Events To Watch Out For

Ladies Fashion Lunch

• Friday 3rd October 2008

Ladies Fashion Lunch – definitely one for the ladies but there is nothing to stop you guys from attending!! Over 500 ladies will assemble for our annual fashion show at the Palace in Manchester.  Fashion Show provided by John Lewis. Sponsored by Yorkshire Bank  

 

Excellent entertaining and networking opportunities. Further sponsorship available.

 

Please contact Sarah Clifford for further details on
0161 498 3630, email sclifford@sah.org.uk.

 

St Ann’s Dazzling Diamond Ball

• Saturday 11th October

This black tie event is a chance to entertain clients, colleagues and friends in the spectacular surroundings at Mere Golf & Country club. The theme of the evening is “Dazzling Diamonds” and will be a night of pure glamour and bling. All people purchasing tickets for this event will be entered into a prize draw to win a pair of ½ carat diamond stud earings worth over £1000. Sponsorship available.

 

Please contact Sarah Clifford for further details on 0161 498 3630, email sclifford@sah.org.uk.   

 

Lock up Your Boss

• Friday 14th November 2008

Nominate your boss and we will arrange for a police officer to ‘arrest’ him or her at the City Inn in Manchester for a joke ‘crime’ like having an offensive fashion sense or giving bad betting tips.   To win their release from the Victorian cells of the Police Museum they must raise bail in donations by calling contacts on their mobile phones.  Last year one of the bosses locked up said “My so-called friends and colleagues kept suggesting that the key be thrown away.  It was a memorable experience and I could not think of a better reason to be locked up”

 

Please email me dlakhani@sah.org.uk  or call me on 0161 498 3644.
Be brave and bold lock up your boss!!

 

‘Great Deal’ of Players Needed

Marie Curie Cancer Care is looking for players to take part in its national Bridge Tournament.

 

More than 178 groups nationwide signed up for the 07/08 tournament which is currently being played in supporters’ homes across the country and this year has raised over £39,000.00 for the charity.

 

The tournament is open to all levels and participants are asked to pay £3 to enter and give a suggested donation of £15 to support the charity’s work.

 

The money raised from the tournament will help Marie Curie Cancer Care to provide high quality nursing, totally free, to give terminally ill people the choice of dying at home supported by their families.

 

Entries for the 08/09 tournament are now open until 31st May 08 and the tournament will be played from October 08 through to March 09.

 

For further information please contact Regional Events Office (Midlands & Anglia) Tel: 01604 442313

e-mail: midlandsanglia-events@mariecurie.org.uk .

 

Aster takes lead on Scottish Coast to Coast Challenge

Aster, a 5-year-old Hungarian hunting dog, will be taking the lead on a challenging coast-to-coast crossing of Scotland for charity – in less than 24 hours.

 

The short-haired gun dog, a veteran of scores of big hill walks, will be accompanied by four human companions in an effort to raise at least £10,000 for the Five Stars Scanner Appeal to help sick children at the Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital. She will dip her paw in the North Sea at Beauly before setting off for a walk to Scotland’s Atlantic coast on Loch Duich.

 

Aster will be accompanied by former British and European heavyweight boxing champion Scott Welch, her regular walking companion former BBC Environment Correspondent and media consultant Alistair Macdonald, financial advisor and broadcaster Austin Hutchinson, and IT manager Chris Robinson.

 

Aster, a Hungarian vizla, said through an interpreter: ‘This is not exactly a pedigree team but they’re not a bunch of pussycats either. They should be OK provided we’re not dogged by bad weather.’

 

But she did express some concern about Scott Welch: ‘I know he’s a fit lad and has run across the Sahara but only our training sessions will show if he’s up to a cold, wet, windy day in the wilds of Scotland. Mind you, I’m not exactly going to pick a fight with him, even if his bark is worse than his bite.’

 

If the weather is good the team hopes to take in up to four Munros, Scottish mountains over 3000ft high. Aster revealed that she had already completed six and Alistair had done over 100. She hopes to see golden eagles and sniff out lots of other exciting wildlife like red deer and ptarmigan as they cross one of the remotest parts of Scotland.

 

Aster hopes to complete the 60-mile crossing in around 20 hours, though she has elected to supervise the first half of the journey – a 27-mile cycle ride – from her command vehicle. She admits her cycling skills are limited.

 

The team will be making the crossing at the end of May as part of the campaign to raise £1million for the new MRI scanner at the Manchester Children’s Hospital. The scanner needs to be put in place by the end of the year and so far only half the money has been raised.

 

‘Some of my friends say I’m barking but, frankly, if we don’t complete the trip  in well under 24 hours it’ll be a pretty paw effort,’ added Aster.

Fund-raising Portrait Offer

If you have ever wanted a portrait of your family, but have never ‘got around to it’, now is your chance. Smile for St Ann’s is a new initiative launched by Business Network members St Ann’s Hospice and Michael Turner Photography. For a £25.00 donation to St Ann’s you will receive an invitation for a children’s or family photoshoot by Michael and a bespoke framed desk portrait, total value £145.00. Now that is something to smile about!  

10% of the value of any additional orders will also go directly to St Ann’s, so if you would like some beautiful photographs of your family whilst at the same timing helping a good cause, or know someone else who would (the invitations make fantastic gifts) then contact Michael Turner Photography on 0161 428 6749 for more details. 

www.sah.org.uk

www.turnerportraits.co.uk