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Lollipop has been nominated to be part of the Asda Foundation Green Token Giving. Please support us by voting on line (see how below). The cause with the most online votes will receive a £500 donation while second and third place each receive £200.
The vote is now live and voting will close at midnight on 31st January 2022.
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A huge thank you to The Brotherton Charitable Trust based in Harrogate who have become regular annual supporters of Lollipop. This year Lollipop has received £325 for which we are very grateful! These funds will go towards providing activities for our members in the coming year.
http://charlesbrothertontrust.com/
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We are very happy and excited about receiving a Magic Little Grant through the partnership between Localgiving and Postcode Neighbourhood Trust. Postcode Neighbourhood Trust is a grant-giving charity funded by players of People’s Postcode Lottery.
Localgiving is the UK’s leading membership and support network for local charities and community groups. Our project received £500 to fund our activities for members in the first months of 2022! Our members have requested climbing, an escape room challenge and pizza making and swimming and we are in the process of planning all these events!
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We have had amazing success with our first ever Aviva Community Fund Project! We have not only met our initial target of £2,000 we have reached our stretch target of £5,000!
The first £2,000 will fund communication support at our events and activities over the next 12 months. The remaining £3,000 will fund activities for our early years group right the way up to our Youth group.
A massive thank you to everyone who pledged their support to our project from our amazing regular supporters to the Aviva employees who chose to pledge to our project!
Lollipop Christmas Party
The easiest way to enter the prize draw is to visit our GoFundMe Prize Draw page. Tickets are £1 each. Simply donate to the page to buy entries into the draw. For example, donate £10 to buy 10 tickets. **Please put your name and contact details on the donation to ensure we know who to enter into the draw! We will only contact you using these details if you have won a prize.**Help us to sell as many tickets as possible by sharing this link with your family and friends! https://gofund.me/08f908a3
Paper tickets are available at Lollipop activities (the toddler group on 18th November and 16th December, I Can Play! Music Workshop on 21st November) and will be available to buy at the Christmas party itself on 12th December.If you would like some tickets to sell to friends and family contact Becky (admin@lollipopyork.org.uk) who can arrange for them to be posted to you.
Thank you to all the businesses and organisations who have kindly donated prizes this year!
There are many more prizes to be won and the list keeps growing! …
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In order to ensure our activities are accessible for all our members, using their preferred method of communication, we provide a range of communication support for ALL Lollipop activities.
This is a huge but vital expense to the tight budget of the charity. If we reach our target, this will allow us to secure communication support to deliver our inclusive Events Programme for the next 12 months.
Depending on the need of individuals attending the activities, we will provide the following support:
Some of the funds will help support our Early Years group, who are now meeting face-to-face once again. Many of our youngest members (some of whom were only born in lockdown) are only just meeting other children of a similar age for the very first time – which is pivotal to their learning and development.
“I feel that it is essential that my daughter has the opportunity to meet and play with other deaf children on the same level as her hearing friends so that she knows why her hearing loss should not make her feel different or hold her back in any way.”
“My son has felt so welcome and enjoyed making new friends at Lollipop. This is his only contact with other hearing-impaired people and has been a really positive experience for all of us.”
“My daughter has enjoyed each experience with Lollipop. Lollipop makes my daughter feel better about wearing her hearing aids.”
The money raised will also be used to provide support to our junior and youth groups, at various monthly activities. Our youths have requested to go swimming, ice-skating, pizza making, and would also like to attempt a climbing wall and an escape room…They love a challenge!
We also run a mentoring scheme supported by deaf mentors to help deaf children and young people develop skills for the future. Research shows that good social and emotional resilience is important for all children. Helping deaf children and young people to develop this is at the heart of Lollipop’s thinking.
“Having a mentor increases my son’s independence as he is then not reliant on those close to him in everyday life. He loves going to Lollipop and has made lots of friends there, he definitely has a feeling of belonging to the group which has increased his confidence, self-esteem and improved his social skills.”
We listen to our members to make sure that we are providing what people need and have a close working relationship with professionals working in York and North Yorkshire. Our members are keep their fingers crossed that we reach our target!
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Leeds
We’re a charity close to his heart because his partner, Chelsea, used to be a Lollipop member:
“Ever since meeting my deaf partner I see the daily battles D/deaf
people encounter. When I visited Lollipop, seeing deaf children mix with
other deaf children it was heart-warming to see their faces light up.
I want to make it easier for deaf people to succeed. This is why I want
to make a small difference to the young deaf community.”
Christian has raised nearly £600 so far! You can find out more about why he decided to fundraise for
Lollipop and show you support at: https://gofund.me/5369fb44
Rutland
In our pr
evious posts about Luke’s fundraising for Lollipop (here) and (here) we gave you all the details about his 112+ mile cyclothon at York College in June and his training for the Ironman Wales in September. Recently Luke has had the disappointing news that the Ironman competition has been postponed to September 2022, and while he still intends to race next year he has signed up for a half Ironman in Rutland on Sunday September 11th 2021.
Luke is extremely grateful to Lollipop supporters for their donations and while he is going to have to wait a bit longer to reach his ultimate goal of completing a full Ironman, he is determined to put his training to good use at Rutland! Luke has raised over £1,200 for Lollipop to date, let’s help him reach his target of £2,000!
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Luke’s daughter, Freya, has been a member of Lollipop since she was 4 months old, and she’s now 15! We visited the college this week to catch up with Luke while he spent the day on a static bike in the entrance hall, with colleagues joining him throughout the day.
Luke’s day started at 8.30am and he got off to a great start; by the time we arrived at 9.30 he had already clocked up 20 miles! The aim for the day was to cycle 112 miles, which is the length of an IronMan cycle course, but it was clear that he was going to exceed this target early on. He decided to keep going, no matter how many miles he had cycled, until 4pm.
Luke was joined by colleagues who had signed-up for 15 or 30 minute sessions and he had someone cycling with him throughout the whole day. Staff and students stopped by to chat and to donate, and Luke did an amazing job of keeping going when the bike was no longer a comfortable place to be!
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In a previous post we told you about amazing Lollipop parent Luke Zwalf who is competing in Ironman Wales in September (previous post). The race includes a 112 miles bike race, a 2.4 mile swim in the sea and a marathon! As if that madness wasn’t enough Luke has decided to warm up with a cyclothon in the atrium of his workplace, York College.
The cyclothon will be the same 112 mile distance as in the Ironman race but on a static bike. Luke’s colleagues will be taking it in turns to compete against him on another static bike to try and finish the 112 miles faster! This sounds like a brilliant and fun idea and we can’t wait to visit the event on the day!
Lollipop is primarily funded through The National Lottery Community Fund. We are also funded by BBC Children In Need with further support from many local and national organisations.
Lollipop (York & District)
Phone and text: 07537 863927