Charity planting the seeds of fundraising ideas
THE bulbs may only have just gone in the ground, but the UK’s leading end-of-life charity, Marie Curie, is urging people across West Wales to think about daffodils already as they launch their biggest fundraising campaign of the year.
Marie Curie Cymru is encouraging individuals, groups, schools and businesses to hold their own Daffodil Day in 2023 as part of the Great Daffodil Appeal.
Suggestions include hosting bake sales, setting yourself a challenge like the charity’s Step into Spring 10k steps, or hosting a Dinner Down Memory Lane dinner party, whatever fundraising challenge works for you.
The charity will be hosting its Daffodil Day on St David’s Day, March 1 , but bosses said it’s up to those taking part when, and how, they want to mark the day throughout February and March.
Over the past three decades the Great Daffodil Appeal has raised millions to enable Marie Curie to care for dying people, and their loved ones, in the charity’s Cardiff and the Vale Hospice in Penarth, and in their own homes across Wales.
Supporters sign up to take part in supermarket collections, or to be collection box co-ordinators, dropping boxes of daffodils in shops and pubs in their local community.
The collections will still be available for people to sign up to if they wish but the new addition to the campaign will see people able to mark a day of their choosing in their own way, and for their own reasons.
■ Anyone interested in taking part should contact your community fundraiser via email on walesfundraising@mariecurie.org. uk to chat about your idea and request an information pack.