What is the Precious Lives Appeal?
Children's Hospice South West has been providing care and respite to families from across the South West of England for over 13 years firstly at Little Bridge House, North Devon, and more recently at Charlton Farm, North Somerset. Plans are now in place to extend this world class service into Cornwall.
A hospice in Cornwall will offer more choice to families across the South West on which hospice they choose to use. It will also provide a place closer to home for many families from Cornwall and Plymouth, who may find the journey to Little Bridge House and Charlton Farm too far, or would just be happier using a hospice closer to home and friends and family.
Children's Hospice South West's Precious Lives Appeal has been set up to fund the build of this much needed third hospice for the South West of England.
Planning permission has already been granted for a Childrens Hospice in Cornwall. ' Little Harbour' will be build in Porthpean, near St Austell. Funds permitting, the doors will be open to the first families in 2011.
Here is an artists impression of what Little Harbour will look like...
Malletts Home Hardware raises £300 for The Precious Live Appeal
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Every year Malletts Home Hardware in Truro organise and host the 'Reindeer Night' in Truro. Where Father Christmas, and his reindeer visit Truro before flying off to the North Pole to get ready for Christmas. This year the team at Malletts Home Hardware held a collection for the Precious Lives Appeal and rasied £300.
Pictured Right - Ina Branchett and Sid Weeks of Malletts Home Hardware and our very own Neil Caddy
Emma Carton Jumps for Precious Lives
Hi everyone, Pirate FM news reporter Emma Carton here and I've now completed my skydive for the Precious Lives Appeal. On July 4th I jumped out of a plane 10,000 feet over Perranporth Airfield! After a 15 minute safety briefing I was being kitted out in a yellow jump suit, hat and goggles, strapped to an instructor and walking out to the plane. Before I knew it I was taking off and leaving the ground behind me thinking "there is only one way down"! At 8,000 feet the instructor was running through the final checks to make sure all the harnesses were secure (and telling me it was his first jump for a joke!) before opening the door and shuffling towards the edge. At this point my throat had gone dry and my palms were sweating but it wasn't until he was sitting on the edge of the plane with me suspended outside infront of him that my heart was in my mouth. Next thing he's shouting "ready, set, GO" and we're falling through the air with nothing beneath us but the sea and the Cornish coast; it was the most incredible thing I have ever done in my life! I have to admit to being scared witless (and a little bit poorly at the end) but the guys at the Cornish Parachute Club were amazing and the Precious Lives Appeal is a fantastic charity so it was well worth it!
Thanks to all of your generous donations I have already raised a lot of cash but I would love to raise more. My donation pages are still open so please click on this link to go to my Just Giving site and donate £2.00 or more! www.justgiving.com/pirateskydive/
The opportunity to do a tandem skydive was amazing but it's nothing to the care and support 'Little Harbour' will give to life-limited children and their families.
Please help me to raise as much money as I can for the Precious Lives Appeal!
More fundraising for Precious Lives
H&A Waste Services certainly went ‘the extra mile' for the Precious Lives Appeal.
They did a Wheelie Bin push (with 2 refuse trucks as support vehicles) from Pirate FM HQ to the site of the new Children's Hospice at Porthpean over 2 days.
Employees of H&A Waste Services gave up their weekend to join the parade which travelled just over 40 miles over 3 days. They rattled their buckets, and also managed to get sponsorship from friends and colleagues to total £3798.53!
From left to right in the photo holding the cheque, Neil Caddy, Kim from H&A, James Dundon, Alan from H&A and James Martin.
