Category Fundraising
GREENHAM COMMON TRUST – REACTIVE GRANTS
Following the successful application to Greenham Common Trust – Find me a Grant scheme, we have been able to fund 30 places to this year’s Young Carers Festival in Southampton. Additionally, we have also received funding for 100 hoodies which have been supplied by Ruby Slippers (Newbury). We have distributed one to each Young Carer […]
WINE TASTING EVENT 2014 UPDATE+++PHOTOS+++AMOUNT RAISED+++and more!!
Our ‘Call My Bluff’ Wine Event on Saturday 17th May was a fantastic success and our great thanks go to Miles Better Wines Ltd who unscrewed all the tops to make this a night to remember. Lynne our treasurer has banked a whopping £674.00 of funds raised from this event and together with a grant from Greenham Trust, […]
REVEALED…………
We thought that you would all like to see a photo of the lovely Sue Mellor who has knitted over 70 Sidney the Owl mascots for us since we started our Charity last year. Sue (pictured here) with a selection of her latest creations has helped us raise over £300 from kind donations for these […]
WHO’S BLUFFING? – SATURDAY 17 MAY 2014
We are busy planning our next fundraising event and it promises to be a great night out! Not only will we be selecting some fine wines for guests to sample, we have also hand picked our 3 ‘bluffers’ whose job it is to convince the audience of the true descriptions of the particular wines of the […]
REGISTERED CHARITY STATUS
+++LATEST NEWS+++LATEST NEWS+++LATEST NEWS+++ Friends of Young Carers (West Berkshire) are celebrating this week having received a call from the Charities Commission to tell us we are now a fully REGISTERED CHARITY (Charity No. 1156680). see below Registered Charity Number 1156680 FRIENDS OF YOUNG CARERS (WEST BERKSHIRE) http://www.charitycommission.gov.uk We are pleased to tell you that FRIENDS […]
HOO COULD RESIST THESE TEMPTING TREATS!
Well not the members and staff of Greenacre Leisure it seems! A huge thank you to everyone who bought our cakes, owls and eggs and CONGRATULATIONS to Angela Claridge who won our raffle for the Easter Treats. We raised a fantastic £140 which will go towards courses for West Berkshire Young Carers including Archery, Football and Drama Workshops. […]
Where do Easter Eggs come from??
From Easter Owls of course!! If you come to Greenacre Leisure Centre on Tuesday 1st April between 9am and 1pm you will be able to bag your own Sidney the Owl Limited Edition (Easter Owl) and some delicious Easter bakes for all the family. Our aim is to raise £100 which will enable us to […]
Love is in the Air!
Valentines Day 2014 Another sell-out of our Sidney the Owl Valentines Day Collection on Friday 14th at Greenacre Leisure Centre. Thank you to all who knitted a Valentines Owl and helped us to raise an brilliant £70. With this amount we can send one Young Carer on an Art course, Football Training or Life Skill […]
John Lewis Community Matters and ‘Friends’
A huge thank you to John Lewis PLC and their Community Matters Scheme. This scheme supports a wide range of local charities. Tokens deposited in store for a choice of three local charities are converted into a share of £3,000 every three months. Friends of Young Carers (West Berkshire) were hugely appreciative of a cheque in January for £820. Some of this money has helped […]
Mulled Wine and Mince Pies SELLOUT
The Trustees braved the cold for the morning session before moving indoors to the welcome warmth of the reception area of Greenacre Leisure for their Mulled Wine and Mince Pie fundraising event held on 11th December. Visitors to the event enjoyed delicious Mulled Wine and mouthwatering mince pies and Christmas Muffins, a fun Tombola, Guess […]
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