PEOPLE in Furness are warm-hearted and generous and, over the years, they have gone out of their way to raise much-needed cash for a variety of charitable causes.

Fashion shows and sponsored walks and runs have all been staged, with people taking the time and effort to raise money for those in need or for local groups and organisations.

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Some of the fund-raising ideas have been particularly wacky.

In 1990 cricketers Roy Carton and Bob Mackie took part in a one-mile sponsored ‘nose sprout push’ at Haverigg Cricket Club to raise funds for the club.

After finishing their two-and-a-half marathon effort, Bob headed off to Askam to help Haverigg A team achieve victory in a cup match.

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The wacky theme continued in 1993 as people in Furness raised cash for Comic Relief.

Two Barrow schoolboys sat in a bath outside the Tally Ho pub while onlookers splattered them with baked beans, spaghetti and cold soup.

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Scott James, ten, and Matthew Robson, 11, who lived at Romney Road, raised £101.

They were not the only Furness folk to devise original money-making schemes for Red Nose Day that year.

Tracey Dickinson, assistant head cook at Furness General Hospital, also sat in a bath while colleague Christine Redfern doused her in pink custard.

Pupils from Barrow’s Thorncliffe School cheered as Crellin Street hairdresser Ken Riley shaved off the 23-year-old beard of teacher Charlie Mills. 

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Mr Mills’s sponsored shave netted £200 and a mufti day at Thorncliffe brought in another £300 as pupils paid 50p each for the privilege of not wearin

Two Barrow schoolboys sat in a bath outside the Tally Ho pub while onlookers splattered them with baked beans, spaghetti and cold soup. Scott James, ten, and Matthew Robson, 11, who lived at Romney Road, raised £101.

They were not the only Furness folk to devise original money-making schemes for Red Nose Day that year.

%image('12075214', type='article-full', caption='CHEERS: Kay Charnley, Julie Bland and Tracy Venn drink to the success of their fashion show in 1989, which raised £648.07 for the NCPCC.', alt='CHEERS: Kay Charnley, Julie Bland and Tracy Venn drink to the success of their fashion show in 1989, which raised £648.07 for the NCPCC.')

Tracey Dickinson, assistant head cook at Furness General Hospital, also sat in a bath while colleague Christine Redfern doused her in pink custard.

Pupils from Barrow’s Thorncliffe School cheered as Crellin Street hairdresser Ken Riley shaved off the 23-year-old beard of teacher Charlie Mills. 

Mr Mills’s sponsored shave netted £200 and a mufti day at Thorncliffe brought in another £300 as pupils paid 50p each for the privilege of not wearing uniform.

uniform.

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Meanwhile 214 children at Yarlside Primary School in Barrow leapfrogged over one another to Yarlside Stores, a mile away.

Passers-by forked out £120 to top up the £140 collected by the school.

Staff at Barrows’ social security office collected £400 by selling cakes and soup and sponsoring a colleague to have his beard and moustache shaved.

With a community that it always willing to give towards many causes, the Furness area will always support others.