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Southport's Vue offers school a fundraising dead cert!
VUE Cinemas is helping local schools raise up to £30,000 with a unique fundraising opportunity. Churchtown Primary School in Southport has been offered a special preview screening of the new movie Racing Stripes, thanks to Vue Southport and Momentum Pictures.
The local Vue cinema in Southport has given the school a 220-seat screen free of charge. All money raised from selling tickets will go directly to the school.
Sally Relph, General Manager at Vue Southport, said:-
"School kids love going to the cinema and local schools are always looking for innovative fundraising ideas, so we're delighted to be able to offer Churchtown Primary School this opportunity."
Racing Stripes is set to be the first children's blockbuster movie this year. The story centres on a zebra who grows up believing he is a racehorse, and, with the help of his barnyard friends and a teenage girl, sets out to achieve his dream of racing with thoroughbreds.
Mark de Quervain, Marketing Director at Vue said:- "Local cinemas are an important community resource and the response already has been very good. The schools are delighted with this fun and innovative way of raising money and given its success, it is certainly a programme we will look to extend in the future."
Tickets can be bought via Churchtown Primary School for this special screening on 2
February from 4.30pm for a 5.00pm start.
Reminder of Night time Closure of Adult A&E
THE Trust would like to remind the public that from Tuesday 1 February 2005 the Adult Accident & Emergency Department at Ormskirk & District General Hospital will be closed over night between 11.00 pm and 8.00 am.
When this department is closed you can attend one of the following Accident & Emergency Departments that are open 24-hours a day, 7 days a week; Southport & Formby District General Hospital; University Hospital Aintree; Royal Albert Edward Infirmary in Wigan.
For advice you can contact NHS Direct on 0845 4647, or for urgent advice you can contact your local GP Out of Hours Service by calling your usual GP Surgery.
In an emergency contact the Ambulance Service by dialing 999.
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Final port of call for Friend Ship
LIVERPOOL'S Friend Ship is making its final port of call this week before undergoing a spectacular Year of the Sea makeover. The interactive learning boat has already visited 85 schools across Liverpool since it began its voyage during last year's Faith in One City celebrations. More than 19,000 children have climbed aboard the multi-coloured vessel, working with the boat's interactive elements and learning about faith, tolerance and friendship.
Now, the boat is getting a refit in time for a relaunch this summer. Local designers are being invited to come up with a new look, incorporating the Capital of Culture 2008 logo, for the second phase of the project which starts in June.
Friend Ship skipper Kathy Heywood said:-
"It has been a massive success and will go from strength to strength when we relaunch in the summer.
We will take the most successful elements of the project and learn from our experiences so far to make the Friend Ship even bigger, brighter and better."
Liverpool City Council's executive member for education, Councillor Paul Clein, said:-
"The Friend Ship has been a tremendous vehicle for creative education in our schools and a real voyage of discovery for thousands of children.
The project is another example of Liverpool leading the way to make education stimulating and engaging for all our children."
The success of the Friend Ship has lead to a grant of £250,000 from the Department for Culture, Media and Sport to develop the project in other cities across the UK.
Letters to editor:- "Conservation of Fuel and Power"
Dear Editor, "With the recent revision of Building Bulletin 87 (BB87), many schools are worried about the challenge of complying with Building Regulations Part L2 - Conservation of Fuel and Power, and Part F - Ventilation. In fact, compliance can be achieved simply, and rather than incurring costs, can help schools save money that can be put to better use elsewhere.
Schools are not without help when it comes to making the necessary adjustments. Government expenditure on schools has risen from £700 million in 1996/7 to £5.1 billion in 2005/6. In addition to this, the Building Schools for the Future initiative aims to renew all secondary schools in England over the next 10-15 years.
Installing energy metering technology is simple and cost-effective. Metering can be done via the Web, can be combined with the School's existing Local Area Network (LAN), and offers flexibility for future refurbishment and expansion. This central control system is extremely beneficial for the school manager, allowing them to monitor energy consumption, and make savings where possible. Every school manager knows that delivering an optimum service with limited budget requires skill. Focusing on energy efficiency can help mitigate these costs."
Best regards, Kathryn O"Donoghue of David Hall education
& Finance
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