Posts tagged ‘charity’

55-year-old Lynne Gorie, from Blackpool, is passionate about animals and has just built a dolls’ house to be raffled at the town’s famous zoo in aid of a campaign to save animals in South East Asia. (more…)

We were recently contacted by a lovely gentleman called Chris Perkins, who asked if we had any damaged houses or accessories that we no longer needed or could not sell – we were intrigued! (more…)

Blythe House Hospice in Chapel-en-le-Frith, High Peak, provides free, individualised, holistic care and support for anyone in the High Peak living with cancer, or other serious, life threatening illnesses.   It offers a range of day care and home-based, group or individual services to clients, their carers, family and friends. (more…)

John Trott, of Horsham, had been thinking of building a model church, based on two of his local churches, for a while.  As the chairman of the Horsham branch of the MS Society and a sufferer himself, John also thought that he may be able to use the completed model to raise much needed money for the society – and at the beginning of this year, he achieved his goal!  We’ll let John take over his story from here…

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Margaret Millar and Christine Pearce from The Dolls House Emporium shop at Houghton Hall have been walking the streets of Carlisle in aid of the Eden Valley Hospice.  The pair joined hundreds of women on the Midnight Memory Walk 2010 which raised over £66,000 for the Hospice.   (more…)