Category: Charity

Dam building, river walking, bug hunting, hiking, exploring, rope swinging, den building, kite making, fire making, cooking, water play, modelling, storytelling, ghost hunting, camping, laughing and sharing good times and memories that will last a life time!  It doesn’t sound like a normal day at school does it?  Well that’s because it’s not – welcome [...]

Paragon, one of the Island’s leading recruitment firms, has been announced as the sponsors for The Children’s Centre’s new fundraising challenge, ‘The Fifty Quid Think Big Challenge’ taking place from 31st August – 26th November 2010. The event is the first of its kind on the Island and the premise couldn’t be simpler. Each organisation [...]

The annual sports day for the Pre-School and Toddler (2-3 years) children at The Children’s Centre’s nursery took place in the playground at their Woodbourne Road site on 21st July 2010 as part of scheduled activities for Children’s Week. With the weather being kind, the children undertook an afternoon of traditional sports day activities, including [...]

Moore Stephens Isle of Man, leading providers of multi-sector accountancy, consultancy and wealth management services has raised £603 for Sailing For The Disabled.  The firm organised a raffle at the prize giving reception for the Moore Stephens Douglas Bay Regatta on the 27th of June.   Sponsored for the second year by Moore Stephens, the regatta [...]

The day that the retail branches and various departments of Isle of Man Bank, NatWest and The Royal Bank of Scotland International went yellow, proved to be a profitable one for Hospice Isle of Man. Bank employees wore clothing and other items yellow in colour, or sold yellow merchandise such as sunflower badges and shopping [...]

A leading helpline service for children and young people has put some top tips together for pupils in the Isle of Man who may be anxiously waiting for their exam results. The NSPCC’s ChildLine service has issued the advice in advance of GCSE and A-level results days when teenagers will be receiving their grades. Christine [...]

Lloyds TSB reaches out to help families of those in hospital in second round of its Small Change Big Difference grassroots charity campaign In the second round of Lloyds TSB’s ‘Small Change – Big Difference’ campaign, judges from Lloyds TSB, Mannin Media, and Isleofman.com sifted through numerous entries to decide upon the winner of the [...]

Santander’s local savings subsidiary, Alliance & Leicester International, have donated £693.60 to the Friends of Mooragh View through the matched funding scheme available from their parent company Santander Charitable Trust. The friends of Mooragh View help support Mooragh View Day Centre for adults with moderate / severe learning difficulties. Staff from the bank assisted with [...]

Ben Li, a sixth form student from Ballakermeen High School, has been crowned the winner of this year’s Sure Apprentice.  Ben fought off stiff competition from other contestants to claim the top prize: a coveted apprenticeship with the telecoms company. In the final stage of the competition, which has been running since September 2009, the [...]

The Children’s Centre is looking for those entrepreneurs out there for their new fundraising challenge, ‘The Fifty Quid Think Big Challenge’, which is starting on Tuesday 31st August. The premise of the event couldn’t be simpler. The Children’s Centre, through generous sponsorship from Paragon Recruitment, will give each individual or organisation £50 ‘seed money’ and [...]