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Dance For Meg - 9th August 2025
From lunchtime on the 1st July 2025, you'll be able to grab your ticket for what promises to be another fantastic evening in celebration of Megan's birthday.
Ticket prices: £18 for Adults £15 for Children
Dinner options for this year include:
Mini Fish & Chips
Sausage & Chips
Vegetarian Patty & Chips
As always we'll be hosting a silent auction and a raffle, with some exciting prizes up for grabs. Drinks and snacks will be available for purchase throughout the evening. Feel free to bring your own alcohol too - just come ready to enjoy yourselves!
For those who can't make it in person, fear not - online bidding for auction items will be open until 6pm on the 9th August. Keep an eye on our Facebook and Instagram pages for a sneak peak at the prizes and details on how to place your bids.
If you'd like to donate a raffle prize, we'd be hugely thankful for your generosity and continued support.
And remember - whether you've got dance moves or just enthusiasm, come along for a fun, relaxed evening. It's all for wonderful causes, and we'd love to celebrate with you.
Women's Euro Competition - Closing Date 2nd July at 6pm
Just £2.50 gets you in the game for a chance to win a £15 Amazon voucher - plus, every penny goes to our supported causes.
No footy knowledge needed - just take a punt and cheer on our Lionesses as they roar toward glory!
Why not get involved? It's all in good fun..... and you might just come out on top!
You can download the entry form from our Events page here, it includes all the details you need to take part.
Fantasy Football League
Just for Fun!
This year, we kicked off our very own Fantasy Football League.
With five teams in the running, here's how the leader board stacked up:
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Bend it Like Becks with 2339 pts
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Bacuna Matata with 2326 pts
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We are the Champions with 2122 pts
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That's numberHwang with 2086 pts
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Jiggys New Knee FC with 1866 pts
Were already looking forward to next season and hope to see even more teams join the fun. Whether you're a football fanatic or just in it for the banter, there a spot for you in the league!
Family Quiz Night - 5th April 2025
Our very first Quiz Night took place on the 5th April at St Nicolas Church, and it was a fantastic success!
The event drew a great turnout, with 15 enthusiastic teams going head-to-head on trivia spanning the decades.
Congratulations to the aptly named winners Came for the crisps, who took an early lead and held-strong - securing victory by an impressive 8 point margin and taking home the coveted Chocolate hamper.
Campaigning News - Thursday 13th March 2025
On 13th March, the article above was published in the Metro Newspaper. Although the interview took place a couple of months or so ago, the impact of the article went some way to show the government that we haven't gone away - we very much continue with the fight to get the sentencing guidance changed. We will continue to fight and to keep up the pressure on those in charge. You can read the full article here.
Why was my Daughter's murder treated less seriously? Because it happened in the Home!
International Women's Day- Thursday 6th March 2025
Jess Phillips has now marked ten years of reading out the names of women killed by men in the House of Commons - a solemn act that continues to resonate across Parliament and beyond. This year, as we witnessed, she read out 95 names, taking over four minutes to do so, with many MPs standing in silence and visibly emotional.
It was another emotionally challenging day, with sadly lots more families in attendance., including Julie Devey OBE, (Poppy's mum), Carole Gould OBE (Ellie's mum), the family of Fawziyah Javad and Zara Aleena, to name just a few well known stories of murder, system failings and heart-breaking grief.
The event was followed by a reception for Killed Women, and their own tribute to the 95 names read out. In addition this year, a tribute was given to Chloe Holland because her name would never normally be read out on this list. Chloe is one of the many women who died from suicide, or in unclear, sinister and hidden circumstances where there is known to be a history of domestic abuse or sexual violence.
Whilst we wait for the Judicial Review into sentencing to take place, KW are creating awareness of "Hidden Homicides". This is a term that you will begin to hear regularly in the coming months as KW help to raise the profiles of such cases.
Ibstock's Tribute to Megan - 27th February 2025
We were invited to Ibstock Brick for the unveiling of Megan’s Bench. Megan’s bench was the design and creation by Nigel and Andrew who were Megan’s colleagues at Ibstock Brick, and who had spent such dedication and work in their free time to create such a labour of love with the outcome being such a stunning memorial in her memory, placed in front of the Cherry Blossom tree planted in her honour last year.
It was such a beautiful sunny day for a February and kept dry for the cutting of the Ribbon adorning the bench.
This beautiful bench has a plaque which reads “In Loving Memory of Megan Newborough. Your Memory We Treasure, Forgetting you never” with Tinkerbell waving her wand each side.
It was an emotional day, with a video presentation from Joe (CEO at Ibstock Brick) who unfortunately couldn’t be there, followed by some stories of memories of Megan whilst working with her, and the incredible impact she had on friends and colleagues.
But it meant so much to us to be invited to Ibstock and be a part of the legacy that they have created in honour and memory of our wonderful Megan.
