NEW Catch Phrase Quiz

Our New Catch Phrase Quiz has 20 questions all
 associated with famous sayings!
How many can you solve. Closing date Friday 25th July 2008

Join the Pendleside Quiz Club for just £10 per year and have Hospice quiz sheets delievered to your door! For an application form please contact Liz Daglish in Fundraising on 01282 440136.

The winner of the Place Name Quiz was
Debra Denny of Nelson who won the £30 prize.
Well Done Debra!!

This year’s car will be an ‘08’ registered Citroen C4 Loeb – a limited edition
car launched in recognition of the success of World Rally Champion,
Sebastien Loeb which is being supplied by Walker Farrimond.

Sponsors already confirmed for this year include Toms Stationers, Alderson, Horan Funeral Services, SFN Solicitors John Macadam Garages Ltd, Indogo Financial Services and Walker Farrimond

Tickets will be priced at £1 each and will be available mid April onwards
from all seven hospice shops, any of the sponsors or Hospice Reception.

If you would like to help the Hospice by selling tickets to family, friends
or work colleagues then contact the fundraising department on 01282 440120.

The winning ticket will be drawn on Friday 19th September.

Mrs Marina Burrell, from Hargrove Avenue, Burnley was delighted to hear she had won this year’s Grand Holiday Draw first prize of £3,000 holiday vouchers and £1,000 cash.  Marina intends to treat her family including grand children to a lovely holiday together.

The Grand Holiday Draw is run in conjunction with the Hospice Lottery and for just one special draw each year the lucky winner not only gets the weekly top prize of £1,000 cash, but also £3,000 in holiday vouchers to spend as they wish.

Everyone that plays the weekly lottery is automatically entered into this super draw but extra tickets are sold for those who don’t already play the lottery and for those that do but want to increase their chances of winning this wonderful prize.

Altogether more than £7,305 worth of extra tickets were sold for this one draw.  The holiday vouchers are supplied by local travel agents, Althams, who also sold tickets through their branches in Burnley and Pendle.

Christina Cope Fundraising Manager said “ On behalf of everyone at the hospice I would like to congratulate Marina on her win and thank all the staff at Althams for their support and to everyone who bought tickets to raise extra funds for their local hospice”

LOOSE CHANGE CAN HELP HOSPICE

Pendleside Hospice and Rosehill Post Office are encouraging you to lighten your purses and pockets and get digging down the back of the sofa for all your loose change with their Penny Trail Appeal.

Just launched, this appeal encourages everyone to donate all the coppers and loose change to the hospice with the aim of collecting enough to complete a trail from Rosehill Post Office to the hospice.

The photo to the left shows Rosehill Post Office Postmaster, Mr Steve Harvey with some of the coins that are being collected for his Penny Trail Appeal

If the change collected is in just pennies then each mile would raise £792 and with the distance from the Post Office to the Hospice being around 6 miles the hospice hopes to raise in excess of £4,000.

The hospice have special money bags that can be collected from hospice reception or from Rosehill Post Office and once filled with loose change can be taken back to the hospice or the Post Office and exchanged with another.

The money raised from this initiative will help the hospice provide care to local people suffering from cancer and other life limiting illnesses.  The cost of providing care increases each year in response to demand for services.  Current annual running costs exceed £1.8 million, of which, more than £1.4 million has to be raised from fundraising events and donations.

Rosehill Post Office have been fundraising for Pendleside Hospice for many years now mainly from the sale of second hand books.  Postmaster, Steve Harvey has now raised over £12,000 for the hospice from his customers that come from far and wide to pick up a bargain from the very extensive selection of books on offer.

Hospice Fundraising Manager, Mrs Kaye Bartle said “We all have lots of loose change in our purses and pockets that we tend to disregard as not having much value and in most cases tends to be a nuisance by being bulky and heavy, however by donating it to the hospice every ones loose change together really can make a huge difference to us.”

If you would like to collect your loose change for Pendleside Hospice then collecting bags can be collected from hospice reception or from Rosehill Post Office, large organisations that want multiple bags can contact the hospice on 01282 440100.

