Over 10,000 votes were cast at last year’s 2016 Lichfield Cathedral Christmas Tree Festival a phenomenally successful year and plans are already taking place with the intention of doing something equally exciting for next year’s festival, so keep your eyes peeled? The winners, unfortunately not us, were as follows: Whittington Primary School The Magic of Milly Charity Pool House Veterinary Group Runners up, unfortunately not us, were as follows: St Chad’s C of E VC School St Giles Hospice BHB Architects Many congratulations to all of you, bringing

A very Merry Christmas and a Healthy New Year to all our loyal and compassionate customers, suppliers, partners, be it near or far, without your support we would not be able to contribute to the charities we care about in the way we do.  Thank you for providing that encouragement and emotional strength that helped when it was needed, for you caring in the way that you do, being sympathetic with your concerns of a sensitive nature.. We thank you all. ‘Every time a bell rings an Angel

A special preview viewing had been arranged for invited guests and members on Sunday evening 18th December 2016.  A stunning outdoor festive laser light show, lit up projecting the spirit of Christmas, all over Lichfield Cathedral with some amazing special effects and sounds. Illuminated candy canes, Christmas trees, angels, snowflakes, trumpets, all sprayed the entire magnificent south transept of this stunning building showing off its striking fine architecture of years gone by.               After the laser event guests were invited to take a

Even on a very chilly December evening you would have thought that everyone would be tucked up in front of the TV, but no, not on this particular occasion. What an evening it was at this year’s candle lit Carol Service at St Giles-without-Cripplegate in London on Thursday 15th December, the church was filled with pure pleasurable joy and fun, from the moment you walked into this church you received a warmhearted welcome and by the look of these lovely happy faces, it just speaks for itself, everyone had a

Supporting this year’s 2016 Christmas Tree Festival at the fabulous Lichfield Cathedral. This local event invites 55 local businesses, charities and schools to decorate a real 5ft Norwegian Christmas tree anyway that you like! Well within appropriate reason. Each tree already potted with its own set of lights ready for this year’s theme of ‘Peace’ we aimed to give it our first time shot with some of our sweets that gave a ‘good enough to eat’ approach. Small wooden baubles representing each one of our three main charities

Everyone gathered for this year’s 2016 Black Tie Winter Ball supporting Birmingham Children’s Hospital at the beautiful Town Hall Birmingham. The night was hosted by quick witted England Rugby’s Martin Bayfield. An auctions and raffles were in place to encourage the fund raising, all money raised on the night was to support the Star Appeal. The Birmingham Children’s Hospital Appeal are hoping to raise a staggering £3.65 million to create the UK’s first centre for children with rare diseases. Children with rare or undiagnosed medical conditions can face

All turned up at this local event at the Aldridge Conservative Club in July for a lovely afternoon of scrumptious Summer strawberry teas to support this year’s 2016 Breast Cancer Care. A great turn out by all, where sandwiches, homemade cakes and raffles tickets helped raise a staggering £2,531.00. Many local companies, restaurants and shops had donated and gave generously. One way of getting some interest and enticing customers to buy a raffle ticket was Guess how many sweets were in the jar? as well as trying to

Page 45 gives a mention to ‘Sweet Causes Ltd’ in their 2016 Annual Report & Accounts. Mencap gives ‘A Big Thank You’ to all their fantastic supporters around the UK for their generous and thoughtful donations including BBC Children in Need, Big Lottery Fund, Dame Barbara Windsor, Land Securities Group Plc, The Lord Mayor’s Appeal, Sir Alan & Lady Gilly Yarrow, Allen & Overy to name but a few. However this is not just to thank us as a company it is also in recognition and thanks to

A breakfast meeting on Tuesday 11th October 2016 was arranged to discuss how employers can help in getting people with learning disabilities back into the work force. Hosted by Sir Alan Yarrow and Chief Executive Jan Tregelles at the beautiful Mansion House in London. Amazed that only 6% of people with a learning disability are in paid employment compared to 49% of the wider disability community and 79% of the general population. Trying to break down barriers and changing the attitudes of employers and businesses, it highlighted so

The lovely Chloe Jones a Lecturer in Sport Performance at the Heart of Worcestershire College in Redditch and the project manager has kindly sent us details on her trip to Ghana and what she and Paul Addis achieved while working with the original volunteers and how Sweet Causes Ltd helped to sponsor their trip.  How we all can take things so much for granted, just plain basic drinking water and living accommodation, who would even of thought that there were Aston Villa fans that far afield, it’s a