September 2024
We were one of seven families taking part in the Blue & Black Plaque Campaign highlighting murders with Domestic Abuse. There have been many reports in the media, with interviews including both BBC and ITV and newspaper articles. We're pushing for the government to meet us to discuss the sentencing guidelines, and continue to put them under pressure to force them to make the change.
Not Dead Yet Band
13 September 2024
"Not Dead Yet Concert - 13th September 2024
Over in Northern Ireland, the "Not Dead Yet" Band held another fantastic evening to raise funds for the Foundation. Megan's Uncle Steven is part of a group that meet regularly to just enjoy playing and singing music. Last year was the first time they had ever performed together in concert raising funds for us, and as it was enjoyed by so many, they decided to do it again this year.
We're really glad they did raising £665 for our nominated causes.
Walking for Meg
On the 21st August 2024, Megan's cousin Georgia and her friend Abbie walked a marathon length 26 mile walk across the Peak District.
They walked to raise awareness and funds for the Megan Newborough Foundation, Killed Women, White Ribbon UK and the Dogs Trust. Such a fantastic achievement that both these young ladies have completed, raising £450 for the foundation.
Well done Georgia and Abbie.
Donations can still be made via our Donate page.
"Dance for Meg" Event 10th August 2024
Another fantastic evening for Megan's 27th Birthday. Another £3000 raised towards our nominated causes.
A massive thank you to everyone who supported us and donated to event. Our sponsors include, Northampton Saints Rugby Club; CCFC; Alton Towers; Warwick Castle; Odeon Cinema; The Snowdome; Greggs; The Co-op (Attleborough); The Cowshed; Love Willow Florist; Blades Hair Salon; Sainsburys; Farm foods; and all our friends and family.
We are planning ahead for next year, so save the date 9th August 2025.
Reception with the New Labour Government
The Home Secretary Yvette Cooper and the new Minister for Safeguarding Jess Phillips invited Killed Women to attend a reception on 31st July in London. It was an opportunity to hear that with everything the new government has on the agenda, that they have not forgotten us. Although no timeframes were indicates - we watch this space and will wait, but not for too long - Ministers be warned!
Talent Showcase - 13th July 2024
The evening held at St Nicolas Church, was an incredible evening showcasing an amazing range of talent! With songs from various musicals, including Rent, Les Misérables, Waitress, Dear Evan Hanson, plus many more and across so many genres, with Bon Jovi's "Wanted Dead or alive" Take That's "Shine" to John Rutter's "The Lord Bless You and keep you".
Thanks to your kindness, generosity and support, the event raised over £1000. THANK YOU so very, very much to everyone involved.
Euro 2024 Competition
The final results are in:
Congratulations to Player 240054 who won with a total of 58 points!
Euro 2024 Fantasy Football
Although we didn't get many join our Fantasy Football League - those that did had a lot of fun. It also helped to keep our interest during the football marathon! Congratulations to Mbacon Mbappe who stole the lead at the final match!
BBC News
We joined MP Jess Phillips in Parliament for the annual reading of the list of women killed by men in the past year. The MP became emotional as she looked up to the Public Gallery and saw the families of Killed Women standing as a mark of respect, whilst the names were read out.
ITVX
With Julie Devey and Carole Gould, Elaine took part in an interview with Julie Etchingham to discuss the change needed in the sentencing rules for fatal domestic attacks.
Warning: Contains Graphic and Distressing descriptions which you may find upsetting
Killed Women
Elaine joined mums Julie Devey and Carole Gould from Killed Women to create a video in response to the Ministry of Justice's consultation with the Public around reforms to the Sentencing Guidance for Murder.
Warning: Contains Graphic and Distressing descriptions which you may find upsetting.
'Not Dead Yet'
In honour of the Foundation, Megan's Uncle Steve performed at a gig and they chose to fundraise at the event on behalf of the Megan Newborough Foundation. They had donation buckets around the gig with information about all the charities we currently donate to, and they raised a whopping £370! To see 'Not Yet Dead' in action, please click here to watch the video of the event.
'Dance for Meg'
To celebrate Meg's 26th Birthday, we held our first big Fundraising event for the Foundation and we decided, in honour of Meg's favourite pastime, to hold a Barn and Line Dance with great success! Throughout the night we were taught several entertaining Barn and Line Dances, enjoyed a tasty meal of Fish and Chips, a wide range of Raffle prizes and finished with an incredible Auction which included the famous 'Megalodon' tooth. It was an evening enjoyed by all and due to high demand, we will be holding this event again for Meg's Birthday in 2024.
'Run for Meg'
During the trial, Meg's family and friends decided to join a Parkrun and raise money for the White Ribbon charity as something good to focus on throughout the gruelling trial. The support and attendance from Meg's family and friends was so overwhelming and we raised an whopping £7000 for White Ribbon.
