Welcome You may be reading this because you:


• Have set up a direct debit to make a regular donation, or because you have held your own fundraising activity or event in aid of us.


• Have taken part in events like the Riverside Stomp, Rainbow Run or Santa Run or have joined our Lottery, or taken part in our raffle.


• Have taken on a personal challenge, or asked for charitable donations rather than gifts for a wedding, birthday or anniversary.


• Have left a gift in your will to look after young people in the future.


Or: • Your business, or your employer’s business has taken part in a Helen & Douglas House retail challenge or team building day, or your group, school, college or business has made us their chosen charity.


• You have shopped with us, or donated unwanted items to one of our 38 shops across the region.


• You are a Trust or Foundation, giving funds for us to provide specialist services, such as Outreach, or the sibling support club.


Whether you have given £5 or £500,000, you are part of a very special team that makes it possible for us to be here for many hundreds of babies, children and young adults with life-shortening conditions, as well as their families, living in your community.


Being diagnosed with a life-shortening condition is devastating, but you help by passing the baton of care, even for a short while, to our team of specialists. Thank you.


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Team GB did an amazing job at the Olympics and Paralympics in Rio 2016 and in this newsletter we want to celebrate our own ‘team’ of you, our supporters. We want to say thank you for the contribution you make to the short lives of young people who face huge physical and emotional challenges – every single day.


Want to know more about fundraising events, activities or ideas, or have ideas of your own? See Page 6, or contact E: fundraising@helenanddouglas.org.uk or T: 01865 799150


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