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EUROSPAR And VIVOXTRA Celebrate Hitting £500,000 Fundraising Milestone

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EUROSPAR and VIVOXTRA Northern Ireland have this week celebrated reaching their £500,000 fundraising milestone for local charity Cancer Fund for Children who they have been supporting since May 2011. Money raised at stores across the province will help the charity provide practical, emotional and financial support to local families whose lives are affected by cancer. Every […]

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“I Thought I Wasn’t Skinny Enough To Get Help” Reveals Belfast Model Raising Awareness About Eating Disorders

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A BELFAST model has launched her own campaign to raise awareness about eating disorders in young people across the country. 23-year-old Samantha Reynolds joined forces with local charity CARED (Caring About Recovery from Eating Disorders), an organisation founded by the families of two Northern Ireland girls who were affected badly by the condition. The mother

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Hope 4 ME & Fibro Northern Ireland Hold A Successful Event Opposing PACE Trial

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HOPE 4 ME & Fibro Northern Ireland fought the PACE trial in a recent event in Belfast, saying that biomedical studies – not biopsychosocial – should be the leading principle in research towards recovery. ME, a neurological disorder, causes immense suffering among patients. In the road for recovery, only two forms of therapy are recommended

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“Im Doing This For My Dad” Popstar Shelley To Step Back Into The Limelight For Late Father

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AS a teenager Shelley Leitch shot to fame as part of the Northern Ireland girl group Femme Fatale. At just 17-years-old the petite blonde was stepping on to some of the biggest stages in the UK alongside the top names in pop music. Now, as a tribute to her music business father, Shelley – now

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Limelight To Host All-Day Fundraiser Gig For The Distortion Project

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ON February 13 the Limelight, Belfast will host a one off benefit gig for The Distortion Project.  The rock and metal promotion company, who have been running for fifteen years, are responsible for putting on almost every rock/metal in in local history. However, the end of 2015 brought serious financial difficulties and they subsequently launched

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4 Vital Signs That Someone You Love May Be Suicidal

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THE latest public report showed that 6708 people in the UK and Ireland died from suicide in 2013. These alarming statistics have observed an increase in figures over the years, with suicide rates in males now being the highest since 2001.  Several UK charities have commented that these figures are unsurprising given current economic challenges

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The Scandal Of The £5M PACE Trial For ME: What Can Be Done?

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Over 11,000 ME/CFS patients have signed a petition calling for an independent review of the PACE Trial. The PACE Trial is a £5 million study promoting the view that ME/CFS patients can recover if they increase their physical activity, claiming that “fear of activity” has fierce negative impact on patients. However, there’s plenty of evidence

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£5,000 Raised For The Royal Belfast Hospital For Sick Children By Local Firm

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THE Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children has been awarded £5,000 as a charitable donation from the staff of Progressive Building Society’s Head Office. The charity was nominated for financial support by Progressive staff and the money will be used within the hospital’s Intensive Care Unit to help purchase vital new equipment to diagnose and treat

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BT Volunteers Raised Over £86,000 For Cancer Charities

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NORTHERN Ireland’s leading palliative care provider, Marie Curie, has received a welcome boost thanks to the efforts of volunteers from leading communications provider, BT.  On the 8th October, 160 BT volunteers stepped out of their day jobs to volunteer in the ‘Great BT Charity Shops Challenge’, with each BT team taking over one of the 10

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Cinemagic Release A Christmas Star Soundtrack Single

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TO highlight the release of the Cinemagic Christmas Feature Film, A Christmas Star, Cinemagic have released the soundtrack single titled We Can Shine. The track features the stunning vocals of 13 year old Zena Donnelly and has already been receiving rave reviews from a host of TV and Film stars. Proceeds from the single will go to

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Northern Ireland Charity Workers Bag A Whopping 11 Awards From House Of Lords

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11 Action for Children Northern Ireland representatives have scooped top awards for their outstanding contributions to the charity. The winners celebrated at a House of Lords ceremony when they collected a coveted Stephenson Award – Action for Children’s annual recognition of the outstanding contribution made to the leading charity by staff, foster carers, volunteers, supporters

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SHS Group’s Pedal Power Raises Funds for Macmillan Cancer Support

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OVER 120 staff at SHS Group undertook a virtual cycle challenge recently to raise funds for the staff nominated charity Macmillan Cancer Support. online pharmacy kamagra-polo no prescription buy zoloft online buy zoloft online no prescription online pharmacy buy zofran no prescription online pharmacy buy inderal no prescription pharmacy The challenge involved two teams located

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Belfast Giants Caught Sleeping On The Job – Luckily It Was All For Charity!

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ICE hockey aces The Belfast Giants have been sleeping on the job! But it’s all for a good cause – leading children’s charity Action for Children’s Byte Night. Captain Adam Keefe and team mates Matt Nickerson and Darryl Lloyd cosied up at the SSE Arena as they joined Northern Ireland’s biggest sponsored sleep- which raised

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Mental Health Charity Joins Forces With Rugby Star Stephen Ferris To Help People “DO ONE THING”

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A NORTHERN Ireland mental health charity are encouraging people to take steps to improve their mental health. AWARE (formerly Aware Defeat Depression) has launched its new DOT campaign with former Ulster and Ireland rugby star, Stephen Ferris. The aim of the campaign is to encourage members of the public to Do One Thing they currently

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Fujitsu Treats Shoppers To “Something Different” With Action Cancer

