Action Medical Research and Davina McCall are pleased to confirm the return of the Dine with Davina lunch to the Leonardo Royal Southampton Grand Harbour Hotel on Friday 7 October 2022.
The afternoon will be filled with fun and games along with incredible prizes to be won and money-can’t-buy items in a live auction hosted by one of London’s top auctioneers, Edward Rising. All raising money for children’s charity Action Medical Research.
The MC for the evening is former Butlins Redcoat and winner of the Funny Women Award, Suzy Bennett. Guests will also be entertained by talented performer Jordan Williams who will be joined by his Team Bublé – Jack Clarke and Josh Hindle from ITV’s ‘Starstruck’. Entertainment will be followed by an after party with a DJ and every guest will receive an exclusive gift bag.
Since 2003 Davina McCall has brought her warmth and charisma to countless events for Action Medical Research, helping to raise thousands of pounds for the charity. Ruth Dean, Special Events Fundraiser at Action Medical Research says: “This is a key event in the charity’s calendar, and we always have a brilliant time chatting, dancing and generally having fun whilst raising funds to drive forward vital research for sick babies and children. We can’t wait to do it again!”
Secure your tickets and join hundreds of ladies to enjoy a delicious lunch, live musical entertainment and hilarious celebrity anecdotes from Davina herself. You will have a wonderful time and more importantly, you can help raise vital money to support Action’s life-changing research. Research that can help children like Danny who has the life-limiting rare condition Hunter syndrome. His mum Sally, who will be speaking at the event says: “We will lose our beautiful boy to Hunter syndrome, but any new hope is worth fighting for. So that families in the future don’t have to feel that the bottom is dropping out of their world.”
Tickets start at £90.00 and tables of ten start at £850.00. Book now to avoid disappointment at: www.action.org.uk/events/social-events/dine-davina.
Dine with Davina is proudly supported by local civil engineering company TSML.
Action Medical Research is a UK-wide children’s charity which funds desperately needed research to tackle the diseases that devastate the lives of so many of our children. It has been funding medical breakthroughs since it began in 1952 including helping to introduce the first polio vaccines in the UK, developing the use of ultrasound in pregnancy and testing the rubella vaccine.
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NOTES TO EDITORS:
Images of the 2021 event can be downloaded here: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/jdk2edsjfawe3yg/AABNBAJ02fMoVUj5sgxjmt9za?dl=0.
What is Hunter syndrome?
Hunter syndrome almost exclusively affects boys. It’s caused by a faulty gene that leads to the lack of an enzyme that’s vital for breaking down sugars in the body. Without this enzyme, waste sugar molecules build up in all the major organs, tissues and joints, causing a range of problems.
Danny was diagnosed with Hunter syndrome when he was three years old, having had a history of developmental delay. Tragically, later tests would find that he had the worst possible outlook – a complete gene deletion in his DNA.
Action Medical Research and LifeArc are jointly funding research at the University of Manchester. This could one day transform the outlook for boys like Danny.
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Action Medical Research is the leading UK-wide charity saving and changing children’s lives through medical research. For 70 years we’ve helped pioneer ways to prevent disease and develop treatments benefiting millions of people. Our research has helped to beat polio in the UK, develop ultrasound in pregnancy, fight meningitis and prevent stillbirths. But we urgently need to develop more new treatments and cures for sick babies and children and we can’t do it without you.
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