Longbenton Community College today hosted their community fayre with a large chunk of the profits going to Radio Lollipop Newcastle.

The fayre had an environmental theme and stalls available at the fayre included a giant steady hand game, balloon modelling, bags for life sale, guess the height of the sunflower and of course, the Radio Lollipop lollies stand.

Helen Hudspith, who is a Radio Lollipop volunteer and teacher at the school said of the event

“it was great fun. My tutor group (7HHU) got really involved and were really motivated into raising money for the sick children at our local hospial. I was very proud of their efforts as they all worked hard on the day and lots of unseen preparation went into the event too.”

Radio Lollipop would like to thank Mrs Spence and Miss Parish from the school for organising the fayre and all of the staff and students who took the time to bring in items and run stalls. The current proceeds (from just the Radio Lollipop stand) are £285. This will shortly be boosted by a donation from the overall proceeds of the event.

Today saw Newcastle’s roadshow team out and about in local secondary school, Longbenton Community College. The team were boosting the schools efforts to celebrate the success of their students over the course of the school year by giving them a new skill to be successful in.

The students assisted in the preparation of a roadshow event themed around the Jungle which will take place tomorrow at the school fayre. There are more than 50 other stalls on offer at the fayre and proceeds are to be split between Radio Lollipop and Water Aid as a thanks for the volunteers giving up their time.

Success culture co-ordinator at the school, Judith Spence said

“it was great to see the kids getting involved in such a real-life event. It will be rewarding for them to see the roadhsow up and running tomorrow and to know they have contributed to preparing it. It has also helped them to learn more about Radio Lollipop and the essential work it does in hospital with children their own age. We have several students in school who have received treatment for illnesses at the RVI and they have come into contact with Radio Lollipop before but it’s nice that the healthier ones get to join in too”!

Radio Lollipop (Edinburgh) has received an outstanding £7,200 from the Edinburgh Solicitors Property Centre as their Charity of the year 2007 – 8. The ESPC held a variety of fundraising events throughout the year including a golf day, dinner dance event and open day. All the volunteers at Radio Lollipop (Edinburgh) are very grateful for the support shown by the ESPC.

Former Radio Lollipop Honorary Chairman Max Veenhuyzen has done something that Joe Hachem, Australia’s most famous texas holdém poker player has never achieved to win the world’s biggest weekly online poker tournament PokerStars’ Sunday Million, netting him a cool $165,000 AUD.

It was the first tournament Max had ever actually won, that had more than 15 people. Max won the tournament against 8063 other players. Max says “that society might see poker as gambling but it’s a game with a big component of skill”.

Max donated $5000.00 AUD of his winnings to Radio Lollipop. This donation is going towards the purchase of Radio Lollipop foil balloons which will be given away to the children.

Radio Lollipop would like to congratulate Max on his win and also thank Max for his continued support of Radio Lollipop.