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

Football Club raises money for George House Trust

posted: 09/12/2010

George House Trust would like to say a big thank you to the Albaroni Football Club, who's team raised funds and awareness about HIV, as part of World AIDS Day 2010.

The young players wore red ribbons and heard a talk about HIV as well as collecting funds to support Geroge House Trust's work.

Sign Up - Great Manchester Run

posted: 16/11/2010

You can now sign up to run with Team GHT in the 10km Great Manchester Run in mid May 2011. We are very pleased to have 85 places for Team George House Trust runners on Sunday May 15th 2011.
 

Run with us
Team GHT Places are open to all runners, including people wanting to run with Team GHT for their first time. We want a big turnout of runners and supporters – the sponsorship money you raise helps us provide vital quality support services to people living with HIV in North West England.

Book now

The Great Manchester Run is always overbooked, so be sure to reserve your GHT Team place now.
To book one of our 85 running places, please send a cheque for £36.00, payable to George House Trust. Please write your details - name, email address, telephone number and postal address on the back of the cheque, or another piece of paper.
Send your cheque and details to:
GMR 2011, Christy Lau, George House Trust, 77 Ardwick Green North, Manchester, M12 6FX
 

The £36.00 pays Great Manchester Run’s charges for registering you. We can refund this later, if you wish, once we have received at least £150 in sponsorship for you. However to maximise the money we raise, we hope you will meet this cost yourself.
 

Team GHT Offer

What we offer you as part of Team GHT:

• Team GHT running vest
• Free after run massage from our friends at the Active Health Group
• Training support from Manchester FrontRunners
• Safe bag and clothes storage at the Manchester Convention Centre (GMEX)
• After run party at a city centre venue, including a free buffet
   

Some free places
We have a few free places for people who are cannot afford the £36 entry fee. If you need a free place, please contact Lynda by phone 0161 274 4499 or email

We will pull names out of a hat to choose who gets a free place.
 

Already signed up with Great Manchester Run?
If you already have booked a place on the Run through the Great Run's online registration page and want to be part of Team GHT, please email Lynda, or give her your details by phone 0161 274 4499. We will then keep you informed about sponsorship and all the Team GHT arrangements.
 

We look forward to meeting everyone again for another fantastic day!
 

Run pics on Flickr 

In the meantime, check out photographs of Team GHT at the 2010 Great Manchester Run on Flickr
 

Munich Marathon Tops £1000

posted: 11/10/2010

Daniel, one of our Service Development Managers, ran his first ever marathon in Munich, Germany, on Sunday and already has raised well over £1000 for George House Trust.

The Munich Marathon is in its 25th year like George House Trust. His target was to complete the 26 and a bit miles in 3 hours and he managed an excellent 3 hours 2 minutes. He easily exceeded his fundraising target of at least £1000. His total reached £1248.39 by 5pm on 11 October.

Reward his efforts and support George House Trust

He’s keen to see you and others make this total still more impressive. Please help make all this effort worthwhile and, as he says, please dig deep.
You can give here on his Marathon fundraising page at JustGiving.com
 

Every penny and pound for George House Trust
Daniel did the Munich Marathon to raise money for George House Trust, paying all his own costs, so every penny people give goes directly to services for people living with HIV.
 

Celebrating Our 25th with Pride

posted: 06/10/2010

George House Trust made a big impact at this years Pride event in central Manchester. 25 years ago six volunteers set up the organisation that became George House Trust. We've been at the heart of 25 years of campaigning and support for thousands of people with HIV across North West England ever since.
 

25th actions
The LGBT pride festival over the late August bank holiday weekend gave us a chance to promote our services to thousands of people in Manchester city centre. We chose silver on red for our 25th anniversary colours in the parade, had some human birthday cakes, gave out hundreds of 25th stickers, wore amazing retro George House Trust 25 T-shirts, shook a lot of cans, ran a popular stall in the Expo, photographed suggestions for T-shirt campaign slogans, and organised the vigil in Sackville Gardens.
 

Thanks
We are, as ever, immensely grateful to everyone who supported us at Pride in a hundred different ways, including all who volunteered and gave money. The warmth in the faces of so many people in the crowds lining the city centre streets, clapping and cheering us around the parade route for our 25 years of collective community efforts brought tears to our eyes. Thank You.
 

We are still waiting for the official announcement of the amount raised by Manchester Pride that is to be distributed to HIV and LGBT projects.
 

Appreciations
We would like to thank Beverley Knight for closing the vigil, Antony Crank for being our compere and Jonathan Mayor for his rallying call to action.
 

Vigil poem
Poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy wrote and read this moving poem for the vigil. She’s gifted the rights to George House Trust and we are happy for others to use this poem non commercially. 

VIGIL

When you lived,
no-one could hold a candle to you.
Tonight, small flames of memory
which scald the hands with wax tears
yearn to be tongues
uttering your name in light.

You burned bright,
illuminated right –
the vigilance of science,
the grace of tolerance;
this silence now
a deep, warm gathering of breath
to blow out guttering words:
stigma, ignorance, fear.
Let them know death.

One lit taper touches another,
contagious with fire,
and darkness glitters; brief flowers
each with its own smoke ghost -
they could be dancing, that close;
the living holding candles
for the lost.

CAROL ANN DUFFY August 2010
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