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WALLACE & GROMIT’S ‘GREAT BRITISH TEA PARTY’ TAKES OFF WITH BAKE OFF!
Nov 30th
Legendary cookery writer and baker, Mary Berry, baked up a treat this week when she was joined by Aardman’s popular characters Wallace & Gromit for a cup of tea and slice of cake.
The ‘Great British Bake Off’ television series judge welcomed the famous duo into her home for a celebratory tea party to launch annual fundraiser ‘Wallace & Gromit’s Great British Tea Party’, which takes place from 1 – 10 December.
In support of the award-winning fundraiser, Mary Berry is encouraging people to get baking for charity and host their own Great British Tea Party: “This is a wonderful way for family, friends and work colleagues to get together for a traditional teatime celebration that raises money for a really important cause. It’s so easy to join in the fun, simply bake your favourite cakes, put the kettle on and enjoy. You could even rise to the occasion and organise your own Bake Off!” she said.
Nick Park, creator of Wallace & Gromit and trustee of the Children’s Foundation, added: “A quintessentially British tea party is just my cup of tea and a great way to help sick and terminally ill children in the UK.”
Organised by national charity, Wallace & Gromit’s Children’s Foundation, this year’s Great British Tea Party aims to raise over £150,000 for sick children in hospitals and hospices across the UK.
The fundraising event is kindly supported by Yorkshire Tea. Kevin Sinfield, Brand Manager at Yorkshire Tea, said: “Wallace & Gromit’s Children’s Foundation do fantastic work to help raise funds for children in hospitals and hospices across the UK. The Great British Tea Party is at the heart of the fundraising activity and we are proud to sponsor the event for a fourth consecutive year. We have lots of exciting plans for this year so we encourage everyone to register and join in the fun!”
In the UK we get through a staggering 16.5 million cups of tea a day, an average of three cups each.
Since 2003 over 400,000 people have taken part in the Great British Tea party, helping children in over 25 children’s hospitals and hospices across the UK.
To find out more and register to take part, call 0845 600 1924 or visit www.wallaceandgromitteaparty.org.uk.
Saving the rainforest… with tea cosies!
May 6th
For one month only, there’s a brand new way to get involved with Yorkshire Tea’s mission to save an area of rainforest the size of Yorkshire. And it’s all about tea cosies!
Throughout May a different tea cosy goes up for auction every day. But these are no ordinary tea cosies. Each one is the handiwork of those incredible ladies at the Women’s Institute and they really do have to be seen to be believed.
It’s easy to take part and all proceeds go towards the Yorkshire Rainforest Project – so get bidding!
To find out more about Yorkshire Tea’s work with the Rainforest Foundation UK, or to see what else is brewing, find them on Facebook or visit www.yorkshiretea.co.uk
Our Man in Rajasthan
Mar 20th
Our man in Rajasthan. Owen Terry.
Jaisalmer Rajasthan to be precise.
He grabs the day by the horns with a magnificent cup of English Breakfast tea
Tally Ho Binky!
Live & Let Chai…
Feb 11th
Owen and Aiden are taking part in the 2011 Rickshaw Run which has so far raised over £100,000 for FRANK Water Projects to fund water filtration projects around the world, helping more than 100,000 people gain access to clean, healthy water for life. An amazing achievement.
This photo was sent to us as Owen and Aiden reached the sunny shores of Cochin in the southern Indian state of Kerala, 3000km from their start point of Jaisalmer, Rajasthan.
Owen said, “Our journey by rickshaw has been an amazing adventure, full of incredible people, fantastic food, breakdowns, a crash, and above all some absolutely marvellous tea! The favourite throughout most of the country is the famous Masala Chai, a delicious spiced milky brew. But of course, India being the home of our friends Assam and Darjeeling and very close to Ceylon in neighbouring Sri Lanka (to name but a few), there are plenty of tasty brews to choose from.”
If you would like to help, donations can still be made via their website: www.theadventurists.com/live-and-let-chai or their Just Giving site: www.justgiving.com/live-and-let-chai
Aiden said, “Anything you can give to help this very worthwhile cause would be greatly appreciated. After all, how can we call this a civilised world, if some unfortunate people among us don’t have access to water for a clean, pollutant free cup of tea in the morning?”
