Category Fundraising
St Gabriel’s Juniors are good at surprises!
Well it’s a New Year and Friends of Young Carers (West Berks) are off to a flying start thanks to the incredible generosity of the friends and parents of St Gabriel’s School Junior Department. Elaine and myself were invited into an assembly a couple of weeks ago as the children wanted to reveal the amount […]
SHAKE IT ALL OVER!!
Yes that’s right, Friends of Young Carers (West Berkshire) will be bucket shaking at Tesco Extra in Newbury on Wednesday 9th December from 9:30 -5pm in partnership with our friends from Newbury Rotary Club. Newbury Rotary are kindly arranging a Christmas Party for West Berkshire Young Carers to be held on the 18th […]
LOCAL PRIMARY SCHOOL STRIDE OUT FOR CHARITY!
We would like to say a HUGE thank you to Whitelands Primary School in Thatcham, West Berkshire for raising an amazing £900 for Friends of Young Carers (West Berkshire). The sponsored walk took place in June and you can read all about it in the newspaper article which came out shortly after. It is so […]
2ND ANNUAL EASTER BAKE SALE
We really enjoyed our 1st Easter Bake Sale last year and it didn’t take much encouragement for the Trustees to get their sleeves rolled up and make some more delicious tempting treats for this year’s sale. I must admit, having not read the small print on just how long it takes to ‘prove’ a hot cross bun, […]
CURRY NIGHT 2nd March
Our fundraising continues with a sumptuous Curry Night at Indigo Bay Restaurant in Newbury on Monday 2nd March. Limited spaces so email info@foyc-webs.org.uk if you are interested. The evening also included wines supplied by Miles Better Wines. Should be a good one!!
A CHILLI NIGHT SUCCESS!!!
Hello everyone, Yay…we raised a great big quiztastic total of £945.22 Thank you to all who supported our 2nd Annual Quiz night on 31st Jan. With 84 contestants, a hot chilli supper, delicious desserts, great raffle prizes, heads and tails (owl themed), half-time prizes, great wines for the winning team AND a great selection of […]
2nd ANNUAL QUIZ NIGHT
Hello and Happy New Year to Everyone, 2014 was an amazing inaugural year for FOYC-WeBs and we would like to thank everyone who contributed to that success and thereby giving Young Carers in our area the opportunity to experience some really enjoyable events, help build new confidences and bring a lovely and caring group of children together […]
BERKSHIRE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION – AWARD
Connecting people who care with causes that matter Our charity has recently been successful in being awarded a £5,000 grant from Berkshire Community Foundation. It has been a tremendous boost for FOYC-WeBs and more importantly, it means that we have now earmarked £3,000 of this award towards sending all our Young Carers to the […]
CONNECTING WITH NEW FRIENDS IN OUR COMMUNITY
Here we are at the offices of SJP in Newbury being presented with a whopping cheque for one thousand pounds. Anna Downie, Janice Arnold and Jo Barton represented Friends of Young Carers (West Berkshire) and as you can see from the photo, Sidney the Owl managed to get in on the act too. This donation […]
HOODIES+++HOODIES+++HOODIES
Here are some of our Young Carers sporting their brand new hoodies complete with ‘Sidney’ logo. The Young Carers Project in Newbury took delivery of 100 hoodies in various sizes which will now be distributed to all Young Carers who are registered within West Berkshire. With this number it means that we can keep a […]
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