This year we are doing an online family quiz. There will be something for everybody with surprise guest presenters, something for the children and Prizes!
Tickets cost £5 per family but if you want to donate a little extra to Hope House just add it to the £5 when you pay for your ticket.
This will be a ticket only event and you can get your ticket by going to this link:
Once you have requested your ticket simply do a Direct Bank Transfer in the normal way using the details you will receive by e-mail. Once we see your payment arrive in the bank we will dispatch your ticket within 24 hours. Your ticket will be followed by the details of the Zoom event so that you can take part.
If you don’t receive any notifications please check your spam/junk mail folder.
If you have any problems email: webmaster@adderleyparish.co.uk
More details will appear on the adderleyparish.co.uk and the Adderley Village Facebook page in the coming days including a guide to getting the Zoom client if you don’t already have it.
We are working on the ticket sales and will get this to you as soon as we can so please keep the date free – Friday 18th December 7.15 for 7.30 pm start on Zoom. In the meantime we have had some contact with the lovely people at Hope House who are so excited that we are doing this for them. We thought you may like to see what you would be supporting if you join the quiz, and we can’t think of a worthier cause right now.
Oliver
Facts and figures from Hope House
1,948 children are living locally with a terminal illness right now. 3 of these families face the pain of their child dying every week in this area. We need to raise £6.5 million every year just to keep our hospice doors open, in Oswestry and Conwy. We are caring for families in and around Market Drayton and across Shropshire so any fundraising that takes place is truly going right back into the community.
As reported in the media charities are facing an uncertain future as donations plummet and fundraising events are cancelled.
Hope House Children’s Hospices are not immune to the impact of the pandemic. We are a local charity who help children and families at the most distressing time of their lives and in order to ensure that we can be here for everyone who needs us it is vital that our local community help in whatever way they can.
In spite of our loss of income of over £1 million in 2020 thanks to our shops being closed and events being cancelled, our highly skilled nurses are continuing to provide end of life and critical care at both hospices. There is no doubt that the children and families need the support of Hope House and Ty Gobaith more than ever. Our supporters are making it possible for us to continue with our vital work in the most difficult of times.
We are also now facing additional cost of providing PPE equipment for our nurses and families, from the FFP masks, to aprons to scrubs to additional staff required to meet social distancing requirements. In times of reduced income, these additional costs are tough to bear. For one child to have sufficient PPE for 10 days, it costs Hope House and Ty Gobaith £780.00.
Since 2002, your fundraising efforts in Adderley have raised £1,754.15 which is absolutely wonderful. We are so appreciative or every penny that comes through our doors.
Look what arrived at Willow Lodge on Monday! Amazing decorations for the village tree from Adderley School. Later today (weather permitting) we will go down to the tree and put them on for everybody to enjoy. Thank you Adderley School.
Not content with entertaining you all with the Adderley Switch On, we now bring you another opportunity to get together (virtually) with the Great Adderley Christmas Quiz! Details to follow later, but can you put the date in your diary now for a family entertainment on Friday 18th December, 7.15 for 7.30pm Its going to be good, just wait til you hear who is going to host the quiz!
We can’t sing carols to raise money for Hope House Childrens Hospice this year, so we hope you will join us on the quiz with all donations to Hope House. That would be lovely.
What to say? The excitement! The socially distanced bubbles! The evening had it all. Didn’t people do well with their decorations? We’ve put together some pictures of Santa and his elves in a gallery and you can see it here:
We will be posting more pictures of the evening soon. If you have any pictures or videos you would like us to feature just send them with a message via the FB page @adderley village or email to webmaster@adderleyparish.co.uk
Adderley shines yet again, this time literally, and Santa says it’s going to light his way this Christmas. We’ve got his official certificate so we’re officially Christmas ready.
Santa said he was sorry not to be able to speak to the children about what they wanted for Christmas because of the Covid Rules. Instead he has put a post box by the tree for any Christmas letters and he will send an elf to pick them up on 23rd December at the very latest.
Photo Credit: Hannah Platt for the elves and tree picture
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