♥ Many congratulations ♥

♥ Here’s wishing  Harry & Meghan a partnership full of love and happiness in their future married lives together ♥

 

We at Sweet Causes were more than pleased to offer our services to provide everyone with just a small bag of ‘Gift in Kind’ sweet treats to take home with them at this year’s charity black-tie dinner and awards annually hosted by The Greater Birmingham Chambers of Commerce at 

The ICC Birmingham on Thursday 19th April 2018.

   Everyone buying tickets (your too late, ALL sold out!) will show tremendous support on the evening to a very well-deserved charity Acorns Children’s Hospice, being a local charity to the West Midlands area, they too are celebrating 30 proud years of providing special care to the children, who lives are cut short by a serious illness, who give their time and support to their families as well as helping with their medical needs.

https://www.acorns.org.uk/about-acorns/

The GBCC in one of the largest Chambers in the country with more than 2,800 members spanning across the region from Birmingham, Burton, Chase, Lichfield, Tamworth, Solihull and Sutton Coldfield. The event shows and celebrates the best of business and enterprise throughout the this region.

For this year’s 2018 Business Award Categories they are:

Excellence in Contribution to the Community 

Excellence in Customer Service 

Excellence in Hospitality 

Excellence in International Business 

Excellence in Manufacturing 

Excellence in People Development 

Excellence in Sales & Marketing 

Excellence in Technology & Innovation 

Excellence in Training & Education 

Greater Birmingham Business of the Year 

All justified winners will be advertised on The Greater Birmingham Chambers of Commerce website.   It’s a great opportunity to meet and host clients, customers, employees or network with the other business guests, there’s also the chance to advertise your company or become a sponsor to one of the awards or events, further details can be found by emailing their events team on events@birmingham-chamber.com or visting their website https://www.greaterbirminghamchambers.com/

 

 

Over the Easter Holiday we were pleased to be able to have some time to catch up, to enjoy a couple of movies and to think about others who are less fortunate than ourselves. 

 The first film was ♥ ‘Wonder’ ♥  shown on Netflix.  This brave little boy named ‘Auggie’ who has a very rare medical facial deformity called Franceschetti-Klein syndrome also known as a Mandibulofacial dysostosis (MFDM) or Treacher Collins Syndrome, shows what he has to confront with on a daily basis once he starts middle schooling, until then his mother had been teaching him from home.  The film shows what bullying ‘Auggie’ has to deal with as well as how his condition touches onto everyone’s lives around him and how they too have to deal with guilt and prejudices.

The film has been adapted from the novel by R J Palacio ‘Wonder’ which is still available from major book shops.

 The second film, shown on BBC2, was the award-winning short film ♥ ‘The Silent Child’ ♥ at this year’s 90th Academy Awards, the film runs for approximately 20 minutes.  It looks into the life of a four-year-old girl called ‘Libby’ who is profoundly deaf and builds up a friendship with her tutor who has taught her how to use sign language, which gives Libby the companionship she craves for.  Her parents, however, would prefer ‘Libby’ to lip read.  The six-year-old actress who plays the part of Libby is Maisie Sly, which was her first time ever to act or appear in a movie.

 Basic sign language? there are plenty of examples on the British Sign Language website on how to do it, you can print them off too.

 https://www.british-sign.co.uk

Here’s wishing all our customers a very Happy Easter for 2018

Have a Happy Hot Cross Bun Day.

So how do you like your bun done? 

We had a vote in the office and the most popular way was ‘toasted with lots of real butter’

However, there was one person, they know who they are, he likes his buttered, not toasted, with slices of cheese on it. 

Well, it would be a boring old world if we were all the same, wouldn’t it? 

Many congratulations to another 3rd Prize biscuit winner,  just in time for Easter, well done and enjoy,

Horden Childrens Centre SR8 4EG

 

They’ll be rabbits running all over the place this Sunday coming.

‘Headway’ Birmingham & Solihull (B&S) is a local charity that was set up to give help and support to people affected by brain injury.

Their annual Easter Fun Run is taking place this Sunday coming from 11am at Cofton Park in Longbridge Birmingham B3 2BQ

Get your bunny ears at the ready as everyone is being encouraged to participate in fancy dress and the best dress gets a prize too!

You can run, jog or walk the 5K route, easy, piece of cake!

Get this, you also get a chocolate egg at the end of the race and a medal! come on what are you waiting for? Get up, Get some fresh air and Get moving!

Check out for further details and contacts on http://www.headway-bs.co.uk/2018-fun-run-link

 http://www.headway-bs.co.uk/about

http://www.headway-bs.co.uk/

 

Well Done and Congratulations to more of our biscuit winners, starting from left to right we have …

D & J Projects – Nottingham  ◊  Avid Technology – Northumberland   ◊  Country Haven Hairdressers – Norwich

Thank you for supporting our charities over the last 12 months

 

Mothers have got together recently to put a united video showing the love they have for their children and sharing their support ahead of

Worlds Down’s Syndrome Day.

The video has had a tremendous response and watched by thousands of people worldwide including celebrities.

This can be viewed via this link  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-coventry-warwickshire-43443510

https://www.mencap.org.uk/learning-disability-explained/conditions/downs-syndrome

 

 

 

Here’s a real jolly tongue twister that puts a smile on your face, for those of you who enjoy a pint of Guinness and a sing-song!

It was sung by the great Val Doonican many years ago, check him out on Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpqLgfc8n8Q

‘Paddy McGinty’s Goat’ 

Now Patrick McGinty, an Irishman of note,
Fell in for a fortune, and he bought himself a goat.
Said he, “Sure, of goat’s milk I going to have my fill!”
But when he brought the Nanny home, he found it was a Bill.

All the young ladies who live in Killaloo
They’re all wearing bustles like their mothers used to do.
They each wear a bolster beneath the petticoat,
And leave the rest to Providence and Paddy McGinty’s goat!

Mrs Burke to her daughter said, “Listen, Mary Jane,
Who was the lad you were cuddling in the lane?
He’d long wiry whiskers a hanging from his chin.”
“Twas only Pat McGinty’s goat, ” she answer’d with a grin.

Then she went away from the village in disgrace,
She came back with powder and paint upon her face.
She’d rings on her fingers, and she wore a sable coat,

And I bet your life she didn’t get those from Paddy McGinty’s goat.

Now Norah McCarthy the knot was going to tie,
She washed out her trousseau when she hung it out to dry.
Along came the goat and he saw the bits of white:
and chewed up all her falderals, and on her wedding night:

“Oh turn out the light quick!” she shouted out to Pat,
For though l’m your bride, sure l’m not worth looking at.
I’d had two of ev’rything, I told you when I wrote,
But now I’ve one of nothing, all thro’ Paddy McGinty’s goat.’

Mickey Riley he went to the races t’other day.
He won twenty dollars and he shouted, “Hip Hooray!!”
He held up the note, shouting “Look what I’ve got!”
The goat came up and grabbed at it and swallowed up the lot.

“He’s eaten me banknote,” said Mickey, with the hump.
They went for the doctor, and they got a stomach pump.
They pumped and they pumped for the twenty dollar note,
But all they got was ninepence out of Paddy McGinty’s goat.

Now old Paddy’s goat had a wondrous appetite
and one day for breakfast he had some dynamite
A big box of matches he swallowed all serene
Then out he went and swallowed up a quart of paraffin

He sat by the fireside, didn’t give a hang
He swallowed a spark and exploded with a BANG!
So if you go to heaven you can bet a dollar note
That the angel with the whiskers on is Paddy McGinty’s goat.

Written in 1917 by two songwriters Bert Lee and R P Weston