Charity Events
From Lacey Green History
1940 Spitfire Fund Fete in Lacey Green Researched by Rita Probert
1940 Dance at Lacey Green for Red Cross. Researched by Rita Probert
1944 Stanley Holloway Stars in Lacey Green Concert. Researched by Rita Probert
Death 1980 Ivy Weller, Fund Raiser for Blind. Ivy staged for many years an annual Whist Drive, Sale & Draw for the Bucks Association for the Blind.
1982 Charity Show by Dorothy Willatt. Dorothy Willatt gave a show raising £430 which was forwarded to the Royal Bucks Hospital towards a special baby care unit.
February 1983 Graham & Janet Carter of The Black Horse organised a 24 hour marathon for their darts team. £700 was raised for "Merryfields", the Bucks County Council home for mentally handicapped children and will go for a soft play area for the children at the home. During the 1980's The Carters staged more events. Further dart's marathons raised £1,000 for Merryfields Home and another raised £1,216 for the Natalie Fund at Great Ormond Street Hospital and the Merryfields Home.
1983 The Whip. "£500 was raised at a charity lunch on Sunday January 23rd and shared between the Injured Jockey Fund and Royal Marden Hospital.
The Whip. In 1997 after 21 years at the pub Dick & Brenda Williams moved. In that time they had raised thousands of pounds for various charities.
click 1988 350 sacks for Armenian Earthquake for the story of the amazing charity collection.
1984. A ton of Grain to Africa. (extract from Joan West's Hallmark Farm Diary. "Summer 1984 was superb weather for the grain harvest. John sent a ton of grain to Africa in August, long before the media brought all those starving people into our sitting rooms."
1988. Songs of Praise in Lacey Green Church raised £71.55p for the Macmillan Nurses.
1992. Roy & Fiona Castle. Fiona DIckson, better known as Fiona Castle, brought up at Speen Farm, married Roy Castle, a popular entertainer, actor of stage TV and film, singer, TV presenter, & jazz trumpet player. Roy was found to have lung cancer in 1992.
He started a high profile "Tour of Hope" to raise funds to build a building which became the Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation. He died in 1994
Fiona continued to work for the charity and campaigned for the British smoking ban which was brought into effect in 2006 & 2007 banning smoking in virtually all enclosed public places. She was awarded the OBE for charity in 2004.
2009 The Kop Hill Climb. Funds raised for local charities
2011 Woodbyne Fitness Clinic. Hollywood comes to Lacey Green raised £2,300 for Action Medical Research
2015 Woodbyne Fitness Clinic. This September we crossed from one side of Scotland to the other in a weekend, via running, trekking, mountain biking and kayaking. Thousands of pounds for various charities raised. Their Movember (November) Callenge raised a healthy £676 for Prostate Cancer.
2020 Covid Lockdown. Various new organisations worked entirely for charity
2020 Elf Houses. Built to cheer the village at Chrismas
2021 Lacey Green Productions closed in 2021 after 17 years in which over £60,000 was raised for local and national charities.