February 2008

RESULTS OF THE PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPETITION

All entries will be displayed at The Leprosy Mission’s Family Festival – details below. Click the photos here to see the winning and highly commended entries.  All the monies raised will go towards this year’s Yorkshire Project, the £11,500 target for the Richardson Leprosy Hospital in Miraj, Maharashtra State, India.

The theme of the competition was the first four lines from the well known song, All things bright and beautiful.  Our thanks go to judge, Mr Andrew Rothery, President of the Halifax Photographic Society.

This year we are supporting Miraj Richardson Leprosy Hospital at Miraj, India.   All the money raised at our auctions and festival will go towards our target of £11,500. 

The funding will provide: 

• 30 eye operations  (approx cost £35 each)
• 30 hand operations (approx cost £90 each)
• 5 hospital beds (inc food) for a whole year  (approx £30 per week)

Patient stories of hope for the future

The Leprosy Mission’s 4th Annual Family Festival

Saturday 13 September 2008

2.30pm

Ropewalk Methodist Church, Knottingley

The speaker at the 5.30pm Celebration will be the Revd Tony Robinson, Bishop of Pontefract.

Admission free. Programmes and quizzes will be sent to all churches in early June 2008

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Yorkshire Area Challenge 2008

‘What’s it worth’ Dinner and Auction

If you enjoy having meals together this is for you.  The challenge is to

• hold a ‘What’s it worth’ Dinner and Auction.
• publish your menu and ask people to pay what they would pay in a restaurant.
• follow this up with a token auction, for example, Lot 2 a pair of sunglasses - bidding – What is it worth to be able to see?