Nicola Roberts has become involved in the Lowe Syndrome Trust ‘Garden of Hope’ campaign.
The Garden of Hope is a campaign to raise one million pounds within ten months for Lowe Syndrome research. The syndrome affects the brain, eyes, kidneys, bones and muscles sadly leading to a short life expectancy. Symptoms of the disease seem endless…cataracts, glaucoma, seizures, epilepsy, arthritis, scoliosis, weak bones and muscles, rickets, kidney wasting. Some children are blind, some never walk or talk dependent on the severity of the disease.
Click on a celebrity garden and place your leaf on the tree. Donate £5 and write a personal message. Your leaf will then be displayed on the tree. Of course you can add a leaf to more than one celebrity tree to help raise the money needed.
You can now bid on a scarf that Kimberley Walsh has donated to raise money for charity.
The scarf, along with other celebrity items, is up on ebay for the Wrap Up Against Poverty campaign 2012.
It’s 100% cashmere camel-coloured, has the Louis Vuitton name emblazoned across it in tiny cut-out dots, and there is fringing at both ends of the scarf. It also comes in the original box.
Kimberley Walsh has donated a scarf, to help fight poverty.
The scarf, with other clothing items from celebrities, will be sold in an online charity auction for the Wrap Up Against Poverty campaign 2012.
Kimberley Walsh’s Louise Vuitton Scarf
This is the second year that the Wrap Up Against Poverty campaign has taken place, which aims at providing clothing for those in financial difficulty.
Last year Cherie Blair, Samantha Cameron, Christine Bleakley and Fearne Cotton were among those who donated items, helping to raise a total of £2,000.
This year organisers hope the campaign will be an even greater success.
Malcolm Tyndall, director at Elizabeth Finn Care, the charity responsible for the initiative, said: ‘We hope that, with the generous support of top celebrities and the fashion industry, not to mention an incredibly enthusiastic public, Wrap Up Against Poverty 2012 will enable us to help even more people.’
It is estimated that there are 13.5 million people living below the poverty line in the UK, among them 3.8 million children.
Elizabeth Finn Care’s auction will be hosted on eBay from Thursday 26th January, and will close on Sunday 26th February.
Girls Aloud’s Nicola Roberts has thrown her weight behind a Barnardo’s campaign to place more homeless children with foster parents.
As part of the charity’s Fostering & Adoption Week, the singer has called for more people to help older children without families who are normally less likely to be adopted.
Nicola – who became an ambassador for the children’s charity last year – has spoken of the shortage of carers for those between the ages of 10 and 18 in an exclusive blog for us.
“When people think about children in care they generally think of babies and toddlers,” she said.
“But what many of us forget is that children can be in care up to the age of 18. And what many people also may not know is that there is a real shortage of carers for older children.”
Barnardo’s are hoping to find 9,000 new foster families over the next year and Nicola says she has been left heartbroken hearing the situations some of the children find themselves in.
“I often leave my Barnardo’s visits shaking my head because no young person should have to deal with what these kids deal with. It breaks my heart when I hear their stories.”
To find out more about Fostering & Adoption week or if you are interested in taking in a child, call 08000 277 280 or you go to the Barnardo’s website.
Cheryl Cole along with Gary Barlow and Jason Donovan are urging their fans to remember those less fortunate as they lend their voice to a new charity scheme which will make it easier to give a little something to those who really need it.
With most of us preferring to use our cards rather than cash, dropping a few loose pennies into a charity box on a shop counter has become a thing of the past. However, Pennies is a new channel which gives people the choice to round up their bills when they pay by card. The Pennies technology can now be switched on in stores, ranging from high street chains to corner shops, as well as for online and mobile purchases.
The British public has already made one million micro-donations in just 12 months through Pennies raising over £250,000 from ‘spare change’ for more than 20 UK charities.
Cheryl Cole, who is also excited to be backing the initiative adds that she “can’t believe that no one had previously thought of this”.
“Now there is an amazing scheme where if you round up the lump sum on your card to £20 instead of £19.99, that penny will go to charity. All those pennies can add up to so much money. What an amazing idea and I hope this catches on. I’m in; all my pennies are going to you!”
Cheryl is gutted at missing Children in Need Rocks
Gary Barlow said Cheryl Cole is “gutted” at missing a big Children in Need show.
The X-Factor judge and Take That maestro was to sing a duet with the Girls Aloud star as part of a curtain-raiser ahead of Friday’s annual BBC fundraising marathon.
But Cole was forced to pull out of the event in Manchester, where Lady Gaga and Coldplay are set to headline, after suffering from pharyngitis.
Barlow, speaking ahead of the Children in Need Rocks Manchester event at the Manchester Evening News arena, spoke of Cole’s disappointment.
“She was really excited, she was expecting this to be her one performance of the year and she’s gutted,” he said.
Barlow also joked he could not find a replacement despite more than a dozen top acts on the bill.
“I’ve knocked on every dressing-room door and no-one’s interested!” he said, before adding: “I decided pretty much I didn’t want to replace her because it was going to be a nice moment for her tonight.”
Barlow would not reveal the song they were to perform but also hinted the two might yet combine to perform the mystery track in the future. “I’m not going to tell you because there might be something else we do it on,” he said.
