We are very pleased to announce that Blue Smile Project is the partner charity for the BIG Summer BBQ 2014. Blue Smile is a Cambridgeshire children’s charity which provides mentoring and counselling in primary schools to help troubled children fulfill their true potential and have happier childhoods. It can quite simply be life-changing. Without specialist support, vulnerable children can go on to develop mental illnesses and anti-social behaviours, which puts huge pressures on local services and costs our community dear. Blue Smile changes that outlook and helps to give children a happier and brighter future… the right of every child.
Once more we will contribute 15% of all tickets sold via groups plus all funds raised from the usual raffle; please come along and help us raise money for Blue Smile Project.
Kathie Neal, head of Fundraising Partnerships for Blue Smile Project commented: “Blue Smile is really delighted that we are to be the benefiting charity at the Big Summer BBQ this year. We are very grateful for this opportunity to raise awareness of our critical work as well as to be receiving vital donations.”
Tickets are available at Early Bird price until 31 May, buy yours now!
Creating Cambridge was initially created to help cross pollination of networking groups and meetups in Cambridge. As part of our initial purpose within Creating Cambridge we always had the intention to help local charities with some of their good causes. The latest event we run last week, the BIG Xmas Party 2013, had Magpas as charity of choice and it was a great pleasure working with them and helping them to raise some funds for their highly demanding task, a total of £324.60, adding up the sales from the raffle, some private contributions from attendees at the party and the 15% of tickets sold via groups. Antonia Brikell, head of communication for Magpas, commented:
Yes, we did it again; we set our target very high in terms of delivering an amazing experience to all of our guests and, given the feedback and congratulation messages still coming after 5 days, I would say we managed to exceed expectations, once again. The weather was surely a bless and being close to our lovely river it helped to inspire an atmosphere that was more about a party one would join during summer holidays rather than a networking event in one of the most important high-tech, bio-tech and academic centres in the world.
