Event related news
Friday 16th December 2016 marks Local Charities Day! Local Charities Day celebrates the work of small, local charities and community groups, and their contribution to their communities. Read on to find out more about Local Charities Day and how you can get involved.
Read on to find out more about the volunteer awards night which took place at Cue World on Thursday 8th December. The event recognised the hard work and dedication of volunteers from around Grimsby’s West Marsh.
VANEL’s IGNITE team recently gave their support to a bereaved young mother from Grimsby as she organised a special balloon release event in honour of babies “who are in the sky”. Twenty-year-old Uniformed Services student and mother of one, Amy Brown organised a fundraising a fundraising event called ‘Sky High’ at the Linden Homes Club last week to raise money for the Laurel Ward to purchase memory boxes for bereaved parents. Read on to find out more.
See Santa in his grotto at West Marsh Community Centre’s Christmas Fayre which takes place on Friday 9th December from 4 until 8. Entry is free but a charge of £2.00 if you wish to see Santa and receive a gift. Santa’s Sleigh will also be here and you can have a photo taken for a small donation.
16 Days of Action Against Domestic Violence is aimed at businesses that lack an infrastructure to deal with the large-scale problem that is domestic violence. As it stands, companies can do more to aid their employees who endure domestic violence, train those who witness it, and to protect staff as a whole, with the goal of securing safety and mitigating financial loss. Whilst 16 Days of Action may now be coming to a close, it is important that message of the campaign continues to be at the forefront of employers and businesses minds.
VANEL’s IGNITE team will be at Cleethorpes Winter Wonderland promoting Anglian Water’s Keep It Clear Campaign. The four day event which starts on Thursday 8th December, will include Christmas Markets, fairground attractions and the chance to meet the one and only Santa Clause. Read on for full details.
A charity five-aside Tournament is taking place next week at the Grimsby Institute of Further and Higher Education on Thursday 8th December from 9am until 1pm in aid of the Teenage Cancer Trust. Competing in the tournament will be some of the VANEL and IGNITE team. Show your support for our staff and the Teenage Cancer Trust by joining us on the day and making a donation to this worthy cause. The event has been organised as part of IGNITE by Grimsby College student and project leader Isireli Stevens. If you would like to get involved and play as part of the tournament, there’s still time! For more information, please contact IGNITE Youth Leadership Worker Lisa Anderson. Email Lisa@vanel.org.uk
A young mother from Grimsby who delivered a sleeping baby is organising a fundraising helium balloon release to raise money for the Laurel Ward at Grimsby’s Diana Princess of Wales Hospital, to buy Memory Boxes for bereaved parents. The mass balloon release ‘Sky High’, will take place at the Linden Homes Club, Grimsby, on Wednesday 7th December 2016 from 6pm until 9pm. The event is open to everyone and will give families the opportunity to commemorate a child who has been lost during pregnancy or after birth. You can also make a donation by visiting Amy’s JustGiving page, visit: www.justgiving.com/fundraising/Flying-Sky-High. She has an online target of £250, enough to buy 8 Memory Boxes, let’s help her surpass this target!
The work work of small local charities and community groups is being recognised on Friday 16th December 2016 as part of the newly introduced ‘Local Charities Day’. Local Charities Day aims to shine a spotlight on the work of small local charities and community groups, and provide them with a platform to promote the work that they do. Read on for more information and how you can get involved.
LocalGiving’s #GiveMe5 campaign goes live on the newly recognised ‘Local Charities Day’ on Friday 16th December 2016. For every £5 donation made to a participating charity through Localgiving between 00:00am and 23:59pm on the 16th of December, that charity will be placed into a draw to be doubled by an extra £5 of match funding. Up to 1,000 £5 donations will be matched as part of this promotion. For more information, and to find out how your organisation can benefit from the campaign, visit www.localgiving.org/resources