Charity night success!

The 3rd of July seen our first ever charity night. Full of laughs, games and great music.

The night raised £530!

Boxing legends up for auction!!

Boxing legends Signed Framed Picture.

Kindly donated by Tony Ravel.

Up for auction right here... http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=320391462392

Thanks to Pontins

Some lucky family at our charity night will be going home with a free holiday courtesy of Pontins!

Book from Haynes

Thanks to Haynes for the Classic Scootering book.

We have added it to our Warwickshire Hert of England Bike Show raffle.

Delivery from Kriega

Kriega R20 backpack arrived. Thanks Kriega we've added it to our prize list!!

Claire House Visit

Today, we visited Claire House. They held an open day and we took the opportunity to see first hand the great work all the staff do at the hospice. It is a fantastic place, fantastic people & a fantastic cause. We hope we raise as much as we can from our 3 events. we would like to raise at least £1000 for each year of the hospices birthday, currently celebrating it's tenth.

(From left to right. John, Fred, Paul, Brian, Joanne, Me(Paul), Denny.)

Offer from Haynes

Haynes are adding a book to our prize draw list.... will let you know more when it arrives.

Offer from Kriega

For our prize draw & awaiting delivery... It's an R20 Rucksack.. nice one at that!!

Thanks to Wurth

For sending lots of products... full list available on our website here.. http://www.mildhogs.co.uk/big_prize_draw.html

Press - We make the local news

We featured in todays Liverpool Echo..

Page 24.

Click the Echo image to enlarge story!

Fibre-Lyte !!

A big thankyou to Martin Hansell for the kind donation of carbon fibre tax disc holders for our prize draw & Warickshire show draw.

http://www.fibre-lyte.co.uk/

Andy Abraham

Thankyou to Andy Abraham & management for their kind offer of show tickets. This will raise some funds for our cause. Andy is currently on tour. http://en.andyabraham.co.uk/andyabraham

Kryptonite Locks

A big thankyou to Ingersol Rand - the company that do the Kryptonite locks... they have sent us 3 top quality locks for our prize lists, these are to be split between all 3 events! The big prize draw, charity night draw and the warickshire bike show.

All our prize draws explained....

Purchased a raffle ticket? Need the prize info?

For the Big prize Draw Click Here

For the Charity Night Draw Click Here

For the Hert of England Bike Show Draw Click Here

Thankyou Pirelli!

A big thankyou to Pirelli for sponsoring our bikes with some nice new much needed tyres!

New Prizes Added

Many thanks to Demon Tweeks for donating a R&G neck warmer & Helmet Bag. As well as a multitool. Our prizes are mounting up! full list here... http://www.mildhogs.co.uk/prizes.html

What we are doing it for!

Here are Claire House's funding costs.
Whatever we can raise will help somewhere!
Just to put our fundraising efforts into context:
£2,500 will fund a nurse and their costs for one month
£1,750 will provide for the physiotherapy needs of the children each month
£1,500 will give 24 hour medical cover for one month
£550 will provide family and bereavement support each week
£400 will fund our pharmacy and sundry expenses
£110 will cover the daily cost of meal times for the children and their families
£90 will keep our vehicles on the road for one week
£60 will fund play activities for the children and their siblings daily
£30 will fund our hydrotherapy pool for one day

The Route

The route is confirmed as the following:

Start - Liverpool

Day 1 Liverpool to Lanark Via Sedburgh , Staying in Lanark.

Day 2 Lanark to Inverness Via Loch Ness, Staying in Inverness.

Day 3 Inverness to Kildary Via John o' groats, Staying at Kildary.

Day 4 Kildary to Fala, Staying in Fala.

Day 5 Fala to Brandesburton via Scarborough, Staying in Brandesburton.

Day 6 Brandesburton to Tewkesbury via Buxton, Staying in Tewkesbury.

Day 7 Tewskesbury to St Austell Via Taunton, Staying in St Austell.

Day 8 St Austell to Bideford Via Lands End, Staying in Bideford.

Day 9 Bideford to Pandy Via Minehead, Staying in Pandy.

Day 10 Pandy to Liverpool Via Shrewsbury, Finish.

Charity Night

As a way of raising more funds for our cause, we are having a charity night where we can raffle off some of the prizes we have accumulated! We have a DJ, Disco, Singer and much more going on. Ticket prices are a reasonable £4. All money raised is going to Claire House Children's Hospice. This event will take place at Norris Green Conservatve Club, Friday July 3rd 2009, 7:00pm!

For ticket details click here. Stay tuned for more details.