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• How schoolchildren are helping EACH provide a new hospice for Norfolk
  in Norfolk Charities & Fundraisers
  By Michael Jarvis
  

  A charity’s project to engage schoolchildren across Norfolk is gaining momentum.

  The nook schools project, being run by East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices (EACH), encourages schools to raise £400 each towards the cost of a soft play room at the nook, the new hospice being built in Framingham Earl that EACH hopes to open this summer.

  A team of Year 6 children at Poringland Primary School, just down the road from the nook, organised for members of the school’s junior choir to sing carols and Christmas songs outside a nearby Budgens, collecting £145 in an hour. They also organised a classic penny mile totalling 640m. More activities are on the cards as the school has decided to up its fundraising goal to £1,000.

• Digging for artefacts helps bring in £2,000 for the nook appeal
  in Norfolk Charities & Fundraisers
  By Michael Jarvis
  

  Those most passionate about Norfolk’s heritage have given East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices (EACH) another £2,000 towards the nook appeal.

  Norfolk Heritage Recovery Group (NHRG) holds charity metal detecting digs, charging members and guests to attend. This most recent donation to EACH takes its total raised for the good cause to £5,000. Tim Jenkins, EACH Norfolk Community Fundraiser, received the money from Godfrey Pratt, NHRG Chair.

  Godfrey said: “We spend an awful lot of our time digging up the past as that’s what metal detectorists do, but through our regular charity digs we’re also fundraising for the future, in this case for better lives for the children offered care by EACH.”

• Over 6,000 bags of donations a week needed to run children’s charity shops
  in Norfolk Charities & Fundraisers
  By Michael Jarvis
  

  East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices (EACH) has revealed it takes over 6,000 bags of donations a week to run its shops, as the charity launches its Bag It, Bring It, Boost It campaign for 2019.

  EACH has 35 shops across Cambridgeshire, north Essex, Norfolk and Suffolk that last year generated an impressive profit of over £1.1 million.

  They can only do that with a regular flow of donations, though, so the good cause is to continue running its successful Bag It, Bring It, Boost It campaign this year.

  Encouraging individuals, families, community groups, schools and businesses to bag up their unwanted items and drop them off at an EACH shop, the donation drive was a huge success when it launched in 2017, with over 80 companies and colleges getting involved to supply in excess of 1,000 bags.

• Day of care and support in Stanley McLean’s memory
  in Norfolk Charities & Fundraisers
  By Michael Jarvis
  

  Parents from Wymondham are marking what would have been the eighth birthday of their beloved little boy by paying for a day of care and support from East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices (EACH) across Norfolk today.

  Brad and Debbie McLean received bereavement counselling from EACH after Stanley died in July 2012, following complications with heart surgery.

  They have since become stalwart fundraisers for EACH and Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) - where Stanley spent months of his life - having set up the Stanley McLean Trust that has raised over an incredible £120,000.

• Friends smash ‘six peaks challenge’ to raise over £3,000 for the nook appeal
  in Norfolk Charities & Fundraisers
  By Michael Jarvis
  

  A group of seven Norfolk friends have completed both the National Three Peaks Challenge and the Yorkshire Three Peaks Challenge in an incredible time of just 20 hours and 23 minutes.

  Andrew Sabberton, Chris Yates, Steve Reed, Tom Hurd, Colin Jones, Kevin Rooney and Elliot Greenleaf conquered Scotland’s Ben Nevis in four hours and 10 minutes, and England’s Scafell Pike in three hours and 30 minutes. Then, alongside their support crew of three, they drove to Yorkshire, scaling Whernside, Ingleborough and Pen-y-ghent in 10 hours. Finally, they reached the top of Wales’ Snowdon in just less than three hours.

  Their efforts saw them walk almost 55 miles (86km), with a bit of downhill running included. The challenge, including travel between peaks, was done in 35 hours.