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Blue Day 2009 with The News, Portsmouth
On Monday 18th May 2009, the trust celebrated its third city-wide Blue Day event. Last year’s Blue Days celebrated Portsmouth Football Club winning the FA Cup, and people could raise funds for the trust by wearing Blue and making a donation. The whole city really got behind the event creating a carnival-like atmosphere and making a real difference to the trust. This year we wanted to commemorate the achievements of the football club, but more importantly we wanted to recreate the Blue Day spirit and raise valuable funds for the trust.
Blue Day 2009 was a huge success and once again the whole city really got behind the fundraiser. Many schools and businesses throughout the city donned blue and organised their own fundraising events, such as bake sales, raffles and games.
Blue Day attracted support from all areas of the community and the city became a sea of blue; Albert Road was decorated with blue and white streamers, children ran to school in their blue outfits and even the Spinnaker Tower went blue for the day! There were many fundraisers going on throughout the day and local paper, The News, rushed around town trying to capture all the activity so please visit their website for coverage of the day.
As part of the Blue Day celebrations the electronic penalty kick game, Kickpoint, was down the Guildhall all day. People were encouraged to test out their footie skills to try and win a prize, even the Lord Mayoress came down to have a go! Portsmouth Football Club really got behind the day and made a donation to the trust from every Portsmouth shirt they sold in the run up to Blue Day. As Blue Day 2009 coincided with the last home match of the season the trust was allowed to collect outside the match ground and we were well supported by the fans so thank you very much!
We are still waiting for all the funds to come in, but judging from all the hard work everyone put in, it looks like it should be an impressive total. As soon as we get the grand total we will post it on our website to let you all know! We were hoping to make Blue Day an annual event and judging from the great response we have had to this year’s fundraiser it looks like this could happen. Blue Day is always such a huge boost to the trust's fund and really helps to spread the name of our charity, so thank you so much for your support and lets hopefully do it all again next year! Thank you; we hope you had a great Blue Day! |
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Raise Funds When You Shop and Search Online |
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You can now raise funds for the Trust, at no extra cost to yourself, by simply shopping and search online! We have registered with 'Easy fundraising', who offer a shopping directory and search engine with a difference. Click here to read more... |
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Welcome to the Tom Prince Cancer Trust website
Thank you for your interest; we hope you find the site useful and informative. The trust was established in 2004 and was set up in the memory of Tom Prince. The aim of the trust is to raise funds for research into the teenage bone cancer Osteosarcoma. We also hope to make some provision for teenage cancer sufferers undergoing treatment. This family run charity has received great support from friends and the local community. We are continuously fundraising at a local level but also need to expand to a wider audience to increase awareness and support. We hope that by visiting this site and seeing what we are all about, you are inspired to get involved and help us to reach our goal! Thank you, from all those involved in the Trust. |
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