Help The Norfolk Hospice, Tapping House Win Norwich City sponsorship
for a day


Please nominate The Norfolk Hospice, Tapping House

This is your chance to recognise that charity.

Aviva and the Eastern Daily Press have joined forces to provide one charity with an exclusive opportunity to raise their profile and generate funds for the good work they do!

Aviva, proud sponsors of Norwich City Football Club, have taken an unprecedented step and agreed to relinquish their prominent branding on the first team’s shirts for one match - the Norwich City v Doncaster Rovers game which will take place at Carrow Road on October 25, 2008.

Over 20,000 thousand people will see the game giving the charity much needed exposure and the opportunity to raise awareness about the work they do. The winning charity will receive:

• Their name on Norwich City team shirts for the City v Doncaster Rovers match
• Use of the Aviva executive box
• Aviva and its partners will auction off the Norwich City shirts and the charity will benefit from all funds raised
• The opportunity to place collectors around the Carrow Road ground before the match
• PA and scoreboard announcements
• One player to be used at a charity event
• Full page advert in the match day programme

Thanks to the Eastern Daily Press, the shortlist of five nominated charities will each receive significant exposure, with profiles in the paper to help raise awareness.

How it will work

The community is invited to nominate a charity of their choice based on the nomination criteria.

All the nominations will then be judged by an independent judging panel who will select the shortlist of five charities.

The EDP will publish tokens every day for the community and the shortlisted charities to collect.

The charity with the most tokens will win the sponsorship opportunity.

How to nominate

To nominate your charity simply send the name and contact number of your nominated charity, along with 250 words on why you think the charity should win and how the charity has impacted the community.

Email:wincityforaday@archant.co.uk

Post: Pete Waters, Editorial department, Prospect House, Rouen Road , Norwich NR1 1RE or visit www.edp24.co.uk

Deadline for entering your nominations is 5:00pm on Wednesday 24 September 2008.

Nomination criteria

All charities must:

• Be a registered charity
• Be based in Norfolk
• Be able to demonstrate that all of its work and initiatives are of benefit to Norfolk and the community.

The independent judging panel will take a range of factors into account when selecting the top five charities.

Successful nominees will be able to demonstrate achievement in most but not necessarily all of the following:

Making an impact locally: The nominated charity must be based in Norfolk and be active in the local community. The charity should contribute to community life and work on a local level.

Innovation: a charity that has demonstrated an innovative approach to raising its profile and fundraising initiatives. A charity that has the creativity and enthusiasm to maintain fundraising initiatives

Inspiration: A charity that is a clear example of commitment to the community and the cause it supports.

Influence: A charity that has made a marked impact on the community, and has played a significant role in influencing the community and the wider audience.

Sustainability: A charity that has sustainability. A charity which will ensure that it will continue fundraising efforts after the initial input of resources from Aviva and the Eastern Daily Press.

All charities nominated must be registered

www.norfolkhospice.org.uk

Here is a copy of a sample letter – please feel free to send this, or adapt the wording to suit your thoughts – Please cut and paste and add your details into an e-mail to wincityforaday@archant.co.uk :

I would like to nominate The Norfolk Hospice, Tapping House, to be put forward to the judging panel for win the Norwich City sponsorship for a day through the Aviva and Eastern Daily Press Community Chest.

Nominated Charity: The Norfolk Hospice, Tapping House

5 Old Church Road

Snettisham

King’s Lynn

Norfolk

PE31 7PF

Contact Name: Rob Cartwright

Fundraising Manager

Contact Telephone: 01485 542891

07834 789180

Email: robert.cartwright@norfolkhospice.org.uk

Website: www.norfolkhospice.org.uk

The Norfolk Hospice, Tapping House

The Norfolk Hospice is the only independent adult hospice in Norfolk. The Hospice offers a range of professionally led day and home care services to people with cancer and other life-limiting illnesses as well as support to their families and carers.

The Norfolk Hospice faces an ever-increasing demand for their services. In the last year referrals have increased by 40%. The area the Hospice serves covers 550 square miles and includes a higher than national average of isolated, elderly and chronically-sick people.

All our care is provided completely free of charge. Our voluntary income over the last year has grown through the introduction of a number of annual fundraising activities including the Great Norfolk Skydive, The Norfolk Companion Dog Show, a number of concerts and other events in our community. The government meets less than 12% of The Norfolk Hospice’s running costs and the rest, some £900,000, is generated through the support of the local community.

The Norfolk Hospice is looking to develop and expand its services in line with the needs of the population it serves – this will include a new purpose-built, full-service Hospice. The organisation has built a sustained revenue funding programme although will seek further opportunities to work with the community to raise funds for these enhanced services.

Patients, their families, carers and other supporters constantly remark on the excellent service provided by The Norfolk Hospice care teams and volunteers and emphasise the importance of the vital local care we provide.

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