{"id":6217,"date":"2016-08-25T09:58:18","date_gmt":"2016-08-25T09:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ballymenachamber.co.uk\/?p=6217"},"modified":"2016-08-25T10:00:01","modified_gmt":"2016-08-25T10:00:01","slug":"clarke-facades-raising-for-tiny-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ballymenachamber.co.uk\/?p=6217","title":{"rendered":"Clarke Facades Raising for Tiny Life"},"content":{"rendered":"

Following their successful partnership with the Causeway Down Syndrome Association,\u00a0Clarke Facades\u00a0-leading Facade\u00a0specialists in the UK and Ireland, set their targets even higher as they\u00a0pledge to raise a mammoth \u00a310,000 for\u00a0their\u00a0new 2016\/2017 charitypartner\u00a0\u2013 Tinylife.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"(L-R)\u00a0The Clarke Facade\u00a0team are pictured alongside\u00a0Gillian Breen,\u00a0Tinylife\u2019s\u00a0Community Fundraiser\u00a0(left),\u00a0Tinylife\u2019s\u00a0Big Bear (centre) and Michael Clarke, Clarke Facades Contracts Director\/Chairman\u00a0(right)\u00a0as\u00a0they announce\u00a0Tinylife as their new charity\u00a0partner for\u00a02016\/2017.The company will be participating in a number of events throughout the year to raise money for the charity.<\/h6>\n

During a recent launch event\u00a0which\u00a0was hosted in their head office\u00a0in County Antrim, the company\u00a0welcomed\u00a0TinyLife as their new Charity of the Year.\u00a0Speaking at the\u00a0launch of the partnership,\u00a0Mark Wiggins, Business Development and Marketing Manager\u00a0commented: <\/span>\u201cWe are thrilled\u00a0to announce\u00a0Tinylife as\u00a0our new Charity\u00a0partner for\u00a02016\/2017. Having provided support to many local charities\u00a0over the years\u00a0this is the first time we have decided to partner with a local charity over aone-year\u00a0period.\u00a0We have set ourselves\u00a0a target\u00a0to raise \u00a310,000\u00a0and\u00a0we\u00a0feel thatalong\u00a0with\u00a0the\u00a0support of our tenacious\u00a0team\u00a0this\u00a0will be easily achieved\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n

Eugene Clarke, Managing Director at Clarke Facades\u00a0highlighted that\u00a0Tinylife\u00a0was an overwhelmingly popular choice\u00a0amongst the\u00a0company:\u00a0\u201cWe were shocked to hear that\u00a0in\u00a0Northern Ireland over\u00a01800 babies\u00a0are born too soon and on average there are\u00a02 still births\u00a0every week.\u00a0TinyLife, who are Northern Ireland\u2019s only premature and vulnerable baby charity, provide a crucial\u00a0service\u00a0in supporting local families. We\u00a0feel\u00a0that this is a\u00a0fantastic\u00a0charity doing exceptional work for families across Northern Ireland and we are very excited about helping the charity raise funds\u201d<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Valerie Cromie, Regional Fundraising Manager for Tinylife\u00a0commented:\u00a0\u201cTinyLife is a small local charity offering emotional and practical support to the families of premature and sick babies. Every day in Northern Ireland 6 babies are born too soon, some arriving as early as 24 weeks and weighing as little as 1lb, we are absolutely delighted to be working with the staff from Clarke Facades. TinyLife works with all seven\u00a0neonatal units around Northern Ireland and we support many families across the province. The money raised through this partnership will be used to continue to deliver our Family Support Services locally.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Already an exciting calendar of high\u00a0adrenaline\u00a0and\u00a0fun events\u00a0have\u00a0been planned over the next 12 months\u00a0in an effort\u00a0to\u00a0raise\u00a0the target funds for\u00a0the charity.\u00a0The Clarke Facades team\u00a0will be\u00a0kick-starting\u00a0their fundraising activities next month\u00a0with a team of avid runners\u00a0participating in\u00a0Tinylife\u2019\u00a0s 10k walking challenge<\/a>.\u00a0If you wish to keep up to date with\u00a0the\u00a0company and their fundraising\u00a0efforts throughout the year,\u00a0then make sure to follow them on\u00a0social\u00a0media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Following their successful partnership with the Causeway Down Syndrome Association,\u00a0Clarke Facades\u00a0-leading Facade\u00a0specialists in the UK and Ireland, set their targets even higher as they\u00a0pledge to raise a mammoth \u00a310,000 for\u00a0their\u00a0new 2016\/2017 charitypartner\u00a0\u2013 Tinylife. (L-R)\u00a0The Clarke Facade\u00a0team are pictured alongside\u00a0Gillian Breen,\u00a0Tinylife\u2019s\u00a0Community Fundraiser\u00a0(left),\u00a0Tinylife\u2019s\u00a0Big Bear (centre) and Michael Clarke, Clarke Facades Contracts Director\/Chairman\u00a0(right)\u00a0as\u00a0they announce\u00a0Tinylife as their new charity\u00a0partner […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6218,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[15,48,21,39,27],"class_list":["post-6217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","tag-fundraising","tag-latest-news","tag-local-economy","tag-new-initiative","tag-partnership"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ballymenachamber.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6217"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ballymenachamber.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ballymenachamber.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ballymenachamber.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ballymenachamber.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6217"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ballymenachamber.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6225,"href":"https:\/\/ballymenachamber.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6217\/revisions\/6225"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ballymenachamber.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ballymenachamber.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ballymenachamber.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ballymenachamber.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}