# Over £40,000 raised for charity in memory of BBC cameraman

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2017/11/28/40000-raised-charity-memory-bbc-cameraman/
- Published: 2017-11-28T17:32:35+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**A committee led by author, journalist and BBC broadcaster Pat Murphy has raised
over £40,000 for Cure Leukaemia in memory of their friend Andy Payne who died of
leukaemia in 2016 aged 55.**

 

Payne was a BBC cameraman in the Midlands who worked on popular shows including 
Gardener’s World. He left a widow and three children.

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The committee’s aim was to raise enough to fund a specialist research nurse at the
Centre for Clinical Haematology at Birmingham’s Queen Elizabeth Hospital, a goal
which they have successfully beaten.

 

As well as former colleagues, the appeal attracted support from the cricketing world:
Payne had played for a number of cricket teams around the region.

 

> Andy Payne Fund A Nurse….you salmon fishers check out the Norway trip…great way
> to help !!! [https://t.co/RzUwZJTavT](https://t.co/RzUwZJTavT)
> — BeefyBotham (@BeefyBotham) [August 5, 2017](https://twitter.com/BeefyBotham/status/893780482479017985?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

 

 

 

## How they raised the funds

 

Pat Murphy, Anthony Monk, Andy Hickinbottom, Tom Moss, Malcolm Richards and [Cure Leukaemia](http://www.CureLeukaemia.co.uk)
co-founder Graham Silk formed a committee to raise funds through a series of [online auctions](https://www.jumblebee.co.uk/andypayne),
raffles and charity events.

 

Drawing on their professional contacts they managed to secure a host of ‘money can’t
buy’ items for people to bid for. These included:

 

 * a Match of the Day studio experience
 * a tour of Monty’s Don’s famous ‘Longmeadow’ garden
 * a coaching session with England cricket star Chris Woakes
 * lunch with Stiliyan Petrov and Martin O’Neill.

 

Murphy said, on behalf of the ‘Andy Payne Fund A Nurse’ committee: “The feeling 
is bittersweet for us as we would much rather still have our good friend Andy with
us but we are so pleased to have surpassed our fundraising target. We wanted to 
fund something tangible in Andy’s memory and it is heartening to think that patients
in similar position to Andy will have access to pioneering treatments for this cruel
disease through our funding of a specialist research nurse.

 

“We are eternally grateful to the many people who have helped us source these fantastic
auction items, without their generosity we would not have reached our goal. There
are too many people to thank and they know who they are! If our efforts save just
one life we will feel that this project has made a real difference.”

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