The Children’s Foundation’s events are varied, from themed balls to golf competitions to the extremely competitive Stock Market Challenge.
To read more about past events, click on the links below.
Golfer’s Raise £2,000 for The Children’s Foundation Kind-hearted golfers have helped raise over £2,000 for The Children’s Foundation, at our ninth annual golf day, at Hexham Golf Club. The event, which was sponsered by Tesco’s Hexham store, took place last Friday and crowned Durham based TIN Arts as this year’s winners. Martin Wilson, Captain of [...]
On Thursday 11th November in collaboration with Hooker and Young and HaveToLove Boutique The Children’s Foundation held the very first ‘White Ice Party’. The night was a great success raising just under £4,000. Hosted by Ben and Kelly, of Real Radio’s ‘Big Drive Home’ the fabulous evening included a 3 course meal for all guests, [...]
Congratulations to all of our 85 runners who took place in the 2010 Great North Run. We hope you all enjoyed the day and would like to say a BIG thank you to everyone for their support. We will be receiving our 2011 runners places in January, if you would be interested in running for [...]
Picture shows some students starting their sponsored relay Lingey House Primary in Gateshead were the first to take the education baton. They decided to do a sponsored run around their local park. All of the students from nursery to the oldest of the school took part. They used the baton in their activity, each class [...]
Picture shows pupils from Oakfield Junior with crazy hair. After the great success of Lingey House Primary the baton was passed over to Oakfield Junior School… Most people dread waking up with bad hair but pupils at Oakfield Junior School in Gateshead decided that a ‘Bad Hair Day’ was a great way to make lots of money [...]
Picture shows children from Northern Counties taking part in the conga Pupils from Northern Counties School in Jesmond were the next recipients of The Children’s Foundation’s Education Baton. At the end of January all 52 pupils participated in a sponsored challenge which included a run across Exhibition Park and the Town Moor, wheelchair conga and [...]
Picture shows Westfield pupils handing their cheque to The Children’s Foundation Westfield started off another baton after the popularity of the first baton. For their fundraising activity they held collections at their school Carol Services over the Christmas period. They managed to raise an amazing £1300!
