In memory of Fiona Stallwood, 10 August 1963 - 1 November 2018
"Fiona was my big sister. Being born 3 years before me, Fiona was ever present in my life. Times were hard when we were young, and, living in a small bungalow, meant sharing a bedroom for much of our childhood. But, despite living under the same roof for over 30 years, whether in the family home, or latterly at her place, I must admit, I didn't know her as well, as perhaps, I would have wished. Fiona was always an intensely private person, not given to sharing her inner most thoughts and feelings as is the vogue today. However, what I did know, was how honest, decent, hard working, diligent and caring she was. In early 2016, she was diagnosed with stage 4 ovarian cancer. Inoperable. Terminal. Some people, are set apart, by great feats of say, intellect or physical strength, but for Fiona, it was her capacity to endure. She endured the rigours of chemotherapy, the hair loss, the fatigue and the nausea. The nausea, that so blighted her last months, weeks and days. But she kept calm and carried on, with hope and optimism and an indefatigability of spirit. She never looked around at others, asking "why me?" Even as the efficacy of the drugs waned, and the tiny flame of life, guttered in the chill draught of fate, she shed not a tear. She was the embodiment of stoicism, making me proud, to say that I was her brother. I recall on many occasions, as a young child, peering through the darkness, across the bedroom to where my sister lay, and fulfilling the role of annoying little brother, I would whisper loudly, repeatedly, irritatingly " Fiona, are you asleep?" hoping she would answer. But now there is only silence, as she sleeps, as she rests, in my heart, and in the hearts of others who had the good fortune to know her. Goodbye my big sis."
My Achievements
Fundraising page
Updated Profile Pic
Added a Blog Post
Received 5 Donations
Reached Goal
Increased Target
Thank you to my Sponsors
£100
Siobhan Macdonald
£32.50
Gift Aid
Gift Aid 03 September -29 September
£37.50
Lindsay Kennedy
£50
Melissa Snaith
Thank you for your help Dion
£50
Unis Shaikh
Unis and Christine Shaikh. Good work Dion and delighted to make a donation for this cause.
£75
Megan Lawrence
Happy to support. Very best, Megan and Mark
£10
Susan North
£35
Gift Aid
Gift Aid 29th September - 14th October
£37.50
Rosamund Porter
£37.50
Lindsay Kennedy
£62.50
Steve Musson
Well done, Dion. You are doing a terrific job in memory of your sister.
£37.50
Steven Fuzesi
£87.50
Fiona Verheggen
Thank you Dion
£35
Mark Underwood
Your sister would be so proud of you Dion
£50
Jane Mccarthy
£37.50
Lindsay Kennedy
£62.50
Claire Andrews
£43.75
Paul Kirk
Many thanks Dion first for mending our oven and secondly for telling us about your brave sister.
£25
Wendy Bowsher
£37.50
Lindsay Kennedy
£18.75
Pauline Warren
£50
Kenneth Wickens
£37.50
Lindsay Kennedy
£37.50
Lindsay Kennedy
£25
Lisa Riley
Thanks so much for your help with my dishwasher Dion - really happy to contribute to this great cause.
£37.50
Lindsay Kennedy
£25
Dennis Edwards
£68.75
Michelle Scully
£62.50
Valerie Davis
With thanks.
£37.50
Lindsay Kennedy
£20
Karen Pearce
£35
Jennifer Leach
What a beautiful tribute to your sister and thank you for sharing her spirit with us.
£25
Lata Parbhoo
£25
Mary Reed
Fiona, you would be so proud of your little brother Dion. God rest you, and God bless him...
£12.50
David Allen
£37.50
Lindsay Kennedy
£25
Judy Dearing
So lovely to keep your sister
£62.50
Roger Woolven-allen
£25
Renate Berry
£25
Richard Simons
£37.50
Lindsay Kennedy
£62.50
Mary Reed
God rest you Fiona...
