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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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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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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A FARMER and sculptor from Co Down is to be featured in a new charity calendar of Irish farm hunks. Artist Mark Revels, 37, was cast as Mr December and Mr January in the 2016 Irish Farmer Calendar, in aid of the charity Bothar. And already he’s set to become a well known face in
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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 zoloft without prescription with best prices today in the USA
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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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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
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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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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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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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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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
A BELFAST man is parting with his beloved beard in an attempt to raise vital funds for charity. Adrian Byrne, is well known on the local rock and metal scene for his almost iconic heavy metal beard. But he’s decided it’s time for it to go and all in the name of charity, Autism NI,
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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 online pharmacy zovirax for sale no prescription pharmacy According to its organisers
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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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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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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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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
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 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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A BALLYMONEY family, inspired by the history of heart disease in their relatives, are taking part in the Subway Helping Hearts Family 5K. The run is set to take place in Belfast on August 9 and will raise money and awareness for Heart Research UK. Grace Smith, a 32 year old web designer, has been
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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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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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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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