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The second Blue Ribbon Ball for UNICEF was held at the Dunkenhalgh Hotel, Clayton-le-Moors near Blackburn, Lancashire on 10th October. £26000 was raised on the night. The Committee would like to thank everyone who made the evening such a success. This event takes the total raised by Blue Ribbon Fundraising in the last three years to £110,000.
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Eileen Sumner - Edinburgh Marathon Blue Ribbon Fundraising's own Eileen Sumner raised £1700 by running the Edinburgh marathon on May 31st 2009. She knows how proud we are of her and how much we appreciate this contribution and all she does for Unicef. |
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Christopher Geldard - L'etape du tour Christopher Geldard cycled 140km of the Tour de France on 20th August 2009. This leg included cycling up Mount Ventoux - incredibly challenging for professional cyclists so an amazing acheivement for Chris who cycled 2000 miles in training for this event. He has raised £1700 for The Ethiopia Cold Chain Project and we are very grateful to him for this donation.
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Martin and Eileen Flatley - Coast to Coast May 2009 We would like to say a big thank you to Martin and Eileen Flatley who cycled the Coast to Coast route in May and raised £1000 for the Ethiopia Cold Chain Project and £1000 for another African charity - Hand in Hand. We are very grateful to them for this wonderful donation which makes our £100 000 target even more achievable. |
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Dr Ian Stanley - London Marathon 2009 Congratulations!! Dr Ian Stanley ran the Flora London Marathon on Sunday 26th April 2009 for the Ethiopia Cold Chain Project for Unicef and raised over £2680 in the process. What an amazing acheivement!! We are very grateful to him and everyone who sponsored him . It is a wonderful donation and we would like to thank him for this and for all the support he has given us since May 2007. |
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Blue Ribbon Christmas Concert A Christmas concert held at the Grand in Clitheroe on December 6th 2008 raised £2950 for the Ethiopia Cold Chain Project. Thanks to the generosity of sponsors and the fact that all the artists gave of their time for no payment every penny of ticket money was donated to the cause. Many thanks to everyone who took part, sponsored the event, made mince pies or bought a ticket! As usual, we couldn’t have done it without you.
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Blue Ribbon Fashion Show
A fashion show held at The Grand, Clitheroe on May 1st raised £3800 for The Ethiopia Cold Chain Project thanks to the generosity of our sponsors and the 120 guests who attended the event.
Lu Lu Browns, Velvet and Posh U exhibited the clothes and shoes. Cheryl Hook of Melt provided goodie bags for everyone. Paul Smith sponsored the champagne reception and styled the model’s hair. Flowers were donated by The Flower Shop and food by Cheesie Tschaikovsky and Coco Moyo.
Other sponsors were Kitchens, Renault and Clitheroe Beauty.
Entertainment on the night was provided by Bowland High School who did a fantastic job, lighting up the stage with their singing and dancing.
Thank you to everyone concerned who made the evening such a huge success.
Blue Ribbon Calendar
Following on from the success of our schools competition we decided to produce a calendar designed by local school children. Whilst it is important to raise funds for Unicef we feel that is also important to raise awareness of the work that this organisation does and to involve the community, including children, with our projects.
We visited six primary schools, talking about Unicef and asked the children to draw pictures - we selected the best pieces of artwork to feature in our calendar and the children whose work was selected received a prize. Ginger Pumpkin once again sponsored the art-work for us. Thank you to Guy Purves for this contribution.
The sale of calendars raised £4500 for the Ethiopia Cold Chain Project. 600 calendars were sold and donations were received from Brookside school and many individuals. Thank you to all the outlets who sold calendars and to everyone who bought a calendar. A special thank you goes to every child who took part in our competition and who made it possible for us to raise such a wonderful total through this venture.
We are grateful to the staff and parents of the six schools who supported us:
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Lizi Botham from Crafastic heped inspire the children to produce some great pictures. We couldn’t have done this without them!
To see the winning pictures click here
Blue Ribbon Musical evening
On October 27th 2007 we held a musical evening at The Centenaries Theatre, Stonyhurst. There was a varied programme and the concert was a huge success and raised £2,500.
DONATION to UNICEF
This is a picture of Anne Geldard and Sheila Bailey handing over a cheque for £40,000 to Andrew Radford, Director of Fundraising at Unicef UK in London in September 2007. This money has been raised thanks to the generosity of countless people sponsoring and attending events, organising their own fund-raisers and donating to the Ethiopia Cold Chain Project. Thanks to everyone concerned.