£37.50
Lindsay Kennedy
£37.50
Lindsay Kennedy
£37.50
Lindsay Kennedy
£25
Nick Jarvie
£13.38
Elaine Lloyd
Thanks Dion for your help last week. What a beautiful website in Fiona's memory.
£37.50
Lindsay Kennedy
£25
Andrew Thomas
£37.50
Dave Thornton
Thank you Dion - what a fantastic cause
£26.75
Julia Palalas
£40.13
Richard Abbott
£37.50
Lindsay Kennedy
£26.75
Juliette Williams
£37.50
Lindsay Kennedy
£6.69
Wendy Whitehead
Thanks again for helpful advice on our washing machine
£20.06
Wendy Whitehead
pressed wrong button! should have been
£37.50
Lindsay Kennedy
£125
Rebecca Harper
£26.75
Peter Joannides
£125
Rebecca Harper
£37.50
Lindsay Kennedy
£37.50
Elizabeth Underwood
£6.69
Vicky Burrows
£37.50
Lindsay Kennedy
£31.25
Ginni S
£37.50
Lindsay Kennedy
£26.75
Suzanne Tappern
£25
Jane Wilson
£37.50
Lindsay Kennedy
£53.50
Angela Bevan
In memory of a special person, who I never met.
£21.40
Angela Bevan
£37.50
Lindsay Kennedy
£37.50
Fiona Pringle
Thank you Dion. A wonderful cause to be able to support and very grateful for your support. Fiona
£37.50
Lindsay Kennedy
£31.25
Christopher Kemp
Many thanks, really appreciate the advice.
£25
Fiona Pringle
Thanks so much Dion
£30
Lorraine Maslen
Well done Dion keep up the good work ....We lost our sister Marilyn to this awful disease 15 yrs ago today ...Thanks Steve & Lorraine
£37.50
Celine Plum
Thank you, Dion.
£37.50
Lindsay Kennedy
£37.50
Lindsay Kennedy
£26.75
Catherine Mellor
£267.50
Maria Piccioni
In memory of a lovely lady.
£62.50
Niamh Sherwood
Thank you Dion for all your help and advice. You are doing such a wonderful thing in your lovely sister Fiona's memory.. Robert and Niamh
£25
Neil Govan
£26.75
Lynda Mann
£25
Amanda Stephens
Love helps us through our loss
£125
Henry Evans
Well done Dion, know how you feel. Charlie.
£13.38
Paul Gillen
£33.44
Julia Feeney
£32.10
Anne Crean
I'm sure Fiona would be very proud of you Dion.
£40.13
Paul Knight
£25
Sades Grenia
£12.50
Alistair Mclean
£250
Stuart Burton
£37.50
Mandeep Dhadwal
£37.50
Fiona Pringle
With thanks Fiona
£25
Rosamund Porter
£100
Penny Paterson
£2.59k
Dion Stallwood
Donated by my customers in January for help mending their appliances.
£640
Dion Stallwood
Gift Aid from my customer's donations for the month of January.
£25
Calum Macleod
Dion, your kindness shines through in the work you do and this huge amount of fundraising testifies to that, Calum and Abigail
£62.50
Kayleigh Henry
Help with oven
£62.50
Christine Aldridge
D/washer help
£50
Christine Aldridge
£2.82k
Dion Stallwood
Donated by my customers in February for help mending their appliances.
£648.75
Dion Stallwood
Gift Aid from my customer's donations for the month of February.
£60
Cleo Chrysanthou
£25
Paul Hughes
Hoping this contribution helps Regards Paul (Beko)
£250
Stephen Edwards
£62.50
Philip Hunter
Dion ...fixed oven
£25
Eluned Kenward
I was so sorry about your sister. Sorry it's taken me so long to do this. (and thank you for all the many times you've rescued my white goods!) Lyn
£2.19k
Dion Stallwood
Donated by my customers in March for help mending their appliances.
£580
Dion Stallwood
Gift Aid from my customer's donations for the month of March.
£37.50
Sheelagh Bowker
Love Dion!
