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The Ansarullah Charity Walk held in Birmingham City Centre on 13th June 2010 kindly raised £2,000 for Rosie’s Helping Hands. It was a pleasure to be involved with this annual event thank you to everyone who raised this money for Rosie’s Charity. |
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Staff at Tarmac based in Walsall kindly nominated Rosie’s Helping Hands to receive a cheque for £1000. This was raised through the sale of scrap metalwork whilst Tarmac undertook the Highways Maintenance Contract with Walsall Council. |
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Sutton Scouts kindly donated £200 from their St George’s Day collection. |
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Several bag packs were undertaken at Morrison’s Store in Aldridge during June for Rosie’s Walk. Huge thanks to the management at Morrison’s, the volunteers who did the bag packing and to all the customers who gave so generously. A grand total of £ £1094.79 was raised. Collections also took place in Aldridge Shopping Centre on Saturday 12 July £326 was raised from the day. |
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Staff
from Ernst and Young, Birmingham Office have kindly nominated
Rosie’s charity as their children and young person’s
charity for 2010.
If you work for a company that has a local charity for
a year we would be delighted if you could put forward Rosie’s
charity to benefit from staff fundraising. If you need more
details please contact Karen Ross on 01922 456398 or e-mail. |
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Christmas Gift Fayre held on Sunday 15th November
raised a fantastic £1467.74. Huge thanks to all
who supported
the event, including the local stall holders and Cyril Richardson,
the Town Crier for bringing people in. Our heartfelt thanks
go to
Rachel and her team at Aldridge Compass Suites for their hard
work and dedication in organising this event for the charity
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it was wonderful and put everyone in the Christmas spirit. |
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10 year
olds Lacey Smith and Natasha Blundell have
raised £275 between them.
Natasha very kindly donated her prize of £100 from a singing
contest to Rosie’s charity. Natasha won the competition,
held in Brocton near Stafford, by singing
Leona Lewis’s A Moment Like This.
Lacey Smith collected sponsorship of £175 for remaining
silent for 2 hours whilst in school, Lacey said she found
the break time the most difficult to stay silent! Both girls
are pupils at Jerome Primary School in Norton Canes.
Fantastic acts of kindness – thank you both. |
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| St
Thomas’s Church in Aldridge kindly donated £220
from their 40th anniversary celebrations at the end of September
2009 to Rosie’s charity. |
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 Beer
& Skittles on 12th Sept was a great night. Thanks
to all the teams who helped to make the event so enjoyable.
Total profit from the evening was £365. Thank you.
Click
here to view a table of the results from the skittles and
quiz.
(please note that this will launch a pop up window so
please ensure
you have them enabled for this site in your browser) |
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 Angie
Anslow
Congratulations to Angie Anslow who completed the sponsored
simulated parachute jump equal to the height of the BT Tower
in Birmingham (152 metres) at the Aldridge Outdoor Centre
Climbing Wall at Rosie’s Walk on 12th July. Angie raised
over £200 huge thanks to everyone who kindly sponsored
her. |
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Rosie’s
Charity Walk Sunday 12th July
 A
huge thanks to everyone who generously supported Rosie’s
Charity Walk on Sunday 12th July. It was very much a day Rosie
would have enjoyed; the weather stayed dry, good attendance
and lots of smiling faces. To date the amount raised is a fantastic
£14,500 with sponsor money and donations still coming
in a final total won’t be known for a
few weeks yet. For where to send your donation/sponsor money
please
click here or pay on line click
here. To view photos from the day click
here. |
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 Robbie
Tribute Night with Ollie Hughes photos can be viewed
by clicking
here. We are happy to provide copies of images in return
for a donation to
Rosie’s Charity please e-mail me with your request and
how you wish to pay
(Card/Cheque/cash) once payment has been received the image/s
will be
e-mailed to you as a digital file. Thank you for making the
event so
successful and enjoyable. |
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 Rosie
Day 12th May
Thank you to everyone who got involved in this special day at
City, Sandwell and Rowley Regis hospitals. To date the amount
raised is a
fantastic £1400 to see photos from the day of please click
here.
To read about the event please click
here. |
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Rosie's
Walk Mini-Site Launched
New site launched dedicated to 'Rosies's Walk and Festival'
which contains information on forthcoming walks and updates
from previous walks with examples of what the funds raised have
accomplished. Click here
visit the site. |
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| Aldridge
Manor House Youth Centre. Rosie’s charity recently
received a donation of £3216.16 from the Trustees of Aldridge
Manor House Community and Youth Association which sadly closed
in December 2006. This represented the surplus funds after the
Community Associations closure, we are very honoured to be the
chosen charity and will ensure the children and young people
of Aldridge benefit from the donation as originally intended
by the Community Association. Aldridge does have a Youth Club
as Walsall Youth Service have now taken over the youth provision
the youth club is open 4 nights a week offering something different
each night including a girls only night and a dance night. For
times and further information please contact the full time Youth
Worker Matthew Gough on 07930 225499. |
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Walsall
Mayor’s Civic Award (October 2006)
Karen & Sean have received a prestigious accolade in
recognition for their hard work in setting up this charity.
Walsall Mayor’s Civic Award, popularly known as the Doras
after the
town’s Heroine Sister Dorothy Pattison, recognises community
minded people in the borough. Karen and Sean were winners in
the category ‘Overcoming All Odds’.
Pictured Karen & Sean with Mayor Councillor
Barbara McCracken and and sponsor of Award. |
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