We were touched when a local mum contacted us saying
“Hello. my 9 year old son has held a sweet sale today to raise money for charity. He feels sad that some children aren’t as lucky as him and that they might not have any toys. Would you prefer a cash donation or could he go and buy toys for your charity? please let me know as I think your charity seems like the perfect charity to receive the money he has raised.
Best wishes
Caroline Richards
These are the toys he bought with the money from his sweet sale! What a little star!!
If any local companies would like to provide a raffle prize for our forthcoming fundraising events, we would be extremely grateful. This will help families in the Poole, Bournemouth & Christchurch areas continue to be supported when they are in need of food, toys, baby equipment, clothing etc.
We are all volunteers so 100% of funds raised goes to help these families.
Please email us as ashleysbirthdaybank@gmail.com and we will mention you on our Facebook page and website.
Tickets are now on sale for our Charity Quiz Night – please come along for a fun night, to raise funds for us to continue helping local underprivileged families.
Thank you so much to Leaps & Bounds Nursery in Winton for their generous donation for our Appeal. The children and parents have been bringing in brand new gifts and toys for us and they have given us this huge pile today!
Come and see us this Saturday at the Ferndown Christmas Lights Extravaganza. We will have stalls in Penny’s Walk from 12pm onwards. Tombola, adopt a friend, reindeer food, pocket money toys and lucky cards. You will also be able to purchase raffle tickets from here. Thank you
Imagine waking up on Christmas morning with no gift, no lovely smell of Christmas Dinner cooking and the happy atmosphere of excited children. This is the experience of many local families in Poole, Christchurch and Bournemouth. Christmas isn’t a time of joy for them, it is stressful and sad. How can we make a difference? …………..
We will shortly be launching our Christmas Gift Appeal for 2016 – Last year we donated, wrapped and tagged over 500 gifts for local underprivileged children, young carers and children who have witnessed domestic violence. We also handed out 75 Christmas food hampers for families. If anyone can organise a collection at their workplace of new gifts/Christmas based food items (mince pies, custard, chocs, biscuits, savory snacks, biscuits for cheese etc etc), please let us know. We are also planning on providing a gift for the mums and dads in the refuges this year (most of whom have been through difficult times or domestic violence).
We are all volunteers, so any help to make Christmas a happy time for all these families would be very much appreciated. If you want to make a monetary contribution for us to purchase items, please email us and we will give you our bank details. We have nearly 3000 likes on our FB page – imagine if everyone donated just a £1, how amazing would that be?!! If local Companies would consider donating to our appeal in place of sending Company Christmas Cards, we would be extremely grateful. Every gift and food hamper puts a huge smile on someone’s face.
Also – don’t forget our Christmas Fayre on Saturday 12th November at St Francis of Assisi Church Hall, Charminster between 11am and 3pm – lots of stalls to buy Christmas presents, raffle, tombola, adopt a friend, stocking fillers, cake raffle, squares game, refreshments etc. Please come and support us and make it a hugely successful event. Thank you
