October 2008 The Prince’s Trust pulled off a show stopping performance and collected £15,000 at a race day fundraiser at Haydock Park.
A champagne reception was provided by one of the day’s sponsors, Charles Mitchell Wines, followed by lunch. Guests then moved into the stands to use a free race card to their advantage - with the day’s winner walking away with a magnum of champagne.
The main race was sponsored by Liverpool/Manchester based law firm Halliwells and St Helen’s based 1st Northern Sign Company. Generous firms Chess Plc, Ainscough, Baker Tilly, Taylormade Betting and Strathmore Water also provided sponsorship on the day.
Celebrity dinner raises £20k
March 2008 Aided by the irrepressible humour of Frank Carson, a hail and hearty time was had by all at the 11th Prince’s Trust Lancashire Celebrity Sports Dinner. Held at Blackburn Rovers Football Club, the event netted £20,000 for The Trust.
The event was attended by leading local sports personalities including Sir Tom Finney and former England Captain Jimmy Armfield, Everton Manager David Moyes, Sale Sharks players Carl Fearns and Ben Foden, Kevin Gallagher, Ian McCullough and Prince’s Trust Ambassador Dean Sullivan.
Halliwells LLP challenge to Manchester businesses raises over £200,000 for The Trust
November 2007 The Halliwells Challenge Gala dinner took place at The Hilton Manchester. Entertainment was courtesy of Prince's Trust ambassador Sarah-Jane Buckley of Hollyoaks and our MC for the night was Prince's Trust Ambassador, BBC North West Tonight anchor man and Krypton factor presenter Gordon Burns. Teams from all over the North West joined to celebrate the amazing income from the first Halliwells Challenge to be run in Manchester.
The winning Team Deloitte Touch Manchester raised more than any other team with over £28,000.
The Halliwells Corporate Challenge for The Prince’s Trust saw businesses in Greater Manchester each given £50 by Halliwells LLP. They had 3 months to turn this "stake" into as much as they could, using their business ingenuity and entrepreneurship. Staff at all levels at the Manchester based office of law firm Halliwells competed against Manchester-based companies to raise the most money.
It was the firm’s most successful ever fundraising initiative. Over 100 companies took up the challenge- raising more than £200,000.
The Halliwells LLP team together raised over £20,000 during the challenge.
Ian Austin, Managing Partner, said: “To raise this amount of money for The Trust is a fantastic achievement. The whole firm really rallied together. It was a superb effort.”
The Deloitte's team- winners of the Halliwell's Challenge
Fundraising tips from Deloitte: :: Start your campaign as early as possible :: Send weekly e-mails :: Use anything and everything at your disposal :: We used the office as opposed to hiring a bar :: Arrange for the day to be a dress down day to make sure there was a party atmosphere :: Keep it simple- we did things we knew we'd like to do ourselves as opposed to organising over-complicated costly events.
Local celebrities and Manchester’s elite raised over £31,000 for The Trust at the Manchester Ball
Everton FC is helping young unemployed women from Merseyside develop their personal and practical skills through football in the first ever all-female Get off the Bench.
Above, Libby, a participant on the Get Into Customer Service course in Burnley, with two staff from Cool FM, where she landed a work placement through the course.
Of the North West's 16-19 year olds, 20,879 are currently not in employment, education or training. We aim to reduce that number by developing their confidence and motivation and building skills needed by employers such as teamwork, literacy and numeracy.
