Worthing Churches Homeless Projects - December 2011

During November and December, Worthing Leisure Centre were fundraising for the local charity Worthing Churches Homeless Projects, and we managed to raise £101.45

http://www.justgiving.com/Worthing-Churches-Homeless-Projects

 Children in Need - 18th November 2011

 Our Creche team raised £270 and the Amazon raised £50 for Children in Need.

Well done to everyone in the Creche and special thanks to Sue and Adele for organising it.

Poppy Appeal - November 2011

During the first week of November, Worthing Leisure Centre raised £98.78 by selling poppies for the Royal British Legion.

"Wear It Pink" fundraiser - October 2011  

Worthing Leisure Centre organised a fundraising event on 28th October. Special thanks go to Jules Gill for organising this event and to all staff members and customers who helped to raise £77 for Breast Cancer Campaign.

"Save the Children" - August to October 2011

Worthing Leisure Centre organised a fundraising action for the East Africa Crisis Apeal. Between August and October, we managed to raise £180 for Save the Children. http://www.justgiving.com/Help-East-Africa

"Love your hospital" appeal - July 2011

 St Barnabas "Night to Remember" - 18 June 2011

 A team of 11 ladies from Worthing Leisure Centre took part in the Night to Remember Midnight Walk and raised over £1,100 for St Barnabas. Thanks to everyone who contributed and to the staff who gave up their time to assist throughout the night.

This was the 4th Midnight Walk for St Barnabas hosted by Worthing Leisure Centre and thus far over 4500 ladies have taken part, raising in excess of £600,000 for the charity.

Red Nose Day 2011, May 2011

The Aquarena organised a cake sale for ‘Red Nose Day’ and raised £152.37.

Swimathon fundraising, April 2011

Swimathon 2011 has raised £1.7million for Marie Curie Cancer Care and the Swimathon Foundation. Aquarena's swimmers raised £1,702.07

The Rowland Gibson Charity Swim (formerly The Mayor’s Charity Swim)

Saturday 5 February and Saturday 12 March 2011  

In aid of the Mayor’s Charities: Sussex Air Ambulance, RNLI, Queen Alexandra Hospital Home & Worthing & District Alzheimer’s Society.

47 children attended on 5th February and 86 on 12th March (133 in total). £5,000 were raised for the Mayor's charities.

Open Day at the Aquarena - 30th January 2011

Over 800 people took advantage of the fun day at the Aquarena on Sunday  30th January 2011, in aid of the Mayor’s Charities, with £314.69 raised on the day.

There were various free activities: swimming sessions, diving boards and flume, float and inflatable sessions, tours of the plant room and children’s activities.

The open day was also a FIT4 success: over 230 visitors became FIT4 members on the day.

Sports Relief - Rise to the Challenge!

The sponsorship money’s been counted, checked and verified and we’re now able to share the final fundraising total for The Worthing Leisure Mile.

Your fantastic event raised a whopping £ 5,341.49 and every single penny of it will be spent by Comic Relief to help disadvantaged people, both at home in the UK and across the world’s poorest countries, to turn their lives around. Please pass on our heartfelt thanks to every single person that helped organise The Worthing Leisure Mile – we salute you!

Whether your Sainsbury’s Sport Relief Mile raised £50 or £15,000 your incredible hard work, support and enthusiasm is already helping to change lives. Just as David Walliams found out earlier this year when he met 13-year-old Naseema from India.

She and her family used to live on the streets, and instead of going to school, Naseema helped her mother try to scrape a living by rag-picking and doing household chores for other people.

Luckily, Naseema found out about a project called Butterflies, which uses money raised through Sport Relief to help street children. They teach classes in the park which are particularly aimed at kids like Naseema who aren’t in school.

She started going along to these classes regularly and took part in their sports programme too.

Naseema’s life really has changed immeasurably thanks to cash raised through Sport Relief. She and her family have now been able to move to a house with running water and electricity. And in April, Naseema got a full-time place in school so she can now work towards her dream of becoming a doctor when she grows up.

Swimathon - April 2010

Local swimmers helped to raise £4,000 at the Aquarena during the 2010 Swimathon. The donations include the total of £2m raised during this national event for Marie Curie Cancer Care and the Swimathon Foundation. We would like to thank all participants and organisers of this event.

Helping the victims of Haiti’s Earthquake - ongoing

Staff members and customers at Worthing Leisure Centre have responded to the Haiti Earthquake Appeal by raising  over £600 for Save the Children – an international charitable organisation that is actively helping the country. This is an ongoing fundraising initiative. For more information and to help the children of Haiti, please visit the link: http://www.justgiving.com/help-haiti where you can donate online.

St Barnabas Fundraiser - February 2010

Mirage Beauty organised a quiz night at Worthing Leisure Centre in February. £235 was raised for Elaine’s sponsored walk of the Great Wall of China and all proceeds will go to St Barnabas House.

A splashing time at Worthing Aquarena - January 2010
 

Over 620 people took advantage of the fun day at the Aquarena on Sunday 31st January, in aid of the Mayor’s Charities:  St Barnabas House and Chestnut Tree House; Building a Dream; The Queen Alexandra Hospital Home; Christians Against Poverty and Street Pastors.  £175.71 were raised on the day. There was an all-day fitness marathon with 10 classes; free swimming sessions and various children’s activities.

In September 2009 our colleague Julie Bateman organised a book sale for Breakthrough Breast Cancer and raised £45.00. During "Wear it Pink Day" in October 2009, our book sale raised another £38.00 for the same charity. 

Worthing Aquarena took part in the Splashaton 2009

The staff and Splashers of Worthing Aquarena raised £273 for Tommy’s Splashaton event in June 2009.

Splashaton 2009 was the most successful event raising over £279,000!

Every penny raised will go into Tommy’s vital, life saving research into pregnancy complications at three research centres in London, Manchester and Edinburgh. Tommy’s research centres exist so that more parents can take home a healthy baby.

For more information please visit www.tommys.org

We actively support charitable organisations by taking part in fundraising days, such as Red Nose Day in March 2009, Wear it Pink and other campaigns: