Welcome to The Blue Ribbon Fundraising Website

In 2005 a small group of us based in The Ribble Valley, Lancashire started fundraising for UNICEF in the wake of the Asian tsunami disaster. We held a couple of events which were very well supported and this encouraged us to do more.

As 2006 was the 60th anniversary of UNICEF we thought it would be appropriate to celebrate its success by way of holding
The Blue Ribbon Ball in Blackburn, Lancashire – the first of its kind in this part of the country. It was held in MAY 2007 and, although a little late, said a belated Happy Birthday to an organisation that has helped countless children since its inception in 1946. We raised £31,000 during the evening and building on the success of this event we decided to form The Blue Ribbon Committtee which is the only group raising funds for Unicef in the North West. Currently , our aim is to raise £100 000 to fund four Cold Chain Projects and we hope to do this by continuing to engage the support of the local community who have already been wonderfully generous in helping us to achieve so much. (click here for more details of the Cold Chain Project).

This web site has been set up to give people more information about forthcoming events, how you can help and what has already been accomplished over the past months. . We have been incredibly lucky to have received support from so many people over the past few months - thank you to them all. We couldn’t manage without you!

The Blue Ribbon Ball Committee is made up of (above)
Vicky Lee, Eileen Sumner, Sheila Bailey (Chair)
Anne Geldard (Treasurer), Andrena Backhouse and Andrea Yates.