Archived Events – Multiple Sclerosis Therapy and Support in Surrey

GARAGE SALE TO RAISE FUNDS FOR THE SAMSON CENTRE  

ON SATURDAY 22ND JUNE 

AT FOLDSDOWN COTTAGE, DYE HOUSE ROAD, THURSLEY, GU8 6QD

FROM 10AM TO 3PM

The Samson Centre provides practical and emotional support for people living with Multiple Sclerosis living in Surrey and surrounding areas. They receive no funding from the NHS or the MS Society.​
MS is a debilitating disease which attacks the central nervous system. It is both permanent and progressive – there is no known cure. It is the most common neurological condition among young adults today.
The Samson Centre offers people with MS support in Surrey, enabling them to remain as active as possible by providing them with the physiotherapy, exercise and oxygen therapy they need in a supportive and welcoming environment.
Do come along to support this worthwhile cause. Items for sale will range from a computer, a leather reclining chair and stool and household goods to childrens and adult clothes, books, plants etc.
If you have items you would like to donate which are suitable to sell, do bring them along before the 22nd June. Any queries please contact Nicki Bates on 01252 702671 or

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SATURDAY 15TH JUNE 2:00PM
MILITARY ASSAULT COURSE – HENFOLD LAKES, DORKING
ARE YOU LOOKING TO SET YOURSELF A FITNESS AND ENDURANCE GOAL FOR 2019?

The Samson Centre for MS is excited to announce its second Military Assault Course Challenge. If you enjoy wading through mud, climbing over tyres, swinging on ropes and scrambling through tunnels, then this is the event for you. Entry is £30 plus a minimum of £50 sponsorship to see you suffer! Picnic provided afterwards for refueling purposes!

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May half term closure will be w/c 27 May.

No physio, gym or classes that week. Oxygen therapy will continue but not on Mon 27 May as this is a Bank Holiday

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“If you watch a game, it’s fun.
If you play at it, it’s recreation.
If you work at it, it’s golf.” 

Bob Hope

You might have guessed it! The Samson Charity Golf Day is now open for entries. Our annual golf day is taking place ‪on Monday, 20th May 2019‬, at Puttenham Golf Club in Surrey.

This promises to be another excellent day of golf, ‪starting at 11am‬ with coffee and bacon rolls and ending with a two course dinner. And in between 18 holes of golf on a picturesque Surrey course nestling in the foothills of the Hogs Back.

Even if you don’t play golf please feel free to pass our Golf Day details to friends, family members or colleagues who do like a game. Whether they work at their golf or simply take part for recreation they will be playing for all our members at the Samson Centre.

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The Rotary Annual Charity Walk on the 19th May provides local charities with the opportunity of taking advantage of a fundraising event without the overhead of organising it. The poster below gives full details of how to get involved and moreover the timing couldn’t be better as it’s taking place immediately before the start of MS Awareness Week 2019.

So, if you are able, please show your support and join the walk in the beautiful Surrey countryside on a Sunday morning in May for the Samson Centre for MS.

Every penny that you raise will help us to help even more people who are living with Multiple Sclerosis in Surrey and surrounding areas.

Spread the word by forwarding this email and make the Rotary 2019 Annual Charity Walk the best walk yet for the Samson Centre for MS.

Come to Our Quiz Night

Friday 17th May is Quiz night at the Centre. From 7.30pm.

Gather your friends and families for a really good quiz evening.

Bring your own snacks. The bar will be open for the purchase of drinks.

£7.50 per person.

More details to follow

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Please collect all your Waitrose green tokens and hand them into the office during May…

as the Waitrose stores in Addlestone and Frimley have kindly agreed to have a green token ‘Community Matters’ scheme for us during the month.

The more green tokens that go in the Samson Centre for MS box in store, the more money we get from Waitrose.

A reminder that the Centre is closed for the Easter holidays w/c 8 April and w/c 15 April and the Easter Monday 22 April for all physio, gym and classes.

Oxygen therapy will be available on Good Friday 19 April but NOT on East Monday 22 April.

Note- There is 1 day on Wed 10 April where we have some staff availability to run a few classes. Contact the office for more details

February Half Term Closure

Please note that w/c 18 Feb the Centre will be closed for all physio, gym and classes.

Oxygen therapy will continue w/c 18 Feb.

All therapies to re-start again on Mon 25 February

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Eyes down for a full house with Sam Smith.

