Ty Olwen

Thank you to Dean Bounds for organising a Charity Night at the Penllegaer Social Club last Saturday to raise money for Ty Olwen. Helen was delighted to welcome Dean to the Unit to receive the proceeds of the evening which amounted to £636.

Thank you to ‘Team Mahoney’ who ran the Cardiff Half Marathon today for Ty Olwen and in memory of Julia’s mum, Muriel, one of Ty Olwen’s supporters. Muriel visited Ty Olwen two years ago along with Martin and Julia after Martin’s 10th half marathon and this year, Martin’s 12th, he was joined by son Paul and his friend Jonathon Porter and they dedicated it to Muriel. Martin finished in 2 hours 8 minutes, Jonathon in 1 hour 57 minutes and Paul who was running his first half marathon a respectable 2 hours 35 minutes. Thank you to all who supported them to raise over £2000 for Ty Olwen.

Thank you to David Pollard and Dai John of Port Talbot who completed the Cardiff Half Marathon in 2 hours 26 minutes today and raised over £1000 for Ty Olwen in the process.

Local theatre company, Master Act, gathered friends of the late Bruce Miller together on September 3^rd to perform a concert in  memory of him. Bruce was a fine actor, singer and comedy genius, a true gentleman who is and always will be fondly remembered by all  his friends in local amateur theatre circles, and beyond. The evening raised £2800 which was donated to Ty Olwen as a thank you for Bruce’s treatment there.  In the picture are, from left to right, front row, Helen Murray, Chairman of Ty Olwen, Rita Greenwood, Bruce’s Mother-in–Law. Kathryn Wheel, Anne Thomas and Liz Stockton (Administrators for Master Act) Sandra Miller, Bruce’s wife and Diane Joyce, Bruce’s sister-in-Law. Back row Alex Miller and Llewelyn Miller, Bruce’s sons.

Members of the seniors section at Pontardawe Golf Club have presented a cheque for £600 to Ty Olwen. Money raised by an open event at the club, along with sponsorship from local businesses, raffles and a members golf day. The cheque was presented to Helen and Paul Murray by Randall Roberts (Chairman), Glyn Davies (Secretary) and Gerald Davies (Treasurer) of the golf club seniors section.

Carys Norman visited Ty Olwen last week to present her donation of £668.60 raised through sponsorship when she bravely ran the Swansea Half Marathon, in 1 hour 59 minutes, for Ty Olwen in memory of her Grandpa.
Carys said – “I chose Ty Olwen because it is such an amazing place. My Bamps was taken there and as a family we felt welcome and at home there. The Doctors and Nurses worked so hard to make sure my bampa was comfortable and well looked after. I am thankful to everyone that works at Ty Olwen for making my time with my bamps during his last days so comforting and warm.”
Pictured receiving the donation on behalf of Ty Olwen is Nursing Support Worker, Nicola Allitt.

Ben and Nerys Saunders along with friends Karen and Simon, Bethan, Rhian and Mountain Leader Howard recently took on the Welsh Three Peaks Challenge.

Climbing Snowdon, Cader Idris and Pen y Fan all in the same day takes some doing but they did it in 15 hours from start to finish.

Ben explained that his mum had died at Ty Olwen two years ago and although she was with us for just three days he couldn’t thank everyone for the care given to her. He has been forever grateful and felt that the time was now right to do something as way of a thank you.

In total Ben and Nerys presented £576

Andrew visited Ty Olwen with some of his family recently to present a cheque for £810 raised with the help of family and friends.

He met with Kate Murray and Staff Nurse Maria to say thank you to everyone for the care given to his Grandpa who had sadly recently passed away.

He expressed his gratitude and said that he “was amazed at the level of professionalism and kind attitude around to Ty Olwen and more so the staff.”

We are so grateful to you Andrew.

Staff at Toyoda Gosei in Gorseinon are continuing with their fundraising for Ty Olwen, their chosen Charity for the year. Chairman, Mrs Helen Murray, was delighted to meet with staff this week to receive a further donation of £386.95. They are now busy planning the Family Fun Day in August when all proceeds will be for Ty Olwen and the staff from HR have signed up to run the Swansea 10k run in September.
Pictured presenting the donation to Mrs. Murray is Site Manager, Mr. Steve Green.

For 20 years Steve Evans of the City and County of Swansea Social Services Transport Department has been arranging Charity Bike Rides and this year Ty Olwen were lucky enough to be chosen as the recipient. Helen Murray was delighted to join with some of those who took part and to thank them for their efforts before receiving from Steve a cheque for £2,125.00

Thank you Steve, Berwyn, Andy, Eiros, Oscar, Dave, Paul and Terry and also Jen (Transmedia), Wayne and Paul (Gower Gym), Jodie (Grove Beauty), Kevin from the Ambulance Service and Steve from Maesglas Special Needs (I hope I have included everyone) for taking on such a mammoth challenge for us.