Sunflowers Events

 

Present Events 2011

Christmas Dinner at Sunflowers; Tuesday 20th December. For all the Service users, committee members and staff to gather round the table at Sunflowers and enjoy a lovely Christmas dinner together.

Christmas Party at Sunflowers; Wednesday 14th December time to celebrate Christmas and enjoy the Christmas carols with Sunflowers choir.

Hale Village Christmas Fayre; Sunday 11th December, Sunflowers will have service users Art, Calendars, Christmas Cards available for the public to buy.

Pamper Night at Sunflowers; Tuesday 22nd November everyone is welcome. Ticket Price is £5 includes 1st treatment. Treatments there after are £5 each. Come along and enjoy the pampering.

Community Champion Forum with BibbyLine Group; Thursday 17th November ten employees from BibbyLine are coming along to have a forum with Service Users. They will be offering afternoon tea and cakes.

Affected by Cancer; Begins Saturday 5th November finishes Friday 11th November. An exhibition of Art and Writing at the Merseyside Maritime Museum. This is an exhibition of a number of works of art and literature by cancer patients and carers. Sunflowers have been nominated to exhibit four paintings created by service users.

Create Car-Boot Sale; Saturday 5th November at Speke Hall Road starts 10am till 3pm. Sunflowers will be holding a stall of  service users cards and paintings.

Past Events in 2011

Sunflowers Coffee Morning; Tuesday 25th October starts 11am till 2am at Sunflowers. Books & Cakes for sale with a nice brew waiting for you at Sunflowers

Mens Cancer Awareness Day; Tuesday 27th September at the Royal Liverpool Hospital Main Entrance 10am till 2pm. Come along and find out important information about Cancer and how it effects men.

The Liverpool Wig Walk; Sunday 25th September starts at 12am; Sunflowers has been chosen as one of the four charities for The Liverpool Wig Walk organised by Lawyers for Liverpool from Formby point to Southport Pier. Please help us support them! http://duncangibbins.co.uk/dg-legacy/liverpool-wig-walk/

RunLiverpool 2011; Sunflowers has been nominated as Run Liverpool “official charity of the year”. Why not take part in this 5k football inspired event, bringing together reds and blues for a special one off event or train as a team in the Run Liverpool 5K Team Challenge.  For further assistance please contact Martin Tyrer for more information on 0151 726 8934 or visit http://www.runliverpool.org.uk/

Knowsley Flower Shower 7th August 11 am is a unique opportunity for Sunflowers to attract the attention of 18,000 people in attendance at Knowsley Flower show. Sunflowers will be in attendance to inform you of what we offer to the community of Merseyside and Cheshire. For further information about this event please visit http://www.knowsleyflowershow.com/

Lynne’s Open Garden Take a couple of hours out of your busy lives and come join us at Lynne’s Open Garden 31st July 12am till 6pm in aid of Sunflowers. You can enjoy the atmosphere alongside friendly faces with a nice cup of freshly made tea with a lovely jubbly homemade scone. So what are you waiting for ladies and gents!

Mersey Tri Bike Ride are cycling from Lands End  to John O’Groats in 8 days aiming to raise £10,000 for Sunflowers and Nugent Care starting on Friday 1st July. This is a fantastic amount of fundraising for a local Cancer support charity in Liverpool. To find out how they are getting on please visit their website on http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/team/merseytri-lejog

Singing Our Socks Off Community Choir Swanky Swingy Charity Gala At The China Palace Wednesday 29th June. Fabulous night at China Palace, thanks to everyone involved. The Sunflowers music group you touched everyone with your songs you should be very proud.

Hale Village Hall Art exhibition Sunday 26th June.

Merseyside’s Woman of the Year 2011 set up to reward women in Merseyside, for their achievements in just doing what they do best, changing lives, giving that extra meaning to peoples lives across Merseyside.  Sunflowers nominated Cath Bowen and on Friday 24th June she got voted as runner up in “Community Involvement”. Cath who at 81 still attends the Sunflowers every week, as she has been doing for more than 17 years. A mother of four Cath lost her husband Joe to cancer 18 years ago. Every week she goes to Sunflowers to help fundraise and listens and supports people who are going through very emotional times. Everyone here at Sunflowers wanted to appluade Cath for what she does here at Sunflowers and may this continue for a very long time indeed.

Norvartis Bike Ride; Congratulations Matt and Mark Harrop for taking up the challenge of a cycle Coast to Coast starting Friday 24th June, from Belfast to Fanad Head, Co. Donegal in 36 hours of 140 miles. All money raised is donated to Sunflowers.  For more information please visit http://www.justgiving.com/Mark-Harrop.

BNI Golf Event at Formby Hall 23rd June. This event was in partnership with MerseyTri Bike Ride where Sunflowers participated through Barclays in kind donation of Volunteers throughout the day including 18 hole golf course, dinner/auction evening.

Hale Carnival Saturday 11th June Is an annual event in local village park. This gave Sunflowers the opportunity to promote the charities work and to engage with the public through the collections of art for sale by current service users.

Bag Packing Tescos Mather Avenue Tuesday 17th May.

Tom Murphy Liverpool Sculptor presents to service users his life stories on being a sculptor in Liverpool and how he quickly became famous through his work.

Art Exhibition at Calderstones Park Coach House Two weekends one being Friday 22 April to Monday 25 April and the second being the May bank holiday. This has been noticed as an excellent pilot to promote our services as a charity and as a result we have had enquires from the public based upon being at Calderstones over the two occasions.

Pleasant Street School Art Sale Friday 15th April.

Run Liverpool Half Marathon 27th March.

St.Patricks Evening event Thursday 17th March.

Coffee Morning Friday 11th March

Get Involved

For ways and ideas in which you can get involved in events to raise essential funds for Sunflowers. Visit our support us page through  http://www.liverpoolsunflowers.com/support-us/dontate/