Tara's Fundraising night raises £742!

Tara Bird (pictured) has raised £742 for St Mary's Hospice by organising a fundraising night at the Albion pub, Barrow-in-Furness, which took place on 19th February. Along with her darts team, Tara wished to repay the kindness that was shown to a relative as they were cared for by the nurses of St Mary's.

Tara put a great deal of effort into organising the event and managed to obtain 80 raffle prizes by approaching retailers in Barrow to ask for their support. Being a big Barrow Raiders fan, Tara also took a St Mary's collection box to a game and collected donations from the fans. Tara would like to thank all of the Raiders fans for their donations.

Thanks also go out to Landlady of The Albion, Lynda Potter who arranged and kindly paid for a DJ for the event, and to brave Martin Boylan who raised sponsorship on the night by having his head shaved and his legs waxed!

St Mary's would like to thank all of those involved in the Fundraising night. The help we receive from the local community is very special and it is what enables St Mary's to continue to provide comprehensive supportive and palliative care for adults in South Cumbria.

Priory raise £400 with Grand Raffle

Zoe Guest, Funding & Operations Manager at St Mary's, was delighted to be presented with £400 by Wendy and Kelly from the Priory Hairdressers in Duke Street, Barrow.

The money was raised by staff and customers who bought tickets in their grand Christmas raffle. St Mary’s really appreciates all the support it receives from the local community and would like to thank everyone involved for their generosity.

Love Barrow Awards

Zoe Guest, Funding & Operations Manager was delighted to be presented with £746.80 by two representatives from the junior wardens at St James school, Barrow-in-Furness, on Friday 1st April.

The money was raised in the raffle at the Love Barrow Awards where the wardens were nominees. St Mary’s were delighted to be the recipients of the funds for a second year running and appreciate the support of the Barrow community team who arranged the raffle.

Zoe said “I was fortunate enough this year to attend the Love Barrow Awards and was amazed at the generosity of all those who attended and raised money for St Mary’s. It was a fantastic event and I would like to thank the organisers for all their support.”

The Best Little Car in Furness!

Have you spotted the bright blue ‘bestof’ mini driving through the streets of Furness? The ‘bestof’car, sponsored by local businesses, including Poole Townsend, Owen Bayliss Digital CCTV Services and Melville & Co can be seen circulating in the local area.

All the sponsors are helping to raise money for St Mary’s to assist them to continue with the wonderful work they undertake. Owner of the ‘bestofbarrowandfurness’, Helen Penny is donating any surplus profit from sponsorship to St Mary’s Hospice in Ulverston.

Helen adds: “There are over 40 bestof cars up and down the UK – mainly Minis. I will be donating any profits after the cost of leasing, to St Mary’s Hospice, and hope to continue this for many years.

To date, we have three local businesses taking advantage of this unique way of promoting their companies and are talking to several others for future sponsorship. The more local sponsors, the more money we will be able to donate to St Mary’s.”

Zoe Guest, Funding Operations Manager, St Mary’s Hospice, comments: “We are delighted that Helen has decided to support St Mary’s through her new ‘bestof’ car. If Helen can sell the eight sponsorship spaces on her vehicle, which will be in circulation throughout the local area, it should result in a donation of over £3,000 each year to the Hospice”

For further details on how to become a sponsor of the ‘bestof’ car, contact Helen Penny on: (01229) 584641 or visit www.thebestof.co.uk/local/barrow-and-furness

A Premier Fundraising Day

The Bay Team were out and about on Sunday 27th March at Premier Tiles, Premier Business Park in Barrow. Dave and the team at Premier Tiles organised a fun day to accompany the grand opening of The Premier Times Natural Stone Showroom to raise funds for St Mary’s Hospice. There was a wonderful atmosphere and lots for all the family to do including a tombola, raffle, bouncy castle, refreshments and an appearance from the Bay bear. Premier Tiles also donated 5% of all sales on the day to St Mary’s Hospice.

Organisers were delighted that the event raised over £500 for St Mary’s and a big thank you goes to all how supported the event and all the businesses who provided raffle prizes.

The picture shows Dave Staunton and Zoe Guest drawing the raffle in the new natural stone showroom at Premier Tiles.

The raffle winners were as follows:-
Cath Kelly - 1 Hour Studio Shoot & Print Bundle donated by Shot At Photography, Barrow
Elissa Hill - Kodak Digital Photo Frame donated by KC Inks, Kendal
P Butcher - Manicure at Harmony Beauty, Cartmel
Linda Jackson - Gift Voucher donated by Harmony Beauty, Cartmel
Mike Sawrey - Voucher donated by Annie's Traditional Butchers, Ulverston
Bernard Whiteside - Gift Voucher donated by Cumbria Karting
R Kelly - Corporate Tickets for 4 People donated by Barrow AFC
A Walmsley - Gift Voucher for the Orangery Cafe donated by St Mary's Hospice
R Kelly - Massage Voucher donated by Nuffield health, Barrow
Mrs Reilly - Barrow RLFC Shirt donated by Barrow Rugby Club
Mike Sawrey - Easter Cake donated by Mr & Mrs A Hill
B Whiteside - Pair of Cinema Tickets donated by Apollo Cinemas, Barrow
Miss While - Pair of Cinema Tickets dontaed by Apollo Cinemas, Barrow
Jacko - Pair of Cinema Tickets dontaed by Apollo Cinemas, Barrow
Malcolm - Pair of Cinema Tickets dontaed by Apollo Cinemas, Barrow
Austin - Pair of Cinema Tickets dontaed by Apollo Cinemas, Barrow