Purple River Music Event

By Tanya's Courage on April 20, 2013

In honour of Tanya gaining her Angel wings we will be turning Cornwall Purple, and to raise awareness of the event, we are holding a music event on White River Place, St Austell.
The event will be held on Saturday 6th April starting at 11am with a huge range of local Cornish musicians (Tom Cary, Veller Lia, True Collision, Only Moses, to name just a few).
We will also be officially launching our brand new Tanya’s Courage Real Ale IPA at this event.
There will be stall holders selling their crafts and gifts, and so much more for all the family.
So if you fancy a lovely family day out and want to support the charity and honour Tanya’s wish, come along to White River Place (wearing purple) to soak in the amazing atmosphere.
See you there!
Suggested voluntary donation of £1.00
This is the planned running order for the day. Some wonderful local musicians so please come along and support your local charity supporting young people with cancer.
11am – 11.35 – Danny Diamond (35 mins)
11.50 – 12.35 – Only Moses (45 mins)
12.50 – 1.35 – Grip like vice?? (45 mins)
1.50 – 2.25 – Ira John Griffiths (35 mins)
2.40 – 3.40 – Tom Carey (1 hour)
3.55 – 4.55 – True Collision (1 hour)
5.10 – 6.00 – Veller lia (50 mins)
6.15 – 7.00 – Peoples republic (45 mins)
In honour of Tanya gaining her Angel wings we  turned St Austell Purple, and to raise awareness of the event, we are held a music event on White River Place, St Austell.
The event was held on Saturday 6th April starting at 11am with a huge range of local Cornish musicians (Tom Cary, Veller Lia, True Collision, Only Moses, to name just a few).
We also officially launched our brand new Tanya’s Courage Real Ale IPA at this event.
So if you fancy a lovely family day out and want to support the charity and honour Tanya’s wish, come along to White River Place (wearing purple) to soak in the amazing atmosphere.
Thank you to everyone who supported the event from the volunteers, to bands to the general public who came and enjoyed the day. We raised a fantastic £858.26, so thank you so much everyone.

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Charity Masked Ball

By Tanya's Courage on April 20, 2013

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Dom James from Pirate FM is holding a charity Masked Ball for TCT on Saturday 16th February at the Hotel California in Newquay.
The tickets are priced at £25.00 each for a 4 course meal and the ticket includes an entry to the amazing raffle, a welcome drink and canape, and entertainment throughout the evening ending with a disco.
This is a black tie event so it’s a good excuse to get those beautiful dresses out.
Tickets are available from www.cornwallticketsales.co.uk
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Dom James from Pirate FM held a charity Masked Ball for TCT on Saturday 16th February at the Hotel California in Newquay.
The tickets were priced at £25.00 each for a 4 course meal and the ticket includes an entry to the amazing raffle, a welcome drink and canape, and entertainment throughout the evening ending with a disco.
Well done to Dom and his team for organizing such a fantastic event, We know that our team of volunteers etc really enjoyed themselves.

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Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

By Tanya's Courage on December 21, 2012

Merry ChristmasWell, what a year it has been for The Tanya’s Courage Trust!

So this year we have had birthday parties raising funds for TCT, store collections, formed the Here 4 U Support Group, started our annual Purple Day, had four runners in the Brighton Marathon, hosted our first ever Baby Fair, collected on the roadside at Holmbush, equipped and decorated a room on Lowen Ward, our Patron James Morrison opened our room and spent the afternoon with our beneficiaries, hosted our 3rd Dog Show at Griggs, received support from The Central at Newquay, received a grant from HRH Prince of Wales Duke of Cornwall, received a donation of a selection of handmade handbags from Kernow Quilters, enrolled onto the Macmillan Cancer Support course, were the beneficiaries for The Proms at the Keay Theatre, employed our new Manager for our Penzance shop, built a relationship with Kernow Trek Lodge, received support from Padstow Girl Guides, and much much more.

WOW!!!! It really has been such a fantastic year for TCT and we couldn’t do it without our amazing local community and our fantastic team of volunteers.

Thank you to everyone who has supported us this past year, and we look forward to another highly successful year in 2013.

Have a wonderful Christmas and a very Happy New Year, from all of us at Tanya’s Courage Trust.

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Dog Show 2012 – A Huge Success

By Tanya's Courage on October 1, 2012

We would like to give a big thank you to everyone who attended/supported our annual Dog Show, it was a huge success and our biggest dog show ever.

The event was very well attended so much so that we sold out of food on the BBQ!!

We raised a fantastic £810.61.

Thank you to Griggs Country Store for allowing us the use of the field.

We look forward to seeing you all at the next Dog Show.

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Thank You Falmouth Sainsbury’s

By Tanya's Courage on July 24, 2012

After a very successful year of being Falmouth Sainsbury’s Charity of The Year, we were presented with a fantastic cheque to the value of £2,486.29!!!

Thank you so much to everyone involved with the fundraising efforts. This includes our volunteers, staff of the Sainsbury’s, and the customers of Sainsbury’s, who have supported us over this past year, we are extremely grateful, and this money will go a very long way to helping us support young people with cancer.

Here is a picture of Iris with the Presentation Cheque:

Sainsburys

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St Austell Torchlight Carnival

By Tanya's Courage on November 21, 2011

Well, we did it again!! We came first place in our category! So Narnia won the hearts of the judges. Thank you to everyone involved, from the volunteers decorating and taking part to the organisers of the carnival, we had a fantastic time and already busy planning our theme for next year, bigger better and brighter!

Here are some pictures of the day from decorating right through to the carnival itself:

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Falmouth Sainsbury’s Charity of The Year

By Tanya's Courage on October 29, 2011

As many of you will already know The Tanya’s Courage Trust have been chosen as Falmouth Sainsbury’s charity of the year.

This is such fantastic news for us and we are delighted to be working with the staff in Falmouth, we are so grateful that they have chosen to support us as this will help us to promote our charity to an area in Cornwall that may not be fully aware of what we do.

We look forward to working with the staff throughout the year and also meeting some new people.

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Beach Themed Party

By Tanya's Courage on August 18, 2011

We would like to send a massive Thank you Davina, Maff and Debbie Allen for organising a fantastic fundraising event for The Tanya’s Courage Trust.

The Beach Themed Party at The Duke Of Cornwall went so well and we are so grateful for all their hard work.

The event raised between £500-£700, we do not yet have a final total as we are still waiting for some of the money to be sent, due to sponsors and supports etc.

A great day was had by all, and again we are so grateful to them. Also a huge thank you to the staff of The Duke Of Cornwall, you were such a great support to the charity, so thank you.

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Volunteers Needed!

By Tanya's Courage on August 18, 2011

We are always happy to welcome new volunteers and we have plenty of opportunities available.

Volunteering is a great way of meeting new people, helping the community and is great for your CV.

We have many roles available ranging from sorting through donations for our charity shop to helping with our events.

If you are interested in helping us in any way at all please contact us and we can discuss with you in full detail what is available.

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Our First Charity Shop

By Tanya's Courage on August 18, 2011

So here we have it, Tanya’s Courage Trust now have a charity shop.

The shop address is: 15 Truro Road, St Austell, PL25 5JE.

The shop so far has been a great success, with donations coming in thick and fast, and the customers just keep coming back for more bargains.

We are receiving great feedback about all aspects of the shop from the layout to the prices, so come on over and take a look for yourself, we really do have some fantastic bargains that you dont want to miss out on!

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