insideKENT Magazine Issue 29 - August 2014 | Page 144

CHARITY

LOCAL SUPPORTERS AND CELEBRITIES
SUPPORT GET PURPLE WEEK FOR chYps
DURING CHILDREN’S HOSPICE WEEK

Hoopers of Royal Tunbridge Wells

SIGN UP FOR CANCER RESEARCH UK'S
SHINE NIGHT WALK
Cancer doesn’t sleep and neither will London on Saturday 27th September
when Cancer Research UK’s thrilling moonlit walking marathon, Shine Night
Walk, returns by popular demand for its fourth year.
17,000 men and women from across the UK are being invited to join the
nocturnal trail of light that will travel through London as the Shine Night Walk
illuminates people, buildings and landmarks to celebrate the progress being
made in the fight against cancer.
Charlotte Hawkins

Local children’s hospice charity, chYps,
called upon its celebrity patrons and the local
community to Get Purple during national
Children’s Hospice Week (13th-20th June)
to help pay for a day of care for babies,
children and young people with life-limiting
conditions in their own homes across Kent.
The charity’s celebrity patrons, Phil Spencer
and Cheryl Fergison, backed the campaign.
Phil Spencer
Throughout the week, the celebrities took
to social media to encourage people to Get
Purple, and chYps’ new celebrity patron, Charlotte Hawkins – journalist and
presenter of Good Morning Britain – attended a chYps Secret Garden event.
Purple fever spread across Kent with several local businesses choosing to
Get Purple, including Hoopers of Royal Tunbridge Wells, plus stores and
restaurants at Bluewater Shopping Centre. The charity’s 15 shops based
all over Kent also showed their support, with windows and staff dressed
head to toe in purple for the week.
Rachel Holweger, director of fundraising at chYps, said: “We're so grateful
to all of the people and businesses that supported our campaign. Get Purple
was a simple and fun way for people to support their local children’s hospice
charity. Our goal was to raise £4,000 to pay for a full 24 hours of care for
the hundreds of seriously ill babies, children and young people that chYps
supports across Kent. It is only through support from the local community
that we can continue to reach out to those families in need. I am confident
once all donations have been counted we will have reached our £4,000
target.”
www.chyps.org

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The Shine Night Walk sees a thrilling new route for 2014, starting just one
mile from Tower Bridge at Southwark Park and finishing in the heart of the
city at Old Billingsgate. Participants can choose between a full or
half walking marathon, taking them past iconic landmarks including Big
Ben, The Shard, St Paul’s Cathedral and the Tower of London.
Shine Night Walk offers participants the unique opportunity to personalise
their sponsorship by choosing to fund research into treatments to fight one
of 12 different cancer types, including brain, children’s and prostate cancer,
or to fund research into all 200 types of cancer. Everyone taking part in the
event will be given a sign they can wear on their back to dedicate their walk in
memory or in celebration of loved on