Christmas Closure Dates

w/c 24 Dec and w/c 31 Dec we will be closed for the Christmas break. Last day of therapies will be Thu 20th Dec.

No physio, gym, classes or oxygen therapy between 24 Dec and Thurs 3 Jan inclusive.

Physio, gym and classes to re-start on Fri 4 Jan 2019.

Oxygen therapy to be advised as we will be in the throes of dealing with the new annex and sorting out when oxygen therapy can commence in the new year.

Come to Our Quiz Night

Download the Quiz night flyer for 19th October

For Detail of how to book a table for our 19th Oct Quiz night at the Clockhouse in Milford.

October Half Term Closure

The Week Commencing  22 October.

We will be closed for all therapies for half term week i.e. no physio, gym or classes that week.

Oxygen therapy will continue though.

Sun 16 Sep – Stoke Park model engineering day –

Carol Kitching and Carole Morris will kindly run a stall for us at this event.

Please bring in donations of good quality gifts for adults and children, into the office over the coming weeks.

Sat 22 Sept – Haslemere collection

Please offer an hour or two of your time to help with this collection.

Sat 11 August – Waitrose Goldsworth Park, Woking collection. Please offer an hour or two of your time to help with this collection.

The British 10k run takes place on 15 July in London and is an amazing event involving 10,000 runners.

We now have an amazing number of 45 people running for the Centre! Best number of runners we have ever had

This is a major event in Central London so keep checking the official 2018 10k Run website . See last years Video 

Sun 29 July – Prudential Ride 100 bike ride –

We have 5 brave cyclists taking part in this great event –

Vanessa and Kevin Drury, Dan Yearsley, Henrietta Kennedy and Dan Gallagher.

Fri 15 June – collection in Guildford – many hours to cover for this very helpful collection Guildford. Please contact the office if you can help out

Sun 27th May– Anne Brett is running in the Edinburgh Marathon on 27 May for the Samson Centre for MS. She is running with her running club ‘The Sunflowers’ who are based in Cranleigh. All the very best of luck to Anne. Please help support Anne via this link:-http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/AnneBrett

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Entries for the annual Samson Charity Golf Day, held at Puttenham Golf Club on Monday 14th May have opened.

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As always it promises to be a wonderful day, at a friendly and lovely Surrey golf course. This well established event raises a large sum of money for the Samson Centre for MS. Check out our poster for more details and there is an entry form to reserve an individual place or register a Team.

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This year we have 2 brave runners taking part in the London Marathon on 22 April – Heather Law and Georgie Grassom.

Georgie has already set up her online sponsorship page. Please see the following link:-

http://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/georgina-grassom

If you are able to support our Marathon runners, please do. They would love your support!

Sat 14 April – collection in Farnham – several time slots to fill. Please offer an hour or more of your time to help with this street collection.

15 April 2018 Brighton Marathon

3 runners taking part in this race for the Centre –David Collins, William Parrott and Sam Moore.
Their sponsorship pages can be found via

https://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/DavidCollings6
www.justgiving.com/fundraising/run-willy-run 

https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/Sam-Moore13

Mon 19th, Tues 20th & Wed 21 March – Cake and gift sale plus a small raffle at the Centre from 10.30 – 12.30pm. Please come along and any offers of homemade cakes, chocolates, marmalade etc would be most welcome

Easter Closure at the Centre will be from Fri 30 March (Good Friday) until Fri 13 April inclusive. No gym, classes or physio during this period. However, we aim to be open on Tues 10 and Wed 11 April for certain classes and gym activity. More detail to follow in due course. Oxygen therapy will continue over the Easter break but not on Fri 30 March (Good Friday) nor Mon 2 April (Easter Monday).

We will be closed for all physio, gym and classes during half term week w/c 12 Feb 2018.

Oxygen therapy will continue during this week.

Sat 13 Jan – collection inside Sainsbury’s in Guildford High Street. All hourly slots are taken up so many thanks to those of you who have offered your time for this collection.

Sun 14 Jan – collection at Sainsbury’s, Water Lane, Farnham. 2 slots left to fill – between 10 and 11am. Please offer your time if you possibly can

Please note that our last day of opening for physio, gym and classes is Tues 19 Dec. We are then closed from Wed 20 Dec – Tues 2 Jan inclusive for all physio, gym and classes. All therapies re-start on Wed 3 Jan.

