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The “A” Factor

Come down to our next fund raising event on Friday 20th November 2009 at Cafe Artisan in Rawtenstall.  We’re having an “A” Factor singing competition where there’ll be a prize for the best (and worse!) performance of the evening.  Along with that there’ll be loads more goings on such as our raffle with prizes ranging from signed football shirts (Blackburn and Preston*) to vouchers for local shops, so get yourself a ticket!  There will also be a charity auction including a signed Burnley match shirt from the Burnley vs. Arsenal game (captain’s shirt).  Bids can be placed via email if you can’t attend – go to our contact page.

*We have had to withdraw the Republic of Ireland football shirt from the raffle. We found out recently that this was not donated to the raffle as initially thought. However, we have been informed that we should be expecting a Northern Ireland football shirt after this event that we will hold a separate auction for. Apologies if this has caused any issues.

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“Make us a brew”

“Make us a brew” is our annual tea and coffee drive that we run September/ October time for the special care baby unit at St. Mary’s Hospital in Manchester.  The unit is an amazing place with wonderful staff, and this is our little way of helping out.  When we stayed at the special care unit with our son Dexter, we were incredibly well looked after.  The month we got to spend with him, we drank more cups of tea than we care to remember.  For obvious reasons, all the money goes into care for the babies at the unit, but there are also parents rooms and a small kitchen area for parent’s who are staying on the ward if their baby is very ill.  Even though it’s not much, by providing some little things like tea, coffee and biscuits for the parent’s kitchen (and also as a treat for the staff) it goes some way towards helping.  As they say, it’s the little things.

We dropped off 3 boxes full of such items to the special care unit today (October 15th 2009) that were kindly donated by friends and family.  We’d like to keep this going and up the effort in the coming months, so watch this space….

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