2010
Successful Fundraising Events

Alzheimer’s Society
‘Beetle Drive’ Fun Evening

Fundraising Event 
Our 2nd successful Beetle Drive held at Tullygarley Community Centre.

Charity Cause
Alzheimer’s Society - www.alzheimers.org.uk or contact the Antrim and Ballymena branch at antrimalz@btconnect.com or Tel: 028 944 61717

My Donation
Framed ‘Christmas Robin’ Painting

Money Raised - £272

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Wash Basin, Ahoghill- ‘Beetle Drive’

Charity Cause
The ‘Wash Basin’ provides for all the community.
Visit www.washbasin.co.uk for info & contacts.

My Donation - Framed Painting

Money Raised - £230

BHF – ‘Red for Heart’
in February National Heart Month

1. Fundraising Event 
All of my painting class students (in Ballymena, Tullygarley, Tamlaght O’Crilly and Antrim) joined me in ‘Red for Heart’ by wearing red clothing.
The students in all my classes are fantastic people, a ‘great bunch of people’ always willing to have a bit of fun and support a good cause aswell.
A huge thank you to them all for their support.
Money Raised - £81

2. Fundraising Event 
‘Pick a Super Hero’ competition held at our local Galgorm Post Office. Big thanks to Roberta and John, the Post Office owners.
Money Raised - £50

My Donation
Two ‘LLCrafts’ Hanging Plaques
‘Home is where the Heart is’

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Total Money Raised - £131
Thank you to all!
Visit www.bhf.org.uk/red to read about how easy it is for you to help raise funds for ‘BHF-NI’

Some of my ‘Enjoy Painting’
Class Students

PDSA-(For pets in need or vets)
Sponsored Dog Walk & Fun Day
Sunday 2nd May (starts 11.30am)

Fundraising Event 
Treat your dog and yourself to this wonderful day out, at Ormeau Park in Belfast, where there will be plenty of canine entertainment including dog agility, heel work, music, fly ball and dog show. There will also be free care and advice for your pets, craft stalls, food zone and fun zone with face painting and fancy dress for the children.

Charity Cause
PDSA - All money raised will help the PDSA treat sick and injured pets in Northern Ireland.
To read more about this wonderful cause visit www.pdsa.org.uk

For more info and to join the ‘Sponsored Dog Walk Day’, contact Valerie Morrison at macymorrison@hotmail.com
or Tel: 028 905 84649

My Donation
‘All Paws Welcome’ LLCrafts Hanging Plaque
& Photo Voucher by ‘DIP- Hugo McNiece’

Each registered walker will receive a goodies bag containing ‘Walkies’ t-shirt and other items!
All ‘Two’ and ‘Four’ legged beings WELCOME!

My donated ‘LLCrafts’ Plaque

Northern Ireland Children’s Hospice
Denver Thompson - London Marathon

Fundraising Event 
Denver Thompson from Connor, NI is running in the London Marathon on 25th April. After being involved in a near fatal road traffic accident in 2004, Denver has decided to live each day to the full and raise money for a wonderful cause. Visit Denver’s story to read more and donate at www.virginmoneygiving.com/denverthompson

So, visit and support Denver, who will also gladly receive donations after the marathon run date.

Charity Cause
Northern Ireland Children’s Hospice - cares for children and young people with life-limiting and life-threatening conditions and supports their families all over Northern Ireland. Visit the charity at www.nihospicecare.com

Money Target - £2,500
All the best for your marathon run Denver.
I am very pleased to be sponsoring Denver, by showing his worthy story on my site and helping to spread the word about his good cause.
If you have a worthy cause, I could support you!

Gracehill & Galgorm Senior Citizens
Association

Fundraising Event 
Our ‘Pick a Line’ competition was held at Galgorm. Seven Galgorm businesses took part, which was great. The competition was mainly focused in our local Post Office, with florist ‘Leaf Designs’ generously offering to show our winning prize in her ‘Easter’ window display.

Other prizes included a yummy ‘Easter Egg’ from ‘XL Shop’, a‘Mens Grooming Voucher’ from ‘Jaqueline Kennedy’ and chocolates from the ‘Spar’, all based in Galgorm.

