The Tiny Lives Ball is a great evening of fundraising including both a raffle and auction with some great prizes to be won. This year, our host was the always wonderful Pete Graves!
The evening started with a sparkling drinks reception, followed by a three course meal and throughout the evening guests were entertained with the return of everyone’s favourite, the ‘Flag Fiesta’ where everyone’s guaranteed a win, a photobooth and other fun for all.
Please remember Tiny Lives is an independent, local charity supporting premature and sick newborn babies and their families, who have experienced life in the Neonatal Unit at the RVI in Newcastle. We can only do this because of our wonderful supporters.
We’d also like to say a HUGE thank you Toni and Kris for their wonderful photography skills! Toni and Kris captured all images on the evening and we can’t thank them enough for documenting the evening.
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Tiny Lives Ball Gallery
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Are you a parent to a twin, triplet or quad? If so, you can help out with a new research study! Please see below for details and a short message from Dr Nicholas Embleton, Consultant Neonatal Paediatrician:
We are conducting a study to find out about parents’ experiences when twins (or triplets, quads etc,) are transferred between hospitals, so we can better understand what it feels like. We are interested in the situation where the twins have to be cared for in a different hospital at the same time. This may be for a short period (e.g. a few hours) or might be for much longer (e.g. if one twin needed intensive care at another hospital, but there was no space for the other twin to be kept with them). Please follow the link below for more information or to contact the research team. Thank you. – Dr Nicholas Embleton
For more information and to get in contact with the research team, please click here.
Take That Back to Where It All Began – 2nd November 2017, City Hall, Newcastle
TICKETS are now on sale for Take That Back to Where It All Began, hosted by TV presenter Eamonn Holmes.
On 2nd November 1992, Take That took to the stage of Newcastle City Hall for the opening night of their first ever tour.
Join us, 25 years to the day, to celebrate Take That’s music courtesy of the country’s top tribute acts and a very special performance by Grammy award winner and songwriter Eliot Kennedy, who penned the Take That track Everything Changes, as well as movie sound tracks, musicals and hits for Bryan Adams and the Spice Girls.
Featuring all the UK’s biggest, best and most authentic tribute acts, namely Re-Take That, Rob-B-Williams and the number one Gary Barlow lookalike, soundalike and performer Dan Hadfield this will be an evening of brilliant music and nostalgia from the most successful boy band in UK chart history.
Every penny generated from this 25th anniversary spectacular will go to the Tiny Lives Trust, to support sick and premature babies born at Newcastle’s RVI and their families.
Tickets on sale now, online, by phone or in person from the Theatre Royal box office only, NOT the Tiny Lives’ office.
Tickets from £27 are already selling very fast so don’t miss out.
10:30—14:00, Sunday 26 November
An annual event for graduates of the Special Care Baby Unit and their families to get together and celebrate (Recommended for children aged 7 and under).
Entry by Ticket only – £12 per family (max 2 adults)
We had a great day on Friday 11th August at the Millstone annual charity golf day in aid of Tiny Lives. Thank you to Mike Cramman who kindly organised the day along with a BBQ and presentation evening held at the Millstone Pub.
This year the golf day was held at Northumberland Golf Course and raised the amazing amount of £4247.27, which is double the amount raised in 2016. All of this is thanks to lots of people, including Northumberland Golf Course who accepted Tiny Lives as charity of the year and in turn provided the course free of charge for the day, as well as our wonderful golf players who paid an entry fee for a 4 ball, and who purchased a raffle envelope. We also had great support from many companies who sponsored tee holes and donated raffle prizes and as well as supporters making donations on the day.
We also like to say thank you to Tesco Bank for allowing one of their employees to volunteer for the day – Thank you Cath you did a great job getting all the golfers registered for the day.
Special guests at the presentation evening… Katy Bell now 8 years old, born 28 weeks at 2lbs 12oz and Ave Mullarkey now 12 years old, born 28 weeks at 2lbs 12oz. Who would have thought Katy and Ave could have fitted in to a Claire’s Nest or one of the little nappies (above)
Do you like a round of golf? if so and you would like to support Tiny Lives or if you are not that keen on the game but would still like to support the day, why not sponsor a hole for £30
We would like to thank Mike Cramman who is kindly organising the golf day for the 4th year running all in aid of Tiny Lives, to the sponsors below, to all teams who have entered so far and not forgetting everyone who has donated a prize to make it possible for a raffle to take place.
The Metro 60 Charity Challenge will take place on Tuesday 26th April 2016 with a target to raise £60,000 for 11 charities based in the North East of England.
Steve Wilkinson (“WheelchairSteve“), assisted by Paul Lawton and Phil Pugh, will board the 6.04AM train from Newcastle Airport Metro Station. They will get off at Callerton moments later, where they will wait until next train arrives and board that train. This process will continue at each station until all 60 Tyne & Wear Metro Stations have been visited.
It is estimated that, allowing for breaks, the entire Metro 60 Charity Challenge will take about 15 hours, so it’s expected to finish at St. James’ at around 9.00 – 9.30pm.
We’re inviting businesses, community groups, pubs, sports teams, etc to donate £100 or more for a Metro station of their choice to help us reach our £60,000 target to be shared between the 11 North East Charities.
For every £100 donation received, Your business or group logo and a link to your website will feature on the appropriate Metro station page on Steve’s website (until September 2016).
You business/group will also be mentioned in regular daily tweets/posts on Twitter/Facebook until the end of April when the Challenge takes place.
£12,000 raised on the night by our wonderful supporters…
We all had a ball at the Tiny Lives Charity Ball! Our thanks to all our wonderful guests and supporters. And congratulations to all the auction and raffle prize winners. Thank you! The Tiny Lives Team.