Oxygen therapy continues but NOT on 25, 26, 27 or 28 Dec nor Mon 1 Jan.

Joe Rogers at the Samson Centre recently came up with a wonderful fundraising idea and here it is.

Donating all or part of a ‘Winter Fuel Allowance’.

Thank you Joe for your idea and for also donating your
‘Winter Fuel Allowance’ to the Samson Centre for MS..

If anyone would like to join Joe, please do let me know and I will keep a running total of ‘Winter Fuel Allowance’ monies raised.
Denice
 07751 667645

Fri 15 Dec

In store collection at Sainsbury’s in Guildford High Street. Please offer an hour of your time if you can.

Sat 16 Dec

In store collection at Sainsbury’s in Guildford High Street. Please offer an hour of your time if you can

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This year we will be taking a different approach and instead of holding our Xmas Fair over in Milford, we will be having a mini Xmas Fair at the Centre on 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 Dec from 10am – 12:30pm.

We hope that by doing it this way, many more of our members and carers will be able to buy some lovely goodies at the Centre. We will be focusing on the following stalls – cake stall to also include chocolates, chutneys, jams etc, bottle tombola, plants, good quality gifts and there will also be a raffle. A great opportunity to get involved in this while you are at the Centre w/c 4 Dec.

For those of you who like to make jams and chutneys, please reserve some for us to sell at the Xmas Fair. Also, please start putting aside bottles only for our tombola – we will need lots of them! Alcoholic and non alcoholic bottles all very welcome.

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Please note that the Shalford Christmas Fair takes place on Sat 18 Nov 2017.

We are lucky enough to be one of the charities that is being supported by this Fair as we were last year.

Do go along and support the Fair if you can.

It is renowned in this area for being a very good Christmas Fair.

Dear Members and Supporters,
Some great news to report…….

Having submitted an application, our ‘Standing On Our Own Two Feet’ project has made it through to the Aviva Community Fund voting stage.

Now we need your help. We need votes and lots and lots and lots of them to stand a chance of winning one of forty amounts of £5,000 that are up for grabs. It will be tough, as we are small and we are regional but where there is a will there is a way.

Please tell your friends, family, work colleagues and neighbours to cast their 10 votes for Samson Centre for MS and our ‘Standing On Our Own Two Feet’ project, within the Health and well being category.

Votes need to be placed by midday on the 21st November 2017. To register and cast your 10 votes simply click the link. If anyone has any difficulty please email or phone me and I will try to make sure you can cast a vote or 10 for Samson.
Denice
 07751 667645

Mon 23 Oct –  23 Oct is half term week. Centre closure for all physio, gym and classes. Oxygen therapy continues this week.

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Fri 13 October –

Quiz night at the Clockhouse in Milford from 7.30pm.

A really good evening for all you quizzers!

Bring your own food and drink.

Tables of up to 8 people.

Only £7.50 per person.

Proceeds split between the Samson Centre for MS and St John’s Milford.

Cheques made payable to St John’s Milford please

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On Thursday, 5th October an evening of supper, suspense and drama will be kindly hosted by Compton Little Theatre in aid of the Samson Centre for MS.

The performance is the Agatha Christie mystery ‘Afternoon at the Seaside’ and a fish and chip supper and dessert will be served.

This promises to be a fabulous evening and the Samson Centre for MS are delighted to be chosen for the second year to benefit from the proceeds of the Compton Little Theatre’s drama and dinner.

All tickets, priced at £20 for this special performance to be purchased direct with Compton Little Theatre. Telephone 07964 515103 or by email:

Sat 9 Sept – street collection in Haslemere. Please offer an hour or two of your time.

Sat 12 Aug – street collection at Waitrose in Goldsworth Park, Woking. Please offer an hour or two of your time to help.

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Is it simply luck or down to pure genius …..that is the big question and now who has the right answer?

Right answers, wrong answers it all adds to the fun and a relaxed and enjoyable atmosphere.

Taking part is what matters as ‘Quiz Nights’ arranged on behalf of the Samson Centre for MS help us to raise the valuable funds that we need to
‘Make Samson Stronger’.

On that note we have some Quiz Nights coming up in the Autumn but the first is a special Summer one and takes place on Friday 18th August, kindly hosted by the Godalming and Villages Lions Club in Godalming in aid of the Samson Centre.

Check out their flyer (Click Image) for full details. If anyone would like to take part but hasn’t got a table of six just give me a ring or drop me an email and I can put you on a table.