Charity Cause
‘Gracehill & Galgorm Senior Citizens’ who get together and play bowls, cards, bingo and more.

My Donation
‘Home Tweet Home’ Hanging Plaque

Money Raised - £115

 My ‘Easter’ Plaque

Haiti: Save the Children

Fundraising Event 
Charity ‘Keep Fit’ class run by my aunt Sandra and her friend Linda. Their weekly keep fit classes are very popular and each year they run a charity class with the funds going to different causes.

Charity Cause
‘Haiti: Save the Children’ have been tirelessly helping the impoverished nation of Haiti after the devastating earthquake on January 12, 2010. The charity aims to get aid and life-saving supplies to Haiti’s poorest children and families, and have launched a £3 million appeal to help fund a major emergency response. 
You can visit the charities website and donate to this very worthy cause at www.savethechildren.org

My Donation
‘Fitness Frolics’ Hanging Plaque, coincidentally won by Nora, one of my art class students!

Money Raised - over £250

 ‘Spring into action’

Paintings Donated to
‘Tullygarley Community Centre’

Event 
Two paintings depicting the ‘Old and New Tullygarley Bridge’ were donated to the ‘Tullygarley Community Centre’, to adorn it’s wall. The knocking down of the old bridge in 2009 was a huge change to the small village, so I decided to paint the old and new bridges, frame them and donate them to the ‘Tullygarley Community
Centre’ where I also run some of my weekly art painting classes.
The paintings are now on display for all to admire and remember an important element of their community.

Event
Since my donation of the paintings, the ‘Tullygarley Residents Committee’ has given a further two same sets of paintings to hang in Ballymena’s ‘The Braid’ Town Hall and the architect who designed the new bridge.

My Donation
Two framed ‘Tullygarley Bridge’ paintings

 ‘Old & New 
Tullygarley Bridges’

Kilcooley Women’s Centre
Bangor

Fundraising Event 
Kilcooley Fun Day, Saturday 7th August (11-2pm)

Charity Cause
To help the running of the centre (operating from Kilcooley Primary School) which was set up to promote and establish an education programme for women, offering classes such as IT, Maths, Crafts, and more, along with a crèche for the kiddies.
Visit their site- www.kilcooleywomenscentre.co.uk

BHF & Marie Curie
University of Glamorgan Reunion
Cardiff

Fundraising Event 
Reunion at University of Glamorgan in Cardiff on Saturday 4th September.

Charity Cause
‘British Heart Foundation’ and ‘Marie Curie’.
To learn more about these charities visit-www.bhf.org.uk and www.mariecurie.org.uk
and visit the university at www.glam.ac.uk

My donations for these two events
Mounted ‘Louise Lester’ Painting Prints

Gaelscoil Ghleann Darach
Irish Medium School, Crumlin

Fundraising Event 
Irish Cultural Community Fun Day on Saturday 14th August (12-5pm) where there will be bouncy castles, face painting, BBQ, live traditional music, crafts and more.

Charity Cause
‘Buy a Brick’ campaign, funding for a new school building in 2011. Visit their website at www.ghleanndarach.com

Bristol Royal Infirmary
Ward 25- Acute Stroke Ward

Fundraising Event 
Fundraising hamper and raffle prizes.

Charity Cause
Ward 25 is an ‘acute stroke ward’ catering for patients of all ages and caring for the elderly. They are raising funds for elderly patients with no living relatives, to buy their basic toiletry items.

Visit the hospital at www.uhbristol.nhs.uk/your-hospitals/bristol-royal-infirmary.html

My donations for these two events
Mounted ‘Louise Lester’ Painting Prints

Samples of my donated
‘Mounted Prints’

Help for Heroes – South East, UK

Fundraising Event 
Charity Day involving a golf challenge, followed by a dinner with an auction and raffle. The event was organized by a group of transport managers working for DHL in South East UK, with Sainsbury’s agreeing to match their raised amount!

