ORGANISED EVENTS
How can you help?
Whatever your background you can help and knowing that you are helping to make a difference is a great feeling! There are many ways in which you can support this worthy cause and have fun.
Whether you would like to fundraise in your own right or through your company, or get involved in one of our organised events there are opportunities for everyone.
Organised Events
- The Big Quiz - March 2010
- Charity Golf Day - May 2010
- Wirral Coastal Walk - May 2010
- Fifth Tombstone Country Music Weekend Festival - Summer 2010
- Under the Mersey Moon - 2009 - 2010
The Big Quiz
The Big Quiz
Friday 19th March
Civic Hall
Seacombe Town Hall
Brighton Street
Wallasey
CH44 8ED
Peter Kenrick is organising his biggest event ever with The Big Quiz.
The Mayor of Wirral has kindly agreed the Civic Hall will be available free of charge and the Society will be able to run their own bar. All the proceeds will go to the Home from Home Appeal via the Mayor’s charity fund.
The event will be Merseyside’s biggest pub-style quiz with 300 people taking part. The bar will be run by the Dee View Inn and the event will be launched at one of their regular Tuesday night quizzes.
For further details contact –
Rick Myers
Tel: 482 3145
Mobile: 07887 631218
E-mail: rick.myers@wirral.autistic.orr
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Charity Golf Day - Sunday 2nd May 2010
Bromborough Golf Club
Raby Hall Road
Bromborough
Wirral
Merseyside
CH63 0NW
This year we are fortunate to been granted a day at Bromborough’s beautiful golf course.Located at the heart of the English Golf Riviera, Bromborough is considered by many to be the best park land course on the Wirral Peninsula.
It is a challenging 18 hole course, offering the exquisite views and peaceful surroundings of rural Wirral.
The clubhouse with its comfortable surroundings, excellent catering and bar facilities is a perfect place to relax after a full day's golf.
www.bromboroughgolfclub.org.uk
We are looking for teams of 4 to enter for a fantastic day out.
For further details contact –
Rick Myers
Fundraising Officer
tel- 0151 482 3145
mob- 0788 7631218
e-mail- rick.myers@wirral.autistic.org
Wirral Coastal Walk - Sunday 23rd May 2010
Why not join us again for the Wirral Coastal Walk?
The annual 15 mile walk from Seacombe Ferry to Thurstaston Country Park Visitor Centre organised by the Rotary Club of North Wirral began in 1986 and has become a part of the fundraising calendar for numerous local and national charities including, of course, Wirral Autistic Society.
The day started with a brass band send off and, despite the inclement weather, thousands participated including our own group of about 60 walkers.
The entrance fee is only £3 for adults, £1 for children under 10.and Wirral Autistic Society t-shirts are £5.
For further details contact :–
Rick Myers
Fundraising Officer
tel- 0151 482 3145
mob- 0788 7631218
e-mail- rick.myers@wirral.autistic.org
Fifth Tombstone Country Music Weekend Festival
Friday 30th July, Saturday 31st July & Sunday 1st August
Artists –
Cole Jackson, Katie Rhodes, American Spirit, Broadcaster, Arizona Flame, Donna Wylde, Saloon Drifters, Tim McKay
Wirral Rugby & Cricket Club
Thornton Common Road
Bebington
CH63 0LT
Tickets up to 1st May 2010 |
Tickets after 1st May 2010 |
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Friday Night |
£ 6.00 |
Friday Night |
£ 8.00 |
Saturday – all day |
£12.00 |
Saturday – all day |
£15.00 |
Saturday evening |
£ 8.00 |
Saturday evening |
£ 8.00 |
Sunday |
£10.00 |
Sunday |
£12.00 |
Weekend ticket |
£25.00 |
Weekend ticket |
£32.50 |
Children ½ price, Caravan parking free, Disabled parking
Wirral’s only country music festival is in it’s fifth year and for the second year running Wirral Autistic Society is the chosen charity. Last year this very successful event was opened by Radio Merseyside’s Billy Butler and attracted over 2,000 people who enjoyed the live music and dancing.
This year the event will be even bigger and better and it is anticipated that line dancers and country music fans from all over the country will flock to the event.
Wirral Autistic Society received £7.034.41from the festival in 2009.
For further details and tickets – 07754833615 or www.tombstonecmc.co.uk
Under the Mersey Moon - November 2009
Merseyside singer songwriter Jimmy Rae releases an inspiring new anthem for Liverpool
This year Wirral Autistic Society has it’s own Christmas record out!!!!
Under the Mersey Moon is the new single from Merseyside-based singer songwriter Jimmy Rae released on Monday 23nd November on Matchbox Recordings, distributed through Universal.
Written and performed by Jimmy Rae, the song is an epic celebration of the enduring spirit of Liverpool and its people down the years, through good times and bad.
Clocking in at almost six minutes long with a dramatic orchestral arrangement by John Paul Cumberlidge, it bucks the current trend for three minute disposable pop, as did Jimmy’s critically acclaimed album Deliverance, released in June of this year.
“It’s a big song for a big city and once I got started the lyrics just kept flowing” says Jimmy, who was signed to RCA Records in the 80s and only recently returned to songwriting and recording after a 20 year break. “I’m incredibly proud of it as a piece of work and the reactions it’s been getting from people have been overwhelming, really.”
Two thirds of the proceeds from the single, which retails at £3, will be shared between two local charities, Liverpool Unites and, of course, Wirral Autistic Society.
The CD, which has been picking up strong local airplay, includes an additional track ‘One Good Reason’ taken from Jimmy’s album ‘Deliverance’.
Copies are available from the Merseyshop, within the Liverpool Echo building on Old Hall Street, Liverpool (Tel: 0845 143 0001) as well as by mail order from www.merseyshop.com and from Jimmy’s own website: www.jimmyrae.co.uk. It can be also be downloaded from iTunes, Play.com and a range of other websites.
“We are currently lining up a number of other local outlets where people can buy the song” says Jimmy, “and I’ll be keeping an up to date list of them on my website. I’m hoping people will want to buy copies for homesick relatives abroad too as it’s a very evocative song that I think they’ll relate to and it’s also got a really beautiful illustration on the cover by local artist Jim Fleming.”
Jimmy will be performing the song for the first time at the 21st annual Scouseology Celebration at Liverpool’s Crowne Plaza Hotel on Friday 20 November and again at the Wirral Autistic Society Christmas Concert at Eaton Park, Cheshire on 8 December and the Liverpool Echo Carol Concert at Liverpool’s Anglican Cathedral on 11 December.
Jimmy’s CD is also available from Rick Myers at
2 Grisedale Road,
Old Hall Estate,
Bromborough,
Wirral, CH62 3QA
Tel – 0151 482 3145,
Mob – o7887 631218,
Email – rick.myers@wirral.autistic.org
Contact Jimmy Rae on 07919 156432
www.jimmyrae.co.uk
jr@jimmyrae.co.uk
www.myspace.com/jimmy_rae