For further information please contact Kaye Bartle at Pendleside Hospice on 01282 440100 or
Mr Steve Harvey at Rosehill PO on 01282 422106

A 20 track Charity CD in aid of Pendleside Hospice and Derian House Children’s Hospice by artists and musicians with local connections who have donated their time and talent to create –

‘SONGS FROM THE NEIGHBOURHOOD’
Artists include:
Simon Webbe    Sam Hird    The Hollies      Ellie Lawson
Big  Picture  The Milltown Brothers   Slack Alice

The initial idea was born out of an informal chat between local artist and songwriter Mark Nelson and singer and media specialist Bruce Thomas. Having been involved in the local music scene for some years, and sharing the same love of music, they discussed the possibility of covering some Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young songs, just for fun…or better still, in aid of charity.
Pendleside Hospice and Derian House Children’s Hospice were suggested as deserving local causes.
Christina Cope, the Hospice Fundraising Manager loved the novel idea.
Local filmmaker, Stephen Rigg, was recruited, who in turn contacted the legendary Burnley born Hollies drummer, Bobby Elliott.
‘Our House’, written by Bobby’s friend and former band mate, Graham Nash was the obvious choice and the perfect lead track for the album.
Bob contacted Graham at his Los Angeles home and asked if it was OK for a bunch of Pendle musicians to record his song.
“I would be honoured  if they recorded any of my songs” Graham replied.
And so Bobby Elliott on drums, along with lead singer Bruce Thomas, Danny Handley on lead guitar and vocals, Barney Williams: keyboards, Mark Caffrey: bass, Chris ‘Biff’ Hartley: guitar and backing vocals, Mark Nelson on acoustic guitar and Ged Lynch adding percussion, came together as one band – BIG PICTURE.
Peter Gabriel’s engineer, Mark Jones kindly produced ‘Our House’ and track two: Mark Nelson’s composition ‘Summer’ at MJM Recording studios, Blackburn.
Bobby sent the finished mix of ‘Our House’ to Graham who replied as follows:
“It feels so good to see that music does indeed change peoples lives… and a nice record it is!
Thanks to Europe’s largest CD manufacturer, EDC of Blackburn, for their generosity and to all the artists and musicians who feature on this amazing album.

The lead track ‘Our House” will be available to download soon. Details will be in the local press, radio and of course the official project website: www.modern-english.co.uk/ourhouse

The CD album -‘SONGS FROM THE NEIGHBOURHOOD’- is available from Hospice shops in Nelson, Brierfield, Burnley, Padiham, Colne, Barnoldswick, and the Hospice Reception at Reedley. Local pubs: The Sparrow Hawk, Fence and the Emmott Arms in Laneshawbridge have already sold out of CDs. Many more outlets will be coming on board, including Boundary Mill and the L.B.S Garden Shop in Trawden,

Or, the project website
www.modern-english.co.uk/sftn .

 If any outlets such as pubs, shops or schools etc would like to help sell the CD then please contact Christina Cope, Fundraising Manager at Pendleside Hospice on 01282 440103 or Mark Nelson 0773 6427111. You will be provided with a point of sale box of 25 CD’s.

 FEEL GOOD - HELP THE HOSPICE AND BUY THE CD

EVERY PENNY OF YOUR £5 GOES DIRECTLY TO THE HOSPICES OF PENDLESIDE AND DERIAN HOUSE

FULL LIST OF OUTLETS

Pendleside Hospice Charity Shops, Pendleside Hospice Reception, Boundary Mill, Barden Mill, Sparrow Hawk - Fence, Emmott Arms - Trawden, LBS Garden Shop, Trawden, Forest Inn - Fence, Crime Prevention Unit - Manchester Rd, Burnley, Shambles - Barnoldswick, Energize Dance & Fitness, Barden Lane, Burnley.

Sellit.com are a new business which sells all those unwanted but potentially valuable items in to cash and they do this by selling your goods on ebay for you.

They have chosen Pendleside Hospice as their Charity and are bringing in donations via people choosing to donate some or all of there own proceeds to Pendleside from the goods which have been sold through Sellit.com. Or even simpler, by donating goods such as any sports equipment and goods, mobility products such as wheelchairs, stair lifts and scooters or baby products (but not including clothes) where Sellit.com sell the items and give all the proceeds to the Hospice. On top of this Sellit.com also gives 5% of their commission to Pendleside.

If you have any goods which you think fit the bill, please contact Sellit.com on Freephone: 0800 4220578 or go to www.easy2sellit.com for more information.