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Supporting CHUF
As an initiative for Christmas 2021, we were delighted to be supporting CHUF, the Children’s Heart Unit Fund, by enabling their customers to make a donation to this North East charity whilst still making a saving on every purchase.
This amazing charity recently moved offices to Gateshead, just around the corner from the Spicers of Hythe facility. After such a tough couple of years for everyone, we were looking for a way to give back to the North East community this year, and CHUF was the natural choice.
CHUF supports children and their families who are receiving treatment at the Children’s Heart Unit based in the Freeman Hospital and the many other hospitals providing care for cardiac patients throughout the North of England. This includes everything from essential equipment and specialist nurses to ice cream van visits and clown doctors. They also work extremely hard every year to ensure that Christmas is as special for all the families they support, whether that’s providing gifts and a visit from Santa’s reindeer to those in the hospital, or funding technical equipment that enables children to spend time at home over the festive period.
Supporting CHUF
As an initiative for Christmas 2021, we were delighted to be supporting CHUF, the Children’s Heart Unit Fund, by enabling their customers to make a donation to this North East charity whilst still making a saving on every purchase.
This amazing charity recently moved offices to Gateshead, just around the corner from the Spicers of Hythe facility. After such a tough couple of years for everyone, we were looking for a way to give back to the North East community this year, and CHUF was the natural choice.
CHUF supports children and their families who are receiving treatment at the Children’s Heart Unit based in the Freeman Hospital and the many other hospitals providing care for cardiac patients throughout the North of England. This includes everything from essential equipment and specialist nurses to ice cream van visits and clown doctors. They also work extremely hard every year to ensure that Christmas is as special for all the families they support, whether that’s providing gifts and a visit from Santa’s reindeer to those in the hospital, or funding technical equipment that enables children to spend time at home over the festive period.
We created a special offer, exclusively for North East businesses, to make a donation to CHUF whilst still saving money on their corporate hampers during the Christmas period of 2021.
With your support, we raised over £5,000 to make a real difference for CHUF’s Heart Heroes and their families.
We're huge fans of the work that CHUF are doing, not only for children in the surrounding areas to Spicers of Hythe but for the whole UK. Find out everything you need to know about CHUF by clicking the button below...
Our Huge Charity Hamper Competition
In the Winter of 2022, we opened up our £800 Charity Hamper competition to Spicers of Hythe social media followers & email subscribers.
We were offering the chance to win a hamper of your choice, up to the value of £400, with one gift being delivered to your door & one gift being delivered to the charity that you nominate.
Our followers weren't shy of making use of the full £400 budget they had to spend on their potential winnings. Show-stopping hampers such as The Extravaganza, The Festive Celebration & The Yuletide Splendour received huge attention when it came to the gifts that were nominated.
As you might imagine there was a huge spectrum of charities nominated as part of this competition. Everything from local animal shelters, to worldwide organisations that have no doubt helped someone close to them. Entries included charities like the RNLI, St. David's Hospice, Macmillan Cancer Care, Lumos & so many more.
We were hugely thankful for all of the entries but there of course could only be one winner...
Our Huge Charity Hamper Competition
In the Winter of 2022, we opened up our £800 Charity Hamper competition to Spicers of Hythe social media followers & email subscribers.
We were offering the chance to win a hamper of your choice, up to the value of £400, with one gift being delivered to your door & one gift being delivered to the charity that you nominate.
Our followers weren't shy of making use of the full £400 budget they had to spend on their potential winnings. Show-stopping hampers such as The Extravaganza, The Festive Celebration & The Yuletide Splendour received huge attention when it came to the gifts that were nominated.
As you might imagine there was a huge spectrum of charities nominated as part of this competition. Everything from local animal shelters, to worldwide organisations that have no doubt helped someone close to them. Entries included charities like the RNLI, St. David's Hospice, Macmillan Cancer Care, Lumos & so many more.
We were hugely thankful for all of the entries but there of course could only be one winner...
After announcing the winner, we congratulated Angie & her chosen charity, The Northumbrian Hedgehog Rescue on the pair of Yuletide Splendour Christmas gift boxes they had won.
This came as a great surprise to the chosen charity as they had no knowledge of their nomination , while also giving them the freedom to use the prize in the best way they could find.
The Northumbrian Hedgehog Rescue decided to split their huge hamper into 5 smaller gifts & raised over £300 as part of a raffle.
