Following the launch of Adam's Festival of Hope Appeal, supported by Withybush Hospital Trust and the Welsh Blood Service, Lord Gordon Parry's next assignment as the figure head of the appeal was to open the Tribute Concert at Folly Farm, Begelly, tomorrow (Saturday), at 7 pm, with a special message from Brian May from the pop group Queen, written for Adam. Sadly, Lord Gordon passed away, ironically, two days after attending a special memorial barbecue attended by friends and family of Adam Evans-Thomas, who died in February, after losing his courageous battle against leukaemia. Lord Gordon was renowned for his support of charity work in Pembrokeshire and will be sadly missed by the members of Adam's appeal group. While Adam was alive, Lord Gordon supported his work of recruiting blood and bone marrow donors by speaking eloquently at the fundraising balls of his own experience with cancer. He was only too aware of the importance of blood and bone marrow donors. Now the appeal must move forward without its well-known and well loved figurehead. The Folly Farm Tribute Concert was to be the launch pad for a year of intensive fundraising by Adam's friends and family towards the goal of a new Day Unit on Ward 10 for all cancer patients and an acute bed in the new Bone Marrow Transplant Unit in the University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff. Alongside this fundraising was the other aspiration by the appeal to start recruiting blood and bone marrow donors over the year with the hope of reaching the target of 5,000 new names on the Welsh Blood Donor Registry by June 16, 2005. The culmination of the appeal - an unprecedented, all-day event at Carew Airfield - a combination of Red Nose Day, a mini County Show and 'Proms in the Park' music, drama and dance programme, an evening rock concert called Adam's Festival of Hope will bring the year to a close with the final push to raise the ambitious amount of £250,000 for the new units and 5,000 Pembrokeshire names on the Welsh registry. A fitting legacy that both Adam and Lord Gordon Parry would be proud of. The tickets to Folly Farm are £10 and are available from Swales Music, High Street. Haverfordwest, and by telephoning 01437 762428 or 01437 762431. Registration forms for blood and bone marrow donors are available from Trudi Evans on 01443 622000.