DiPPs News and Events
Get involved- big or small, Every effort counts!
We're always on the lookout fort for people to lend a hand- whether it's placing a cpcollection pot on your bar, taking on a personal challenge or anything in between. Whatever the idea, we're here to support you every step of the way. If this is something you'd like to b a pat of, don't hesitate to get in touch!
Last night we were presented with a cheque with £1000 granted to us at the annual Welwyn Festival Awards. We can't wait to make places more heart safe with this money
100 Miles
Lee and family, are taking on the Vitality 10k on the 28th September 2025 for a portable defibrillator at Panshanger Football Club. As the club Know too well defibrillators saves lives. Good luck Lee and family!!
Attimore Hall has been at it again making the most of the bank holiday weekend!
Raising £250 overall we had an amazing night using our knowledge. Thank you so much!
Extra Collection Pots
More Collection Pots
Lee Takes on Vitality 10K Run
Attimore Hall Pub Quiz Night
Annual Welwyn Festival Awards
Our amazing friend Eva was at it again this weekend, she has ran over 100 miles to raise funds for defibrillators. In just under 30hrs running through the night, with support from her amazing friends. Eva ran 100 miles. Raising £1494 we have placed a defibrillator at Tewin Bury Farm
In the Past couple of weeks we've been asked to collect some of our charity pots that are place on bars!
Its amazing what lose change can add up too.
Take Two Night 2
More Collection Pots
A Busy weekend here, collecting the collection pots.
Attimore Hall- £95.66
The Hedgehog Pub- £93.77
The Sheldan Inn- £212.93
Guy 'the iceman' Bowles takes the trophy, but the real winner is DiPPs with our friends playing fast and loose with £550 with many a cry if 'I'm not playing badly; I'm saving lives'
Thank you to those who took part in the annual poker
The Attimore Hall have done it again, raising money for DiPPs, keeping our communities heartsafe. Overall the raised a total of £500!
Thank you!
Annual Poker Night
Halden's Sports and Social Club £80.65
Malmech & Mannion £99.27
Thank you both for your continued support
Every Penny counts
Road to Rotterdam
Sam Harte and some of his friends cycled from Calais to Rotterdam to raise funds for DiPPs. He's raised over £700.
Thank you again Sam for the support!!
Take That Tribuite Night
The Attimore Hall have always been one our biggest supports, and they've recently hosted Take Two to raise money for DiPPs. Tonight we raised over £800 to keep our community Heart safe
Bleed Control Kits
We've been working with Justin at Heartsforherts to install bleed control kits to our defibrillators
The Parker family have accomplished many events for DiPPs in the last couple of months of 2024.
They've done bake sales, raffles and sponsored 9 hole golf in under 1 hour
All in all they've raised a huge £3000, which has allowed us to make the defib at the golf course public access
Always Checking Our Defbrillators
We always check our defibrillators in order to make sure they are heart safe.
BBC 3 Counties Award
WE WONNNN!!!
Wow what a night at the BBC 3 counties awards
We’re so proud of what we have achieved in the last 8 years
A very special mention goes to Deborah Berloth for the nomination!!
We couldn’t be happier
Here’s to many more defibrillators!
Hayden Dicker MK Marathon
RNA Fundraising Spectacular
The Royal Navy Association had a busy couple of months fundraising for DIPPs. We started out the year with a bingo and race night raising a fantastic £380.
Then in May the had an amazing family fun day where we took in excess of £350!
Thank you for your continued support!!
Collection Pots
We are always collecting our charity pots around our local pubs!! weather its your loose change, or pennies every little helps to us, It may one day save your life!!
Hayden Dicker spent the Bank holiday weekend running the Mk Marathon. He has raised over £2000, where he has enabled the funds to put a defibrillator on his place of work
We would like to send a massive congratulations and thank you to Hayden for his continued support
Stevenage Sporting Futures
Stevenage Sporting Futures
February has been love your heart month, Arline spends her free time during the week, in and out of school in order to teach year 5's the importance of CPR and defibrillators.
I have loved working with Stevenage Sporting Futures Team, over 900 children now CPR and defibrillator aware, a huge thank you for such a generous donation which will allow us to install a public access defibrillator in Stevenage.
Training
Training
During half term Arline did her basic life support training in order to deliver the most up to date information in her awareness sessions.
Constant Defib Checks
Constant Defib Checks
We spend most of our weekends checking that our defibs are rescue ready. This means that the pads are in date and the battery is okay.
Have you checked yours recently?
Musical Melodies Choir
Musical Melodies Choir
Musical melodies choir have always been a supporter of DiPPs, they have used their events over Christmas to help raise money and awareness of DiPPs.
They've raised funds of over £650.
Boozy Bingo
Boozy Bingo
Due to the great success of last years event. The Sheldan put on another great event. they raised £397.
WGC FC U7's
WGC FC U7's
Welwyn Garden City youth team have been wearing our logo on their kits, helping to raise awareness of our charity
Race to the Stones
Race to the Stones
Eva, a friend of DiPPs ran 100km in a weekend in the race to the stones.
We are incredibly proud of Eva and the £2,000 she raised. We couldn't do this without her
School Awarness
School Awarness
Arline has spent the week at local primary and secondary schools teaching them that anyone can do CPR.
Knebworth FC
Knebworth FC
We spent the afternoon at Knebworth's family day where we raised awareness of how to do CPR and use their local defib.
100th Placement
100th Placement
In March 2022, we finally reached our 100th Placement. this was in a club in Welwyn Garden City
We couldn't be prouder of how far we have come.
