Fundraising Events
Recent Events
We don't currently have any events planned for the future (but check back soon!). Here are some of the events we've held recently.
Celebrating the Footwear Friends Designer Award
Date: November 3rd, 2009
Tuesday 3rd November - 6.30 to 9.00pm This year sees the charity celebrating its third Footwear Friends' Designer Award. It is delighted to help the youth of today become the establishment of tomorrow. We shall also be hearing from Alexandra Finlay, a young entrepreneur, as she tells of her rollercoaster ride in creating …
Footwear Friends at Leicester Rugby Club to see them play Northampton Saints
Date: October 31st, 2009
A party of 30 attended this fixture following an excellent and extremely liquid lunch at The Belmont Hotel in Leicester. Ivor Tilley who had brought a party of Northampton supporters very kindly donated a case of 12 bottles of wine which raised over £300 in a sweep on the total points scored in the match …
Tim Slack's L'Eroica Cycle
Date: October 3rd, 2009
We were greeted in Tuscany by fabulous weather and immediately set about taking in enough high grade carbohydrates to see us through the cycling, Pici con tartufo is seriously preferable to the average racing cyclists diet. I had persuaded Fiona my wife and two friends to accompany me and enter one of the shorter …
Mike Heron's Sponsored Row for Footwear Friends
Date: August 10th, 2009
Between 10th and 21st August 2009 I have to report that I did not complete the both way row of Coniston Water as planned. My wife Jutta came with me for a trial run on Tuesday, 11th August but everything went wrong. We had to wait for nearly two hours to hire …
Great Day at Lords
Date: June 26th, 2009
Footwear Friends and Supporters spend a Great Day at Lords. The date was 26th June and the weather was kind when over fifty supporters of our charity spent a wonderful day at the world's most famous cricket ground and, in doing so, thoroughly enjoyed each others' company, as well as the arrangements made for …
St. Marylebone Village Fayre
Date: June 14th, 2009
Shoe Shining took place on the pavement in front of James Taylor & Son's shop at this year's St. Marylebone Village Fayre, with donations being given to Footwear Friends and Teenage Cancer Trust. There was a lot of interest with many passers by commenting that they hadn't noticed our shop before. Other shoe shops might …
Footwear Friends Rugby Day
Date: December 6th, 2008
On Saturday, December 6th, Footwear Friends organised a lunch and match tickets for the Heineken Cup game between Leicester Tigers Rugby Club and USA Perpignan from France. 27 of us met at the Belmont Hotel for an excellent lunch over a three hour period where we fortified ourselves against the bitterly cold but beautiful day …
Wetherby Race Day
Date: November 15th, 2008
In the second quarter of 2008, Footwear Friends viewed the economic outlook with some pessimism and anticipated an increase in applications for financial help, which could well have to be set against the tighter budget available from supporters. As a result, within a plan to create a wider number of fundraising efforts in general, …
Celebrating the presentation of the Footwear Friends' Designer Award
Date: November 11th, 2008
Victoria and Albert Museum Dorothy and Michael Hintze Gallery Tuesday, November 11th 2008 - 6.30 to 9.00 pm September 2008 Last autumn we successfully launched our Footwear Friends Designer award at the Geffrye Museum in London. This year the event will take place at the V&A, thanks to 'ECCO …