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THREE PEAKS WALK
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BLUE RIBBON BALL
In May 2007 we held the Blue Ribbon Ball at the Dunkenhalgh hotel, Clayton-Le-Moors. The event was attended by over 300 people and was a huge success. With sponsorships, ticket sales a prize draw and an auction we raised a fantastic £31000. Our major sponsors are listed on this site . However we also received a huge amount of support from countless other people – too numerous to mention and we would like to say thank-you to everyone of them. We hope to hold another ball in May 2009. Photos of the event can be found on www.malkinphotography.co.uk
CASTLE MEDICAL GROUP
The Castle Medical Group in Clitheroe have raised £6,737.46. They started their year of fundraising for Unicef with some of the doctors doing a sponsored bike ride –see below. They ended it with 40 members of the practice taking part in a sponsored walk across the sands of Morecambe Bay in July 2007. This event alone raised £2000! The practice organized various other events during the year and the Blue Ribbon Committee would like to extend our gratitude to all the staff and patients who have contributed to the success of this initiative. We would like to say a special thank you to Dr Martin Flatley and the practice fund-raising committee for all their hard work. Chris Walmsley, who has now retired from the practice, was wonderfully supportive of this venture – she too deserves our thanks. We wish the practice well with their future fund-raising.
BLUE RIBBONS
Blue ribbons went on sale in various places last year including schools,churches and local shops. They sold for £1 each and raised £2000, a further boost to The Ethiopia Cold Chain Project. £1 will help to fund 25 imminisations. Ribbons will be on sale again in coming months..
SPONSORED SKY-DIVE
Paul Byrom has raised an amazing £1000 for the Ethiopia Cold Chain Project by being sponsored to do a tandem ski- dive. This was him before take off . Thanks so much for this support!!
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SCHOOL & CHURCH SUPPORT
Ribblesdale School, Clitheroe raised a fantastic £900 for Unicef. Pupils did this by holding assemblies to tell the school about the Ethiopia Cold Chain Project and by sale of blue ribbons and other fund-raising activities . Thank you to everyone concerned.
DESIGN A COVER FOR THE BALL BROCHURE
UNICEF is about ‘all the world’s children’. We thought it would be nice to include local children in planning for The Blue Ribbon Ball. With this in mind we designed a competition specifically for primary school children. Six Ribble Valley schools entered the competition .We went to speak to pupils to tell them about the work that UNICEF does and to explain specifically about The Cold Chain project. We also explained why it is important to raise funds for children who until now have not been able to be vaccinated against common childhood illnesses.
We selected a winner from each of the six schools that took part and chose an overall winner who had their design printed on the front cover of the ball brochure that was handed out to our 300 guests on the night of the ball. Prizes were presented by local sculptor Clare Bigger on 22nd November at the Winter 06 Fashion Show organised by Lee Carter. Overall winner Lucy Cayton from St Leonard's C of E Primary School in Langho received a camera which was kindly sponsored by Boots the Chemist in Clitheroe. The winning entries can be seen by clicking on the links below. They were displayed at Dyson's Art Shop, Moor Lane, in Clitheroe, who kindly agreed to frame the best entry from each of the six schools – the pictures were then presented to the children to keep.
PRE CHRISTMAS INDIAN BAZAAR
This was held on 11th November 2006 at St Mary’s Centre in Clitheroe
and was a great success. Nearly £1,500 was raised for the Ethiopian
Cold Chain Project. Thanks go to Shanaz Hussain, Jane Nolan and all the
Tamanna group who so kindly helped organise the event.
WINTER 06 FASHION SHOW
This was held on 22nd November and visitors were treated to a fabulous
collection of fashion items. The evening raised approximately £1,000.
Thank you to the staff of Lee Carter and all who supported the event.
SPONSORED SKY-DIVE
Dr David Bailey of Thursby Surgery, Burnley, raised £950 through sponsorship from patients after he successfully completed a tandem sky-dive on the 26th November 2006. This money, together with funds raised from a ceilidh earlier in the year, and donations given to UNICEF in lieu of presents for Mr Ian Kendal's 60th birthday has gone to purchase a roundabout water pump at a cost of £3,450. This pump is used in rural areas of Africa and obtains energy from children playing on the roundabout which helps to deliver clean water to the community. Thank you to everybody concerned in this project .
For those of you that really can't believe that Dr Bailey did this - click on this link to look.
MOUNTAIN BIKING in UTAH
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The Castle Medical Group nominated UNICEF as it's chosen charity of the year. Dr Ron Higson and Dr Ian Ibbotson from the practice undertook a strenuous mountain bike expedition in Moab, Utah, USA in September 2006 for which they trained for several months. An amazing £1,300 was raised from sponsorship of this event and all proceeds have gone to the Ethiopia Cold Chain Project. Thanks go to the generous patients for their support. |
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