Boots has created two fragrances to accomplish funds for BBC Children in Need 2008, the fifth year the aggregation has lent its abutment to the charity.
The 'his' and 'hers' fragrances from Boots are alleged Hug for Her and Hug for Him*. The bottles, coloured gold for Hug for Her and argent for Hug for Him, appear complete with a Pudsey-inspired buzz charm. The fragrances themselves accept been distinctively created to adjure up memories of a blessed childhood. Hug for Her is all about the accustomed that appears to smell of ablution time; the that appears to smell of balmy towels with a adumbration of baby powder, admitting Hug For Him has the aroma of copse balance overlaid with the candied aroma of cola, to represent a academy pencil case that contains aggregate from pens and pencils, through to adhesive sweets.
Colette Phillips, Charity Marketing Manager for Boots, said: "We in actuality approved to charm abating scents that are defining memories from childhood. Our barter who buy a Hug fragrance to abutment Children In Need will bethink blessed memories of their childhood, whilst the donation they accept fabricated will advice BBC Children in Need actualize brighter futures for some of today's bearing of children."
Boots has accurate BBC Children in Need for the accomplished four years and helped accession a almanac absolute of £1.2 actor pounds for the children’s alms during endure year's fundraising.
Colette continued: "This year BBC Children in Need is all about accomplishing something different, so we anticipation we should chase that appearance actuality at Boots. Traditionally, all our Children in Need Pudsey products, which are awash to accession funds for the alms accept been focused on children, but this year we anticipation we should do something altered and actualize articles that adults can aswell enjoy."
The fragrances are just two of ten Pudsey articles accessible from Boots. Other articles cover a mug, badges, a Pudsey blade and a bag, and the binding Pudsey ears.
In addition, Boots abundance teams about the country and teams at the Boots Support Offices will be abutting in the fun with some avant-garde fund-raising ideas.
* Hug for Her and Hug for Him anniversary amount £10, with £3.50 from anniversary artefact awash accepting donated to BBC Children in Need.
About Children in Need:
The BBC Children in Need Appeal is in its 28th year and over that time has aloft added than £470m to advice disadvantaged accouchement and adolescent humans in the UK. The statistics appearance just how all-important the charity's plan is; in the UK it’s estimated that 2.8 actor accouchement abide in poverty, one hundred thousand accouchement run abroad from home anniversary year, one adolescent in twenty is classified as disabled and there are 175,000 adolescent carers in Great Britain. More advice on the BBC Children in Need Charity (registered alms no. 802052) is accessible at www.bbc.co.uk/pudsey
About Boots
Boots UK is the UK pharmacy-led bloom and adorableness bartering business of Alliance Boots.
Boots PR Contact:
Carrie Eames
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Boots
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Tel: 0115 959 5995
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Monday, December 21, 2009
Wholesalers, Look Out - Other Worldly Lessons Available in Whimsical Cards and Prints
Looking for the latest business trend for artistic accouchement everywhere? Then attending no added than the latest art awareness by children's book columnist Kimberly Wickham, whose Angels and Horses children's book alternation has been capturing the imaginations of a new bearing of accouchement and adolescent adults who are added absorbed in abracadabra and absent worlds than in the consumer-driven label-dropping Gossip Girl or Clique series. The amusing assets and paintings of Kimberly Wickham - which amalgamate the best in children's fiction: adolescent girls, horses, and fantasy - characterize some of children's admired images in new and agitative ways. Thus, in "The Comforting Horse," a horse sits cocked to abundance a adolescent in distress, while in "Collage," an abstract arrangement vaguely evocative of Native American architecture mixes conscientious corrective horses with simple pen-sketched deer. Already accessible at low costs from Kimberly Wickham's website, her artwork is now accessible for abundant discounts if ordered in ample quantities.
Wickham's absorption in and aptitude for art has been present anytime back she was a child. Raised amidst the age-old columns and asphalt streets of Rome, Italy, Wickham developed an eye for blush and form, which is axiomatic in abundant of her artwork. Four degrees (in Art, Art History, Teaching, and Humanities) later, with over twenty years of art teaching experience, Wickham has acclimated her talents in a array of ways: from creating a decrepit bottle panorama for the Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Margaretville, NY to autograph a able alternation of children's books that blends acuteness and amore with a abstract crop on the acceptation of life.
The Angels and Horses series, which includes Angels and Horses, Summer of Magic Horses,, and Angels, Horses and Other Worldly Lessons, is the adventure of adolescent Tina, who learns how to attending above the concrete apple into added realms of abracadabra and admiration with the advice of her guardian angel, Marguerite, and pet horse Dancer. The mystical landscapes Wickham envisions are abreast by her aesthetics of "The Law of Attraction" - advertence that absolute cerebration can aftereffect absolute change on a breakthrough level.
Wickham's artwork is accessible from http://www.kimberlywickham.com .
Wickham's absorption in and aptitude for art has been present anytime back she was a child. Raised amidst the age-old columns and asphalt streets of Rome, Italy, Wickham developed an eye for blush and form, which is axiomatic in abundant of her artwork. Four degrees (in Art, Art History, Teaching, and Humanities) later, with over twenty years of art teaching experience, Wickham has acclimated her talents in a array of ways: from creating a decrepit bottle panorama for the Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Margaretville, NY to autograph a able alternation of children's books that blends acuteness and amore with a abstract crop on the acceptation of life.
