Tag: fundraising
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Local Corner shop raises £215 for SLC
The families from Lyndsey’s Store, the corner shop opposite the club, decided to help our fundraising appeal recently. They asked their customers to help, by putting their loose change in a sweet jar on the shop counter. The result, is that after a couple of months, local people have raised £215 towards our appeal. Fantastic,…
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Star of “Love Actually” donates to SLC appeal
We have sent a Salford Lads’ Club T-shirt to thank Bill Nighy for his generous donation to our appeal. Bill was staring in a play at Salford’s Lowry Theatre about 18 months ago and heard about the club’s fundraising appeal. Bill Nighy memorably stared as Billy Mack in “Love Actually” and as Davy Jones in…
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“The Tony Hancock of Pop” helps our appeal
Walkden based singer songwriter Vinny Peculiar is donating money from the sales of his latest single to our fundraising appeal. Vinny, a long time supporter of the club, is aware of the rich musical tradition that goes back to the earliest days of the club. As well as sport, one of the original purposes of…
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Salford Lads ride to Blackpool
Three Salford Lads John Higgins, Anthony Rice and Mark Norbury raised over £1000 for the club in a 60 mile bike ride from Salford to Blackpool.They also raised money for Christies Hospital, Manchester. The 3 are up for doing it again next year, so if you want to sponsor them please get in touch.
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Morrissey Donates To Our Appeal
Morrissey’s donation to our £1,000,000 fundraising appeal made the front page headline of the Manchester Evening News today. Please follow the link below to see the whole story http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/s/1029969_morrissey_gives_lads_20k
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Sainbury’s shoppers help our Appeal
Young people raise over £2,000 Twelve young club members (supported by adult volunteers) spent the weekend helping shoppers pack their groceries at our local Sainbury’s supermarket in Regent Road. Over the 2 day period they collected over £2,000 in donations towards our £1,000,000 appeal. We would like to thank everyone who contributed to this total…