Fantastic World AIDS Day Fundraiser for GHT!

posted: 19/10/2011

We’re delighted to announce that the wonderful people at TheGayVillageOnline.com have nominated George House Trust as their charity for this year’s World AIDS Day fundraiser.  it's a Tooty Booty competition, with the grand final being held on the 2nd December at Cruz 101.

In conjunction with Poptastic and Hot Village Magazine, the competition aims to discover the best behind in the village!

Village bars and clubs will all nominate a member of staff from their teams to take part and you get to vote for the winner by text. All cash raised from voting and £1 of each entry purchased for the grand final will go to supporting our vital work here at George House Trust.

For more information visit the Tooty Booty webpage They also have Facebook page, so please show them your support!

Icon Bar are organising a very special Deal or No Deal style night at their bar on Friday 2nd December, where George House Trust have been invited to attempt to ‘beat the banker’ to raise money for our charity.

The evening starts from 8.30 p.m. and GHT would love to see as many of our supporters there as possible, to cheer us on! For details of the venue, visit their website

Poptastic have organised their Annual Big Red Ball on Tuesday 29th November 2011, which will be raising money for George House Trust for World AIDS Day.

Entry to the event at Club Alterego is only £3 before midnight. For more information, you can visit Poptastic’s website

The Tooty Booty, Deal or No Deal and the Big Red Ball event are one of many activities being promoted as part of TheGayVillageOnline.com’s Raising4Red campaign, which encourages local businesses to support  HIV related charities in Greater Manchester, over the World AIDS Day period. They have set a target of raising £10,000 and George House Trust is one of the charities that will benefit.

If you’d like to get involved or want to find out more, you can visit their website
or join their Facebook page

George House Trust’s is extremely grateful for this amazing support.
 

Battle of the Bars £409

posted: 15/12/2010

Remember late November, at AXM, when entertainers, hosts and bar staff from venues across the village came together to battle it out to support George House Trust? We do, and the event raised a warming £409.22, for which we are very thankful.
 

The venues and their crews pulled out all the stops to be crowned winners of Battle of the Bars 2010.

Miss Thunderpussy (Thompsons Arms), Jessica Barge (Queer), Veronyka Kastle (Churchills), Misty Chance (View) as well as representatives from AXM, Sugar Pops, Crunch, The New Union, Manto, Via, The Birdcage and others put in their time for free just to entertain you.

The 10pm to 5am night at AXM was free entry apart from your generous donations on the door, all of which went directly to George House Trust.

The Battle of the Bars were keen to maximise charitable giving and so offered Buy One Get One free on all drinks from 10pm until 1am and drinks at promotional prices.

Thank you to all the venues for taking part, and to the artistes for performing free for you, the staff and people who supported us in any way on the night - generous people all!

Thank you very much from all of us at George House Trust!
 

Interested in fundraising?

See what you could do to help us fundraise and how we can help you with this, on our community Fundraising pages

Stigma and Manchester is HIV Positive

posted: 19/11/2009

HIV awareness and challenging HIV stigma are the twin themes in Manchester for the city’s World Aids Day efforts – Manchester is HIV Positive. December 1st, World AIDS Day, is in under two weeks.
 

The Manchester is HIV Positive campaign says the city is:

• Positive about raising HIV awareness across the city
• Positive about HIV prevention
• Positive about promoting HIV testing
• Positive about supporting those affected by HIV
• Positive about challenging stigma and prejudice.

HIV Stigma in Canal Street - banner ditched in canal

The need to continue to strongly challenge HIV stigma is stark. Last Friday, the city’s World Aids Day Partnership put up a Manchester is HIV Positive banner along Canal Street, in the heart of Manchester's gay village, but by the Monday the banner was dumped in the canal. It was rescued and restored to the Sackville Park railings beside the Beacon of Hope, the city's permanent awareness monument, but it shows the size of HIV stigma problem we have, even in the gay village.
 

Manchester World AIDS Day team

The Lesbian & Gay Foundation, George House Trust, Black Health Agency and Manchester City Council have come together to form the partnership for the city's World AIDS Day efforts.
 

Andrew Gilliver of the Lesbian & Gay Foundation, highlighted the importance of the Manchester is HIV Positive campaign.
"For years there has been a strong commitment throughout Manchester to raise awareness of HIV, to challenge HIV stigma, to encourage safer sex and testing and to support those living with HIV; the Manchester is HIV Positive campaign continues and underpins all this work. It works to promote positive attitudes, support and understanding, and challenge negative attitudes and prejudice.
HIV is on the increase in Manchester, that's why this World Aids Day it is crucial that we raise awareness about getting tested, knowing your status, using condoms and lube, getting support, and challenging stigma."
 

Katherine Moulder of George House Trust noted that "Manchester has a strong history of supporting HIV positive people and activism around the rights of people living with HIV. With higher rates of new HIV diagnoses than ever before, this is not the time to sit back and let HIV come off the agenda. As a partnership we wanted to deliver a strong and thought provoking message about the importance of HIV prevention, testing and challenging HIV stigma."
 

