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.
Tickets for the 2007 Children’s Heart Association Ball of Hearts are now on sale. For tickets, contact Val Frew on 0151 733 1396, or see here for more information.
Want to know what Liverpool branch has been up to the last few months? The latest issue of the branch newsletter is now available in the downloads section (document ID CHA40-0007). See Downloads.
A collection organised by the Alder Hey branch on the streets of Ormskirk raised £150. Two collections in Liverpool in December raised over £1300 and another collection is planned for Saturday 12th February.
For one week in November, members of the Alder Hey branch ran a charity shop to raise funds for the Association.
Work started months before by advertising and collecting the donated items. The day arrived to prepare the shop in preparation for what we hoped to be a successful week. On Saturday we had a huge transit van fully loaded plus eight full car loads of saleable items. (We were amazed at the generosity of people). It took a team of 12 friends over five hours to unpack and display the goods.
On arrival at the shop on Monday morning (our first day) we were greeted by a queue of eager customers for the first of many bargains to be had. Even while opening the shop doors to get the volunteers in we were asked about prices for items which people could see on display. First to be sold was a rug. The shop is normally open 10-4 but due to demand we had to open 9-5! On Monday we had to close the doors twice due to the overwhelming number of customers who had turned up to see what bargains we had.
We had set a target of £1000 but we exceeded our expectations. In the first two days alone we took nearly £800 and although the remaining days weren’t as good we were more than pleased.
We had a lot of laughs on the way and met lots of lovely people. Our thanks go to everyone who donated and bought from our shop.
Val
It was a lovely sunny day and Liverpool branch’s first day out this year to Gulliver’s World in Warrington. It wasn’t a bad turn out about 10 families in all.
The bus picked us up from Alder Hey car park and dropped us off there too. At Gulliver’s World we all went our separate ways, although some families went round together others arranged to meet up for lunch.
The rides at Gulliver’s World are brilliant for the small children, from the flying Dumbo’s to the Log Flume. The children also had their faces painted and hair sprayed.
Goody bags were supplied by Tesco with thanks to Lisa who got in touch with them.
Pictures from the Southport Carnival are now online. You can view them here.
In another event, again organised by the Alder Hey branch, over £250 was raised for the Association. The event was in the form of a bingo night, with various prizes on offer.
Again, well done to the Alder Hey branch.
On a very rainy day in June, the Alder Hey branch took part in the Southport Carnival. Although the weather wasn’t good, the carnival itself went extremely well with nearly £2000 being raised for the Association.
In addition, of all the 46 floats that took part, the Association’s float won in the ‘Best Float’ competition.
Well done to Val Frew and the rest of the Alder Hey branch.
A picture of the float can be found on the Southport Forums website. Hopefully we’ll have more pictures from the day to follow.