Category: Fundraising
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Girls Club Upcycled Fashion Show
A fashion show using discarded materials proved to be a great success for the audience in the senior games room last night. The project working with Ordsall Community Arts has been very popular with the group over the past few months. All the clothes have been created by the group, who collected the materials and…
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Manc Icons Model our new T shirt
Our new fundraising t shirt features an orignal photo of Morrissey by Mike Joyce. Mike offered to help our fundraising and between us we have come up with this great new T shirt to raise funds for a second USA trip for young people at the club, and future activities for young people. The T…
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Club receive Queens Award For Voluntary Service 2016
The volunteer team at the club have been awarded the Queens Award for Voluntary Service 2016. Between them they have have contributed over 600 years volunteering. Club president Anthony Groves great, great gandson of one of the original founders commented “The Queens Award for Voluntary Service formally recognises the team’s contributions at the very highest…
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Historic visit to Red Cloud High Indian School
Tomorrow a group of young people and leaders from the club, set off on a historic visit to South Dakota at the invitation of Red Cloud High Indian School on the Pine Ridge Reservation. The group will lead soccer workshops, meet people in the community and visit the Wounded Knee Cemetery and the Crazy Horse…
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Boxers raise £10,000 for charity
Box office, contenders trained by Dave Connell and Russ Arrowsmith and organised by George Blagden have held yet another successful charity event, raising over £10,000 for the Break Through Breast Cancer Charity.They have been running adult boxing sessions at the club since 2007 and have raised over £100,000 for different charities.
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Supermarket cash for Salford Lads
We’d like to say thank you to customers of Sainsbury’s and Waitrose who have supported our recent fundraising events. Our team of young people and volunteers helped with bag packing at Sainsbury’s store in Regent Road and raised over £650: At Waitrose in Spingingfields, Manchester the stores monthly “community matters” charity promotion raised over £145…
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Music gig raises £300 for the club
The music fundraising gig on Saturday raised over £300 for the club. It was an amazing evening organised by ”impresario” Steven Lindsay. The audience were entertained by a fantastic range of talent headlined by The Lonesome & Penniless Cowboys and singer songwriter Vinny Peculiar. We hope to hold another event next year. More pictures on…
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Booth Charities fund gym restoration
Scaffolding went up this week to start the final stage of the restoration and improvements to the main sports gym. Last summer the outside of the gym roof was re-slated and this summer we are restoring the interior. The work will be complete by early September. The project has been funded by a grant from…
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“Rumble at the Reebok” raises £10,000 for SLC
“Box-office Contenders” recently raised £10,000 for the club with a boxing fundraising event at the Reebok stadium in Bolton. This was boosted by a donation from staff of Allied Mills, Eccles who contributed an extra £500 to benefit activities for young people at the club.
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EXTRA Fundraising
We took part in a bag pack fundraising event during the opening weekend of the new Tesco Extra store in Pendelton and raised over £300 in 3 hours. Thanks to the local customers for filling our buckets and thanks to Tesco for offering us the opportunity.