Our Contribution To Macmillan's Biggest Ever Coffee Morning
On Friday the 29th of September we took part in the World's Biggest Coffee Morning in aid of Macmillan Cancer Trust.
With help from our huge team of home bakers there was a huge choice of sweets treats to dig into while enjoying a fresh coffee. Not to forget the contribution from "Phil's Grill" providing sausage sandwiches to our workforce in return for a donation to such a worthy cause.
Through the generosity of our team, we raised over £500 for Macmillan Cancer Support, this was announced over on our Instagram & Linked In social media accounts.
Our Contribution To Macmillan's Biggest Ever Coffee Morning
On Friday the 29th of September we took part in the World's Biggest Coffee Morning in aid of Macmillan Cancer Trust.
With help from our huge team of home bakers there was a huge choice of sweets treats to dig into while enjoying a fresh coffee. Not to forget the contribution from "Phil's Grill" providing sausage sandwiches to our workforce in return for a donation to such a worthy cause.
Through the generosity of our team, we raised over £500 for Macmillan Cancer Support, this was announced over on our Instagram & Linked In social media accounts.
Thanking us over on our Instagram post, Macmillan Cancer's official account commented to say:
"Thank you so much for baking a difference. We're bowled over by your support. The amazing £513.65 raised could pay for a Macmillan professional to attend an advanced course in pain and symptom control. This would help the professional provide better advice to people with cancer on how to manage their symptoms and deal with the pain caused by treatment."
The Charity Hamper Competition For Christmas 2023
With the success of our Charity Hamper Competition in 2022, we decided to give our followers the chance to win a hamper for them & a charity of their choice again.
As last year, the competition offered followers the chance to pick any hamper worth up to £400 alongside the charity that means the most to them in the UK. The winner would then receive a luxury hamper for themselves, while their chosen charity receives the same gift hamper.
With thousands of entrants, we were taken aback at the huge range of worthy causes nominated by our followers. Including everything from local charity shops, shelters & research centres.
The Charity Hamper Competition For Christmas 2023
With the success of our Charity Hamper Competition in 2022, we decided to give our followers the chance to win a hamper for them & a charity of their choice again.
As last year, the competition offered followers the chance to pick any hamper worth up to £400 alongside the charity that means the most to them in the UK. The winner would then receive a luxury hamper for themselves, while their chosen charity receives the same gift hamper.
With thousands of entrants, we were taken aback at the huge range of worthy causes nominated by our followers. Including everything from local charity shops, shelters & research centres.
After our huge response, Chloe was randomly drawn as our lucky competition winner.
She had chosen The Festive Celebration as her hamper worth up to £400, alongside the nominated charity, Eva Women's Aid.
Eva Women's Aid carry out great work in assisting those that have been affected by domestic abuse & sexual violence. Based in Redcar, their Survivor Stories section of their website is a great way to understand the difference Eva Women's Aid have made in assisting people through a range of traumatic experiences.
Their Charity Raffle Results Are In...
Eva Women's Aid added our Festive Celebration gift hamper to their Christmas raffle in order to help raise funds which will help them carry out the fantastic work they do.
Richinda from Eva Women's Aid has informed us that they've raised over £200 through their Christmas raffle, while thanking ourselves for the wonderful hamper & Chloe for nominating them as part of our competition.
A Successful Coffee Morning!
This year our Director of Gifts, Ruth, took on the responsibility of the breakfast sandwich grill. While our Director of Operations, David had been hard at work creating pies for especially for this year's Macmillan Coffee Morning. Not forgetting the huge team of bakers throughout the team making all matter of sweet treats to help raise funds for this worthwhile cause.
A Successful Coffee Morning!
This year our Director of Gifts, Ruth, took on the responsibility of the breakfast sandwich grill. While our Director of Operations, David had been hard at work creating pies for especially for this year's Macmillan Coffee Morning. Not forgetting the huge team of bakers throughout the team making all matter of sweet treats to help raise funds for this worthwhile cause.
The total continues to rise as online donations are still pouring through from our generous workforce but the total raised stands at over £425 at the moment and is continuing to rise.
Thanks again to our huge team of home bakers & generous staff to help make this year's coffee morning a huge success.
In response to our Linked In post regarding our coffee morning, Lizzie from Macmillan Cancer Support noted: "Thanks a LATTE for all your support! The money raised could help pay for a Macmillan Nurse for 11 hours, we couldn't do this without you".