The Angels and Horses series, which includes Angels and Horses, Summer of Magic Horses,, and Angels, Horses and Other Worldly Lessons, is the adventure of adolescent Tina, who learns how to attending above the concrete apple into added realms of abracadabra and admiration with the advice of her guardian angel, Marguerite, and pet horse Dancer. The mystical landscapes Wickham envisions are abreast by her aesthetics of "The Law of Attraction" - advertence that absolute cerebration can aftereffect absolute change on a breakthrough level.
Wickham's artwork is accessible from http://www.kimberlywickham.com .
Save the Children Annual Tournament at Brunston Castle Golf Club
The Maybole & District annex of Save the Children captivated their anniversary golf clash afresh at Brunston Castle Golf Club in Ayrshire.
The accident has been active for over 10 years and has consistently been a abundant fundraiser for Save the Children. This year was no exception, and a admirable absolute of £2,500 was aloft by the accident through access fees, advocacy by bounded firms, a raffle and donations.
A appropriate arrangement account was a golf cap autographed by players at the Open in July - Fredrik Andersson Hed, Stuart Appleby, Darren Clarke, Padraig Harrington, and Justin Rose. The cap was donated by Stuart McConnell, the Ayrshire Weekly News accumulation journalist, and auspiciously bid for and won by Brunston Castle Golf Club.
The Save the Children golf clash comprises players in teams of three arena a Texas Scramble.
Duncan Watson, David McCulloch and Colin Thomson took the Quaich for the acceptable team, and the Charity Scott Trophy for the best placed college bedridden aggregation went to Elliott, Ann and Robert Glen-Esk.
Save the Children annex armchair Rebecca Cadie said: “We had a abundant day with august sunshine for the 40 players teeing off.
“Our anniversary golf clash is a a lot of agreeable event, which already afresh this year aloft a advantageous aggregate for Save the Children.
“I would like to acknowledge everybody who took part, including our by now approved players as able-bodied as the new teams and sponsors who abutting us for the aboriginal time this year, and decidedly John Scott MSP for his connected and abundant admired abutment for our cause.”
John Scott MSP for Ayr concluded: “Once afresh I acclaim the accomplishment of the Save The Children Maybole Committee who accept been active this badly acknowledged antagonism at Brunston Castle Golf Course for abounding years now. During that time they accept aloft abounding bags of pounds for this actual advantageous cause, and I acclaim the antagonism and the day out to the Elite Ayrshire Business Circle associates as a way of acknowledging this notable charity.” http://www.eliteayrshire.com http://www.savethechildren.org.uk http://www.brunstoncastle.co.uk
Enquiries:
Rebecca Cadie
Director
ARPL Architects Ltd
Architects and Quantity Surveyors
11 Wellington Square
Ayr KA7 1EN
Ayrshire
Scotland
Tel: 01292 289777
Fax: 01292 288896
E-mail: rcadie@arpl.co.uk
Web: http://www.arpl.co.uk
Issued by:
Murdoch MacDonald
Fame Publicity Services
E-mail FamePublicity@gmail.com
Telephone: 01292 281498
Mobile: 07833 667322
The accident has been active for over 10 years and has consistently been a abundant fundraiser for Save the Children. This year was no exception, and a admirable absolute of £2,500 was aloft by the accident through access fees, advocacy by bounded firms, a raffle and donations.
A appropriate arrangement account was a golf cap autographed by players at the Open in July - Fredrik Andersson Hed, Stuart Appleby, Darren Clarke, Padraig Harrington, and Justin Rose. The cap was donated by Stuart McConnell, the Ayrshire Weekly News accumulation journalist, and auspiciously bid for and won by Brunston Castle Golf Club.
The Save the Children golf clash comprises players in teams of three arena a Texas Scramble.
Duncan Watson, David McCulloch and Colin Thomson took the Quaich for the acceptable team, and the Charity Scott Trophy for the best placed college bedridden aggregation went to Elliott, Ann and Robert Glen-Esk.
Save the Children annex armchair Rebecca Cadie said: “We had a abundant day with august sunshine for the 40 players teeing off.
“Our anniversary golf clash is a a lot of agreeable event, which already afresh this year aloft a advantageous aggregate for Save the Children.
“I would like to acknowledge everybody who took part, including our by now approved players as able-bodied as the new teams and sponsors who abutting us for the aboriginal time this year, and decidedly John Scott MSP for his connected and abundant admired abutment for our cause.”
John Scott MSP for Ayr concluded: “Once afresh I acclaim the accomplishment of the Save The Children Maybole Committee who accept been active this badly acknowledged antagonism at Brunston Castle Golf Course for abounding years now. During that time they accept aloft abounding bags of pounds for this actual advantageous cause, and I acclaim the antagonism and the day out to the Elite Ayrshire Business Circle associates as a way of acknowledging this notable charity.” http://www.eliteayrshire.com http://www.savethechildren.org.uk http://www.brunstoncastle.co.uk
Enquiries:
Rebecca Cadie
Director
ARPL Architects Ltd
Architects and Quantity Surveyors
11 Wellington Square
Ayr KA7 1EN
Ayrshire
Scotland
Tel: 01292 289777
Fax: 01292 288896
E-mail: rcadie@arpl.co.uk
Web: http://www.arpl.co.uk
Issued by:
Murdoch MacDonald
Fame Publicity Services
E-mail FamePublicity@gmail.com
Telephone: 01292 281498
Mobile: 07833 667322
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