Local Fundraising Events
Find out how your fundraising is giving people in Edinburgh access to Maggie's cancer support.
Marion Taylor, Community Fundraiser for Edinburgh can be contacted on our Online Centre, by email, marion.taylor@maggiescentres.org or telephone on 0131 537 3135.
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Maggie’s Edinburgh Welcome events
Happening weekly on a Thursday from 4pm till 5pm
If you haven’t been into the Maggie’s Centre before this is a perfect opportunity to come for a tour and the opportunity to meet both Andrew the Centre Head and Marion the fundraiser to discuss any opportunities you or your company may have to work with Maggie’s Edinburgh. You will also be able to meet with other like minded individuals and will be a perfect opportunity to network.
Swishing Evening
Friday 3 February 2012
A new fashion phenomenon is emerging: clothes swapping or ‘swishing’. Here is the perfect way to get rid of gifts not to your taste, random impulse buys and those items lurking in the back of your wardrobe. Donate them, cleanse your conscience and get a new outfit!
Happening on Friday 3 Febuary, 7.30 – 9pm at St Cuthberts Episcopal Church, Westgarth Avenue, Colinton, Edinburgh. Tickets £10.
If interested or would like more information please contact Kim Robb at swishingformaggies@gmail.com.Steph Moffat's event in aid of Maggie's
Saturday 11 February 2012, 7.30pm - 11pm
Saturday 11th February from 7.30pm to 1am at Murrayfield Stadium. This event is being organised by Steph Moffat who has been working very hard over the last couple of months to make sure this all pulls together and it sounds like its going to be a brilliant night and hope you will consider taking a table of ten. Hosting the night is Scott Wilson and there will be a live band U-Know-Hoo as well as DJ Barrie Wilkins and of course a raffle and auction with some amazing prizes to win. Tickets cost £20p/p and available from Steph on 0777 924 1766 or from her business Steph's Hair Extensions.
Edinburgh Rugby Club Calendar
Nick De Luca and the boys at Edinburgh Rugby Club are back for a third year and this calendar is the best yet. On sale for £10 and available in the Centre at Murrayfield Stadium and also online through their website.
Massive thank you to the boys for being such good sports for the both the calendar and the launch night. If you want to have a look at the pics from the night please go to Koshy Kurien’s website.Sing in the City
We now have stock of the eagerly anticipated CD from the choir. The choir have now played at both Maggie’s monster Bike and hike and at the opening of Maggie’s Gartnavel and are fantastic fun! The CD is available in the centre for £10 and well worth a listen so please come in and buy one. The choir is now so big they have had to set up a second choir and are looked after by choir master Kirsty Baird if you would like more information about the choir please go to www.singinthecity.kirstybaird.co.uk.
Sunshine CD
Fraser and friends have made a CD for Maggie’s which is now available in the Centre for £5. Please come in an buy one as a perfect stocking filler. Please go to their facebook page for more information http://www.facebook.com/pages/A-song-for-maggies/218778424852087?sk=wall.
Lisa Stephenson’s Challenge for Maggie’s
2012
Lisa has set herself the challenge of raising £50,000 between now and October next year and after her launch night which raised £18,000 I think she may need to revise her target! Please watch this space for more details of events she has planned or go to her website www.lisaschallengeformaggies.co.uk.
Thanks in advance as always for your help and if I don’t speak to you before I hope you have a good Christmas holiday.Scotland's Gardens Scheme
Maggie's Cancer Caring Centres are one of Scotland's Gardens Schemes main beneficiaries please visit as many gardens as you can that are opening for SGS and by doing so supporting Maggie's Centres. To see a list of open gardens go to www.gardensofscotland.org.
Music Magpie
Do you have any old CDs or DVDs that you don’t want anymore then please hand them into Maggie’s Edinburgh and we can send them to Magpie and raise even more money for Maggie’s Edinburgh. Our last box we sent raised £71!
A HUGE thank you from Maggie's!
We would like to thank everyone who has helped us to raise money for Maggie's Edinburgh.
Brian Samson
January 2012
Massive congratulations and thanks to Brian Samson who raised £2,730 for the centre by climbing to the Himalayan Base Camp!
A Christmas Donation from Taiwan
December 2011
On behalf of the government and people of Taiwan (Republic of China), Mr. Steven Reyyuan Chu, Director General of Taipei Representative Office in the U.K., Edinburgh Office, made a donation of £1,000 to Maggie’s Edinburgh before Christmas.
Director General Chu presented the cheque to Mr. Andrew Anderson, the head of Maggie’s Edinburgh Centre in the afternoon of 20 December 2011. As a pancreatic cancer survivor, Director General Chu commended what the Maggie’s Centre Edinburgh has achieved in providing essential practical and emotional support for those living with cancer and their families. Compares to the government of Taiwan and its people’s contribution to the charity work at home and abroad, this is a very small grant. But it represents their hearts to support cancer patients and their families.
The Taipei Representative Office in Edinburgh invited members of Maggie’s Edinburgh Centre for a dinner on 14 September 2011. Mr. Chu made a briefing about relations between Scotland and Taiwan. For more information of the Taipei Representative Office, please see http://www.roc-taiwan.org/uk/edi or email reception.troedi@gmail.com.Edinburgh Telford College
December 2011
Get Ready for Work Class decided to hold a bake sale and raised a brilliant £121.55 and sold all their cakes so much have been good cakes! Thank you to all involved and hope you enjoyed fundraising for Maggie’s.
BNI TGI
November 2011
A massive thank you to my networking group. BNI TGI which meets every Friday at the Marriot on Glasgow Rd and decided to show their support by having a sponsored cycle starting in West Linton and covering 20 miles. They all did brilliantly in really really horrible weather and between the sponsorship and a christmas hamper they raffled off they have raised over £2,000. Have a look at the pics and see how wet and muddy they got.
15th Birthday and Christmas Fete
November 2011
Massive Thank you to everyone who came along and supported both events as well as those companies who donated to our Christmas raffle and helping us raise a brilliant £6,682. Photos of both events are now up on flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/maggiesedinburgh/.
Thomas Haywood Photography
November 2011
Thank you to Thomas who is a member of my BNI TGI group for coming along and supporting our 15th birthday and taking all the photos on the day helping us capture a day of history for Maggie’s. Please have a look at his website to see his work www.thomashaywood.com.
Black Stallion Photography
November 2011
Massive thank you to Koshy for giving up his time at both the Rat Pack evening and the Edinburgh rugby night. Please visit his website to view his work http://about.me/blackstallionphotography.
The photos all look fab.St Peter’s Singing Club
Thursday 3 November 2011
Thank you to the choir at St Peters Church for there musical rendition of Katie Morag story. They raised a fantastic £126 from the collection on the night.
Rat Pack Dinner Dance
Saturday 29 October 2011, 7 for 7.30pm
Massive Well done to Chris and Shona for another successful event. 250 guests enjoyed a evening at the Balmoral hotel with some great entertainment. Thanks to all who attended the evening and helping us raise a fantastic sum of money. Koshy Kurien managed to capture the evenings events please have a look at his website.