£25
Liz Ryan
£75
C K Rackley
Contribution for washing machine repair
£62.50
Stephen Downey
Help from Dion
£125
Maria Mitchell
Rest in peace, Fiona, and know that you are much loved and missed.
£25
Jenny Edwards
£62.50
Duncan Jones
Amazing amount you have raised
£62.50
Sarah Parr
£95
Dion Stallwood
GA from donations.
£12.50
Nick Hopton
£37.50
Jonathan Dodd
£25
Roy Tuhy
£50
Carolyn Beech
£25
Henry Pringle
£25
Colette Vance
£62.50
Julie Woodward
Such a great cause and I
£37.50
David Jeans
£31.25
Tim Bray
Thanks Dion. Great cause.
£37.50
Les Mathias
Thanks Dion for great repair & in memory for your sister.
£20
Sarah Challis
£25
Henrietta Langley
What a wonderful tribute to a sister. I am sure she is as proud of you as you are of her. Thank you Deon for restoring my faith in humanity. Henri Langley
£31.25
Sheila Forde
£37.50
Kerry Giani
£62.50
John Crompton
Thanks for helping with our washing machine, you're a life-saver!
£62.50
Ben Neo
£25
Angela Devlin
£37.50
Sam Wrankmore
£31.25
Janet Gregory
£25
Caroline Catline
£25
Siobhan Rafter
Such a worthy cause.
£25
Crawford Anderson
Lovely tribute Dion. Pleased to help the cause.
£25
Jeanine Packham
From Stonecliffe
£1.06k
Gift Aid
Gift Aid
£40
Tim Lawrence
£25
Siobhan Dawson
Dion, this is fantastic amount money, that you have raised. Your Sister would be very proud of you. Well done. Siobh
£75
Mike Ryan
£37.50
Penny Smith
£31.25
Alice Mccarthy
£25
James Sinclair
£20
Jane Lewis
Thanks Dion, as always.
£75
Anthony Giblin
With many thanks Dion, Anthony & Karen Giblin
£50
Nicola Crompton
£75
Roger Woolven-allen
£25
Lynn Wheaton
£40
Natalie Higley
£25
Michael Whitfield
£25
Max Freeman
£25
Linda Luckett
Thank you Dion for coming to our aid so quickly. Really nice to see you again and catch up and such a great cause. Thank you Christian & Lin
£43.75
Mark Edwards
Thank You Dion.
£35
David Rodger
£25
Ron Schrieber
£25
Rebecca Connell
£37.50
Julia Leng
£50
Fiona Pringle
In memory of a lovely lady and with thanks to her kind and generous brother. Many thanks. Fiona
£65
Catherine Davis
£50
Clare Francis
£31.25
Bruce Duncan
£25
Karen Lawrence
£31.25
Alison Spiers Davis
Thank you Dion!
£25
Keith Winterbone
£62.50
Nicola Meadows
Dion, Thank you so much for your amazing help with my cooker fan element. And so sorry to learn about your big sister, and the photo of the two of you as children is beautiful. Nicky
£25
Hayley Keable-elliott
£81.25
Ally Evans
£62.50
Valerie Reid
£25
Astrid Marker
£50
Rosamund Porter
£37.50
Chris Pollard
£62.50
Gary Pugh
£62.50
Vince Hill
£246.25
Gift Aid
Gift Aid from January to 14 July 2021
£25
Terence Furlonger
£87.50
David Baron
£25
David Rodger
£75
Gift Aid
14th July -10th August
£37.50
Lindsay Kennedy
£50
Gen Callaghan
£30
Thomas Herrod-taylor
£25
Jenny Stevens
It was a pleasure meeting Dion, Fiona's brother.
£75
Peter Nightingale
£25
Adrian Cook
£20
Gift Aid
10th August - 03 Sept
£37.50
Lindsay Kennedy
£62.50
Alice Mccarthy
Thanks Dion, you're amazing donating your earnings to this brilliant charity.
£1.94k
Dion Stallwood
Donated by my customers in January for help mending their appliances.
