Stanley House raised £1026 from their excellent Ladies who Lunch in December. 

Christine and Deryck Scargill raised £681 from donations to their Christmas light display.

Modrophonic -a non for profit group organised a Charity Music event in November. Miles of Smiles was the chosen charity of a band called Portside and Andrew Bates sent us £255.50.  Andrew works at Barclays and Barclays support the staff with matched fundraising so we hope to receive another £255.50 very soon.  Blimey!  Words fail us.  Apart from thank you and wonderful and WOW!

What can we say about the regulars of the Priory Club in Leyland?  Over the past year -thanks to Lorraine and Terry McGuiness - they have raised £1601.79.  What a bunch of stars you are.  An amazing amount.  Thank you.

More donations have come in just before Christmas - thanks to all - namely Uncle Stephen and nan and grandad of Megan Owen who met the Pussycat Dolls,  Margaret Jopling - nan of Princess Millie, David Higson who sends us a donation every year, Lorraine and Terry McGuiness whose continued and unstinting support takes our breath away, the DeLacy Masonic Lodge - ditto.  Thanks to you  and the more modest amongst you for thinking about our youngsters and for helping us to make them smile.

Thank you to everyone who has supported us over the Christmas period.  It's a time of year that can be really tough so thank you so much for helping us try and make it a bit more special.  And, of course, thank you so much to everyone who has supported us this year.  The list is long.  We know some really wonderful people and we can't do anything without support.  Thank you all and a very merry Christmas

Customers of Pendle Woodcraft in Darwen are not having any Christmas gifts this year as director, David Bancroft, has donated the money he would have spent to us instead.  Thank you, David and thank you to all the customers who aren't getting any pressies this year!  Think of all the smiles you'll help to make instead!

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Neil and Joanne Hartley chose Miles of Smiles as they charity they wanted to support for Joanne's Ladies Evening.  Neil is a member of Carnafon Lodge in Leyland.  The raffle raised £150. Brill - thank you.

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Preston 41 club sent us £1000 for youngsters in the Preston area.  Thank you.

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Longton WI held an evening of fundraising with stalls and homemade (wonderful) cakes and crafts and gifts and books.  It was a really busy night with  much local support.  President Christine and the members raised £480.00 - how fantastic is that?

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We are so thrilled that Stanley House Hotel and the Walker family have chosen to support us with their Ladies Who Lunch.  The first lunch in September raised £2506!  Words fail us.  Thank you seems inadequate but ............... thank you so much.

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Many thanks to 'smile' sisters Molly and Rosie Berry.  Molly and Rosie made a Scarecrow garden for Blackrod Scarecrow day and they put up a sign telling eveyone who looked at the garden and the scarecrow about Miles of Smiles and how much they enjoyed their smiles.  Molly and Rosie raised £73.  Well done you two and thank you! x

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Thanks once again to Jane and Dave Preston and all their friends.  Jane and Dave walked Hadrian's Wall last year and raised over £400 for us.  This year they decided to walk the West Highland Way - more than 90 miles of it.  Once again they donated more than £400 to us.  Thank you so much. Keep up the walking.  You are all a bunch of stars!

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A very gorgeous group of school girls from St Joseph's Catholic Primary School in Lancaster have chose to support us by raising money. They are seven girls - Charley, Jodie, Jasmine, Nina, Shannon, Stephanie and Sarah and have called themselves GLAMOROUS - very apt. Together with a local pub - the Borough - they held a few events and raised more than £200. 

St Joseph's held a presentation evening when all the girls stood up to tell eveyone how they raised this amount and how much they enjoyed it (we hope)  Thanks girls - you have helped to make more youngsters smile.

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Thanks to everyone who supported the Mavrik Fish n Eat.  Keith Naylor organised the whole event which was held in Thorton Cleveleys.  He beg, stole and borrowed and cooked and between all these fishy folk they raised over £1000.  We came back with £511.40 and an extra 28p for good luck.  An amazing amount of money.  Thank you to all who supported the event in any way but specially Keith for all his hard work.

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Preston South Rotary club sent a cheque for £150. Thank you Preston South.

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Ramsbottom Scouts chose to support us with a Christmas event and raised £250.  Much needed and much appreciated.

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Broughton WI held an afternoon tea raising a fantastic £315.00 - that's a lot of cakes! Thank you Olive and all the members and everyone who turned up.

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St Mary's Amateur Dramatic Society held a tombola at Penwortham Gala Day and donated the proceeds - £157.05 to us.  Many thanks once again to you all for your hard work and for supporting us.

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Thanks to North shore Lodge No 7916 for their continued support by sending us a cheque for £250.

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SUPERCAM STRIKES AGAIN!  Cameron Small - he who pie'd Cheryl Cole at the Pride of Britain Awards and  raised thousands of pounds in so doing - donated £1000 to Miles of Smiles.  Cameron is an absolute star who has had some real tough times himself but constantly thinks of other people.  We are so thrilled and touched and delighted that Cameron supports us and. SuperCam, we can't thank you enough!

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A small group friends who are also motorcyclists - The Nuggeteers - decided to raise money this year in memory of Megan Owen - our Pussycat Doll fan.  The Nuggeteers held various events - guess the mileage, raffles, name the snowman and generally just having a good time and over the year raised the amazing amount of £1500.  We received £750.  We are  touched by their generosity and thoughtfulness.  And we are over the moon that they have decided to support us again for 2011. 

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Many thanks to Mark for his unwavering and continuing support in maintaining the web site.  Mark's business - Silent Web Solutions - www.silentwebsolutions.com is his own and he gives of his time for free.  Can't thank you enough, Mark.