It promises to be an excellent evening as well as raising valuable funds.

Take part if you can.

Denice.                  ‘Making Samson Stronger’
07751 667645.    

Sat 8 July – street collection in Cranleigh. Please offer an hour or two of your time to help.

Sun 9 July – street collection at Sainsburys in Godalming. Please offer an hour or your time to help.

We have one brave cyclist taking part in the Pru Ride 100 – Dean Hemmings. A huge challenge to take on. We wish him very good luck for his 100 mile bike ride from London and through the Surrey Hills

Sponsorship Links:-

https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/dean-hemmings

Please come to our cake sale !

Please note that our next cake sale at the Centre will be on Wed 26 July from 10.30am – 12.30pm. Please make a note of the date in your diary and bring along money on the day to buy some lovely homemade goodies. There will also be a raffle and cards/wrapping paper for sale.

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A great acoustic music festival is taking place at the Guildford Tup pub in Chertsey Street on Sun 16 July.

Half the proceeds from the event are very kindly being donated to the Samson Centre for MS. Thanks so much to Gavin Thomas for making contact with the Centre about this and offering to raise funds for us.

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We really need runners!

Do you know anyone who is up for a 10k run challenge on Sun 9 July in London as part of the British 10k race?

We have lots of places still to fill in this race.

We ask that you raise a minimum of £200 for the Centre.

Please read the leaflet for further info and “share” if you have friends who might be interested.

please get in touch.

Fri 16 June – street collection in Guildford. Please offer an hour or two of your time to help.

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Located between Sunbury on Thames and Staines upon Thames, Join us for a day of golf while helping us to raise funds for a local charity commited to helping people living with Multiple Sclerosis in Surrey and surrounding areas

Samfest is coming……and we are delighted to say that the Samson Centre for MS are one of their chosen beneficiaries.

Click here for more and  tickets.

The Music Festival is taking place on Sat 24th June in Tongham and showcasing some of the local and surrounding area’s top talents.

Over 20 acts perform an array of different music, covers and originals with an Arts & Crafts festival market which leads impressively to their international funfair which frames the site in the wonderful Surrey Hills.

Sat 13 May – Collection inside Sainsburys Guildford High Street store. Please offer an hour of your time to help with this

Mon 15 May – Golf Day at Puttenham Golf Club

Fri 19 May – street collection in Dorking. Please offer an hour or two of your time to help.

Mon 29 May–  w/c 29 May is half term week and Centre closure for physio, gym and classes. Oxygen therapy to continue this week.

Most of us know and love John Hambly and appreciate what he has achieved in helping to make the Samson Centre for MS what it is today. Some of those people are his beloved Rugby friends who themselves have raised many tens of thousands of pounds for the Centre.

You will probably remember a few years back their famous ‘Thames River Challenge’. Well, they are up to their old tricks again and ready for a new challenge. This time they are taking on 80 miles of the Caledonian Canal in Scotland. Joking aside, they do give up many hours to train and put much effort into fundraising and I am sure the challenge itself doesn’t come easily either.

To show how much we appreciate their efforts we are aiming to join them along their way by running the Samson Caledonian Canoe Challenge at the Samson Centre which Sara has kindly agreed to support. To this end we are hoping to encourage members, staff and volunteers to take part in our own event to assist in the fundraising. Whilst the ‘16 Idiots’, as they like to be known, will be facing both calm and rough, open waters, our own Samson Caledonian Challenge will take place safely on dry land and take the normal format of cycling, rowing or walking etc – unless anyone would like to opt to go out onto the river!

As you know we have run several successful active challenges like this for members of recent months, but we promise this will be our only fundraising one until the same time in 2018.

On a serious note, the ‘16 Idiots’ have a goal of raising £20,000 for the Samson Centre in May, and I think that they would really appreciate any help that we can offer in promoting their venture. Please pick up a few Caledonian Challenge “business cards” when you are next at the Centre to spread the word about how to support their fundraising efforts.

They care, we care and we all work together to support the efforts of the Samson Centre to make a difference to so many lives.

If you are interested (or any friends or family) in taking part in the active Samson Centre Caledonian Challenge, I will have details available shortly. If anyone would like help on how to promote this event to friends and family please just ask me.

In the meantime, if you would like support the team or just visit the Just Giving page to see how the campaign is progressing – simply Click on this Link