Keep up the good work guys
Tea Appreciation Society
Afternoon tea with Lorraine Kelly
Jan 9th
Happy New Year tea lovers.
The Tea Appreciation Society are proud to support Make Time for Tea – a national community fundraising campaign run by women’s cancer charity, The Eve Appeal, and spearheaded by their ambassador Lorraine Kelly.
Make Time for Tea takes place every March, (ovarian cancer awareness month), when they ask the nation to put the kettle on and host a tea party in aid of the charity.
If you would like to order a fundraising pack and host a fun tea party whilst raising funds for a worthy cause please click on this link
This year supporters are in for a chance to win a lovely afternoon tea with Lorraine Kelly!
Every day 50 women in the UK are diagnosed with a gynaecological cancer and 20 die. We are supporting The Eve Appeal and are determined to change this, but being a small charity they need all the help they can get, so anything you can do goes a long way and makes a significant difference.
Make Time for Tea – March is Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month. Hold a tea party and help raise much needed funds for ovarian cancer research. When you register, you’ll receive a free fundraising pack with fantastic fundraising ideas and you will be in with a chance to win afternoon tea with TV presenter Lorraine Kelly.
To register for your tea pack please click here.
Live and Let Chai
Dec 4th
Tunbridge Wells adventurer Owen Terry is to start the New Year with a dangerous unsupported tuk tuk marathon across India for charity…
Owen Terry, a 26 year old Charity Administrator from Kent is preparing for an extreme adventure across India in a tiny three-wheeled vehicle designed for short hops around town…
On New Year’s Day Owen will join 70 other teams from all over the world to take on The Adventurists’ Rickshaw Run. Starting from the desert town Jaisalmer in the north of India they will drive all the way to the southern tip of India in a tiny auto-rickshaw, finishing in the coastal town of Fort Kochi, in Kerala.
There is no set route, no back up of any kind and no professional drivers. The journey is around 3000km and is expected to take around two weeks, although there is no guarantee that anything will go to plan. It’s not a race and there’s no prize for arriving first, it’s all about making it to the finish line in a comically unsuitable vehicle and having a massive and totally independent adventure along the way without anybody’s help.
Owen is one half of team ‘Live and Let Chai’ with long time friend Aiden from Bristol.
They are raising money for Frank Water Projects, a small charity that installs vital clean water stations in rural communities across India. The minimum target for each team is £1000 for charity but they have doubled this to a target of £2000, which is enough to provide clean water for life to 2000 people.
“I’m slightly worried, I suppose,” said Owen, “upwards of 3000 kms in two weeks is no mean feat when you have a top speed of about 55kmph, and I’d really like to make it to Fort Kochi for the end of race party which I think is on the 15th January, as that is also my birthday and I’m sure it’ll be a good one!”
“I love travel and have always wanted to go to India. Raising money for a good cause is a great incentive but also the adventure of driving the length of India in one’s own transport, especially when that transport is a rickshaw, it is an experience not to be missed.”
Everyone will be able to follow the team’s progress, or possible lack of progress as they face endless obstacles, via their team website. Updates from the tuk-tuk will chart their progress across the team map for all the armchair adventurers!
For more information or to sponsor the team head to their website:
http://www.theadventurists.com/live-and-let-chai
The Tea Appreciation Society raise their collective cups to your good health gentlemen!
About The Adventurists and Rickshaw Run
Flush your guide books down the loo people. Join The Adventurists in our battle with an increasingly boring, sanitised world.
We hold what we like to think are proper adventures, the sort where you have to use your own cunning; no guides, no rules and only a small chance of making it to the other end with all your limbs. It’s not just about adventure, The Adventurists are hell bent on saving the world as well as making it less boring, so all our adventures raise heaps of cash for charity. The gaggle of adventures now stands at a mighty 5, but the Rickshaw Run is one of the most popular.
For more information visit:
http://www.rickshawrun.theadventurists.com
http://www.theadventurists.com
About FRANK Water Projects – Official Charity
FRANK Water is a pioneering charity that funds sustainable, community run, 5-filter, ultra violet clean water projects.
We’re direct, honest, transparent and candid – that’s why we’re called FRANK. We also raise public awareness of global water and related health issues. We work very closely with local NGOs to install our projects and insist on direct line of sight to every project pre and post installation.
