Apr
13
Birmingham city centre’s House of Fraser is supporting local charity Acorns Children’s Hospice by letting superheroes abseil down its 120ft building on Sunday 20th May. Acorns provides vital care and support services for local life limited children and their families, helping them through the difficulties they face. During this year’s Children’s Hospice Week (18 – …
Apr
04
Acorns triple run is back and raring to go on Sunday 24th June. The popular event is ready now for all running enthusiasts or willing walkers to sign up and raise vital money for local life limited children. The triple run features both a wheel chair friendly 1km fun run, a 5km fun run …
Apr
02
Acorns Pershore store is calling for all lovers of literature to come and snap up favourite books which will help raise vital funds for local life limited and life threatened children. The big book sale will take place on Saturday 21st April in the Pershore Baptist Church on Broad Street, Worcestershire between 9am-5pm. A huge …
Mar
26
After raising over £1000 in 2011, Acorns Droitwich store are holding another fashion show and shopping event at M&Co in the town square on the evening of Wednesday 28th March. This fashionable evening, supported by 2nd Skin Lingerie, will include a show stopping catwalk, a raffle with loads of great prizes generously donated from local …
Mar
22
A seven-year-old Black Country girl who wanted to stop her friend from feeling sad over her baby sister’s life-threatening condition created her own charity to help Acorns Children’s Hospice. Sophia White heard that baby Isla Groom, the sister of her friend Sian Groom, had been admitted for end-of-life care at Acorns in the Black Country. …
Mar
21
Andrew Mitchell visited Acorns Children’s Hospice for a tour of the specialist facility and to hear about the vital service it provides for some of his young constituents. The Walsall based hospice is the only organisation that provides this type of care locally for life limited and life threatened children and young people. Children can …
Mar
14
A fancy dress fanfare got Acorns Children’s Hospice new-look Yardley store off to a flying start. The re-launch of the store, on Church Street, drew crowds of bargain hunters following its opening on Saturday (10th March). Acorns’ team at Yardley staged fun activities to welcome shoppers and families, including a puppet show, face painting, tombola …
Mar
12
Great Witley Operatic Society members are on course for an exciting musical evening on the high seas, in aid of Acorns Children’s Hospice. Their production of the much-loved opera, the Pirates of Penzance, is being staged at the Swan Theatre Worcester this month, to help raise urgently-needed funds to care for life limited local children. …
Mar
08
Acorns Children’s Hospice is appealing for people running in the 2012 London Marathon without a chosen charity to fundraise for them this year. Every penny they raise will go directly towards providing care for over 600 life limited and life threatened children in the region. The local children’s charity is asking people who have not …
Mar
06
Pupils in Dudley have made a big impression with bumper gifts to raise funds for care of life limited children at Acorns Children’s Hospice. Children from Roberts Primary and Milking Bank Schools, in Gornal, responded generously to an appeal for bags of goods to help in stocking Acorns’ store in Dudley. Lindy Welch, Acorns’ area …