Are you tough enough to join our Fire Fit challenge involving one of Liverpool’s most iconic buildings?

Merseyside Fire and Rescue Service has teamed up with Radio City for a spectacular fundraising event.

Teams/individuals are being asked to race up the tower – all 550 steps from the base to the observation platform.

The event takes place on Sunday June 20th from 8am.

Entry is £120 for an 8-person team or £15 per individual, with all entry fees going to The Fire Fighters Charity, Fire Fit and Cash for Kids.

For further information and registration contact Maria Manning by telephone: 0151 296 4428 or email: mariamanning@merseyfire.gov.uk

3 Days – 7 Mad People – 243 Miles - 100 pots of Vaseline and far too much lycra… and they want your money!!

Liverpool One’s very own Estate Director Chris Bliss, joined by fellow Liverpool ONE team members, Simon Kilshaw, Chris Lee, Paul Brady, Rob Clarke, Liam Kelly and Catherine Pankhurst will join a team of 50 riders comprising of representatives of a number of associated companies, friends past and present. 

Over the last few months and in preparation for this event, the team have gallantly and religiously trained in all weather conditions without exception!

The team will be raising sponsorship for the Liverpool ONE foundation and we are looking for your support.  To date the foundation has awarded nearly £300K in local grants to local causes and further details can be found on the foundations website - http://www.cfmerseyside.org.uk/

By sponsoring these riders you are significantly contributing to a wide range of very good causes in the Liverpool area.

These cyclists will be working very hard to earn the right to sponsorship all you have to do is make a donation. Please, please sponsor your Liverpool ONE riders!!!

Donate directly on the following justgiving link www.justgiving.com/Liverpool-ONE-Foundation to make your donation tax efficient!

Alternatively, you may make your cheque payable to the “Community Foundation for Merseyside” (which administers the Liverpool One Foundation) and post it to:

Linda Timotheou
Liverpool ONE
14 Paradise Street
Liverpool L1 8JF
0151 709 7780

North West based charity The Legacy Rainbow House is offering businesses the opportunity to make a difference to the lives of disabled children, with a new and unique Team Building event.

The Legacy Rainbow House is offering inspirational and moving Team Building events from its centre, The Legacy, in Mawdesley, Lancashire.  The day involves visits to the classroom and therapy rooms to see what the children are learning to do and how the charity’s services are helping so many children to become more independent. 

The Legacy Rainbow House teaches disabled children to crawl, feed themselves, stand and even walk in many cases, through a holistic method of teaching called Conductive Education. 

Also included is a balloon modelling class in which teams make a balloon model present for the children, and a fun wheelchair relay in the charity’s new wheelchair skate park.   

And if this wasn’t motivational enough, The Legacy Rainbow House has secured top positive mental attitude speaker, Norry Ascroft, to host the day.  Norry is hugely experienced in the entertainment industry and was trained by one of America’s leading motivational speakers, and the best-selling author, Jack Canfield. 

JMW Solicitors LLP of Manchester is a corporate supporter of the charity, and one of the first companies to participate in the Team Building events.  The company was hugely impressed by the staff and centre at The Legacy and was delighted with the Team Building Day.

Serena Stringfellow, Project Officer at The Legacy Rainbow House says,

“The Team Building events are a way of finding out more about what the charity does to support disabled children.  It also gives participants a taste of the difficulties children with disabilities face on a day to day basis, and how hard they have to work to become more independent.”

Eddie Jones, Head of Clinical Negligence at JMW said,

“As corporate supporters of The Legacy Rainbow House we were delighted to take part in their corporate team building day and experience at first hand the wonderful work they do in rehabilitating and educating the children that attend the centre. All the staff that attended the day found it to be extremely rewarding as well as a fun experience and it helped everyone understand the importance of the work that The Legacy Rainbow House under takes.”

For more information on Team Building days please contact Serena Stringfellow at the charity on 01704 823276, or email serena.stringfellow@thelegacy-rainbowhouse.com.

Start: Thursday 1 Jul 2010
Time: 12:00 - 16:30

Charities are finding it increasingly harder to collect payment of pledges their supporters have made.

