A little while ago Aston Martin asked me if I fancied a few weeks razzing around in their commuter cygnet model. It just so happened that I was, surprise surprise, totally up for it. They delivered ( avec James Bond theme tunes cd, which made me roar as I pulled away!) and I experienced a very pleasant few weeks nipping around the cote d’azur, causing a bit of a stir at the valet parking counters I can tell you! Here’s a piccy.

Take the Leap, set to take place in September 2012, will offer an elite group of 40 civilian participants the chance to take on Royal Marines fast rope abseil training – and put their new skill into practice by abseiling from the roof of St Pancras station or into Twickenham rugby ground. The abseil was very daunting, but I was in very safe hands throughout. A few minutes of panic for me, and those who sign up to Take the Leap, is nothing compared to what our Royal Marines do for us each and every day.

The Commando Spirit Appeal and Series of events are amazing and I am so proud to offer my support. I’d encourage everyone to find out about Commando Spirit and get involved in some way to show support for the Royal Marines who face great danger on a daily basis in order to protect our country.”

I was also joined at the Take the Leap launch by a team of Commando Spirit participants, all of whom braved the first Series challenge – Escape the Dunker – in September this year, along with Sally-Anne Hunter, Founder and Director of the Commando Spirit Appeal.

Sally-Anne said: “We are thrilled to have launched this next phase of the Commando Spirit Series and are very pleased to have Suzi on board. The first challenge was a huge success, with a brave band of 24 people stepping up to show their mettle and raise funds for this most deserving cause.

“The Leap promises to be even more exciting, with such landmark venues offering a truly unique chance to show what you’re made of.

“That is what Commando Spirit is all about – showing you have that courage, grit and determination to put yourself through elements of real Commando training, and raise vital funds in the process.”

For more information on the Commando Spirit Appeal or Take the Leap, please visit www.commandospirit.com.

I’m working on restructuring the interior of my house and also researching bee keeping, I want to keep bees. If you have any advice on the little buzzers, feel free to email me, I would appreciate and pointers.

I will bring you more information on this when I have it

Cheers and much love

Sooze xx

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The weather was really kind and in spite of a not too good forecast, the sun shone for us all and the outcome was phenomenal.

At the end of the day Beacon were calling £88,000 raised but the final amount was yet to come and this morning, the 20th June, Fresh made the announcement that the the total raised was……….

£103,000!

a lot of tears were shed at the Promise Dreams office this morning because we can only imagine just how many dreams are going to be delivered in the next few months to so many lovely kids.

It was so lovely listening to so many of you who took part, telling your stories on Beacon. Thank you – every one of you.

From Steve, Don, Beverley and myself – a heartfelt thank you.

To Beacon – hats off to you all for such a brilliant job. Your organisation was fab.

Photos courtesy of Benjamin Lycett

I was accompanied on Tuesday and Saturday by model Olivia Inge, who incidentally was the lovely lady in the opening sequences for BBC’s coverage each day.  On Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, my co-presenter was milliner Louis Mariette.

Sadly this year I was without my lovely James Sherwood and I missed him very much.

Lots of people on twitter have been asking about my outfits for the week so below, thought you might like to see some pix.

Pix courtesy of Graeme McAlpine at www.mcalpine.tv

Beacon presenters have teamed up with the University of Wolverhampton to urge people from across the region to don their walking shoes and walk 10 miles to help raise as much money as possible.

The Walk of the Black Country will start at Himley Hall, Dudley and finish at Wolverhampton Racecourse in Dunstall, Wolverhampton. The event is FREE to enter meaning all the sponsorship money will be going to Promise Dreams.

You can enter at beaconradio.co.uk and get all the information about the walk.

You know all about Promise Dreams but if you have a minute or two, please check out the video here to see why Steve, Don and I care so passionately about our charity.

Matt Ramsbottom the MD at Beacon adds – “we’re really excited about our Walk of the Black Country and hope that lots of people will join us on the day”

Bev Bird our Charity Manager at Promise Dreams said “we’re so pleased to be part of this event and although 10 miles is a challenge, it’s certainly achievable and I’m sure that the crew from Beacon will keep everyone going!”

The lovely Beverley Knight will be there and hopefully so too will Jacqui Graham and her family.

I know that Beacon is over the moon with the amount of people that have already registered and we are all so happy that so many of you have already agreed to be there. It should be a fab day so I am really looking forward to seeing you on the 19th.

If you want to support us but can’t physically make it on the day, I have put a Just Giving page in case anyone wants to commit to sponsoring.

We Did It! See the day here!

For the second successive year, Wolves FC teamed up with Harvey Nichols, top Birmingham Department store, to stage a fashion show to raise funds for the Alzheimer’s Society which is one of Matt Murray’s testimonial charities.

Several of our first team squad bravely took to the catwalk watched by the rest of the team and hundreds of guests.  Some of their wives and girlfriends supported them adding much glamour to the proceedings and a very lovely night was had by all.  I hosted the evening along with Danielle Lloyd, fiancée of our midfielder Jamie O’Hara.  My word, what a very handsome squad we have at the Molineux.

Take a look at some of the pictures taken on the evening – thanks to Sam Bagnall for the use of the pix on 07767 274924 or www.samphoto.co.uk

Poppett and Trevor T's Gorgeous Show Girls

At the beginning of March, I was part of a truly wonderful evening to celebrate the 10^th Anniversary of Promise Dreams with an anniversary dinner that was second to none.

A fabulous night was had by all at Dunstall Racecourse on the 5^th March 2011.  With the launch of our tenth year – the Promise Dreams Team and over 400 kind people joined together to have a superb evening to raise monies for Promise Dreams.

The evening got off to a thunderous start with Trevor T and his gorgeous show girls treating the room to a spectacular show including fire throwers and stilt walking and getting all the guests doing the conga around the tables  - and that was all before the starters were served!!

The evening festivities continued with a beautifully presented 4 course dinner and then onto the other festivities.

I was honoured to host the event along with Steve Bull and it was a delight to introduce Beverley Knight onto the stage.   She entertained the crowd with an acoustic set with songs from the past and present and it was lovely to have her stay for the whole evening with her lovely mum.  To have one soul diva was amazing but then 80’s legend, Jaki Graham took to the stage and rocked the crowd – many of the guests joined her on stage!

Jaki Graham and Family

A DVD showing all of our guests what the charity was about was delivered in total silence and I believe that bidding on the Auction items was  inspired by the footage shown because a quick-fire round of bidding ensued  raising a record breaking amount of money for the Charity – thank you so much everyone for your wonderful support

Dancing until 2am finished off what can only be described as a superbly successful evening – and one that we hope will set the tone for the fundraising from now forward….

with Steve and Beverley

If you would like to attend one of our events then you can join us at Beacon Radio’s Walk of the Black Country with monies raised coming to Promise Dreams. If this is something that you would like to take part in, you can go to www.beaconradio.co.uk and register.

For more info on Promise Dreams, check out www.promisedreams.co.uk