Our aim is to develop a holiday house and support centre in Cheshire, where children with a life threatening illness can come with their families for a FREE short break.
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News from 2006

Barclays Bank

Northwich Branch It was great to be invited to Barclays, Northwich to share with all staff members about our charity. Many thanks to Caroline Barker - Manager for promoting 'The Joshua Tree' throughout the branch. Look out for our poster display and collection boxes! We are looking forward to working closely with Barclays throughout 2007

Head Office, Gadbrook Park Many thanks to Sara Wheater for her support in promoting The Joshua Tree. We have already made great use of Barclays Matched Funding Scheme during our fund raising events. Special thanks also to Keiran Parker, Tim Bessant and Leanne Williams.




Northwich Christmas Lights Switch On

Let There Be Light It was very special for Adam, Beth and Josh to be invited by Tom and Jennifer Davies to help light up Northwich for Christmas. Everyone enjoyed an afternoon's entertainment with Silk FM and Lynda was chuffed with her bouquet of flowers!




RAOB Presentation Night

Presentation Night At RAOB Club On the 9th December 06 we attended the RAOB president's night where we were presented with a cheque for an amazing £3521.66. We would like to offer our special thanks to Frank Pemberton for all the hard work that he and the RAOB club have put in over this last 12 months to raise funds for 'The Joshua Tree'




Christmas FairCharity market It was great to experience the hustle and bustle of Northwich's Charity Market in November. Many bargains were bought and lots of money made! (£232)

Christmas Fair Many thanks to everyone who supported us at our Christmas craft afternoon. There was a great atmosphere and we managed to raise over £400. Thank you Winnington Park School for allowing us to host the event free of charge.




Charity Football Match The charity football match on Sunday 12th November was a great success. The Stars from Coronation Street and Hollyoaks played a great match against Manchester City legends at Victoria Stadium. Richard Fleeshman (Craig Harris) and Alan Halsall (Tyrone Dobbs) from Coronation Street presented medals to Northwich Juniors and Winsford Diamonds who also played before the main game. We would like to give a big thank you to Tom Davies (Northwich Town Mayor), Roni Melville (Commercial Manager) and Dave Moss (Assistant Manager) for all their hard work. We would also like to say a huge thank you to Tony Steenson for organising so many stars to take part.

Following the matches in the afternoon we had a sportsman's dinner with guest speaker Norman Whiteside and again this was a great success. Overall we raised over £2500

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Big and Small Presentation

Big and Small Sunflower Presentation Lots of tots managed to raise over £300 during Bethel's Big and Small sunflower grow throughout last summer. It was great to see how green fingered they were, some flowers growing to over 10 feet tsall! Tom Davies kindly presented the winners with their prizes. Well done everyone.




Forties Night The Joshua Tree was officially launched as a registered charity at the forties-themed fancy dress event held at Hartford Golf Club on 29th September 06. Many thanks to Tom Davies and Sheena Stellard for arranging this event and to all those who made the evening so enjoyable. Everyone really got into the spirit of the era and there were soldiers, spivs and gangsters amongst the guests. Barclays Bank matched the money we raised in the raffle giving a total of £1120 for the raffle alone. The evening raised a grand total of £1800.

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Christmas Card Competition There were lots of great entries - well done to everyone.

And the winners were:
Cassie Anderson from Winnington Park Primary School, Lucy Boyd, India Attlee, Thomas Price and Chloe Palmer from Antrobus St Mark's Primary School and Jonathan McNabb from St Bede's Catholic Primary School

This was great fund raiser to be involved in. Many thanks to everyone who bought and sold cards. I think you'll all agree they looked fantastic!