Your events

Our supporters do all sorts of weird and wonderful things to raise money for Jeans for Genes.  We love to hear about what you’re up to so that we can help you to raise as much money as you can.

Steve Lake and Jeans for Genes on Kilimanjaro

You can email us with all the details and tell us all about it.  If you’re happy for us to use photographs of what you got up to on our website, attach them to your message.  They’ll be great inspiration for other people!

Why not…

• Hold a Wild West denim themed barbecue, with country & western music, rodeo rides and sell tickets to raise money

• Organise a GENE-ius quiz and a raffle in your local pub – teams could pay an entry fee and the pub could create a special ‘denim’ cocktail

• Get the GENErations round for afternoon tea to GENErate lots of money.  Bake treats to sell with our delicious celebrity chef recipes

• Denimise dog collars and organise a sponsored denim dog walk

• When was the last time you had a three-legged race? Create your own denim sports day on your village green, school or even your own back garden.

Climb every mountain

Steve Lake (above) and his brother raised more than £2,000 for Jeans for Genes when they climbed Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania. 

Steve and his wife Cinty have been fundraising for us since they lost their daughter Amelia to Edwards Syndrome in 1997 at just 5 weeks old.

William

Just a Walk to the Beach

Robert and Catherine Curtis are organising a surf trip with a difference.  Their little boy, William, had Wiskott Aldrich syndrome, an immune deficiency which left him extremely vulnerable to infection.

He had a bone marrow transplant at Great Ormond Street Hospital and is now recovering well.  His immune system is getting stronger everyday.

'Just a Walk to the Beach' is a fundraising event the family has organised to raise money for both Jeans for Genes and The Sick Children's Trust.

They've challenged their friends to get from their homes to Saunton Sands in North Devon by any means possible WITHOUT using an engine.

They must arrive on Sunday 14th September, bringing with them something to catch a wave! Take a look at their website.

Move over Arctic Monkeys, it's the Baltic Chimps!

Forget the Arctic Monkeys, the Baltic Chimps are a charity rock band made up of staff from the insurance group AIG Europe in London.  (You might recognise their singer from the 60s band, Candlewick Green.) Their gig on the eve of Jeans for Genes Day drove 250 fans wild and raised around £3,000.

Eddie Weaver and Dean Ashby 

Dean’s Three Peaks Challenge

Dean Ashby and his friends braved all kinds of weather in The Three Peaks Challenge in 2007.

The team from Coventry scaled Ben Nevis, Scafell Pike and Mount Snowden in just under 24 hours, raising £3,500!

Dean also helped to denimise Coventry’s statue of Lady Godiva for Jeans for Genes Day.  His employers, the Coventry Building Society, sponsored her denim cape which made her (almost!) decent for the first time in history!

I’m a fundraiser, get me out of here!

Isobel McEwan from Paisley in Scotland has been raising money for genetic research for the last 25 years.

Her little girl, Lauren, died from an immune deficiency called Adenosine de Aminase Deficiency or ADA in 1982.  In 2007 Isobel took part in a charity trek through the Thai jungle to raise more than £10,000 for Jeans for Genes and NCH Scotland.