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Old Pictures Raise £1,500

Old Rye Pictures helped to Raise £1,500 at the Riverside

British Aid for Deprived Children

By Martin Carter

Three years ago, Stuart Pope and I joined the ‘Convoy Of Hope’ driving trucks full of locally collected aid to Kosovo. This was run by a small privately run charity called British Humanitarian Aid and comprised of vehicles – small vans, trucks, a coach and an articulated lorry driven by volunteers from all over the country. Continue reading Old Pictures Raise £1,500

“Rye’s Own’s Mrs. Mopp”

Thirty Miles to Raise Cash for Hill House Children

Three Pounds a Mile – Ten Pounds a Blister

Mr. Jack Pankhurmt, dressed as “Rye’s Own’s Mrs Mopp, 16 year old Francis Roe and Mr Barbara Larking set out on a 30 mile trek to Heating and back.

A challenge made in a Rye pub resulted in 64 year old Jack Pankhurst and Mrs. Babs Larking 57, walking 30 miles and earning over eighty pounds that will give the children of Hill House Hospital an outing to Margate.

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