Charities Work Together To Bring Smiles To Children With Cancer, UK
Since 1960, Leukaemia Research has been funding research in a number of organisations including Great Ormond Street Hospital, helping to improve the lives of children with leukaemia and other blood cancers. Fifty years ago few children survived their leukaemia, now 8 out of 10 do.
Argos, multi-channel retailer and Leukaemia Research's biggest corporate partner, donated £10,000 worth of products, including £2,000 worth of toys, from their new catalogue to the charity, following an on line competition called 'Giant Jar'. Entrants to the competition were invited to view a silent comedy film before guessing how many products were inside the huge jar.
Leukaemia Research is using the donation from Argos to raise further funds for their life-saving research as the cancer charity decided to donate the toys to children with leukaemia on the Lion and Giraffe wards at Great Ormond Street Hospital.
Jaimie Walnes, Head of Corporate and Trust Fundraising at Leukaemia Research said: "Argos' partnership with Leukaemia Research has been hugely successful so far raising an amazing £480,000 for our life-saving research. We are delighted to receive the Giant Jar items, which will be used to raise even more money to beat blood cancers. In addition to saving lives, it's fantastic to be able to give the toys to children with leukaemia so that they can play with them whilst receiving treatment."
Tim Johnson, Director at Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity said: "We are the largest centre in Europe for children with cancer and offer specialist children's health care. Through the Leukaemia Research partnership the children really benefit. We are very grateful for the donated toys - they will help to make children feel at home while they are undergoing treatment."
Leukaemia Research is Argos' charity partner and the multi-channel retailer has smashed its £400,000 fundraising target, raising almost £480,000 for research into blood cancers including leukaemia, Hodgkin's and other lymphomas and myeloma.
About the partnership
Argos announced Leukaemia Research as its new charity of the year after winning a staff vote in March 2007, with the official launch taking place 28 July. The partnership will run under the campaign theme of 'Saving and Improving Lives Together' and has so far raised almost £480,000 to support a special Cytogenetic Database which will help Leukaemia Research record symptoms and treatments of different types of blood cancer to help spot patterns and make future treatment more effective.
About Leukaemia Research
Leukaemia Research is the only national charity devoted exclusively to improving treatments, finding cures and learning how to prevent leukaemia, Hodgkin's lymphoma and other lymphomas, myeloma and the other related blood disorders, diagnosed in 24,500 people in the UK every year. Further information, including patient information booklets, is available from http://www.lrf.org.uk
Over the next five years, Leukemia Research urgently needs to raise over £100 million to commit to new research across the UK. From basic laboratory research to clinical trials with patients, Leukaemia Research is committed to saving lives by funding high quality, carefully selected research throughout the UK.
About Argos
Argos is a unique retailer recognised for choice, value and convenience. It sells general merchandise and products for the home from over 700 stores throughout the UK and Republic of Ireland, online and over the telephone. In the last financial year, Argos sales grew 8% to £4.2 billion and it employed some 34,000 people across the business.
Argos serves over 130 million customers a year through its stores and takes four million customer orders either online or over the phone. On average, 17 million UK households, or around two thirds of the population, have an Argos catalogue at home at any time.
Argos expects to add around 30 stores per annum with the chain expected to exceed 800 over time. Its Internet site, http://www.argos.co.uk, is the second most visited retail site in the UK. Argos is part of Home Retail Group, the UK's leading home and general merchandise retailer.
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