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In this article:

• Aylesbury charity secures funding from innovative ‘Soup’ event
• Headway urges sports clubs to be concussion aware
• Businesses urged to reward their local sporting heroes in Olympic year
• Promotional opportunity with the Aylesbury Duck Race
• Family fun day in aid of Asthma UK and Child Bereavement UK
• Cake and Slipper Day raises money for Barnardo’s

Aylesbury charity secures funding from innovative ‘Soup’ event

An Aylesbury charity that supports vulnerable women has benefitted from a £520 donation after the cause was chosen at a fundraising event.

Leading social care provider Buckinghamshire Care introduced Buckinghamshire Soup as a way of supporting fundraising for community projects. Businesses and residents from around the county were invited to attend the event where they decided which local project should receive the funds raised during the evening.

Those who attended the event, on Tuesday April 12 at Aylesbury Opportunities Centre were given a bowl of soup, a bread roll and a hot drink, all for a donation of £5. The shortlisted charities pitched to convince the audience to vote for their project and the audience were then asked to vote for the cause which they felt would most benefit from the money raised during the evening. After the vote, Aylesbury Vale Rape Crisis was awarded the fund pot. The donation will help the charity to fund an additional phone line for vulnerable women who need to access help and support.

Buckinghamshire Soup is a new approach to raising money for charities in the UK, though this approach to funding projects has been successful over the past decade in the United States.

The event was created by Buckinghamshire Care’s Back2Base project, which supports adults with learning disabilities, autism and mental health problems back into the workplace through a range of employment schemes.

Headway urges sports clubs to be concussion aware

An Aylesbury brain injury charity is asking local sports clubs to ‘be concussion aware’ as part of a new national campaign launched this month.

Headway Aylesbury Vale, which supports people affected by Acquired Brain Injury (ABI), is at the forefront of the Concussion Aware campaign during Action for Brain Injury Week, which takes place from 9-15 May.

The campaign gives sports clubs and academic institutions access to a range of materials, including a factsheet giving advice about concussion, posters to display both online and in changing rooms, and a digital stamp to demonstrate the club has adopted a responsible approach to concussion.

In the meantime, Headway is inviting sports clubs to register interest in supporting the campaign or fundraising for the charity during Action for Brain Injury Week.

Headway estimates that, in the Aylesbury Vale alone, there are 1,500 survivors of Acquired Brain Injury – a condition which can be caused by accident or illness.

The charity, based in purpose-built premises behind the Co-Op in Wedgewood Street, would be delighted if survivors and their families visited to see what is on offer to help their recovery pathway.

For further information on the Concussion Aware campaign, visit www.concussionaware.org.uk.

Businesses urged to reward their local sporting heroes in Olympic year

The unsung heroes of sport in Buckinghamshire may not make it to the Rio Olympics but they could still be in line for glittering silverware this year.

Nominations are now open for the prestigious awards that celebrate the people and organisations who make grass-roots sport happen in Buckinghamshire & Milton Keynes.

The eleventh annual Bucks & MK Sport Awards will be in November, and local businesses are being urged to help organisers identify those to be honoured.

Organisers are also seeking nominations for the Active Workplace category, from businesses who encourage their employees to lead a more active lifestyle and engage with their local sporting community.

The categories for awards will be: Active Workplace of the Year; Club of the Year; Project of the Year; Primary School of the Year; Secondary School of the Year; Volunteer of the Year; Young Leader of the Year; Community Coach of the Year; Performance Coach of the Year; Terry Cook Unsung Hero of the Year.

To nominate, go to www.leapwithus.org.uk/sportawards or call the Leap office on 01296 585215.

Promotional opportunity with the Aylesbury Duck Race

The Aylesbury Duck Race organised by Mix96 is back for 2016 - why not get involved? All you need to do is sponsor and name a duck then go along and cheer your duck on!

Some fantastic prizes are up for grabs, including a £1,000 radio advertising campaign.

The race will take place 23rd June at The Honey Bee in Fairford Leys. The cost is £120 + VAT (£10 for each duck sold will go to Age UK Bucks).

For more information see the attached. To book or discuss further please contact Holly Edwards at Mix96: 01296 399396 / [email protected]

Family fun day in aid of Asthma UK and Child Bereavement UK

Go along to The Rye in High Wycombe on 31 July for a family fun day in memory of Olivia Chandler, who died aged eight in 2010.

There will be arts and crafts, a fun fair, a raffle and tombola, beer tent, DJ’s and much more.

Find out more information on the attached >

Cake and Slipper Day raises money for Barnardo’s

A recent fundraising day at the Clare Charity Centre where cakes were baked and slippers worn to work raised £122.64 for Barnardo’s.

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