Solstice Walk

St Giles Hospice

Saturday 18th June

Solstice Walk – Lichfield Rugby Club

The sun eventually chased the rain away on Saturday evening for St Giles Hospices Solstice Walk, organised to raise funds for support and care at their hospice. Hundreds of people turned out to take part with many of them going the pre walk “Welcome Party” which live music from Kodachrome and hair styling provided by Pure Hair & Spa of Four Oaks. Preparations are already underway for next years “Safari Solstice Walk” and you book your place by clicking the link https://buff.ly/2V0YzmF

Pictures courtesy of St Giles Hospice and Pure Hair & Spa

Solstice Walk

St Giles Hospice

Saturday 18th June

Solstice Walk – Lichfield Rugby Club

Pictures courtesy of St Giles Hospice and Pure Hair & Spa

NSPCC Spring Extravaganza

Monday 25th April saw the NSPCC return to Moor Hall with their popular Spring Extravaganza event. There were some wonderful shopping experiences including C’est Vous Jewellery, Bags For Sale, Mitchell Hammond and Swanky J’s, who also did a wonderful fashion show. A fantastic prize draw with some wonderful prizes. There was a short talk from a volunteer at Child Line and the importance of keeping it running and the Adult help line. The afternoon culminated in a gorgeous afternoon tea served by the lovely staff from Moor Hall.

Town Hall to host Dance Fundraiser for Ukraine

Popular dance promoter Mani Wotany has teamed up with Royal Sutton Coldfield Town Hall to create a fundraiser to help the devastated people of war-torn Ukraine.

‘Ukraine Fundraising Fiesta’ is the creation of Mani Wotany, who runs a number of Salsa and Kizomba dance nights across the UK.

Mani, known more commonly in the dance community as Mani Muchasalsa, has been holding dance events across the country for 22 years, particularly in the Midlands.

He has run several charity fundraisers in response to international crises, such as a dance event for Haiti which raise £8,000, and one for the Philippines which raised £15,000.

Sutton Coldfield Town Hall, which has been displaying Ukrainian national colours on its clock tower lighting in support of the war-torn country, was a natural choice for the promoter as a partner, as it hosts two large sprung dancefloors across two rooms.

Spaces for the event on Friday, April 15, are limited, and at only £12, tickets are likely to sell out.

Organisers urge people to visit www.suttoncoldfieldtownhall.com for event details.

£69k From Tree Recycling

Over £69,000 has been raised for St Giles Hospice from its Christmas TreeCycle making it their most successful campaign yet.

Over 5,000 trees were picked up by volunteerism return for a donation.A All the funds will help to ensure that St Giles can continue to support the local people and their families living with a terminal illness.

Chloe Herbert, Head of Fundraising said ” We are absolutely delighted with the results”

Charlotte Tilbury Master Class in aid of St Giles Hospice

Saturday the 4th December saw the resumption of face to face charity events forSt Giles Hospice fundraising ambassador Linda.

The event was held at the Green House Pub in Mere Green, the guests were treated to an hour of tip and tricks in this wonderful masterclass provided by the Charlotte Tilbury staff from Selfridges in Birmingham, and got to take home a goody bag of CT products.

After the masterclass everyone moved to the restaurant for a wonderful Breakfast/Brunch during which tickets were sold for the raffle, prizes included a Lavazza Coffee Machine, Pamper sessions at Pure Hair & Spa, meal at the Green House, watches, wine, and lots more.

An amazing £700 (approx) was raised through the generosity of all the guests present all of which were saying they were looking forward to the next one in 2022

Rudolph Run

Sunday saw the return of the well loved Rudolph Run at Tamworth Castle in aid of St Giles Hospice, cancelled last year due to the pandemic.

There was a wonderful atmosphere with most of the runners in fancy dress including a small pack of unicorns.

A spokesperson for St Giles Hospice said

“A huge thanks to the ho ho ho hundreds of supporters who took part in our 13th annual Rudolph Run on Sunday 5th December.

Well done to all of our fantastic runners and walkers. Your support helps us to continue caring for local people, and their families, living with a terminal illness.”

