by Matthew | Oct 5, 2008 | News
A sincere “Thank You” from all of us at the Childrens Heart Association, your support and donations go a long way to helping us fulfil our aims.
Thank you to Dr James Tornos for a donation of £200; all the staff at BAA Business Support Centre Ltd for a donation of £235.53 which was raised on the back of your monthly dress down day; Bob and Marion Hitchen for a donation of £120 which you raised on the back of your Diamond Wedding Anniversary; Tom and Jean Hitchen for a donation of £150 raised by donations at your Diamond Wedding anniversary; and Mrs Brenda Buttery for your very kind donation of £120, which you raised through the fun run/walk for your grandson’s 1st birthday.
by Val | Jul 5, 2008 | News
Yellow Duck, Liverpool. We plan months in advance for our days out and when it is a summer trip we assume (wrongly) it will be a beautiful summers day. Well in advance I had arranged this day, booked 2 ducks, arranged a swap in my work and booked a private room for our picnic lunches afterwards. What I forgot to book (well I wish I could) was the weather – it was rain rain rain.
We had departure times of 11.45am and noon so we all met at 11.30am at the stop at the Albert Dock ready for our departures. We had our photo’s taken then started to board. The 1st duck left and then the second one which I was on.
We had a commentator who was telling us about buildings of interest. When we hit the city centre as Liverpool is Capital of Culture for 2008, we have over 100 Superlamb Bananas which are very colourful. The children on my side would shout “Superlamb Banana” and then all children would dash to that side, then someone else would shout here is one on this side and the children dashed from one side to the other.
It was pouring with rain so we had to have the plastic side on so although the view wasn’t too bad it wasn’t marvelous. The children had a fabulous time and the tour lasted about 50 minutes. When we went into the dock we all had to scream as loud as we could for splash down and I am reliably informed by 2 children there are sharks in the dock water (what lovely imaginations they have). On the way out of the water we had to sing “We all live in a yellow submarine” and even without music we did pretty well – watch out as who knows, we might even get picked for Liverpool’s got talent.
We then headed for our picnic lunch and that was enjoyable, then on to see museums, etc. I believe a good day was had by all despite the bad weather and it was a good turnout.
Val
by Matthew | Jan 15, 2008 | News
The Children’s Heart Association would like to thank all those at the Eli Lilly Speke site for their support of our charity. Their donation of £1000 is greatly appreciated and will go a long way to allow us to fulfil our charity’s aims of helping children with congenital heart defects and their families through the difficult times they face.
by Matthew | Nov 1, 2007 | News
Thanks to John and Lorraine Welsh who have supported us for the past few years. They regularly put on bands who plays Blues from here and the U.S.A at the Liverpool Marina and they hold a raffle and donate the raffle money to the Association..
This year alone they have donated £866 so far, so a huge thank you to them for their continued support it is very much appreciated.
by Matthew | Nov 1, 2007 | News
It’s been a busy year for all our Justgiving supporters and thank you to them all.
Stephen McCay riased over £1065, Denise Richie raised over £520, Mark Jones raised over £310, Kathryn Orgill raised over £225. Mark Reynolds, Jason Powell, Amie Cross raised over £197 taking part in the Ramshackle Rally from Calais to Valencia. Thank you also to Darren Kaye who raised £85 and Izzy Brown who raised £10 and to Tom West and Brian Page for their support.
by Matthew | Nov 1, 2007 | News
It’s not many more weeks now until the next Children’s Heart Week in February 2008. Children’s Heart Week 2007 was a great event for the Association with many local schools supporting us and around 500 children taking part in balloon launches and other fundraising and awareness activities.
Parklands High School, Chorley, raised £1,255.00; Highfields Primary School, Chorley, raised £125.00; Euxton Primary School, Chorley, raised £100.00; Christ Church Primary, Aughton, raised £418.74; St. John’s Primary, Southport, raised £298.00; Marshside Primary, Southport, raised £240.26; Crossens Nursery School, Southport, raised £74.67. See the Liverpool branch Autumn newsletter (CHA40-0011) for photos and to see what else the Association has been up to.