Charity Cause
Help for Heroes- to help the wounded servicemen and women returning from Afghanistan and Iraq. Visit the charity at- www.helpforheroes.org.uk  

My Donation
LLCrafts Hanging Plaque

Money Target - At least £5000

My Brother Mark’s
Cancer Research UK- Relay for Life

Fundraising Event 
Relay for Life - charity event held at Braunton Athletics Track, where walkers and runners of all ages completed laps of the track non-stop for 24hrs, including my brother Mark. The event was aimed at all ages, with plenty of entertainment from live bands, dancing displays and singing, which created a wonderful fundraising event.
Good on you Marky and his fiancée Clare for participating, along with the support from family and friends!

Charity Cause
‘Cancer Research UK’ - you can read all about the relay events that were held all over the UK at- www.cancerresearchuk.org/relay

Money Raised - £45,000

 Walking the track!
Clare and her mum joining in!

Coffee Afternoon
NI Kidney Research Fund

Fundraising Event 
Coffee Afternoon and Open Day held at LLCrafts art studio at Galgorm. A display of paintings along with a raffle for framed prints, and a painting demonstration by myself entertained the visitors.

Charity Cause
‘Northern Ireland Kidney Research Fund - NIKRF’ is very active and all funds raised stays in NI. To learn more visit - www.kidneyresearchni.com

My Donation
Two of my framed artwork prints, which have now gone to happy new homes.

Money Raised - £155

In addition, I also donated an ‘LLCrafts’ Painted Milkpail at our coffee afternoon, to a wonderful NIKRF volunteer Anne, to be auctioned off at a later date to raise further funds for this excellent cause.

To read about the full story of my Milkpail donation to this charity, visit my ‘News Page’

Our coffee afternoon fundraiser, along with volunteer Anne McCormick

My cousin Darren’s- Great South Run 
In memory of Kieran Greenstreet

Fundraising Event 
Great South Run - Sunday 24th October in Portsmouth, involving 23,000 runners.

Charity Cause
Darren is running in memory of his good friend Kieran Greenstreet and in aid of ‘British Heart Foundation’. Very sadly Kieran died of a massive heart attack in May aged just 39. To all his friends and family, Kieran was a very kind and popular person, and the weekend that would have been his 40th birthday is the date of the run, so Darren thought it would be a fitting tribute to his good friend. So please visit - http://original.justgiving.com/darren_cairns to read about Darren’s story, give support and donate.
Learn about all the UK Great Runs at- www.greatrun.org  and the BHF charity at- www.bhf.org.uk   

My Donation
This web story, plus a cash donation, along with Auntie Joan’s donation! - (from Northern Ireland)

Money Raised So Far - £1,063

 Runners ready to get started!

FACEBOOK - Charity Auctions 2010

Fundraising Events
I also like to donate to ‘Facebook Charity Auctions’ where people can bid on great donated items, including my ‘LLCrafts’ donations.
To view the auctions I have supported, visit –
http://www.facebook.com/pages/LLCrafts-Hand-Painted-Crafts

Charity Auctions I have Donated To:

• Heroic Heart Kids / Labs 'n Life / Liddol Miracles
• Raising Hope for Brittany / Bears for Comfort
• Chantal's Charity Auction / Paige’s Story
• Mater Little Miracles / Charity Auction for SCBU
• Help Ethan - life with DMD / Thames Valley Park

These Charity Auctions were in UK & Australia

Samples of my donations  

Shoe Box Appeals

Our Soldiers at War
Give our ‘Soldiers at War’ in Afghanistan and other countries at war, a lovely present by filling up a shoe box with yummy treats and basic essentials.  The finished box must weigh below 2kg and the postage is free. These boxes can be posted ALL YEAR round, and not just for Xmas!
These boxes are a really good feel factor for you, the giver and the soldier receiving your box.
We completed 3 soldier boxes, for 3 local lads!

Xmas Shoeboxes- for the Needy
Distributed by the ‘Blythswood Care’ Charity, to very needy countries in Eastern Europe and Asia. The shoeboxes cater for all ages and all sexes. You simply choose which category, and fill your box with items to suit that person. We filled 3 boxes for  a ‘Man’, ‘Teenage Boy and Girl’. There is a very small charge for posting your shoebox.
You can visit- www.shoeboxappeal.org to read about this appeal and take part in you local area.

Both these ‘Shoe Box’ appeals are very simple, inexpensive and joyful to do and anybody can do them. So give it a go, and give to others!

Samples of our
Shoe Box Appeals