It was all very exciting when Mencap staff Jonada Appleby and Lucy Groen visited us at our new factory to volunteer to kindly help pick the winners for the Sweet Causes 2015 Free Christmas Draw. So many of you entered and all entries were put on clear view for all to see.

 

However the three lucky winners were:

1st Greenlite, Blackpool. FY4 2DP
2nd R S Components, Stockport. SK4 2JT
3rd Edmundson Electrical, Gloucester.GL4 3HX

 

Anyone that has not come forward to claim their prize, please feel free to let us know before next Christmas, won’t be long now! or it will be added to this year’s Christmas draw, so hurry!

 

 

Contact us on the usual email address info@charitysweets.co.uk or telephone 0845 1120 1531 so don’t forget to enter this year and requests for your free raffle tickets, available from your local sales collector first week commencing in November 2016, it could be you this year? The draw will take place in February 2017 to give time for all the ticket stubs to be returned. We will keep you posted.

 

Mencap help people with learning difficulties, they are the voice and strength behind those that cannot defend for themselves, they are the ones that listen when no one else will, they are the support when it is needed, they are a charity that do not discriminate, they are the ones that help support the vulnerable and their families when facing difficult times. So far to date we are proud to say we have raised an incredible amount of over £350,000 for Mencap.

 

Thank you to all our customers in supporting a lovely charity with lovely staff, check them out and see what’s going on with them www.mencap.co.uk

Did you know that 7 young people are diagnosed with cancer every day in this country? These events over the years have help provide 28 special cancer units and 63 specialist staff in the NHS hospitals all up and down in the whole of the UK. Some of these kids are amazing bringing with them such inspirational stories, for such young ones to have this kind of strength makes us want to support these guys even more.

 

Honorary patron Roger Daltrey got together many people he knows in the music industry to offer their services free of charge to support such a special evening celebrating their 16th anniversary at the Royal Albert Hall 2016, the compare for the evening was Tim Lovejoy with the following this years line up of music and comedy – John Bishop, Alan Carr, Romesh Ranganathan, Stewart Lee, Seann Walsh, Josie Long, New Order, Simply Red, Bring Me The Horizon, The Vaccines, Everything Everything, Pumarosa, Tom Furse, Pvris, David Gilmour.

 

There was plenty to eat and drink and a chance to buy their merchandise, even signed photographs of famous music stars past and present. So next year be quick to get your tickets and support these young heroes by checking their website out.

www.teenagecancertrust.org

‘Owlfred’ designed by Kristian Movahed, he is covered from head to foot with hundreds of paper photographic feathers of some very important people that are connected to Birmingham, people that have given us such pride and inspiration. To name but a few Stephen Sutton (TCT) , Cat Deeley, Lenny Henry, Frank Skinner, Jasper Carrot, Julie Walters, UB40, Ozzy Osbourne, Roy Wood, Ruby Turner, Beverley Knight, Noddy Holder, Laura Mvula, Jeff Lynnem, Dexys Midnight Runners, Grace Colling, Emma Willis, Oliver and James Phelps, Tony Lommi , Robert Plant, Georgina Moseley, Joshua Jackson.

 

‘Owlfred’ was auctioned at the Think Tank Birmingham Science Museum, a Wild in Art event delivered in partnership with the Birmingham Children’s Hospital, it captured an exciting fun evening raising an enormous about of money over £508,000 generously given for such a well-deserved cause.

 

The money raised for the Birmingham Children’s Hospital Star Appeal will help create a brand new centre for children and young people living with very rare and undiagnosed medical conditions. Rare diseases affect one in 17 people. One rare disease may affect only a handful of patients in the world, another might touch as many as 245,000. This centre will be the first of its kind for children and young people in the UK.

 

 

The Symphony Hall in Birmingham had originally been home to ‘Owlfred’ and not wanting him to feel too home sick we decided to send him back to where he belongs. After careful planning and lots of bubble wrap he was delivered safe and sound back to the Symphony Hall for all to see.
Next time you are in Birmingham pop into the Symphony Hall to see what’s going on and say hello to Owlfred (ground floor next to the bar area) why not send us your picture?

 

www.bch.org.uk