The Elvis Touch, Glasgow Charity Fundraising Event 2006

The Elvis Touch, Glasgow has raised thousands of pounds over its 42 year history in Elvis's name, and this year is no exception.  When the fan club lost Committee Member George Davies in August 2005 and Member Gerry Cairns in September 2005, we invited the families of these much loved characters of our club to nominate two charities on their behalf.  The Davies family nominated the Marie Curie Foundation and the Cairns family nominated Cancer Research UK.  Money had already been collected from various sources but we decided to do various novelty fundraising things to bring a little fun to the club. Eugene McGowan had been fundraising within his workplace for several months.  Jeff Clark had been doing his acrobatic "Chesay" Russian dance, Buckets were distributed throughout the Prestwick Dance in January to collect change, Joe McCombe donated his cash collection from Lonmay, The Sweet Desperations from Falkirk raised cash for their mime act of "Rubberneckin". During January and February we held our "I'm An Elvis Fan - Get Me Out Of This - Challenges".  We asked for volunteers to be randomly picked to do a challenge unknown to them.  The challenges carried out were -

1.  Full Body Bandage - Marion Clifford 2.  Peanut Butter & Banana Sandwiches Suspended from a Pole - Ian Black 3. Bottle & Glass Game - Linda Downie and May Ure 4.  Cream & Fruit Must Be Lifted With Your Teeth - Sharon Stevenson 5.  Bucket of Jelly With Insects - Margaret Colhoun 6.  Make Up/Blindfolded - Jim Smith 7.  Tin of Beans/Cocktail Stick - Dennis Grant     8.  Dance Routine in Five Minutes - Jane Boyce 9.  Lap Dance - Cathy Larravide with Special Guest: Gerry McLafferty 10. Mastermind Elvis Challenge - Joe McCombe 11. Cream Cake/Trying to hit Joyce with.... - Joyce McMillan 12. Chesay Russian Dance - Eugene McGowan with Special Tutor, Jeff Clark 13. Cream Crackers - Margaret Nolan 14. Leg Wax Blindfolded - Jim Whisker with beauty consultants Anne Whisker                                           and Carra Williamson 14. Kissing Booth - Paul Downie for the Gals 15. Kissing Booth - Dot Ready for th

After all the excitement of the Challenges, our next step was to organise a Sponsored Walk.  On a beautiful Saturday afternoon on 18th February we all met at 1pm at George Square, Glasgow to begin our 10 mile walk along the west end.  With the sun shining down it turned out to be a very good day weather-wise.  Our walk began with a photocall for all participants, names below (click here to view all photos)

Catherine McCann Jean Stuart Linda Downie Cathy Larravide Mary Thomson Margaret Colhoun Kath

Carra Williamson May Ure Paul Downie Jan Hinks Jim Whisker Sharon Stevenson Rebekka Climson

Jane Boyce Dorothy Ready Eugene McGowan Arthur McKell Anne Whisker Katy Quail Rachel Cassidy

With a break for a drink and "The Chippie", our walk continued until approximately 4pm when we arrived back at George Square. The finale to our fundraising was our Charity Presentation Elvis Dance on Friday 17th March 2006 in the Queens Club, Glasgow.  Almost 90 people packed into the Queens Club and gave generously to this worthwhile cause.  We would like to thank the Aberdeen and Edinburgh branches for their support and also the people from Leeds who travelled up for this event, and to the Cairns family who were in attendance. The Elvis Presley Film Society also presented cheques to the value of £60 towards our fundraising on behalf of George and Gerry. Two representatives from both charities attended the Queens Club for a cheque presentation and were very surprised with the amount raised.  The following is a breakdown of the money raised for both charities -

£949.75   £845.70 £1361.65 £3157.10

I'm An Elvis Fan - Get Me Out Of This Sponsored Walk Donations from Various TOTAL RAISED

A cheque for £1578.55 was presented to Cancer Research UK and a further cheque for £1578.55 was presented to the Marie Curie Foundation. The Elvis Touch, Glasgow, on behalf of the memory of George Davies and Gerry Cairns, would like to thank everyone who contributed their time, effort and money to both these worthwhile causes.  They will be sorely missed but they would have been proud of your contributions. We salute you ...... The Committee of The Elvis Touch, Glasgow

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