For over 30 years our Lions club have sold raffle tickets in local P.H.s raising funds for worthy causes
This March we shall be focussing our fundraising on Johnny Rigby’s Black Boy P.H. on the Warwick Road at Chadwick End, where we shall be selling raffle tickets both lunchtime and evenings from Tuesday 16th March until the draw on Maundy Thursday 1st April
We hope you will pop in for a meal and a drink and allow us to sell you a ticket or 4 for a £1. As usual the prize will be a huge basket selection of Thorntons Easter Eggs worth over £60. Remember the winner does not have to eat them all - well not over Easter anyway
We thank the management of the Black Boy for their continuing support. If you know of a company who may like to sponsor this event in the future please get in touch
This year’s beneficiaries will be
There are almost 11,000 people in the West Midlands with Parkinson’s disease, a degenerative brain condition affecting everyday movements such as walking, talking and swallowing. One in twenty of these people are under the age of 40, have young children and a promising career at the time of diagnosis. There is currently no cure for Parkinson’s disease and no way to halt its progression.
Entirely funded by voluntary donations, the Parkinson’s Disease Society provides emotional, practical, financial and medical support to people with Parkinson’s and their families. The Society is also the UK’s leading non-commercial funder of research into Parkinson’s, searching for improved treatments and ultimately a cure.
www.parkinsons.org.uk
Teenage Cancer Trust ensures that every young person with cancer and their family receives the best possible care and professional support.
The charity is running a £1million appeal in the West Midlands to help build a specialist teenage cancer unit for 13 – 16 year olds. The six bed unit at Birmingham Children’s Hospital, will compliment the recently refurbished unit at the University Hospital for older teenagers and young people up to 24. Teenage Cancer Trust will also be enhancing a ward and providing recreational facilities at the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital – ultimately providing young people from the West Midlands with some of the best facilities and options in the country.
www.teenagecancertrust.org
Turning Ordinary Days into Extraordinary Adventures!
Via the medium of flight, fly2help works with families, individuals, groups and like-minded charities to stretch physical, mental and emotional boundaries that have been set by life trauma or tragedy.
fly2help is committed to supporting anyone who could benefit, regardless of age or circumstance, typically supporting the terminally ill, chronically sick and bereaved. In addition, there are those who simply need a life boost; including those who face neglect and abuse, and those facing exclusion from society on a regular basis as a result of mental ill-health, sickness, disability, injury or financial deprivation.
www.fly2help.org
 Local causes
We shall also retain upto 30% of the proceeds from this year’s event for locally identified causes. Recent examples can be found at Where the Money Goes If you know of such a worthy cause, please let us know
2009 Success
Last year was no exception when we held raffles at the Drum and Monkey & Black Boy. We are pleased to announce we raised over £2450 for Macmillan Cancer Support, Whizz-Kidz, Lions Campaign SightFirst ll as well as local causes.
The winners, both local ladies, both had a tale to tell:
Simone Fox from Knowle had her 40th birthday the day we delivered her prize basket and
Jayne Stoddart from Bentley Heath had already entered for the Knowle Fun Run and promised that the Easter eggs would not get in the way of her training – honest! |
