The items listed below are some of the charities we have supported over the past few years.

January 2024 the charity jar was close and the money £203 was given to Prostate Cancer UK which had been proposed by Derek Ormston one of our members. This charity is well known for its work in trying to cure this debilitating problem. see picture left to right John Bale, Tony Crane, Chris Smyth, Doug White and Ian East.

September 2022 we donated the Marie Curie Hospice £250

March 2022 after a long lockdown due to Covid19 the club restarted in September 2021. the charity jar had been dormant during that time and was restarted again. On March 23rd we had Mrs Sue Oxlley (who is the area ambassador for Mary's Meals) visited the club and gave us a very enlightening presentation about the work that this charity undertakes. Mary's Meals was going to be our charity of the year 2020 so the club decided to hand over the contents of the charity jar (plus rounding it up) to £250, see picture left to right Ian East, Tony Crane, Sue Oxlley, Robin Birks and Mike Graham. In November Sue returned to give us a talk on The Birth of the Goddess Movement in England and it was decided to add £50 to her charity.

July 2020/21 the club decided to give the money collected before our Covid shutdown to Marie Curie. The charity now need more than ever their Marie Curie Nurses and frontline staff to provide vital care, expertise and compassion to dying people and their families, in their homes and our hospices across the UK. Their services such as the Support Line and Check In and Chat have also helped people who are struggling with any aspect relating to terminal illness.

July 2019 the club decided to raise money for Maggie's Newcastle charity. We're Here with You find Practical Support to Help You Through Cancer Free Cancer Support, Welcoming Centres, Online Chat, with Healing Architecture.They provide free one-to-one help and information from their professional team and you can join groups and activities that are right for you. They provide a cup of tea, and you can meet people who understand what you're going through or just take a moment to gather your thoughts.see picture left to right Marissa Magee, Stuart Lewis Arthur Storey and Ray Kelly.

July 2018 the club decided to raise money for the Northumberland Blood Bykes

Northumbria Blood Bikes is a registered charity established by local volunteers to deliver essential blood and urgent medical supplies, out of hours, between hospitals and other healthcare sites in North East England. We cover Northumberland, Tyne and Wear, County Durham and Darlington.

Outside normal office hours, hospitals rely on taxis or couriers to transfer urgent medical supplies or test samples between hospitals and other sites. Blood Bike groups, across the country, offer to carry out this service free of charge, ensuring the limited resources of the NHS can be used where it makes a difference.

July 2017 the club decided to raise money this year for 2 charities

The first was Shelter Box which sends aid in the form of boxes of basic needs. The aid they supply comes in the form of ShelterBoxes and ShelterKits. The sturdy green ShelterBoxes contain family-sized tents specially designed to withstand the elements and provide people with temporary shelter until they are able to start the process of rebuilding a home. The ShelterKits contain all of the essential tools people need to start repairing and rebuilding homes straight away.

Pictured from left to right John Taylor, Jonathan Ewen(Shelter Box), Nigel Bryant and Ray Kelly handing over the cheque for £100.

The second was Daft as a Brush Cancer Patient Care, provides a free transport service to and from the Freeman/RVI Hospitals for outpatients undergoing chemotherapy and/or radiotherapy treatment . To date the charity has a fleet of 20 ambulances, 18 of which have been adopted by primary schools from across the region and 2 by the Great North Children’s Hospital. Over 250 volunteers are employed as ambulance drivers/companions; staffing the information desk at the Freeman Hospital, the shop in Eldon Garden and at Daft as a Brush House.

Pictured from left to right Chris Friendship, Geoff Grice handing over the cheque for £100.00p to one of the two drivers from the charity

July 2016 the club decided to raise money this year for Mackmillan Nurses

Pictured from left to right John Taylor, Ray Kelly (receiving the cheque for Mackmillan Nurses), Ian East(Club Tresurer) handing over the cheque for £100.00p(all are club members)

July 2015 the club decided to raise money this year for Parkinson's UK North Tyneside Branch.

Pictured from left to right David Callum, Gerry Daniel (Treasurer Parkinson’s North Tyneside), Sandy Kinghorn (Club President) handing over the cheque for £201.14p, Stuart Lewis (all are club members)

July 2014 the club decided to raise money this year for Peary House (Tynemouth Blind Society) one of our members has links with the society.

Pictured are Hellon Farrow (Peary House) Capt Sandy Kinghorn handing over the cheque for £160, rear left to right Gerry Daniel, Joe Mason and David Callum (all club members)

July 2013 the club decided to raise money this year for the Alzheimer's society as some members have friends or family affected by the disease.

Pictured (Left to Right) are Arther Storey, David Callum, Lance Arkley and Ray Calboutin.

Lance was accepting the £175 cheque for the society as their representative could not attend due to a last minute meeting.

July 2012 the club decided to raise money this year for the MS society as Harvey Morris one of our members has been affected by the disease for several years.

Harvey, supported by his friend Allen, was chosen to present the cheque £113.65 to Jim McAndrew, treasurer of the North Tyneside branch of Multiple Sclerosis.

The photo right shows (from left to right) Jim McAndrew (Multiple Sclerosis), Harvey Morris & Allen Murray (Cullercoats Men's Club) with other club members in the background.

2011 the club "Charity Jar" collection was for St Oswald´s Hospice and was handed over to Dorothy Alderton at our meeting on 20th July.

The photo right shows the £100 cheque handover at the club.

2010 the club "Charity Jar" collection was for Tynemouth Lifeboat and was handed over to Capt Sandy Kinghorn at our meeting of 16th July.

The photo right shows the £87.16p cheque handover by Ron Spokes to Sandy at the club, see our club magazine issue 4 for further details.