A very special coffee morning celebrating Shipquay Hotel’s partnership with Children in Crossfire, which will be held in their restaurant on Friday 1 June between 10:30am and 12noon. Shipquay Hotel is Derry’s newest boutique hotel and is located at 15 – 17 Shipquay Street. We are delighted that they chose to support us as their…
Christmas is coming and it’s time to get into the festive spirit! On November 23rd, Derry man Martin Gallagher launched his 11th annual Santa’s Big Fundraiser Appeal for Children in Crossfire. He does this every year in loving memory of his son, Christopher, who died tragically of malaria in 2006. Martin – AKA Santa –…
My story really starts in January with a need to lose some weight I’d put on after I stopped smoking a few years back. I booked into a 12-week weight loss programme with my friend who is a PT and remembered VERY quickly why I didn’t like the gym! I stuck out the 3 months…
JustGiving is a global online social platform for giving. In the past 12 months our supporters have raised £40,336.40 on JustGiving for us. To say they are amazing is an understatement, and JustGiving is pretty good as well. It has re-written the fundraising rule book! Here are 8 of the biggest benefits: 1.It’s super easy It…
Over the past few years we’ve been working closely with St Columb’s College, Derry. Our partnership with the school means we can work with teachers and pupils to explore global justice issues, and we benefit from the support the school offers us when it comes to fundraising and generating income for our programmes. It all…
After graduating from the University of Ulster with a degree in Sports Exercise and Leisure Richard travelled the world before returning in 2006 to his run his family farm . Instead of the traditional farming his family had done for the past 100 years Richard diversified the business and began Oakfire Adventures a multi activity…