katie’s best friends ‘The Girlies’. The Girlies kindly raised £170.00.

Sponsored Slim

Laura one of the ‘Girlies’ wanted to lose 14lb in 4 weeks for her holidays and decided that she would do a sponsored slim to raise money for Katie Walker Cancer Trust. Laura raised £143.00. Well done Laura

Sponsored Walk

As Chloe was leaving for 3 months to go to Camp America, Kelly, Beth and Chloe decided to do a sponsored walk from Bridlington to Scarborough. They raised £185.00 – Really good as they only decided to do the walk 7 days earlier.

Pool Night

Kevin and Laura kindly organised a pool night at The George public house in Bridlington. The management from the George kindly donated the use of the pool table plus a free jukebox all evening. Kevin and Laura raised £94.00 for the charity

Sponsored Bike Ride

Graham Lount did a Bike Ride at Oliver’s Mount, Scarborough and raise £50.00 in Katie’s memory. Thank you to Graham for thinking of Katie.

Bag Packing at Morrisons

Wm Morrisons supermarket in Bridlington kindly allowed some of Katie’s friends and family to spend the day bag packing. Thanks to all of Katie’s friends, the Staff at Morrisons and their very generous customers we raised £1,519.22. Morrisons have kindly agreed for all Katie’s family and friends to have another bag packing day on 10 November 2007.

Race for Life

21 of Katie’s Auntie’s, work colleagues and ‘The Girlies’ ran the race for life in Bridlington all in Katie’s memory. The Girlie’s had special T Shirts printed with Katie’s photo on. It was a very emotional day but each one of them did really well. They also raised lots of money for Cancer Research UK

Sponsored Slim

Janet Longstaff decided she wanted to lose weight so decided to do sponsored slim. Janet lost a stone in six weeks and raised £361.60 for the Charity. Well Done Janet. Graham, Janet’s partner didn’t want to be left out with the fund raising so did a sponsored bike ride and raised £50.00