Winning the cheque was fantastic for the group who also recieved medals each and a big trophy.

The boys decided that it would be a great idea to donate the winning money to Twinkle House to help local young people with disabilities.

See the cheque presentation picture of the boys with Jan Fitzsimons at Skem United by viewing our Gallery under Donations.

The event is being held to help raise funds to enable Twinkle House to provide its free supported sessions for local children and young people with disabilities and additional needs. The group need to raise £40,000 per year on top of the Lottery funding received last year and needs all the local help possible to do this.

You can help Twinkle House by joining us for the Quiz night. Tickets are £5 per person and include a Hotpot Supper supplied by Lite Bites and a Disco with local DJ who is supporting the Charity by giving their time for free.

The winning team will win £50! and there will be a Grand Raffle with super prizes such as a £250 Voucher for the Birkdale Clinic, meals for two, family days out and luxury packages for Women, Men, Children and the home.

Come along and join us for a night out with your family, friends, colleagues and see if you can be the Twinkle House Quiz Champions of the year as this is sure to be an often-repeated event!

For further details and tickets
contact: Jan Fitzsimons,
Tel: 01695 455625
Email: admin@twinklehouse.co.uk
or call into Twinkle House on Sandy Lane Centre, Skelmersdale.

If you would like to do this as a sponsored walk on behalf of Twinkle House please register online as per details below and also contact Jan Fitzsimons at Twinkle House. Tel: 01695 455625 or email Jan at admin@twinklehouse.co.uk for Flyer, sponsor form, T-shirt ect. If you would like to register for the Twinkle Trek (Family Walk) please contact Jan Fitzsimons.
(your registration fees will go to the Hands of Hope Romania Charity),

Bookings have just opened for this year’s event which is on Saturday 1st September at the same location as last year. In addition to our 4th 25 mile “Four Peaks Challenge” and the 18 mile “Two Peaks Challenge”, both of which are open to runners as well as walkers, we have a new 13 mile route “The Three Peaks Walk” which as its name suggests is for walkers only.

Another change for this year is the use of a third party company “UKforms” to help process the applications and send confirmation emails. The event is also advertised on the www.ukresults.net site, which is also another route onto our new online application forms. (we still have downloadable paper forms if someone you know is interested but has no access to a PC)

We very much hope you can join us again this year, booking is as usual via the website www.walkofhope.co.uk . Even if you can’t make it, we would be very grateful if you could spread the word amongst family, friends and colleagues, as more entrants not only makes for an even better atmosphere, but also raises more for charity.

To this end we have attached some flyers that you can email to others or print and put up in your workplace or college etc. to help advertise the event.

If you have any questions feel free to email them to me (Trevor Hilton) at this email address. lancswalkofhope@yahoo.co.uk

See you there!

Trevor Hilton
on behalf of The Walk of Hope Organisers

Well done to Kingsley from everyone at Twinkle House, we are so pleased that he won as he is so talented and very much a deserving winner.

Pictures from the night will be on our website soon ….

Twinkle House said;
Parents and carers have told us that using these special laser projectors has made a dramatic difference to relaxation during bed-time routine or at other times for clients with disabilities and additional needs such as sleep problems that use our service. By following advice and support provided at Twinkle House they have been able to follow a good night time routine using the projectors and get a good night’s sleep having their child/young person motivated to go to bed and stay in bed (information collected from parent/carer feedback).

Parents/carers tell us that the laser projectors work so well, however they are having to wait up to two months to be able to take one out from our Specialist Resource library as we only had a small quantity. The projectors are quite expensive to buy for parents, and we would like to be able to offer our additional support by having more of this fabulous resource to them.

