2005

To raise money for the Teenage Cancer Trust Unit at the Children's Hospital for Wales, Jonathan Davies took part in the Great North Run in September.

Carolyn Morgan from Pembrokeshire is stepping out on a 186 mile walk along the Pembrokeshire county's costal path in memory of Ian Hall, a local teenager, who tragically died earlier this year.

Dressed in full Santa gear, Vespa and Lambretta riders hit the roads for a charity fundraising ride in aid of the Noah's Ark Appeal and raised a magnificent £632 for the Children's Hospital for Wales.

A 13 year old boy from Cwmbran has thought of a great way to update Christmas this year and to raise money for the Noah's Ark Appeal at the same time.  Through his webiste santas-grotto.org a personalised email from Santa can be ordered for the kids and big kids in your family.

Rhondda Rotary Club has announced its support for the Noah's Ark Appeal.

We like to say a really big THANK YOU to all of the Real Radio listeners and companies who took part in Bring a Pound to Work Day 2005, which has raised over £58,000 to date.  

Welsh rugby hero Jonathan Davies revealed, at a glittering Christmas event, that his joint campaign with The Noah’s Ark Appeal has raised a magnificent £410,000 for vital projects at the Children’s Hospital for Wales.

The Noah’s Ark Appeal is delighted to announce that Catherine Zeta Jones and Michael Douglas have donatated a five figure sum to the Appeal as well as choosing the charity to benefit from their share of the proceeds from entries into a competition that ran alongside the All*Star Cup.

Members of staff at the Noah’s Ark Appeal decided to take the slogan from the charity's latest campaign literally and are committing to 'get fit, get, healthy, get giving'.

Supporters of the Noah's Ark Appeal were invited to attend an open weekend at the Children's Hospital for Wales on 22/23 January. The one-off chance to see inside the first dedicated children's hospital in Wales (before patients are admitted at the end of February) brought over 1000 people to the Children's Hospital for Wales.

The first patients to use the brand new Children's Hospital today were admitted to the dedicated paediatric healthcare facility, the first of its kind in Wales, on 25th February.

The Cathedral School of Llandaff has become the first school in Wales to sign up to the Appeal's 'Get Fit, Get Healthy, Get Giving' campaign. Pupils at the school are getting on their bikes and pedalling their way to fitness to raise money for the Teenage Cancer Trust Unit at the Children's Hospital.

The key to the Children's Hospital for Wales was handed over to the Cardiff and Vale NHS Trust on St David's Day, marking the official opening of the building as a working hospital.

The Wooden Spoon Society announced its donation of £1/4 Million to the Noah's Ark Appeal on 12 July 2005. The massive donation, which is the biggest the Society has made in Wales to date, is expected to fund the very special children's garden at the Children's Hospital for Wales.

The Noah's Ark Appeal has announced that its latest fundraising campaign will focus on raising the final £300,000 needed to help the Teenage Cancer Trust complete a teenage cancer unit at the Children's Hospital for Wales. There is currently no purpose-built facility for teenagers with cancer in Wales. Every day in the UK 6 teenagers are diagnosed with cancer.

The Welsh Assembly Government has confirmed in a letter to the Noah's Ark Appeal that the £38.5M needed for the building of the second phase of the Children's Hospital for Wales has been provisionally identified. However, the go-ahead for the project will not be given until the money needed to fund the running costs has also been identified by the Assembly.

Real Radio presented the Noah's Ark Appeal with a cheque for a whopping £50,000 at the Children's Hospital for Wales on 17th May. The proceeds from Bring a Pound to Work Day, which took place in November, were raised by the 537 companies across South Wales that each asked their employees to donate £1 to the Appeal.