The Jibraan Chaudhary Charity Rugby Match was a huge success and has so far raised almost £5000 for the Jibraan Chaudhary Sepsis Research Foundation. Almost 300 people attended the event which was held at Romsey Rugby Club’s home ground at Ganger Farm sports complex on Friday 25th April.
The junior teams from Romsey RFC and Embley school gave their time to raise funds in memory of their school friend.
A closely fought and thrilling match, Embley pipped Romsey to win 31-21 to lift the JCSR Foundation Cup for the first time. The ambition to grow the participants in the JCSR Foundation Cup from next year, involving as many of the local Schools and Rugby Clubs in Hampshire.
The JCSR Foundation Cup was presented to Embley by The Rt Hon Caroline Nokes, (MP for Romsey and Southampton North, and Deputy Speaker).
Jibraan’s former school, Embley, where he had just completed his A-Levels, and Romsey Rugby Club organized the inaugural annual JCSR Foundation Cup Rugby match as the Foundation’s first official fundraiser.
“The event was truly phenomenal and has exceeded all of our expectations. The commitment and spirit shown by the boys, the parents and the community are beyond words, simply saying thank you and how much this means to me and the family does not do justice to how we truly feel,’ said Dr Nveed Chaudhary, Jibraan’s father and Chairperson of the JCSR Foundation.
“I was in two minds about wanting to even attend the event,” said Samra Chaudhary, Jibraan’s mother and trustee of the JCSR Foundation, “I was afraid it would be too emotional and too overwhelming.” “But I am so happy I did, the support we’ve received is incredible, seeing the community come together, seeing all of Jibraan’s old school friends attend, has shown me just how much he was loved and that together we can through funding innovative research, offer options for Leukemia patients in the future.”
“We hope that from out tragic loss, others can, in Jibraan’s memory survive if in the future, Leukemia patients develop infections during chemotherapy,” said Nveed.
The Jibraan Chaudhary Sepsis Research (JCSR) Foundation was set up in December 2024, in memory of our son Jibraan Chaudhary, who passed away on Nov 16th 2024, after being diagnosed in Aug 2024 with a rare aggressive form of Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML).
Despite being in remission after two cycles of chemotherapy, during the third round of preventative chemotherapy, Jibraan developed an antibiotic-resistant skin infection, and with his immune system obliterated by the chemotherapy, Jibraan succumbed to septic shock and multiple organ failure.
As an extremely underfunded area of medical research the JCSR Foundation was set up to fund medical research specifically to find innovative management and treatment options for leukemia chemotherapy patients who develop infections during their treatment.
Whilst all the revenue streams are still being tallied up since the event yesterday, so far, the event has raised £4650.00. There is still an ongoing silent auction which will run for a month, which has some fantastic prizes, donated by the Embley and Romsey Rugby Club community including a Glider experience day, an authenticated England Rugby Ball signed by Martin Johnson and Jonny Wilkinson and two tickets to the autumn England v New Zealand match at Twickenham. Anyone can bid on these prizes by visiting https://shorturl.at/B4yKX.
