Monthly Archives: October 2013

Paint the town red

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You can help raise cash for the unique work Radio Lollipop does in New Zealand.

With your help we have been able to open a new station at Waitakere Hospital and continue to bring smiles to Starship, Counties Manukau and Whangarei.

 

Paint the town red stripe

Paint the Town Red from Monday 28th October 2013.

Give Us A Hand to Raise Funds
(Join with us and wear RED)

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Sticky TV is running an awesome competition in support of Radio Lollipop’s Pain the Town Red week. One lucky NZ kid will win a double pass to Taylor Swift’s Red Tour on the 29th November, including flights to Auckland! Just send a photo of yourself painting the town red to: stickytv@pickledpossum.co.nz.

Click here for more information:

http://www.four.co.nz/TV/Kids/Shows/StickyTV/Win.aspx

Happy 29th Birthday Radio Lollipop Bristol

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Celebrating 29 years, Radio Lollipop Bristol held a circus themed birthday party a day early on Saturday 28th September.

The birthday party took place during Radio Lollipop Bristol’s Saturday session from 2-4pm. During this time the playroom was decorated from top to bottom in birthday decorations with circus themed activities and games laid out across the tables for the children visiting to enjoy.

Hosting the event, Lollipop volunteers donned party hats and performed (and taught) some circus skills to the children and their families; including spinning plates and juggling. Bristol lolli-boss Kate Harris, aptly dressed as a circus ring leader, accompanied the activities by running a special 2 hour live radio show, taking the children’s song requests and running circus themed competitions for the listeners who couldn’t make it into the playroom. 

The fun didn’t stop there as the Bristol lolli-vollies also took to the wards with one hundred birthday goody bags. Emma Worley, a Monday night volunteer, helped to deliver the goody bags to children across the hospital. She said “the kids absolutely loved the goody bags and the circus themed surprises that were inside them. It was a pleasure to see such big smiles on their faces!”

The birthday party was a great success – hip hip hooray for Radio Lollipop!

It’s a kind of magic

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On Saturday 28th September volunteers from Radio Lollipop Bristol mastered some magic under the teachings of comedy magician Richard Ballinger.

The magicians’ workshop saw volunteers learn card tricks, memory games and even how to make things disappear! As well as teaching, Richard the magician gave volunteers plenty of ideas for how the tricks could be adapted to children of different age ranges and the two hour long session meant that there was plenty of time to practice. By the afternoon, volunteers were already wowing the children in the play room with all types of magic tricks.

Andrew Long, a Saturday volunteer at Radio Lollipop and participant in the magic workshop, said: “I have really enjoyed learning how to perform magic and understanding how to make each trick funny for the children at the same time. I will definitely be practicing what I have learnt as part of my Radio Lollipop sessions.”

The skills learnt at the workshop will also be taught to other Radio Lollipop volunteers over the next few months to make Bristol Royal Children’s Hospital an even more magical place.