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Pink Ribbon Walk now on www.mycharity.ie
Pink Ribbon Walk is now affiliated with the well-known fundraising website, MyCharity.ie, which offers you with a simple way to publicise your fundraising efforts to your family, relatives, friends and colleagues.
Choose which Pink Ribbon Walk you want to fundraise for, then simply set up your MyCharity.ie fundraising page on the website. You can customise the page to your own liking, and raise sponsorship for your Pink Ribbon Walk of choice in a safe, online environment.
No need to carry your sponsorship card with you everywhere you go or collect and check sponsorship money. It's all done online and any money you raise for your Pink Ribbon Walk, will go directly to that Walk.
Over 300 registered for Kinsale Walk
Over 300 people have registered to walk or run the Kinsale Pink Ribbon Walk in aid of Action Breast Cancer on Sunday, 4 March at 2pm (1.45pm start time for Runners).
Registration is still open and forms are available from Kinsale Pharmacy, Finishing Services and Cronin's. We are delighted with the ongoing support from the Kinsale Chamber of Tourism, Kinsale Good Food Circle and all our sponsors and pink partners who are going to turn Kinsale pink at the end of February in time for the weekend of 3-4 March. We are all out training and fundraising to help raise as much money for Action Breast Cancer projects.
Kinsale are in the pink!
Over 400 people attended the ‘Pink Party’ at the White Lady Night Club (or ‘Pink Lady’ for one night only!), Kinsale on Friday 18th November, when details of the first Kinsale Pink Ribbon Walk on Sunday 4th March 2012 were announced and almost €9,000 was raised to benefit Action Breast Cancer.
Kinsale Pink Ribbon Walk launches
Members of the Kinsale Pink Ribbon Walk Committee announced details of a ‘Pink Party’ on Friday 18th November at the White Lady Nightclub, Kinsale from 8pm ‘til late, with special guest Sharon Crosbie. The party will officially launch the first Kinsale Pink Ribbon Walk in aid of Action Breast Cancer.
Tickets €10 are available from Kinsale Pharmacy, Kinsale Finishing Services and the White Lady Hotel or email info@pinkribbonwalk.ie.
Kinsale Pink Ribbon Walk will take place on Sunday 4th March 2012. Already, a number of local men and women have signed up for the 10km walk around the beautiful coastal town of Kinsale.
“We are delighted with the response so far to the Kinsale Pink Ribbon Walk 2012. It is the first walk on the south coast and we hope that our ‘Pink Party’ will launch the event in style,” said Jackie Dawson, Chairperson, Kinsale Pink Ribbon Walk.
“We have a fantastic committee who are already networking local businesses and their families and friends to participate in the walk next March. We hope that over 500 people from Kinsale, Cork city and surrounding areas will register and start training and fundraising over the coming months.”
The Pink Ribbon Walk is a national fundraising initiative which organises sponsored charity walks in locations around the country in aid of Action Breast Cancer, a programme of the Irish Cancer Society. The objective is to empower individuals and communities to increase breast cancer awareness, promote healthy living and raise funds for Action Breast Cancer through a fun and rewarding experience.
Since 2009, the Pink Ribbon Walks in Kells, Co Meath and Ballina/Killaloe, Co Clare have raised over €400,000 for Action Breast Cancer. The Kinsale Pink Ribbon Walk hopes to add significantly to this figure in 2012.
Fundraising hero Bea Grace
We would like to extend our warmest thanks and congratulations to Bea Grace, who has raised €2,200 for the Kells Pink Ribbon Walk.
In the past 10 years, Bea has singlehandedly raised €47,200 for various cancer charities through a number of fundraising efforts, including the mini-marathon. Previous beneficiaries of her efforts are St. Luke's hospital and the Irish Hospice Foundatione Hospice.
We are thrilled and very proud that she chose to raise funds for the Pink Ribbon Walk this year and wish her the very best in her future fundraising efforts.
Girley Bog Restoration Project
Girley Bog is a relatively intact Raised Bog, which is a very rare habitat both here in Ireland, and in the EU. This bog supports many rare plant and animal species and has been designated a Natural Heritage Area by the National Parks and Wildlife Services (NPWS).
Coillte have secured funding from the EU under its LIFE-Nature Programme and from NPWS (a division of the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht) to restore the Coillte-owned section of the bog and return it to more favourable conservation status.
Conifer trees which were planted on this bog are being clearfelled, and forestry drains will be blocked which will facilitate the raising of the water table, which will in turn create more favourable conditions for sphagnum mosses (peat forming mosses) to grow. They can grow at a rate of 1mm per year (1,000 years to grow 1 metre!
Learn more about the Raised Bog Restoration Project.
Pink Fundraising Events
Pink Ribbon Week at Hairbase, Suffolk Street, Kells
Wednesday 24 – Friday 27 August
Pink Ribbon Walk madness at Hairbase all week with a truly imaginative selection of fundraising events happening from Wednesday to Saturday. There’ll be pink food and drink available for customers all week (donations gratefully accepted!) and spot prizes throughout the week for customers who come into the salon wearing pink. And the girls themselves will be trooping the colours by wearing their pink t-shirts to show their support for the Walk. Mark these days down in your diary…
- Thursday 4pm-8pm: €10 blow-dry - all money goes to the Pink Ribbon Walk
- Friday: 4pm-6pm – Sponsored silence…welcome to the quietest hair salon in Ireland!
- Saturday: Evening – Shave or Die! Two brave volunteers make the ultimate sacrifice for the Pink Ribbon Walk…
Wine Tasting in Jack's Railway Bar, Kells
Thursday, 25 August at 8.30pm
Raise a glass for the Kells Pink Ribbon Walk at a charity wine-tasting in Jack's Railway Bar in Kells! Entrance will be a €5 donation to Action Breast Cancer.
Specsavers In The Pink!
Anyone who wants to support the Kells Pink Ribbon Walk AND win a night’s B&B in the four-star Dunboyne Castle Hotel should get themselves into Specsavers Navan this week. As part of their Pink Ribbon Walk fundraising drive, Specsavers are running a raffle for the luxury break all this week, with proceeds going to the Kells Pink Ribbon Walk. The lucky winner will be named at a draw on Friday, 29 July.
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