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A TEAM of volunteers from leading Japanese ICT company, Fujitsu, demonstrated an eye for retail as they recently took-over Action Cancer’s bespoke Something Different store on the Lisburn Road in an Apprentice-Style fundraising challenge. Known as the Care Shop Challenge, the take-over is part of a wider campaign to help raise awareness and support for

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Engineering Firm Raise £6,000 For Local Charities

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SJC Hutchinson Engineering has tackled a number of fundraising events during the year and raised a remarkable £6,000 in aid of The Cedar Foundation and the Mid Ulster Branch of Autusm NI. The management team at Hutchinson Engineering were delighted to be handing over their highest amount ever for charity, with £3,000 going each to

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£80,000 Charity Donation Saves Lives & The Environment

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HAVE you ever wondered where your used printer cartridges end up? A Warrenpoint business that specialises in recycling them is not only helping the environment by rescuing empty cartridges from the bin. It’s using them to help save lives in some of the world’s poorest places. Harvard Manufacturing has given more than £80,000 to international

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Are You Tough Enough To Survive The 5K Charity Zombie Run

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BRAVE souls across Northern Ireland are preparing to lace up their running shoes and take part in the country’s most fiendish 5k obstacle trail in aid of Autism NI. Hosted by The Jungle Outdoor Adventure Centre in Moneymore, the charity zombie run will take place on Sunday October 11 and will challenge participants to complete

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Northern Ireland Calais Refugee Solidarity Collection Points, Information & Volunteer Picture Gallery

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THE growing refugee crisis has prompted many people in Northern Ireland to ask how they can help those fleeing from Syria and neighbouring countries to make the perilous journey into Europe. In response, a group called Northern Ireland Calais Refugee Solidarity has been set up to organise local collection points for essential items such as camping

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GALLERY: 6,000 People Brighten Up The City With Color Run

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AN explosion of colour brightened up Belfast’s Titanic Quarter recently as The Color Run returned to the city. 6,000 runners of all ages took part in what has been dubbed the “happiest 5k on the planet”. online pharmacy buy antabuse online cheap pharmacy According to its organisers the Color Run is an un-timed celebration of

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Teen Joins #99RedBalloons School Leukaemia Awareness Campaign

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AN East Belfast teenager is heading up a campaign to raise awareness and funds for a leukaemia charity. 19-year-old Strathern Grammar School student Emma Murphy, who lost her school friend Catherine Buchanan to leukaemia in 2013, is encouraging people to take to social media by using the hashtag #99RedBalloons to support blood cancer charity, Leukaemia

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Businesses Get Ready To Run A Charity Shop For A Day

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15 BUSINESSES from across Northern Ireland are supporting their employees as they roll up their ‘designer’ sleeves, get creative and take on running an Action Cancer shop for a day. On Friday October 9, the teams will present their activities to Gareth Kirk (Action Cancer CE), Inez Fowler (Action Cancer Ambassador) and Elaine Birchall (SHS

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Moy Park Celebrates As Charity Campaign #DriveAnEggChallenge Raises £7.5k

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STAFF at Moy Park are celebrating the success of its fund raising campaign with Cancer Fund for Children which to date has raised £7.5K for the charity. The fundraising activity included a social media nomination campaign – #DriveAnEggChallenge – which reached over 425,000 people on Facebook, gained almost 50,000 views of video clips and 675

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Lisburn Girl Danielle Battled With A Brain Tumour In Her Early Teens Now She Raises Awareness For Illness

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WHEN teenager Danielle McGriskin was diagnosed at just 14 years old with a brain tumour she was almost relieved. For more than a year the Lisburn girl had been plagued by symptoms from headache, nausea and visual disturbances to memory problems and dizziness. Eventually after seeing a number of medical professionals including a neurologist she

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Estate Agency Chooses Chest, Heart & Stroke As Charity Of The Year

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BANGOR based Estate Agency Pinkertons has announced Northern Ireland Chest, Heart & Stroke as their charity of the year. Over the next 12 months Pinkertons aims to work closely with the charity on a range of fundraising initiatives. The charity has particular resonance with one of Pinkertons’ Directors, Victoria as her father passed away a

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Staff At Tennent’s NI Raise £18,586 For Friends Of The Cancer Centre

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STAFF at drinks company Tennent’s NI have made a whopping donation of over £18,000 to charity this week. Following a year long fundraising plan to raise money for the Friends of the Cancer Centre, employees from the drinks company took part in a wide range of activities throughout the year. From a wax-athon, spin-athon, abseiling

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Entrepreneur Takes On Ironman Challenge Against The Odds

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A NORTHERN Ireland businessman has called upon one hundred businesses to show their support for him as he takes things to a whole new level by attempting one of the greatest physical tests known to man – The Ironman Challenge. Conor Devine, Principal at GDP Partnership, was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) in 2007 and

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2 Young NI Cancer Survivors Take To The High Seas

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TWO Northern Ireland young people who have been battling cancer were given the chance of a lifetime recently by British sports hero Dame Ellen MacArthur. Danielle McGriskin, 18, from Lisburn and Craig Lindsay, 20, from Castlereagh took to the high seas with the Ellen MacArthur Cancer Trust, a nationwide organisation which aims to rebuild confidence

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Meet Northern Irelands 10 Special Olympic Sporting Heroes

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10 NORTHERN Ireland sports heroes jetted off to the US to compete in the 2015 Special Olympics World Summer Games. They are among 88 athletes across the country who will represent Team Ireland at the games which began in Los Angeles on July 25. Running until August 2, the games will see local competitors ranging

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