To help improve the cash flow for charities Liverpool Chamber of Commerce has joined up with Credit Management Group UK who have designed a training course aimed to train fundraisers on how to collect payment in a way that doesn’t taint the relationship with their sponsors.

At the end of this training course, fundraisers will be more confident in tackling outstanding pledges, have a strategy in place to contact supports and have standard letters to send out to supporters:

- Attributes required to effectively negotiate payment
- Telephone collections: Overcoming objections, negotiating and closing calls
- Negotiating techniques: How to get paid more quickly without effecting the relationship with the supporter
- Active listening: How to use effective listening skills to influence the supporter
- Using leverage to get paid: Using the charities mission effectively as leverage
- Collection Letters: Impact, wording and timing
- Collection Strategy

Testimonial:
“We found the course very informative and specifically tailored to meet the needs of a charity. It was delivered in an informal and humorous manner, whilst at the same time remaining very professional.”
Janine Drew - Fundraising Manager, Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation.

SkillWorks funding may be available to help (up to 60% funding) is available for eligible companies. Contact Blue Orchid 0151 284 7728 for more information.

Member fee: £90
Non-member fee: £90

Book online here

This June, ‘Clatterbridge your cancer centre’ & Radio Merseyside want you to turn blue!

It’s as simple as it sounds, we want local companies to turn blue for a day or even a week to raise funds towards research and treatment into male cancers. Between 14-18 June, you can dress in blue, hold a raffle or world cup sweepstake, turn the building blue, have fun in the office… there are so many ways you can help to raise awareness while raising vital funds for local cancer patients. 

Prostate cancer kills one man every hour in the UK and is the most common cancer in men, whilst testicular cancer is the most common cancer in men aged 15-44.

By taking part in Blue Week you’ll learn how to look out for the signs and know the symptoms, helping to save the lives of more dads, husbands, brothers, sons and friends.

To find out how you can take part and get your free Blue Week fundraising pack, call 0151 482 7948 or email fundraising@ccotrust.nhs.uk

Thursday 10th June 2010

This is your chance to celebrate the start of the 2010 World Cup and help the men’s Charity CALM. 

Get your team together and get yourselves a table before it all kicks off on Thursday 10th June.

Metquarter in conjunction with CALM, is hosting a charity event with a difference - they’ll be 32 teams playing table football battling it out for a host of prizes. 

All you need to do is round up your colleagues and £30 to secure your table!  The only question is, which country will you be representing?

Bring out your competative side (and your female counterparts) and enjoy the beautiful game, refreshments courtesy of Revolution = and substitute your usual evening for one of the finest brands in one Premiership place; Metquarter - it’s in a different league.

Buy your tickets here

Clatterbridge Cancer Research (CCR) is holding its annual Spring Golf Day at Caldy Golf Club, Wirral on 27 May 2010 to help raise funds for cancer research in Merseyside and Cheshire.

The charity are currently recruiting teams to play in this prestigious event. 

For an opportunity to play golf, network and enjoy a great evening of entertainment, golfers are encouraged to round up friends, family and colleagues to form teams of four. 

Entry costs £360 per team, which works out at £90 per person and includes lunch and a celebratory prize-giving dinner.

This year players will also have the chance to win a spectacular golfing holiday in Andalucía, Spain, which has been kindly donated by Andalucía Marketing UK Ltd. A charity raffle will be held to round the event off. Non-playing guests are also welcome to attend this event for £25 a ticket.

Caldy Golf Club is situated on the estuary of the river Dee and the course straddles the Wirral Way. It enjoys breathtaking views of the North Wales mountains and a rural outlook to farmland and dales to the South, and is a former venue of the Seniors’ Championship.

Places are being snapped up fast so to enter a team please contact: Natalie Childs-Fielding, Events Fundraiser, Tel: 0151 343 4300, E: natalie.childs-fielding@ccrmail.org.

The charity is also taking bookings for its annual autumn golf day at Caldy Golf Club to be held on Thursday 23 September 2010. Further information is available at www.clatterbridge.org

Liverpool Chamber member, ‘Clatterbridge your cancer centre’ is the leading cancer treatment centre for people in the Liverpool area.

