The wonderful Elaine Barrett, our 2026 TCS London Marathon runner, featured on Ben Jackson’s BBC Radio Leicester show on Thursday 9th April morning!! To listen: Visit the below link and go to 27mins 50 secs to find Elaine's interview: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p001d7jc/episodes/player Episode: 09/04/2026

We are delighted to have some charity places for either the 10k or Half Marathon in Run Leicester Festival ’s amazing event on Sunday 11th October 2026. Fancy taking part and helping make a difference? What you get: Free entry to either the 10k or Half Marathon Fundraising support from us A great feeling of achievement What you do: Pledge to fundraise minimum £100 Enjoy taking part in the brilliant event Every penny you raise will go directly towards providing gifts, experien

Gift 530 recently completed. An artist tablet for Humaira from Leicester.

Gift 529 is for Blair from Leicestershire and is money towards an electronic attachment for their manual wheelchair so they can get out and about more.

Congratulations to Paul Towers who was our 2026 Amy’s Gold Cup Challenge winner! Paul scored a brilliant total of 35 points and gets his name on the coveted main trophy, as well as his own trophy to keep. Big thank you to everyone that entered! You helped us to raise over £675 which covers the cost of nearly 2 holidays for young adults with cancer. Well done to our trustees Howard & Sharon Parkin for their great efforts again on this annual fundraiser.

Massive well done to Elaine Barrett who completed the Milton Keynes 20 mile run on 15th March and got silver award for time. This run was part of Elaine’s training plan as our TCS London Marathon 2026 runner. Very proud of you Elaine and thank you for the effort you are putting in to raising awareness and funds. http://www.justgiving.com/page/elaine-marathon-edgarsgift

Thank you to our friends at Nuneaton Griff FC for displaying one of our banners at the stadium.

Gift 527 - A laptop for James from Mapperley Gift 528 - An iPad for Pamela from Sutton Bonnington

Kelly Parrott completed the Leicester 10k earlier today and also smashed fundraising target of £200 having currently raised an incredible £402.50 including gift aid That amount covers the cost of a holiday for a patient and family / friends at our Mablethorpe caravan Kelly is a part of University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust and we are so grateful Kelly kindly chose to support Edgar’s Gift https://www.justgiving.com/page/kelly-parrott-4

Gift 526 is an iPad 256GB for Lucas who was being treated at Nottingham hospital.

Huge thank you to Steve Shaw and the ‘Tuesday Night Footy’ group for a very kind £150 donation to Edgar’s Gift. A group that have been playing 5 a side football at Huncote Leisure Centre for over 33 years and the football and social group continues to this day. A picture below of some of the group from when they did an incredible ‘Soccerthon’ fundraising event back in September 2015 raising amazing funds for 2 charities then. We are so grateful to all the ‘Tuesday Night Footy

Latest gifts completed: Gift 524 is vouchers for Kelly to get some new clothes and headphones Gift 525 is vouchers for a patient to get some new clothing

Fri 31st Jan certainly put the FUN in fundraising!! The wonderful Elaine Barrett who is our 2026 TCS London Marathon runner organised a fantastic music bingo event. With a room full of 130 people, lots of music, and lots of laughs it was a brilliant evening. Raising a whopping £1,752 for Edgar's Gift with £325.00 in prize money Huge thank you to Elaine, Tony, and Hinckley Golf Club  for making it happen . That takes Elaine’s total fundraising so far to £2.5k which will provid

So grateful to all at Thomas Flavell & Sons  Hinckley office for selecting Edgar’s Gift as their charity of the year for 2026. We are honoured to be given the opportunity and look forward to seeing what we can achieve together.

It’s been a busy first couple of weeks in 2026. 2 holiday bookings at our Mablethorpe caravan for patients and families / friends to have some time away Gift 522 completed: vouchers for Gemma from Warwickshire Gift 523 completed: iPad for Katy from Leicestershire

In addition to the events we posted about, we have some incredible individuals already planning some amazing fundraising activities for Edgar’s Gift in 2026 and we want to celebrate and thank them Sun 26th Apr - Elaine Barrett will be running TCS London Marathon 2026 for Edgar’s Gift. The Music Bingo event in January is also organised by Elaine as part of fundraising plan. www.justgiving.com/page/elaine-marathon-edgarsgift Jul - The Olivers will be hosting the latest instalme

Some save the dates for our confirmed 2026 events / activities that you could attend / enter to support. It would be great to have you involved: Fri 30th Jan - Music Bingo @ Hinckley Golf Club (see poster attached for full details) Fri 13th Mar - Amy’s Gold Cup Challenge (Cheltenham predictor competition) Jun-Jul - Football World Cup Predictor Competition Fri 19th Jun - Edgar’s Golf Day Sep (exact date TBC) - Annual Bimble (a leisurely walk) approx. 10km loop of Hinckley coun

Huge thank you to everyone that has supported our small voluntary charity throughout 2025. There’s been lots happening all made possible by the support we receive. We look forward to what 2026 brings.

We were delighted to have secured 1 charity place for TCS London Marathon 2026. This is the first time we have had a place and only had the 1 place so took applications to then contact individuals to confirm if their application had been successful or not. And the wonderful Elaine Barrett has been confirmed as our Edgar's Gift TCS London Marathon 2026 runner! We wish you every bit of success Elaine and thank you for supporting Edgar's Gift. We look forward to supporting you a

Huge thank you to The Car Factory for their continued wonderful support. Their Xmas Fayre on 11th December was superb with a huge turnout and funds split between us & The Dream Factory. The amount we receive will help provide 3-4 holidays to young adults and their families / friends battling cancer. Very grateful to Steve, Vicky & all the team that made it happen.