£410.50
Dion Stallwood
Gift Aid from my customer's donations for the month of January.
£2.6k
Dion Stallwood
Donated by my customers in February for help mending their appliances.
£543.75
Dion Stallwood
Gift Aid from my customer's donations for the month of February.
£25
Ayaz Khan
Dion gave me some really good free advice about fixing my electric oven, which sorted out the problem. This small donation as a thank you!
£86.25
Charlotte Nicholl
£2.9k
Dion Stallwood
Donated by my customers in March for help mending their appliances.
£873.33
Dion Stallwood
Gift Aid from my customer's donations for the month of March.
£25
Christopher Warren
So young - all the best
£25
Deborah Took
£25
Deborah Took
£2.11k
Dion Stallwood
Donated by my customers in April for help mending their appliances.
£538.33
Dion Stallwood
Gift Aid from my customer's donations for the month of April.
£112.50
Paul Redston
£2.21k
Dion Stallwood
Donated by my customers in May for help mending their appliances.
£616.66
Dion Stallwood
Gift Aid from my customer's donations for the month of May.
£1.94k
Dion Stallwood
Donated by my customers in June for help mending their appliances.
£561.66
Dion Stallwood
Gift Aid from my customer's donations for the month of June.
£25
Jeremy And Laura Harmsworth
Thank you Dion for all the repairs and advice you have given over the years.
£1.47k
Dion Stallwood
Donated by my customers in July for help mending their appliances.
£386.60
Dion Stallwood
Gift Aid from my customer's donations for the month of July.
£250
Alison Musgrave
£3.04k
Dion Stallwood
Donated by my customers in August for help mending their appliances.
£948.33
Dion Stallwood
Gift Aid from my customer's donations for the month of August.
£75
Sarah Woodward
£2.88k
Dion Stallwood
Donated by my customers in September for help mending their appliances.
£603.75
Dion Stallwood
Gift Aid from my customer's donations for the month of September.
£25
James Parker
Thank you for all your help.
£62.50
Mark Osborne
Dion, I
£62.50
Rory Curran
Dion You
£25
Yvonne Goddard
Saw you on the news programme last night, think what you are doing is very generous.
£10
Online Donor
'I saw a news story on TV'
£25
Online Donor
'I saw a news story on TV'
£5
Online Donor
'I saw a news story on TV'
£10
Online Donor
'I saw a news story on TV'
£25
Joan Easton
£5
Online Donor
'Saw the news item on BBC website about the chap working for an extra year. Hopefully a few others will have chucked in, and he can give up!! Cheers Pete'
£25
Ravi Shah
£12.50
Annie Scrimshaw
Read about you on the BBC news website - so inspiring and your sister would be so proud I am sure. Hope you reach your target!
£2.81k
Dion Stallwood
Donated by my customers in October for help mending their appliances.
£701.25
Dion Stallwood
Gift Aid from my customer's donations for the month of October.
£200
Mark Meadowcroft
Glad you were there for each other
£4.02k
Dion Stallwood
Donated by my customers in November for help mending their appliances.
£878.75
Dion Stallwood
Gift Aid from my customer's donations for the month of November.
£25
Conor Prendergast
£625
Rachael Hannan
What an amazing woman, and what a beautifully written and heart felt memorial to her.
£93.75
Mike Smith
Help with cooker
£125
Tim Hodges
Well done for providing a worthwhile legacy in your sister
£25
Charles Raymond
£75
Charlotte Nicholl
£50
Cecilie Hodgson
£62.50
Martin Chander
£2.43k
Dion Stallwood
Donated by my customers in December for help mending their appliances.
£565.75
Dion Stallwood
Gift Aid from my customer's donations for the month of December.
£250
Dion Stallwood
£25
Geoffrey Smith
Washing machine advice over the phone for Kate and Geoff in Tidmarsh. Dion, many thanks yet again, and well done on raising so much in your sisters name, she would be very proud
£87.50
Pauline Elkington
£70