Our many thanks to Maggie for the generous donation from her funds. The projectors will help many families in West Lancashire. Best wishes, Twinkle House

The competition organised by Furness Building Society challenges talented local charity supporters to step up and represent their good cause.
Auditions can be viewed at www.furnessbs.co.uk/charitychallenge
Kingsley, aged 17, is a talented singer who has been involved in past charity fundraising. He is among the finalists competing for prizes of £1,000 for first place, £750 for second place, and £500 for third place, with £100 for each of the other finalists so that all of the charities represented on stage will benefit.

The Charity Challenge final starts at 7.00pm. Tickets are £7 each and available through the Grand Theatre box office tel 01524 64695 or visit www.lancastergrand.co.uk.
Sarah Wane, Marketing Support Manager for the Furness says: “The aim of Charity Challenge is to make everyone more aware of the need to support charities in the current tough economic climate, and the final will be a fantastic night of fun and entertainment.“

Furness Building Society prides itself on supporting local charities and has more than 20 affinity accounts linked to good causes. The affinity accounts offer customers an attractive return on their savings whilst the Society makes an annual cash payment from its own funds to the charity, based on the total amount in all accounts for that charity. As a result last year the Furness paid out more than £360,000 to affinity partners.
For more details on Charity Challenge or affinity accounts visit www.furnessbs.co.uk

For more information contact Chris Nelson at Trafalgar PR on 07761 930627 or email chris@trafalgar-pr.co.uk

Twinkle House offer their sincere thanks to Paul Black and the Community Matters Team, and all employees who generously contribute to funds raised throughout the year at the Skelmersdale site. Well done to you all and a very Merry Christmas from us all at Twinkle House.

Twinkle House is absolutely delighted after receiving a telephone call from Mainlink in Skelmersdale. The local business has offered to support Twinkle House as their chosen Charity and have agreed to provide free on-site maintenance. Mainlink have also provided a beautiful Christmas Tree for the Charity (picture available to view in gallery).

Jill Appleton, Manager of Twinkle House said “This is a wonderful way for a local business to show that they are socially responsible. Mainlink have already acted upon their pledge to Twinkle House and have been on site this week to fit new much needed new door handles throughout the Charity. We are so pleased and are already feeling the benefit of their valued support”. Thank you Mainlink, from everyone at Twinkle House, we truly value your support.

For more information about Mainlink Property Maintenace Services,
Visit their website at www.mainlinkserve.co.uk (copy link into your search engine)

Contact Details:
Unit 3, Greetby Place
Skelmersdale
WN8 9UL

Telephone: 01695 558 222
Fax: 01695 558 333

The 1.25k run took place around the arena grounds, followed by a 10k bike ride out onto the country roads then to finish Claire embarked on a further 2.5k run again in the grounds of the arena.

Claire said “the event was very well organized, the course was great. There were 3 events on at the same time all completing different distances. I found the event on www.uktriathlon.co.uk however my husband also races both Triathlon and Duathlon to which he represents Great Britain in this Age group. Having supported him for 7 years I felt it was time I had a go:0) I felt that completing this for charity would help give me that
extra motivation too. Anna Stockton has been my running partner and helped me prepare for the race day :0). Anna is also a supporter of Twinkle House as her son Joseph uses the service. Anna has also set up a Charity to raise funds for Joseph called Jogging for Joseph.

I would love for more people to get involved and help raise funds for Twinkle House too.

Twinkle House thanks Claire and all of those that have supported her incredible effort, very well done and we hope more people follow in her sporty footsteps. See Claire’s fundraising pictures on the Gallery soon…

Please join us to help raise much needed funds to support the vital work of Twinkle House that helps children and young people with disabilities and additional needs to improve their social and communication skills and their emotional well-being.

Show your support by buying a table for your business, invite your family and friends for a night filled with fun.

The Black Tie event will start at 7.30pm and guests will enjoy a four course dinner with live entertainment, Raffle, Charity Auction and dancing.

Tickets: From £350.00 for a table of 10

For further details, please contact Glass Slipper Events direct:
Email: glassslipperevents@hotmail.co.uk
Telephone: 07935445003