Sheldan Inn
Sheldan Inn
In December, The Sheldan ran many events to raise money for Dipps including a boozy bingo and Santa's grotto
Virtual Half Marathon
Virtual Half Marathon
The wonderful Meline and Sean are running the Virtual London marathon in memory on Melanie's sister Sam to raise fund for DiPPs and the Hertfordshire air ambulance
congratulation for completing the 26.2 miles in such awful weather.
Crawley Green
Crawley Green
We collected a cheque from Crawley Green football club for £320 from their gate takings on the last games of the season, whilst also raising £93 from bucket collecting. We would like to thank the wonderful supporters.
Poker
Poker
A huge thank you to our fabulous friends who played poker last night. Almost £400 raised
Garage Sale
Garage Sale
A huge thank you to everyone that went to Soo's garage sale earlier this week. A fantastic £1000 was raised, a defibrillator will be placed close by.
Annual Football
Annual Football
The DiPPs team would like to thank everyone who came to the football tournament yesterday, cake makers, football player and the Ridgeway Academy Sports Centre for running the tournament and making it a great event. we raised a total of £1550, enough for a defibrillator. Thank you all so much
London 100
London 100
Dave and his friend Rob, set off to do a 100 mile bike ride through London and surrey to raise money for DiPPs. We admire your hard work
John Lewis Community
John Lewis Community
John Lewis, Welwyn Garden City kindly nominated us to be their charity of the year, throughout this we collected money in their store and some of their team took part in our Zip4DiPPs. we've raised multiple due to this.
Thank you John Lewis.
Coffee Morning
Coffee Morning
A massive thank you to everyone at Graveley village hall today, we had a wonderful time, met great people and raised a fantastic £400
Zip Wire
Zip Wire
What a wonderful event the zip wire was. We would like to thank everyone who rode the Zip4DiPPs and got sponsorships. we raised a massive £6044
Mowtown Disco
Mowtown Disco
Another amazing night from the Hatfield Sports and Social club. They've raised a fantastic £830.
Annual Football
Annual Football
What a fantastic afternoon we had, thank you everyone that came up to our tournament to whether you've played or helped us with a stall, you've all helped us to raise £1155.
Carole Allen Dance
Carole Allen Dance
On Tuesday Arline collected a huge cheque form John Lewis Welwyn community funds, a massive thank you to everyone that put green tokens in the box.
Bingo
Bingo
A massive thank you to Carole Porter, Hatfield Sports and Social club and everyone that attended, we had a great night. It was such a fun night and you raised £570, thank you all so much
Hatfield Sports and social Club- 80's disco
Hatfield Sports and social Club- 80's disco
It was a great night last night. so far including the last disco and the bingo night the Hatfield Sports and social club have raised over £1300 for DiPPs.
Cheese, Wine and Skydive
Cheese, Wine and Skydive
Jude and I attended a cheese and wine evening at Chipperfield FC raising awareness of defibrillators. that evening we met some amazing people
A total of £1621 was raised for DiPPs this included £481 by two fantastic young men sky driving the very next day.
Thank you to all those involved.
John Lewis Green Tokens
John Lewis Green Tokens
On Tuesday Arline collected a huge cheque form John Lewis Welwyn community funds, a massive thank you to everyone that put green tokens in the box.
Hardings Pre-
School Bounce
Hardings Pre-
School Bounce
A huge thank you to everyone at Harding preschool for raising an amazing £310.50, by doing a sponsored bounce, the children worked for a full week to keep the trampolines busy
London2Brighton
London2Brighton
4 amazing ladies set off on their journey to Brighton which consisted a 62 mile walk, we salute you ladies. we are so proud of the foursome. They raised £5040, a huge thank you to everyone who supported them
Golf
Golf
Our first golf day was a huge success thanks to Russell Hurd and the fairway golf club. an amazing £2350 was raised which is enough to place at least 2 public access defibrillators.
Annual Football
Annual Football
After the huge success of the last football fundraiser, it made a comeback and became an annual event. We thank everyone who joined us and all the staff at SFO sports centre. we raised £1000 today. We cannot thank you enough
Poker
Poker
The second DiPPs charity poker game took place in Wimbledon in June.
Many good natured cries of "ALL IN' saw the DiPPs prize pool raise to in excess of £500. Many prizes were won, Guy took home the trophy for the second year running but DiPPs was the ultimate winner.
Prospect House
Prospect House
We were delighted to have been chosen as the beneficiary of the Prospect House School quiz night.
They gave us an audience to talk about James and the importance of defibrillators, as the people present were almost entirely parents they really understood the horror of losing a beloved child. The response was phenomenal, and the quiz night raised in excess of £3,000
Book Sale
Book Sale
James' cousins decided to sell some of their books outside of their house to raise money for DiPPs.
They created leaflets to let the local community know and emailed their friends and family.
It was a fabulous day, the rain stayed away and our friends didn't! We made an incredible £614.96 which will be used to place a defibrillator into a local school or sports facility as soon as possible.
Annual Football
Annual Football
James was passionate about football, so we feel hugely overwhelmed and grateful that our first DiPPs football fundraiser.
Many thanks go to the SFO Sports Centre, one of the first recipients of a DiPPs defibrillator, for providing us with the venue and their passionate expertise.
We raised a massive £1013.21 from the tournament, barbecue and raffle, every penny of which will go towards buying life saving defibrillators.
St. Albans Half Marathon
St. Albans Half Marathon
Walking for DiPPs
On Sunday June 12th our DiPPS founder and trustee Arline, along with good friend Jane Thomson. They SMASHED their original target and had raised £2,000.They completed the entire 13.1 miles in 3 hours 17 minutes.
No walk in the park on an exceptionally soggy Sunday. We couldn't be prouder.