Brilliant response for the first week of Rugby's Tree of Light project this year

Rugby's Rotary Club is thanking residents for a brilliant response to the first week of this year's Tree of Light project.

The project sees residents able to have loved ones and friends remembered on the tree by sending in dedications - raising much-needed funds for Myton Hospice.

A spokesperson for the Tree of Light said: "Thanks to all those who have sent in their dedications in this first week of the appeal and the heartening response in donations.

"For those of you who have yet to respond I ask you to remember that your sponsorship and donations matter more than ever this year to help continue the work of the hospice here in Rugby in this time of uncertainty for all of us.

"This is the time in the year that we always bring to mind those of our nearest and dearest that are no longer with us but stay in our hearts this is a time of year when we especially treasure their memory.

"The Rotary Club of Rugby, as part of its dedicated service to the local community, is once again giving everyone the opportunity to give to a cause that is so vital to us all."

"The ‘Tree of Lights Commemoration Service’ will not take place in December and the ‘Book of Remembrances’ cannot be left in the Lady Chapel for viewing by the public and neither will the names be displayed on the board beneath the tree.

"However, thanks to the usual exceptional support from the Rugby Advertiser, the list of those you wish to remember will be published each week as always and this is the list from the first week."

Sponsor forms can be found in this week's and future issues of the Rugby Advertiser and also at Blackham Opticians, who have agreed to be the collecting point this year as the Myton Hospices Shop has had to close.

The completed Sponsor form and your donation cheque or Postal Order (minimum of £5 per dedication) payable to ‘Rotary Tree of Light’, should be sent to:

‘Rotary Tree of Light’, c/o 2 Bawnmore Court, Rugby CV22 7QQ or taken to: (please knock and wait to be invited in) Blackham Opticians, 21 Albert Street, Rugby CV21 2SD - marked ‘Tree of Light’

(If you are a UK taxpayer you may also indicate that you wish your donation to be Gift Aided to increase it by 25 per cent)

Here are this week's dedications:

David Ogden ; Matthew Jacoby ; Wilma & Kevin - Golden Wedding Anniversary ; Lilian and Francis West ; Eileen and Frank Avery ; Irene Goode ; Brenda Goode ; Peter Olner ; Pete Smith ; Philip Smith ; Greg Mountford ; Tony Sutton ; Eric Spencer Hall ; Phyllis Ethel Hall ; Cyril Murrun Carlton ; Ida Lila Carlton ; Frank Lloyd-Griffiths ; Joyce Beryl Lloyd-Griffiths ; Ian Mattock "in our hearts everyday" ; Bill Kearns -beloved husband ; Stephen Kearns -son ; Mark Phillip Thompson ; Wayne Robert Thompson ; Emma Fraser-Mitchell ; Leslie and Peggy Fraser-Mitchell ; Ron and Pat Gordon ; Beloved husband, Michael Heffernan ; Dearly remembered sister Margaret Reid ; Much loved parents, Millie & Jim Newton ; Joyce and Don Boult (remembered with love) ; Hilda and Mac McElroy (remembered with love) ; John Isdell ; Marion Hardwick ; Nina & Trevor Barnwell ; Bill & Peggy Healey ; Nanny & Poppa and Cicely Barnwell ; Robert Newman ; Jane Newman ; Mary Hopkinson "miss you" ; Alan Seymour "love & miss you Dad XXXX" ; Tom Ingram "love & miss you" XX ; David Pettifor- remembered with a smile X ; Kerry Marriott - gone too soon XX ; Mary & Herbert Marriott - sadley missed X ; Jim Boyes (Dad) "miss you" David, Spider & Geoff ; Helen Boyes (Mum) "miss you" David, Spider & Geoff ; Chris Pottle (Dad) "thinking of you" David, Spider & Geoff ; Samuel John Lucas ; Gladys Lucas ; Robert Arfon Davies ; Gillian Lucas ; Ian Ross - Loved & sadly missed" Angela, Michelle, Colin & Sophie XX ; Millie Batey - God bless darling Grandaughter "never forgotten" ; Bernard Arthur Stott ; Tom & Dorothy Wootton "remembered always with love" by Joy, Doug & families ; John and David Shepheard "remembered with love" ; May and George Clarke "remembered with love" ; Fred Bowman "Loving Husband, Father and Grandad sadly missed" from wife Margaret & family RIP ; In loving memory of Louisa and David White ; Belle and Freddie Friend "with love" ; Gareth Redd ; Leonard Goodes ; Leonard and Marion Buggins "sadly missed" ; Herbert William Langham "sadly missed" ; Bob Campbell - much loved husband & dad of Judy, Debbie & Zoe "always in our thoughts X" ; Sidney & Elsie Green "our beloved parents" ; Stuart McIntosh "my beloved husband" ; Doris Butler "fond memories" ; May Eales "fond memories" ; Jim Hunt "fond memories" ; Fred Bowman "A dear friend who will be sadley missed" from Irene & family ; John Hughes - dear Husband, Father & Grandad "You will live in our hearts forever" sadley missed by Irene & family ; William Grenville Membery ; Frank Gibbs ; James Hall "lovingly remembered" ; Alma Hall "lovingly remembered" ; Frank Parkinson "lovingly remembered" ; Mary Parkinson "lovingly remembered" ; Richard Parkinson "lovingly remembered ; Michael Green "lovingly remembered" ; David Tailby "remembered with love" ; Alfred Barnett "remembered with love" ; Rose Barnett "remembered with love" ; Richard John Barnett "remembered with love" ; George Carpenter "you are missed so much" ; Debra Fuller "you are missed so much" ; Stanley Rex Smith ; Grace Ellen Smith ; Tony & Mary Pitts "real friends" ; Frank Smith Charleroi WW1 1919 ; Peter Roberts "a very special friend" ; Cliff Froggatt, dearest husband, father and grandad "missed so much" ; Barbara Croxford "never forgotten" ; John Croxford "never forgotten" ; Wilma & Bill Pithie