Project Parent Sponsors
2017
Without kind donations of both money + products, Project Parent wouldn't be able to reach as many families without all the support. As a team, we would like to thank:
Donations of products from businesses and organisations for the boxes:
- Ringtons for donating all our tea, coffee, hot chocolate and biscuits for our boxes AGAIN this year. They also kindly leant us their van alongside 2 lovely helpers; Deb + Tom
- The Iron Lady for donations with raffle, toothpaste and brushes
- Ilfracombe Dental Practise for talking with the Colgate reps to get us some toothpaste!
- LUSH Gateshead for 12 Mothers Day boxes - they went down a treat. Also for 2 Snowfairy gift sets and a huge bag full of goodies for our Newcastle boxes
- SCA for donating 'handy andies'
- Wilko for donating £10 for us to spend on colouring books for the boxes
- Country Baskets for giving us a 'gold card' membership again which allows us to get our ribbon and decorations for the boxes at trade price
- North East Pageant Network for their bag loads of donations of toiletries
- Hobbycraft (numerous stores) for donating some of the pencils for this years kits
- Candigifts and daypack for discounting us on our boxes and packaging
- Hotel-buyer for donating the equivalent of free dental kits
- Vegan chocolate company for nibbles in our Southampton boxes
- LUSH Southampton for basically donating us the world in soap form!
- The Green People donated an incredible amount of products for our boxes in Southampton from their range
- LUSH York donated items
- Pullins bakery in Bristol donated us gingerbread men for ALL the Bristol boxes (plus some for our Christmas stall at Bath too!)
- Happy faces and Prudhoe poppets donated toiletries
- A box of mini Oral B toothpastes from Clifton Dental Studio in Bristol
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- Bristol Rugby Club for donating a signed shirt which auctioned for £50 at the end of last year. This year, Tom Vaux did a talk on Project Parent and raised an incredible amount of money. We also were donated a signed shirt, ball and tickets which were raffled off. A huge thank you to Tom, Mark Irish, all the staff and supporters at Bristol Rugby Club. Amazing!
- Stocksfield Parish Council for donation £50 from the end of last year which sponsored 5 boxes for Newcastle this year
- Spoonie Survival Kits for raising an incredible £450 from their Christmas Kits!
- Prestige Entertainment for raising continuously raising money through their events and sponsoring 22 boxes
- Stocksfield Methodist Church who held a coffee morning for us and raised £250.10
- CCC Steelband who played at our champagne afternoon tea (they're amazing!) and held a workshop raising £50
- Cleaning and Home Help Services for their £25 gift voucher for our raffle
- Claire Chapman at 'The Glamorous Owl' for donating a number of ring making workshop vouchers and holding a ring making workshop raising £300.
- Elisa Rose Tearoom for free use of her venue
- 'Five Portions of' for our lovely tombola prize
- Compingoo for donating £50
- Prudhoe Poppets for donating £20
- Prudhoe Methodist Toddler Group for donating £50
- The Wise Group for donating £100
- SALTO for donating all our hoodies for free so we only needed to pay for embroidery
- Large chunks of wrapped cheese from Trethowans Dairy in North Somerset - for the Bath market
- A t-shirt from Orchard Pig Cider - for the Bath market
- A gift back from Bath Ales - for the Bath market
- A gift pack from Electric Bear Brewing Company- for the Bath market
- A bottle of wine and two boxes of chocolates from Morrisons Cribbs Causeway- for the Bath market
- A £10 Tesco voucher and a large bottle of Pimms from Tesco Brislington in Bristol- for the Bath market
- A £25 voucher from Clarks- for the Bath market
- A £40 gift voucher from Las Iguanas- for the Bath market
- A voucher for two for Boston Tea Party- for the Bath market
- 20 gingerbread men from Pullins Bakery in North Somerset- for the Bath market
- Handmade wooden plaque made by Rhodri Williams from Bristol Rugby Club- for the Bath market
- Handmade Christmas decorations made by Rory and Connie Singer- for the Bath market
- One Stop for donating sweets and drinks to keep our cubs happy whilst packing
- Natural Images for sponsoring a box
- Unscripted Photography for sponsoring a box
- Kate Elliot's work donated £100
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Individuals:
Donations, sponsorship or fundraisers from businesses and organisations
- Naomi Campbell for sponsoring 5 boxes
- Charlotte Thompson for sponsoring a box
- Sian Wood for sponsoring a box
- Rory Singer for sponsoring a box
- Andrew Moncaster for sponsoring 10 boxes
- Sally Vaux for sponsoring a box
- Tom Vaux for sponsoring a box
- A Giltrow for sponsoring 8 boxes
- Jamie Eustace for sponsoring 2 boxes
- Cullen RB for sponsoring a box
- O Robinson for sponsoring 2 boxes
- Mike Hall for sponsoring 2 boxes
- 19 other box sponsorship for Bristol Rugby Club form various players which were written in boxes, just waiting on getting names back to update on site.
- 10 x box sponsorship for Mark and Claire Irish (Bristol Rugby Club)
- 20 x box sponsorship for Steven Luatua (Bristol Rugby Club)
- 10 x box sponsorship for Ian Madigan (Bristol Rugby Club)
- 1 x box sponsorship for Rimini and Dane
- 1 x box sponsorship for Denise Faudy
- 1 x box sponsorship for Steve Bamford
- Roy Spencer who sponsored 3 boxes including our Easter raffle
- Mable Stewart who sponsored a box
- Faye Savory who sponsored a box
- Dannie Brennand who sponsored a box
- Ina Blanco who sponsored a box
- Alice Wright for sponsoring a box
- Victoria Odgen for sponsoring a box
- Daniel Miller for sponsoring a box,
- Alex Quang for sponsoring 2 boxes through his photography event
- Alex Quang and Jade Rodgers for hosting an acoustic music night which raised £115.45 for us
- Judith Macdonald who has made an incredible amount of tasty cakes for us
- Elisa Blanco who has made lovely treats from scones to cupcakes for us to sell
- Angela Robson who made a gorgeous cake for our bake sale
- Jeanne Fitzpatrick who hosted an afternoon tea for us with Danielle and raised enough money to sponsor 23 boxes
- Tracy Stanforth for holding a bake sale and raising £78.56
- Danielle Falcus who's selling candles, raising money for this years boxes
- John Dean for sponsoring a box
- Mel Fitzpatrick for sponsoring a box
- Ann Worthy and Judith Dunn for sponsoring a box
-Shona Alabi for sponsoring a box
- Tami Alabi for sponsoring a box
- Cynthia Orange for sponsoring 2 boxes
- Briony Gardner for and sponsoring 3 (and a half!) boxes
- The barker family for sponsoring a box
- Claire Falcus for sponsoring a box
- Elisa Blanco and boyfriend Alex who sponsored 14 boxes by raising money through doing the colour run
- Abi Stanforth for sponsoring 5 boxes from doing the colour run through her sponsorship
- Jane and Laura Northmore for sponsoring 2 boxes
- Clair Clark for baking us a cake which raffled for £7
- Whitley Bay Cubs, helpers, parents and Charlotte for all their help packing the Newcastle boxes
- 3 box sponsors from various families at Minsteracres Church
- Kate, Lewis, Gill, Jane, Helen and Carly for helping to check and wrap the boxes
- £200 donated by the Brady family pub for Southampton's boxes
- Sophie, Ava, Katie, Evie, Jody, Cory, Jackie + Danielle who raised £666 doing a sponsored walk for us in Southampton
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