Harry Mills
Leanne Webb (22) met Marie whilst travelling in Australia. After hearing Harry’s story she has decided to run The Sydney Marathon on his behalf and raising money for the Youth Sport Trust. Originally from Ellesmere Port she is an ardent Liverpool fan however for her marathon run she will be wearing full Arsenal kit as a tribute to Harry.
Visit leanne's Justgiving site at - http://www.justgiving.com/Leanne-Webb0 and sponsor her marathon run.
Sharon Stokis-Fox, who used to work at John Hampden Grammar School, is again running the Wycombe Half Marathon on behalf of Harry and Meningitis Research. This is the 3rd time she will have participated in this challenge and it is particularly poignant as Sharon lost her own son, Daniel, in an accident aged 13. You can sponsor Sharon at ‘Paperchain’ the newsagents on Marlow High Street.
Geocaching is a treasure hunting game where you use a GPS to hide and seek containers with other participants in the activity. Chris Stiddard, Harry’s Science Teacher at Spinfield set up a geocache in Sydney, Australia, some months ago,with the aim of getting Harry’s Treasure back to Marlow. Currently it has travelled over 6000 miles and is somewhere in California.
Many thanks to all those who supported us during the recent tabletop sale held outside our house. We have raised just over £300 for Meningitis charities.
The 39th annual festival took place at Riverwoods with 150 teams and 6000 people enjoying a day of high quality Mini Rugby.
Harry was a key member of the Marlow RUFC U12s team before his death in April 2007 and the Harry Mills Memorial Cup is a special trophy that is awarded each year to the winning u12 side.
Wasps winger Tom Varndell presented the Harry Mills Memorial Cup to the 2011 u12s Festival joint-winners, High Wycombe RUFC and London Irish ARFC.
Marlow u12s AGO, Simon King gave a speech explaining the significance of the trophy and congratulating the winners.
Chris Roddick provides the following match report:-
"The Final
High Wycombe v London Irish
Although it was only late March the weather was hot and the ground hard. Both teams had come through their groups stages unbeaten and took to the pitch after already playing a number of tough games. London Irish were clearly a very well drilled and skilful team, Wycombe less so but with a bit more flare. Irish kicked off and were immediately forced on to the defensive, making tackle after tackle. High Wycombe after starting strongly were slower to the breakdown and Irish started to make their possession count and pinned Wycombe back. A loose kick gave Wycombe’s backs a bit of room and Dylan Stephens outpaced his opposite number and looked to have a clear run in until a tremendous covering tackle from the Irish Fullback knocked him into touch. Result: 0-0 at the end of the first half.
Again the second half started with High Wycombe pushing hard; however a break out from defence by Irish forwards forced Hugh Peal into a brave tackle which although successful, damaged his neck. Rightly no chances were taken and an ambulance took Hugh to Wexham Park Hospital (he was fine and out again after a quick scan). Due to the on-pitch medical treatment, the game was switched to a much smaller pitch on which the teams struggled to gain any great advantage. Irish could not make their greater forward fitness count and Wycombe were unable to get their flyers away. In the end a draw was a fair result with both sides happy to remain unbeaten.
All the boys were told about Harry at the presentation of the Cup and were very proud to have won the Cup that bears his name"
There were plenty of “Yo-ho-hos” “ A-hoy theres”and “Aaaarrrrs” to be heard on Marlow High Street on Friday 27th May as National Pirate Day took the town by storm!
Mark Howard & ‘FST the group’ invited all ages to dress-like-a-pirate, have fun and raise some gold doubloons for Harry’s fund at the Meningitis Research Foundation.
FST Pirates encouraged motorists on Marlow Bridge to dig deep and both Spinfield and Bisham primary schools got involved, as did Burgers and Softcat. The Slug and Lettuce hosted a Pirate Day Quiz at 1pm on the day and then it was ‘shiver-me-timbers’ as the pirate party rolled into the Ship in the evening. To date around £2500 has been raised.
