Fundraising

Christmas Prize Draw and Raffle Fundraiser 2022 | Tickets now on sale!

 

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Tickets are now on sale for our amazing festive prize draw and raffle! We have so many fantastic prizes this year we think we have outdone ourselves! Details of all the prizes you can win are below…

We will draw the winners at our Christmas party on Saturday 10th December at Bishopthorpe Sports and Social Club.

 

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Online Tickets

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. GoFundMe do not allow us to include all the information about the draw and prizes on our GoFundMe fundraising page, so all the details are further down this page! 

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/e02fdab7

Paper Tickets

Paper tickets are available from Becky (admin@lollipopyork.org.uk), please email her to request tickets to be sent to you in the post. Tickets will also be available to buy at the Christmas party itself on 10th December.

Prizes

Thank you to all the brilliantly generous Yorkshire businesses and organisations who have kindly donated prizes this year!

Top Prizes

Spa day for 2 (including lunch) at Rudding Park Roof-top Spa

2-night weekend stay at the The Jonas Centre, on the edge of the amazing Yorkshire Dales

Weekend hot tub hire (Thursday – Monday) from Executive Hot Tub Hire North Yorkshire

 

There are many more prizes to be won! …

Enter now and good luck!

Northern Energy Charity Golf Day | 10th June 2022

We are delighted and grateful to Northern Energy who organised their annual charity golf day for the benefit of Lollipop on 10th June. They had a fantastic day and have donated a whopping £10,000! The amount raised through fund raising was rounded up to the amazing £10,000 figure with a generous donation given to Lollipop as part of their 90th anniversary celebration!

A huge thank you to everyone at Northern Energy for your amazing support!

 

Lollipop’s Becky being presented with the cheque at the Northern Energy head office in Hampsthwaite, Harrogate by Freya Harper (Lollipop member) and Ted Illingworth.

 

 

Summer Fundraising! | June/July 2022

So Lollipop can continue to provide free activities to its members we need to concentrate on summer fundraisers in York during June and July and we need our supporter’s help!

Saturday 18th June we will be at St Crux serving food and refreshments all day with stalls outside the hall

Sunday 26th June is West Bank Park Fair 1-4pm

Sunday 3rd July is the Sleeper Market in New Earswick 10am – 2.30pm

Sunday 10th July we have a stall at the Dragon Boat Race 10am – 4pm

We need lots of volunteers to bake, staff stalls with Lollipop staff, transport stall items, help setting up and tidying away. All these fundraising events are family-friendly so you can help out for an hour or two whilst bringing the whole family along for some summer fun!

If you can help please email Anna: info@lollipopyork.org.uk

 

Shouksmiths Donation | March 2022

We were surprised and delighted to receive a donation from Shouksmiths York last week! Shouksmiths donated £1,000 to Lollipop in 2021, and have now donated a further £2,000! This is amazing news and these funds will go towards providing awesome FREE activities for our members during the second half of the year. A huge thank you to Shouksmiths for recognising the work of Lollipop and for their continued support!

http://www.shouksmiths.co.uk/

Digital music apps sessions made possible by generous donation | January 2022

Lollipop has received a £250 donation from a supporter to run digital music apps sessions for our members! The donation was received through a contact of our Ambassador Paul Whittaker and the sessions will be devised and delivered by Sean Chandler from the National Centre for Early Music I Can Play! team in the Autumn term of 2022. Exact dates are to be confirmed. They will be a short series of three online sessions held after school on Tuesdays.

We will keep you posted in the newsletter and in the Upcoming Activities page of the website. If you or your child/ren are members of Lollipop and are interested in the sessions please express your interest to Becky at admin@lollipopyork.org.uk