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Our 2014 Snow Ball is bigger and better than ever!

We’ve planned a fantastic night of fun, festivities and fundraising on 6th December 2014 at one of Manchester’s most spectacular venues – The Imperial War Museum! The Snow Ball is a gala dinner followed by dancing to the small hours, and with tickets strictly limited we know that it’s going to be a huge success… Read more »

Sunday In The Park

Many thanks to all our hundreds of amazing supporters who came along to our first event of this type – the sun was shining and the afternoon was clearly a huge success, as seen by the smiles on everyones faces. We raised over £5000 for the Children’s Burns Foundation, which is a wonderful amount and… Read more »

On Your Bike!

Well done to the amazing Matt Townsend who has just cycled from London to Paris with friends over four days, raising over £1500 for the charity.

There’s a fantastic programme starting this week called My Life:

There’s a fantastic programme starting this week called My Life: The Burns Club, about 12-year-old Holly was badly burn injured as a toddler. The programme follows Holly for six exciting but extremely anxious months as she has an innovative operation to expand her hair by placing special balloons beneath her scalp, which could cover the… Read more »

Hot drink scald prevention / awareness campaign

We’re always delighted to work closely with organisations such as the British Burn Association when they are running one of their excellent campaigns – it’s so important to keep the message going to help reduce the number of children and young people who are accidentally injured each day. You can see their latest promotional video… Read more »

Fingers Help With Fundraising

Justgiving and Vodafone have joined together to allow charity supporters to donate easily by text message on their mobile phone. To support the Children’s Burns Foundation you just send a text to the number 70070 with the code CBFN00 and then the amount you wish to donate. So, for example, you could send a text… Read more »

Dave Does Us Proud!

Huge congratulations to Dave Bostlemann who cycled all 990 miles from Lands End to John O’Groats in April to raise money for the Children’s Burns Foundation. His hard work on the pedals was rewarded by his supportive family and friends, who helped him raise nearly £3000 for the charity. Over nine days, Dave and his… Read more »

Pounding The Streets..

…for the Children’s Burns Foundation this Sunday will be Matt Townsend and Suzanne Stolberg, who are both taking part in the Great Manchester Run. Guess it’s just fruit for breakfast this week then, guys?

What’s your challenge this year?

Whether you’re a 10k sprinter or a 26 mile marathon madman (or madwoman!) don’t forget that you can always add a little extra bonus to your sporting challenge by raising money for the Children’s Burns Foundation. As a small charity we aren’t in a position to buy our own places for the Great Manchester Run… Read more »

Tyco Are The Tops!

Last month we received a cheque from Tyco Fire & Safety for an amazing £13,000 – which has been put to some very good use by the charity this year. At their request, £3000 was used to enable our Trustee Dave Lenegan to attend the World Burns Congress in Texas, where he was able to… Read more »