by Anne | Mar 12, 2016 | News
Thank you so much to the staff of Manchester Museum. They put together an amazing Night at the Museum … the first time they have done this type of event for families.
We went on a hunt for fossil evidence, we checked out how fast dinosaurs were running, we photographed magical, musical, and mysterious items on a treasure hunt
We designed our own T shirts and screen printed them
There was a midnight screening of “Night at the Museum 2” of course
And in the morning we met a Royal Python, a Madagascan Chameleon and two Costa Rican leaf frogs.
by Anne | May 17, 2015 | News
Smart Storage have taken us on as their charity of the year and have already raised £380 for us with a sponsored Santa Dash.
We have a storage facility with the Bootle branch which is usually piled high with your donations ready for our next charity shop. Each time we run a week’s shop we can raise over £1000 so this storage facility is vital for our fundraising.
Thank you Smart Storage
by Anne | Apr 6, 2015 | News
Here are our exhausted bouncers after the hour of trampolining at Jump Nation. We had a fabulous time.
Robyn – in the centre – has raised over £1000 and others have raised around £500. We’ll have a grand total when all the sponsor money has been paid in. A huge thank you to everyone – and we can’t wait to do this again.
There was a hard game to play – spot the heart child. Sometimes the heart child was the one doing the upside-down somersaults and encouraging the unfit adults to try too!!
by Anne | Mar 8, 2015 | News
We are delighted to introduce you to our new patrons – Dr Denise Kitchiner and Dr Raman Patel. These doctors have now retired, but will be familiar to so many of our families – and many of our children owe their lives to their interventions. We are honoured to have them on board. Please have a look at the patrons page on our website. https://heartchild.info/web/about/patrons.
by Anne | Dec 27, 2014 | News
We’ve received a thank you from the play team at Ward 85 Manchester Children’s Hospital.
“Thank you so much for the £100. With this I have been able to buy cheaper up to date games. Thanks Jo play specialist x”
It’s the little things that we do which can make someone’s stay in hospital just that bit easier. Thanks to everyone who has helped us fund raise this year.
(And if Santa has been very kind to you do you have some old games you could donate to the ward?)
by Val | Sep 27, 2014 | News
On Sat 13th Sept we went to see Concorde at Runway Visitors park at Manchester Airport. It was a lovely warm afternoon and we met at 12.30 ready for our 12.50 tour. The size of Concorde was amazing to see.
We had the services of a guide to take us on board and tell us the history of Concorde. Some of our members even sat in the same seat as the Queen has done on her previous trips on Concorde. Other members got to sit where the Duke himself also sat when on state business with the Queen. They each like to have a window seat. We then went underneath Concorde and were amazed at the size of the wheels, they are huge, as are the engines.
After this we then went on a DC10 and had a 2hr tour of it and other planes. The staff told the story of the various jobs around the airport, e.g. firemen and women. The children then did some role playing, playing the parts of fireman, also they were interactive with other roles such as police, captain, pilot and cabin crew. We also got to see the planes taking off including double decker planes. We finished off getting a penny press of the planes as a keep sake.
What a fabulous afternoon, which everyone enjoyed.
Thanks, Val.
