Our congratulations to Lily Clough who successfully climbed the Uhuru peak on Mt. Kilimanjaro. As well as the shear challenge, Lily was raising funds for the Children’s Heart Association.
Here are some photos from her adventure:
January saw the start of our events for 2014 and to celebrate 40 years as a registered charity we aim to do 40 events throughout the year.
We began with ice skating at Deeside Leisure centre. We had a good turn out and the families had so much fun. There was music to skate too and we had mixed abilities
so all could join in. Thank you to the older children who helped the younger ones.
This was fun for all the family and mum’s and dad’s joined in too – some mum’s and dad’s admitted it was like recapturing their youth.
Happy days.
Saturday 25th January 2014
We had a fun afternoon at Boomerang Sensory play centre in Bury yesterday (Sat 25th Jan).
They have a soft play room with a great slide – Thomas’s mum’s toe is still recovering – and I hear Alfie’s dad had something to do with it too. There is a quiet sensory room where Freddie enjoyed launching himself into the ball pool with clear balls that changed colour with the light below. But my favourite room was the interactive room with noisy touch games on the wall and an interactive mat where you could walk on the piano keys, or chase frogs or jump on the drum kit. The interactive game changed every couple of minutes so no-one got bored. Harry and George had fun there too.
Great to catch up with Dylan’s mum and dad over a cuppa. We’ll definitely do it again sometime.
Check out their website at www.boomerangcentre.co.uk.
Congratulations and our thanks to Kevin Fitzsimmons who has raised over £300 for the Association competing in the Eden Project marathon. Kevin says
“Completed the Eden Project marathon in 4hours 8mins absolutely crazy course (forests,big puddles, mud to your ankles, down country lanes, up big hills including scrambling up one huge one) with crazy weather (rain with thunder and lightning) but it was all good fun and for a great cause!”
Last year’s Ball of Hearts took a detour from our usual venue and instead it was hosted under the wings of Concorde at Manchester Airport. Cheshire Life magazine ran a feature on the event.
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Our Ball of Hearts is always an enjoyable occasion, there are more photos from this and previous events in our Gallery, and keep an eye on our website for announcements for this year’s Ball of Hearts.