Charities for 2008:  

• Acorns Children's Hospice
• JDRF

Money raised through BTSS events during the course of the year will be evenly split between both these charities.

Charity Gig Night - July 2008

 The BTSS managed to raise £200 through this event for its chosen charities!

Charities for 2007:

• Acorns Children's Hospice
• West Midlands Lupus Group

Acorns Children's Hospice

Acorns Children's Hospice offers children and families a network of care, both at its hospices in Selly Oak, Walsall and Worcester, and through its community team, who offer 24-hour support at home. Children can stay at the hospices for respite, emergency and terminal care.

The community team give support to the whole family, including practical and emotional support for parents, special help for siblings and bereavement counselling. There is no charge to families for Acorns' services.

For more information please see their website: Acorns Children's Hospice

Registered charity no.700859

Lupus causes the body's immune system to go into overdrive and the body starts to attack itself. The sympoms are many and varied, as the illness often seems to mimic other diseases. This gives rise to difficulty in diagnosis and the condition can be overlooked, sometimes for years. Achieving an early diagnosis allows a better opportunity for control of the disease.

Lupus UK (through its regional groups) aims to:

• give support to diagnosed sufferers,
• increase public awareness about lupus and its impact on sufferers and families,
• maximise fundraising income, increasing research into the causes of lupus.

Previous Fundraising

2006 Chosen Charity - Birmingham Children's Hospital

The BTSS's chosen charity for 2006 was Birmingham Children's Hospital.

BCH provides a wide range of general and specialist health services to children and adolescents within the West Midlands and beyond, treating over 300,000 children each year.

For details of the hospital please see their website:
Birmingham Children’s Hospital.

Sponsored skydive for Birmingham St Mary’s Hospice. 

Birmingham St Mary's Hospice cares for over 1,000 people each year suffering from life-limiting illnesses such as Cancer, Motor Neurone Disease and Multiple Sclerosis.  It costs £4.1 million each year to run Birmingham St Mary’s Hospice, and 60% of that has to be met by voluntary donations.

The skydivers successfully completed skydives from 13,000 ft and at no point were the emergency services involved!  They raised over £5000 for St Mary’s Hospice and despite being up at dawn (an evil time previously believed to occur only on week days) and spending various hours scowling at the clouds in a “no really, time to go away now” fashion, a great day was had by all!

St Basil’s Sleep Out

Ever wondered what it’s like to be without a bed for the night?

Many BTSS members got a taster by sleeping rough in aid of St Basil's on a very wet Friday 24th November.  The sleep out is an annual event and apparently this year was the worse weather for 10 years!  The rains truly came and relent they did not! Every fundraiser was given a cardboard box and a piece of plastic, some were very inventive and created admirable temporary dwellings, others were less lucky and sat in puddles for the night! The sleep out was really well attended and St Basils are confident that it is a substantial amount! Well done to all those who took part - same time same place next year?!

You can catch up with what St Basil’s are doing at http://www.stbasils.co.uk/

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