They have a couple of fantastic fundraising events coming up soon. Why not show your support for this great organisation and have a fab time at their events too?

Midsummer Mersey Cruise
Sunday 20 June

Join us on a voyage of rediscovery as BBC Radio Merseyside’s Andy Ball & Former Senior River Pilot Stuart Wood show you the well loved landmarks & hidden gems of the River Mersey on this three hour ferry cruise.

All proceeds will go to Radio Merseyside’s charity partner ‘Clatterbridge your cancer centre’ supporting the leading cancer treatment centre for people in the area.

The money we raise will help to make a real difference at Clatterbridge, allowing us to improve the care, treatment, support & facilities offered. We couldn’t do this without the fantastic support of people like you.

Along with the commentary, we’ll be holding a raffle with some fantastic prizes.

The Snowdrop will be picking up passengers from Seacombe, Pier Head and Woodside from 10am and refreshments will be available on board.

Tickets cost £15 each

For more information call 0151 482 7948 or visit www.yourclatterbridge.org.uk

Ascot at Chester
17 June

The ‘Clatterbridge your cancer centre’ Ascot at Chester event is back for a second year at the stunning Chester Racecourse.

It is a fantastic opportunity to indulge in an afternoon of fun and entertainment. Ladies are encouraged to dress in their finery whilst watching live coverage of the races on big screens (this is not an actual race day at Chester) and cheering on their favourite horse, all while indulging in a fabulous lunch and afternoon tea.

Then at the end of the day, one lucky lady will be presented with a fabulous prize for the day’s Best Dressed Lady. 

There will also be a fabulous raffle, entertainment and a disco all for just £37 per person.

All the money raised from the event will go towards providing extras above and beyond what the NHS provide. Extras that make a real difference to our patients experience here at Clatterbridge Centre for Oncology.

We also have a number of sponsorship packages available for businesses.

For more information call 0151 482 7948 or visit www.yourclatterbridge.org.uk

Ladies! Why not sign up for this year’s Jospice Midnight Walk. It’s raising funds for the St Joseph’s Hospice, which cares for Merseyside’s terminally ill.

Once again the event is being sponsored by Medicash healthcare, and is on Friday 11th June.

We’d would love to see as many Liverpool girls on this. Its starts at Holy Family High school in Thornton, and the route takes the walkers through the grounds of the hospice, then back through Thornton & Crosby Village, and then back to the school.

The fun starts at 10.30pm with warm ups for the walk courtesy of Heats Health club in Crosby – Mam Mia style, then Radio Merseyside Roger Phillips will be on hand trying to keep the girls in order, and start the walk on the dot of midnight.

Registration is just £8 and you will get a special walk t shirt, a pen and indtruction for the night, along with a sponsor form. Every penny raised on the walk will support the work of Jospice ion caring for local terminally ill people and their families from the area. Jospice is the largest and oldest hospice on Merseyside, and can only continue its work by rasiing funds from donations and events such as this.

To register, go onto website www.jospice.org.uk, or phone 0151 924 3812

The ultimate golfing challenge is back!

Last year generous golfers raised more than £365,000 to help thousands of people affected by cancer to have more good days by taking part in our Longest Day Golf Challenge.

This year we want to make the challenge even bigger and better!

With 822 people now being diagnosed with cancer every day, there’s a greater need than ever for our services. So, have you got the balls to play golf all day again in 2010?

Get involved!

How it works. Simply…

1. Gather your golfing friends together.
2. Play four rounds of golf in just one long summer’s day.
3. Ask everyone you know to sponsor your valiant efforts.

The top four teams will be invited to play for the 2010 Longest Day Golf Challenge trophy at the prestigious Boavista Golf Resort, Western Algarve, Portugal in October. Full details will be revealed on our website soon. You can check out the pictures from last year’s final too.

Register now!

To register for the ultimate golfing challenge, and support everyone living with cancer, please visit www.macmillan.org.uk/golf, or call Macmillan’s Golf Team on 020 7840 4615.