Currently FRANK Water will have funded 58 projects in India, with many more in development – benefitting over 400,000 people. For more information on the projects please visit the FRANK Water Projects page:
http://www.frankwater.com
The Great British Tea Party
Nov 16th
Join Wallace and Gromit on Thursday 18th November for a very special tea party on the Thames to launch this year’s Great British Tea Party.
Whilst enjoying a brew and a slice of cake, Wallace and Gromit will introduce you to some of the children who have benefited from the campaign. Taking a lead from the inventive tea parties that have been held in past years, Wallace and Gromit have decided to hold their party on a beautiful boat on the River Thames with their friends Yorkshire Tea.
Wallace & Gromit set sail on the 2nd November from Bristol with a tea chest full of Yorkshire Tea, a two metre high inflatable tea pot as well as tea pots and bunting made by local children who benefited from the tea party last year. They then visited Birmingham to meet children from the Birmingham Children’s hospital for a tea party before arriving in London this Thursday for a grand tea party on the Thames.
Children from Richard House Children’s Hospice will be joining Wallace & Gromit for a very special tea party on board a decorated barge on the river Thames, to celebrate the launch of the 2010 Great British Tea Party
Wallace and Gromit’s Great British Tea Party will take place from 1st – 21st December 2010
DATE: Thursday November 18
TIME: 10:00am
VENUE: St Katherine’s dock, Wapping, London, E1W 1LA
Tea & Talk
Oct 10th
Today is World Mental Health Day.
To mark World Mental Health Day thousands of people across the UK are taking part in a Tea and Talk fundraising event. People are getting together with friends & colleagues and putting the kettle on, and inviting them to make a donation to the Mental Health Foundation – it’s as simple as that.
Last year, over 6000 people took part in the Tea and Talk event. This year the charity want even more people ‘nattering’, and with your help, we can make this happen. Anyone can organise an event at any time. One such lady who is doing just that is Lesley Rawlinson of Cupcakes in the City.
Cupcakes in the City has organised an event for Sunday 17th October between 3pm—6pm, at Cricket Fashion Store, Matthew Street, Liverpool. They have prize donations to raffle to raise money and help awareness towards The Mental Health Foundation. We wish Lesley every success.
Join the Tweaparty & Win Prizes
Jul 15th
Don’t forget we’re tweeting today between 10-11am
We will be taking part in the Marie Curie Blooming Great Twitter Tea Party.
You can follow us on twitter and join us and many more Tweeters at the #Tweaparty by clicking this link twitter.com/TeaAppreciation
Come and join us and our fellow Tweeters for scintillating conversation, tea related prizes and a nice hot cup of the brown stuff. Simply follow the #tweaparty hashtag between 10-11am today and join in the fun.
There are prizes to be won from I ♥ Tea / Tea Appreciation Society, as well as from Teapigs and Whittards.
Donating through JustGiving is simple, fast and totally secure. Your details are safe with JustGiving – they’l never sell them on or send unwanted emails. Once you donate, they’ll send your money directly to the charity and make sure Gift Aid is reclaimed on every eligible donation by a UK taxpayer. So it’s the most efficient way to donate – I raise more, whilst saving time and cutting costs for the charity.
You can donate here http://www.justgiving.com/tweaparty
We’ve put the kettle on. See you at 10am.
#Tweaparty Too (2)
Jul 14th
Hello Tweety, what you doing tomorrow between 10-11am?
On July 15th between 10-11am we will be taking part in the Marie Curie Blooming Great Twitter Tea Party.
You can follow us on twitter and join us and many more Tweeters at the #Tweaparty by clicking this link twitter.com/TeaAppreciation
Come and join us and our fellow Tweeters for scintillating conversation, tea related prizes and a nice hot cup of the brown stuff. Simply follow the #tweaparty hashtag between 10-11am on Thursday July 15th and join in the fun.
Donating through JustGiving is simple, fast and totally secure. Your details are safe with JustGiving – they’ll never sell them on or send unwanted emails. Once you donate, they’ll send your money directly to the charity and make sure Gift Aid is reclaimed on every eligible donation by a UK taxpayer. So it’s the most efficient way to donate – I raise more, whilst saving time and cutting costs for the charity.
You can donate here http://www.justgiving.com/tweaparty
