Red Nose Day 2009
Between Us We Raised £150,000 for Comic Relief ....
Foxy Bingo is a supporting partner of Comic Relief in 2009. We matched every penny you spent on our Red Nose Day Bingo Games throughout February and March, and wed like to thank you for helping us to raise a staggering £150,000!!! WTG WTG!
And a fabulous Foxy WTG to the following big money winners from these games:
Zabnala40 won £50,000
Lyndielou won £5,000
Chadly21242 and janeypop shared £10,000
Luckybug won £15,000
Shandkydd and beckstar76 shared £20,000
How Your Money is Spent ....
Comic Relief Fund gives grants to charities across Britain and your money will help change lives across the UK and in Africa in many ways. Here are a few examples of how your donation money is spent:
- £1 could pay for a phone call from a young runaway to their family to let them know theyre safe. This can be the first step to resolving the differences that led them to leave home in the first place.
- £1 could pay for a phone call to the mobile of a young person witnessing or experiencing domestic violence at home. This helps to ensure theyre safe and gives them the chance to talk to someone so they dont have to cope alone.
- £4 is all it takes to provide a cup of tea and a slice of cake for 20 lonely older people when they get together at a special project which helps them feel far less alone.
- £5 could buy a 10kg bag of seeds which a poor community in Kenya can use to grow their own food and crops. By eating what they need and selling the rest in the market, they can begin to work their way out of poverty.
- £20 could buy clothes and toys for children who have nothing after fleeing their home with their mum because of domestic violence.
- £44 could pay for a nutritious lunch for 100 street children in Kenya when theyre struggling to survive on their own. This brings street children to a place where they can be helped off the street and into school.
- £50 could provide a training session for school teachers to help them detect when children are being affected by domestic abuse at home. Experiencing violence is often very traumatic and children are reluctant to tell anyone about what is happening so they suffer in silence.
- £300 could pay the salary of an ambulance driver for a year in Somaliland. Years of civil war has left the countrys medical services in ruins and hundreds of women die unnecessarily in childbirth every week. An ambulance driver provides a vital emergency service that saves peoples lives.
Thank you once again for playing the Foxy Red Nose Bingo Games!
In support of Comic Relief, registered charity 326568 (England & Wales); SCO39730 (Scotland)