Ben Easterbrook from the BHA said: "Black Health Agency is very proud to be part of the Manchester World AIDS Day partnership and feels that the campaign slogan Manchester is HIV Positive is both encouraging and thought provoking. It asserts that Manchester is positive about promoting awareness, positive about tackling HIV stigma, and positive about helping those affected by HIV. This campaign confirms that HIV is still a serious issue in Manchester, as it is nationally and globally. It fits neatly with the national campaign, HIV: Reality, and both serve as a call to arms. By stressing the gravity of the situation, and by tackling stigma, we can show that Manchester is positive about making a difference."
 

What's On for WAD?

There are a number of awareness and fund raising activities around World Aids Day. There's red ribbon fundraising across Manchester, flash-mobbing events to raise awareness of HIV, and the World Aids Day candle lit vigil in Sackville Gardens on Tuesday 1 December (7pm).

Help George House Trust for World AIDS Day 
 

To find out more about getting involved in the Manchester is HIV Positive campaign, please contact Emma Peate 

Facebook Manchester is HIV Positive

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Village Fête Success

posted: 10/08/2009

Thanks to everyone who came along to our George House Trust Village Fête on Sunday 9 August. The car park at the back of George House Trust in our corner of inner city Ardwick was transformed into a rural England for the day with cream teas, a raffle, tombola, stalls and……sunshine.
 

Bunting and balloons
A big thank you to volunteers and staff and friends and family who got creative with bunting and balloons, made tea, buttered scones, squirted cream, dolloped jam, sold books, DVDs and CDs, clothes and bric-a-brac, collected donations, sold raffle tickets, ran the name a teddy game, whirled the tombola, talked about George House Trust and welcomed people to our building.
 

First time to George House Trust
Thanks to guests who came to the fête to support us – many people went home laden up with home made cakes and goodies bought and won from stalls. We loved hearing people’s views about the building, for many people it was the first time they’d been to George House Trust, and the feedback on our services was great to hear.
 

Launch of BRIght IDEAS, GiftAid envelopes
We used the George House Trust Village Fête to talk to people about our new DIY fundraising pack, BRIght IDEAS, which has information and inspiration in raising money in aid of our charity.

And we talked about Gift Aid too – we now have George House Trust branded Gift Aid envelopes meaning that for every £1 donated we receive a 28p bonus from the Government, at no cost to the donor or to us - they just give us back the tax you paid on that income.
 

Hot ticket raffle
Our raffle, tombola, teddy game and card game were hot tickets.

They featured some fabulous prizes including the donation a brand new, box fresh microwave from our chair, Jim Vann; a meal for two from Queer; five family passes for a day out to The Beatles Story in Liverpool worth £36.25 each; a £20 gift voucher from Nice N Naughty; a £25 hair voucher from the Funky Crop Shop; a meal voucher from Tropeiro; a bottle of Red Star vodka from Cruz 101; a meal for two from Via Fossa and a meal for two from Crunch 2.

A big thank you to people and businesses for the prize donations and to our George House Trust volunteers, for talking to businesses about our work and getting them to get behind us.
 

Decluttering pays

We loved getting people’s kind donations of goods for sale – thanks to George House Trust friends for having a declutter knowing that our fête – and ultimately, our users – would benefit.
 

Near £700 raised

Nearly forgot….we raised £671.23 on the day.

Items for our Village Fête

posted: 29/07/2009

George House Trust's Village Fête  welcomes all on Sunday 9 August between 12 noon - 6pm. We’re bringing a bit of English village and summer life into our urban corner of Ardwick. We’d love to see you here. If you’ve never been to George House Trust before, this is a good opportunity to see the organisation you support.
 

Declutter and bring us things to sell

A successful fete needs things to sell, so if you have good quality items please contact Sue Fletcher, community fundraising coordinator, on 0161 274 4499 or email

You'll find and enjoy our fête stalls and entertainments

• books / music CDs / film DVDs 
• good quality second hand clothing and jewellery
• household goodies
• raffles
• teas and cakes

all to raise money to support our work with people living with HIV in NW England.

Fête Launch for our BRIght IDEAS DIY fundraising pack

The Village Fête is the launchpad for our new BRIght IDEAS fundraising pack. Created for people who are interested in raising money to help the work of George House Trust, it’s an easy to use guide to fundraising.

Whether an activity is large or small, whether it takes place at home, at work or play, the guide includes

• handy tips on health and safety, and
• how to use Gift Aid (at no cost to you or the giver) to add 28p for each pound you raise, and
• how to get publicity for fundraising.

More information? Goods for the fête?

If you want any more information on the fête or have good quality second-hand goods that you’d like to donate for sale, please contact Sue Fletcher, community fundraising coordinator, on 0161 274 4499 or email