Fundraising family raise £15,000 in memory of mum from Romsey who died of bowel cancer through Jenna Marie Foundation Never too Young

The Jenna Marie Foundation Snow Ball was held at the Grand Harbour Hotel in November and saw nearly 320 people attend.

Now her family, who organised the event, are thanking all those who showed their support after they declared their fundraising amount and made their first donation to the chemotherapy department at Southampton Hospital.

The foundation was established after Jenna Marie Fallowfield, a mum of two, was diagnosed with bowel cancer in 2020 aged 39. She died on April 10, 2021.

They hope to raise awareness of the disease and make donations to charities such Bowel Cancer UK, Never Too Young, Mountbatten Hospice and Jane Scarth House.

Cally Wilkinson, Jenna's sister, said: "We still can’t believe how amazing the first ever Jenna Marie Foundation Never Too Young Snow Ball went, we raised a whopping £15,000 and that’s all thanks to everyone who attended so thank you."

A host of businesses and people chipped in to make the glamorous black-tie event a success.

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Cally said: "We also want to thank Matt Fisher and Cordelectra for keeping us entertained and John Bedford Entertainment for making these two acts happen on the night.

"Phil Stoner as always didn’t disappoint and kept us all dancing to the very end. Blow it with Bex and blowup.south who kindly donated the amazing balloon displays.

"Flowersbykate_ who donated Jenna’s favourite flowers for the centrepieces they were beautiful. The Table Magicians for keeping us guessing.

"Joanne Scarth for making 300 bags of goodies for us all, Linzi Ayles for giving up her time to help with the table set up and the very talented and amazing Liane Marie Childs of lianemarie-lifebloodphotography.co.uk for capturing the whole night.

"Thanks also to our very own master of ceremonies Jamie Bray of www.job2career.co.uk who provided his unique energy, enthusiasm and humour to the evening and helped raise an unbelievable amount of money via the heads and tails game and the auction.

"Lastly but no means least PrincessCruises, Bradbeers, Hazel James of Embley Aesthetics, ℑ𝔩𝔩𝔲𝔪𝔦𝔫𝔞𝔯𝔱𝔦 𝔗𝔞𝔱𝔱𝔬𝔬, and Ross Woodley of Romsey Tree Surgeons for donating some of our fantastic raffle prizes. The whole night from start to finish was just perfect and I know we all done Jen proud, we are certainly keeping her alive just like she asked us to, here’s to the next one."

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Since setting up the foundation in July 2021, a whopping £24,000 has been raised through events such as a successful rounders event last summer at Romsey Town football club, which raised more than £5,600 alone.

Cally said: "Jenna said to me just before she died, make sure you keep my name alive and we certainly all did that. So thank you from the bottom of our hearts."

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