Aston Villa News 24/7Writer: J P Fear 
Date:Saturday October 4 2008
Time: 4:05PM
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Raising Money For The Paul Birch Trust
Ok, not sure how this will go down, but lets give it a whirl.
Been thinking about the Paul Birch situation and his fight against bone cancer. I think the Former Players Association are doing a great job at trying to raise money and can't see why we can't all get stuck in and help? Villa is a family after all.
There is a Paul Birch Trust set up and run by the Former Players Association with the aim of ensuring a better quality of life for Paul and his 10-year-old daughter.
So how about this. Vital Villa readers, make donations and if through that we can raise £500 I'll match it and put in another £500.
We all sing his name at the games, so maybe we could put just that little bit of money where our mouths are? A thousand squid between us all is doable isn't it?
You can send donations via paypal to me and I will then do the one lump payment to the Paul Birch Trust: www.paypal.com account: jonathan.fear@virgin.net or cheques made payable to the Paul Birch Trust to JP Fear, 2 Oversley Close, Redditch, Worc, B97 6GW and I will forward them on.
You can send the cheques straight to Paul Birch Trust, Aston Villa FC, Villa Park, Birmingham, B6 6HE as well, but then I'll not know what has been donated so won't know when we have reached the £500 mark for me to double the donations.
If anyone has already sent a cheque following this article, just email me to let me know the donation and I can add that to the tally. Charity Begins At Villa Park... Apparently
I will keep a running total on this article until we reach £500 and then once that has been matched and donated, maybe Birchy will give this site a quick interview.
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£1005
The Fear
Off to a flyer, a very good friend of mine has donated £500 so triggered the level that I will match. So we have £1000. Can we double that to £2000?
The Fear
£1060
The Fear
My favourite villa player ever, anything i can do i will do.
silkie villain
£1065
The Fear
£1070
The Fear
Bone cancer eh? feckin horrible stuff....All the best to him. Mr fear, Here“s a thought: the money I won for posting the most one month last year (can“t remember when exactly when) , would it be do-able to doante them to the Paul Birch trust? My guess is that he needs em more than I do.
Blue is the colour
"Would it be possible to DONATE them...." I“ve got a new keyboard, have to feckin HAMMER on the keys here....spellings gone.
Blue is the colour
Will do Blue, thought that had been paid but ....?!! Great gesture.
The Fear
£1100
The Fear
Cheers, nope, it wasn“t paid, but that“s my own fault. No harm done tho as this is a far more noble cause.
Blue is the colour
£1110
The Fear
Nice one dude, Chelsea fans, what thoroughly decent people!!
The Fear
£1120
The Fear
£1140
The Fear
£1160
The Fear
£1170
The Fear
Great gesture blue is the colour..you're a gent.
jonah
£1180
The Fear
£1185 (fiver sent direct)
The Fear
£1285
The Fear
£1295
The Fear
£1300
The Fear
£1325
The Fear
Is it too late to try and get a couple of people with collection tins or buckets outside of the Ajax game later today - surely if we get enough people out of a crowd of 40-odd thousand chucking the odd quid or so in there that might move the totaliser up a bit more quickly!? Just a thought.
YatesyVillain
Difficult to organise and also needs club permission etc. I would think that sort of fund raising would be better left to the Villa's FPA
The Fear
£1330
The Fear
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