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PLEASE HELP US RAISE FUNDS FOR ACORNS
Acorns cares for children who are life limited and life threatened,that
is unlikely to reach adulthood and offers support to their families. Acorns has helped over 1,500 families in the last
21 years. Acorns is currently supporting over 500 children and families, an estimated 1,600 families fit the criteria
in the catchment area of;Warwickshire,Worcestershire,Herefordshire,Gloucestershire,West Midlands and parts of Staffordshire
and Shropshire. Acorns provides short break,emergency end of life care with a community team to support the family 24
hours a day 7 days a week. Acorns has 3 - 10 bed children's hospices. It currently costs £6 million
a year to support the families.There is no charge to the families for using the facilities.Acorns relies on the community
to fund the majority of it's activities. Acorns has over 1,000 volunteers who work in all areas; in the hospices,fundraising
and in their shops. IT COSTS £4,500 PER DAY TO RUN EACH OF IT'S HOSPICES - A DAILY BED COSTS £450. -
Please help us raise funds.
Shop online and raise funds for Acorns
There are now two easy ways for you to raise additional funds - simply by logging on to the web. easyfundraising
is a shopping directory listing some of your favourite online stores including Amazon, NEXT, Debenhams, John Lewis, Toys R
Us, HMV and over 400 other top name stores. Whenever you shop with any one of them using the links provided on the easyfundraising
site, you'll generate a donation for your group of up to 15% of the purchase price every time! It really is that simple! It
won't cost you a penny more to shop and raise funds in this way. In fact you can even SAVE MONEY as many retailers
give exclusive discounts, special offers and even 'e-vouchers' when you shop through the easyfundraising site. All
you need to do is register your group for free at easyfundraising
You can also search the web and raise funds for Acorns
You can also raise funds every time you search online with easysearch – a search engine with a difference! Powered
by Yahoo! easysearch works just like any other search engine, giving you fast, accurate results time after time. But the difference
is, easysearch gives something back. When you search the web with easysearch, you'll raise about 1p for your group with
each search you make – what could be easier? Search the web just 15 times a day and you could generate funds of
over £25.00 a year – just by switching to easysearch! When you register with easyfundraising, you
will automatically be allocated your own easysearch page and just like easyfundraising it is completely free to register and
use. Please use the following link when you do so as Acorns Children's Hospice - Wolverhampton Scalextric Club will
benefit from a 'thank you' from easyfundraising for referring you - easyfundraising. Don't worry, this won't affect the funds you raise so we will all benefit.
Here are just a small selection of retailers you can use,for a full list
click here.

As a club we raise money for Acorns through events,raffles,collecting
used printer cartridges,mobile phones,penny bottle for loose change and now we have added easyfundraising to try and boost
our donations. Please help. If you would like to send printer cartridges or old mobile phones please email Malcolm
Scotto (Club Co-ordinator) mscotto@blueyonder.co.uk
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