Fundraising News
The Noah’s Ark Appeal would like to offer a heartfelt thank you to all the staff at FirstPlus Financial, who have fundraised for us since the beginning of 2008. The staff made fantastic and tireless efforts for the Appeal, volunteering in our shop, organising raffles and much more besides!
Collect all those empty cartridges you have lying around – the Appeal can exchanged them for cash and it won't cost you a penny!
It was all aboard for the Children’s Hospital for Wales this month when Arriva Trains Wales donated bags of toys, books and games that had been accidentally abandoned on trains all over Wales.
John Hutchings, a Cardiff postman, has recently raised over £1500 for the Appeal! He spent 9 days of March 2008 scaling Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania. This is no mean feat as the mountain is 5896 metres in height!
A soaring sea of applause to nurses working on the Children’s Hospital for Wales’ Ocean Ward – over £5000 was raised in sponsorship for their group skydive!
Raffles, fashion shows and product displays replaced the usual colour, cut and curl goings-on at Blush Salon on Caerphilly Road in Cardiff last month, as they held a one night only fundraising event in aid of the Noah’s Ark Appeal.
Children’s author Ruthie Thomas has presented copies of her book to patients at the Children’s Hospital for Wales. Ruthie was raised in Cardiff and hopes that her book will bring hours of enjoyment to poorly youngsters.
Vice Chairman of the Noah’s Ark Appeal, businessman Eddie Hayward of Chepstow, has many thousands of reasons to celebrate – in fact 28,500 reasons, as that is the sum he and his family and colleagues at Chepstow Plant International have just raised for the children’s hospital charity.
Tireless fundraisers the Ante-Deluvian Order of Buffaloes set pulses and purses racing last year when they published a nude calendar in aid of the Orchid Foundation.
University Hospital of Wales staff have raised over £2500 for the Appeal in a cross-country bike challenge.