Pictures ©Nigel Gambles Photography

Rotary Club Walking For Man’s Best Friend

Release date: 12.02.2020

Media contact: Carolyn McLaughlin

The Rotary Club of Wylde Green has just donated £2300 to Birmingham Dogs’ Home.

The funds were raised on a sponsored dog walk, 2 miles long through Sutton Park.

Walkers had been sponsored by friends, family members and colleagues. John Bradin had done particularly well raising in excess of £400, thanks to him having been sponsored by his colleagues at Glover Priest solicitors. John’s dog ‘Dougie’ went on to win the competition for ‘the best dressed pooch’.

The Birmingham Dogs’ Home is based at Catherine de Barnes in Solihull. It takes in and cares for stray and unwanted dogs from the West Midlands area and finds new homes where possible. The charity provides education to schools and other community groups in responsible dog ownership, whilst fundraising to ensure the on-going provision of service. It aims to rescue, reunite and rehome dogs and last year helped 2500 dogs.

Commenting on behalf of Birmingham Dogs’ Home, Rachel Frost, Digital Marketing Officer said:

‘The members of Wylde Green Rotary Club have helped us tremendously with supporting the dogs in our care by raising such a fantastic amount, for which we are really grateful. The sort of work these funds will support will be cruciate veterinary care for the dogs in our care, such a cruciate ligaments, eye surgery and skin treatments.’

The Rotary Club’s President, Dick Elston added:

‘We have found it a rewarding experience with our Club to support The Birmingham Dogs’ Home. Sadly within society today there are many incidents of what are considered to be “man’s best friend” suffering mistreatment, deprivation and cruelty; we are pleased to have helped this valuable organisation that seeks to address these ills with care and sensitivity. We wish them well in their future work.’

More information about the canine charity can be found on their website at: www.birminghamdogshome.org.uk

Many members say they join Rotary because it gives them a chance to give something back to their community. Members also volunteer their time – supervising and organising community events, running projects to promote the achievements of young people and coordinating educational programmes.

St Giles Garden Launch Event

St Giles Hospice “The Moments That Matter” garden project is being officially launched …
23RD JANUARY
6.30-8.30PM
ST GILES HOSPICE, WHITTINGTON.

Come along to the Launch Event of the St Giles Hospice garden project … everyone is welcome!

See details of the event & tickets here
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-story-of-a-rhs-show-garden-tickets-84152156365

Join award winning RHS garden designer Karen Tatlow to hear the ‘STORY OF A RHS SHOW GARDEN’ – sharing her experience of building and exhibiting an RHS show garden last year, which picked up no less than three awards, including “People’s Choice Show Garden” and well as attracting national media coverage.

“Building a garden from scratch out of nothing, to an absolute deadline in a matter of days and making it look like it has been there for years is no easy task. In fact it could be described as a form of insanity!

“We ended up doing all sorts of crazy things to make it happen and those are the kind of things people are most interested in hearing about.

Karen will also be sharing the story behind the St Giles garden, which will be at RHS Malvern Spring Festival in May, before being moved, piece by piece, back to the hospice in Whittington, Lichfield.

There’ll be the opportunity to find out how to pledge your support for the project, whether that’s getting involved in building the garden, spreading the word, helping financially, or signing up to help bring the garden back to Whittington.

The garden is becoming a real community project, with people, local organisations and businesses across Whittington Village and Lichfield all coming together to donate time, products, services and expertise, as well as financial donations.

“It’s an absolute joy to see so many people and businesses wanting to lend their support to build this garden for the hospice.

“We have already raised support worth an estimated £58K, which is so wonderful, but we still have about £13K to go, so every little bit that people and businesses can give is so important … and of course we cannot do it all alone, so we are also looking for volunteers that can help us!

The garden has a dedicated website telling you all about the project and how everyone can get involved at stgileshospiceshowgarden.com

All are welcome to come along to the Launch Event, whether you are a local business owner or representative that would like to find out more, or someone who is simply fascinated about the world of RHS Show Gardens!

The Launch Event is at St Giles Hospice, Whittington, on the 23rd January, from 6.30pm to 8.30pm

TICKETS ARE FREE (with a request for a donation on the night towards the garden if possible)

Tickets are avialable via EventBrite at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-story-of-a-rhs-show-garden-tickets-84152156365

Or contact Karen directly at

[email protected]
07432 646275