Well, I completed the charity event on Wednesday 20th April and have now totalled up the amount of all money raised but before getting to ‘that figure’ let me tell you where the Easter eggs went to :
Helston – most south westerly store
50 Easter eggs went to the Children’s Hospice South West (
www.CHSW.org.uk)
’At Children’s Hospice South West we care for children who have illnesses which mean they will die before reaching adulthood. We provide expert care for them, their parents and well siblings.’
A Sainsbury’s Corporate feature on this visit can be viewed at
http://www.j-sainsbury.co.uk/index.asp?PageID=424&Year=2011&NewsID=1522
Tenby – most westerly store
80 Easter eggs went towards the Tenby Youth Group and the Avenue Centre.
The Youth Group is a youth group (!) and the Avenue Centre helps to support mentally disabled individuals.
A local news report on my visit can be found at
http://www.tenby-today.co.uk/news.c...to deliver Easter cheer to charities in Tenby
Berryden Road (Aberdeen) – most northerly store
A total of 105 Easter eggs were donated to this store.
51 eggs went to a local organisation which helps support people with learning difficulties – Inspire (
http://www.inspireonline.org.uk)
‘Inspire aims to offer opportunities for an excellent quality of life to people with learning disabilities in North East Scotland.’
54 eggs went to the local children’s A&E department at the Royal Aberdeen Children’s Hospital (
http://www.nhsgrampian.org/nhsgramp...lementID=34&pMenuID=3&p_service=Content.show&). Unfortunately I could not spend much time here as, being a weekend, there were reduced staff available and a young child was being flown in by helicopter so everybody was required for this.
Great Yarmouth – most easterly store
36 eggs were given to the children’s ward in the James Paget University Hospital (
www.jpaget.nhs.uk)
The hospital limited the amount of eggs to 36.
Some of you will notice that Helston is actually the most SW and westerly location at the same time. This is true but I wanted to use four stores in the UK but could not include Northern Ireland due to time constraints.
Now the money I raised :
£280 via the collection tin that I rattled around various places
£100 from Sainsbury’s Charities Dept towards purchasing Easter eggs
£784 via the Red Nose Day website and paper sponsorship forms
£200 from Sainsbury’s Charities Dept to go the RND but this is to be confirmed
So in total, I (or should I say ‘we’) have raised a minimum of £1164 which I hope will finally total out at £1364.
There are many people to thank but rather than state names I will just say thank you to people who donated money, people at Sainsbury’s Store Support Centre for helping me with the planning and promoting of this event, people who came to see me off at the start, members of this forum who generously gave me free lodgings and food for the night, the manager of Sainsbury’s Hawick store for the use of a spare room and my family for putting up with me whilst I spent a lot of time at home planning and implementing this event.
Thank you all so much.
Joe Callaghan
