We are pleased to announce details of our Easter Charity Challenge which will be happening on the 21st April. Local charities will scour Preston’s Avenham Park for secret codes in an epic Easter egg style hunt. The correct codes will unlock 3 of our jackpot safes with £5,000 up for grabs for the lucky winners! Everyone will be a winner on the day and all the charities will receive a donation just for taking part.
The Easter Charity Challenge is being funded by The Safe Shop and organised alongside Preston City Council’s Easter festivities, including the historic Egg Rolling event that has attracted up to 40,000 people in the past! It promises to be a great event which will help raise awareness of the great charities in the region and we need your help in selecting ten charities to attend on the day.
Anthony, Managing Director, The Safe Shop says:
“There are so many great charities in the region, many of which rely entirely on fundraising, and we’re keen to give something back and help support them in their activities. As a Preston based company we’re keen to support those making a positive impact in our community.”
Lorraine is from St Catherine’s Hospice, one of the charities hoping to be shortlisted for the event:
“We’re delighted to be part of the first ever Easter Charity Challenge – it sounds like it’s going to be a really fun event! St Catherine’s is a local charity built by local people for local people, and we always embrace the opportunity to join in with community events like this.”
We need your help!
With so many great charities out there, we need your help to shortlist 10 charities to take part in the challenge. Have you got a particular charity close to your heart that you want to give the chance of winning the donations? Well here is your chance to enter them into the chosen 10. Simply vote for your top 3 charities using the voting system below and the 10 charities with the highest votes will be invited to take part in the challenge.
Thanks for your support, the voting has now closed and the shortlisted charites taking part in our event can be seen here.
Show your support and raise awareness using #crackthesafe @TheSafeShop
68 thoughts on “Easter Charity Challenge”
Emmaus Preston does great work
Good Luck to all !!!
Good luck
They are all worthy charities but can only choose 3!
My vote first and foremost would be the Katy Holmes trust, what a fabulous job they are doing in realising awareness
I support the Katy Holmes trust! What an amazing charity!
All the charity’s are worthy, but the Katy Holmes trust blows my mind! What an amazing family.
Katy Holmes trust needs to be one of the winners!
Good luck everyone! :-)))
Good luck to all charities x
How very, very charitable of you Jessyca.
I read about the Katy Holmes charity last night and feel it is very deserving.
Katie Holmes charity is a fantastic charity ran by Paula and Dave Katie’s parents who both work so hard to raise money and awareness to hopefully stop what happened to Their daughter Katie to another child. They never stop . X
Please pick Katy Holmes trust such a fantastic charity x
Sounds like it will be really fun!
We all think Katy’s family are pretty amazing it’s a selfless task raising funds, but the family are doing something for others, to help people all over with a very serious problem, I think more should be done for Charity’s like the Katy Holmes trust to help them develop and grow, it’s a massive good luck from me. X
Good luck to all the charities. x
Fantastic charities I’d love to see them there.
Great charities especially the Foxton after being subject of arson attack they deserve it all!!!
Please vote for the Katy Holmes trust.
I suffer from a mental health problem. The foxton center has helped me an d I have volunteered for them on and of foe 3 years.
Thank you. x
Foxton Centre Really deserves this, great things are done for homeless ans vulnerable people…..Especially after the fire recently, the staff and volunteers are really pulling out all the stops to carry on in difficult circumstances.
A well worthy cause run by such a lovely family x
Good luck
Good luck to all charities xxxx
I would like to vote for The Foxton Centre who do a great job
Excellent idea – well done Preston City Council
Good luck !!
great and deserving charities – All doing good things in our communities.
Good luck !
The three charities I have voted for are all ones I have personal experience of.
Integrate is a fabulous Charity – supporting Adults with Learning Disabilities and Mental Health problems to live fulfilling lives.
Good luck to all the charities, rooting for Integrate 🙂
Difficult to choose 3 as all are worthy charities – Good luck everyone 🙂
Integrate do fantastic work to allow those with learning difficulties to fulfil their full potential. I am proud to be associated with them.
Good luck
I have benefited both personally and professionally from the 3 charities I voted for so great to try and give something back (am rooting in particular for Cancercare- brillaint work!). Good luck!
Heartbeat NWCC your local cardiovascular charity helping those who have cardiovascular disease (heart attack/cardiac arrest/stroke). Completely self funded, we need your support!
Hope we win, I know you do.
I’ll spread the word.
Good luck
I support Baby Beat who raise a lot money for Babies of Preston and surronding Areas At Sharoe Green Maternity Hosp Preston
All very good charities but heartbeat helped me and other people get back on there feet and enjoying a full life again so gets my vote 🙂
Come on heartbeat, you can do it.
Heartbeat are a fantastic bunch of people and deserve a chance good luck.
Good luck
Please Please Please vote for GIRL GUIDING – the endless time and energy that goes on by all the VOLUNTEERS is amazing, year on year. The commitment and dedication shown to everyone can be plainly seen from the enjoyment and progression the girls make as they make their way from Rainbows, Brownies, Girl Guides and Young Leaders. Skills for life and only made possible by the wonderful team running it.
A Brilliant Charity that helps hundreds each week to recover from heart problems,surgery etc
Hope they are chosen
We at The WoodHouse (a prjoect run for learning disabled and vulnerable adults) as part of Integrate (Preston & Chorley) Ltd hope you all have a good time safe-cracking and hope we at Integrate (Preston & Chorley) Ltd are in the park with you.
Heartbeat, great work, great bunch and a well worth cause.
Fantastic Charity!! Completely self funded and provide cardiac rehab to 600+ people per week. Well worth a vote!
Good luck t
The Baby Beat Appeal is a massively worthwhile charity which provides funding for the Sharoe Green Maternity Unit to ensure babies are born safely.
Please help this worthwhile charity – The Baby Beat Appeal – babies ‘as yet to be born’ need access to the very latest technology…..
Please vote for Heartbeat your local Cardiac Rehabilitation Centre who look after over 600 local people per week! We need your votes PLEASE!! 🙂
Derian House all the way! 🙂
Good luck derian house x
I am voting for St Catherine’s Hospice, our local charity, caring for people at the end of their lives – I think they deserve this!!!
I think St Catherine’s Hospice deserve a shout. People think it is funded by the NHS but it has to raise over £3million a year to keep giving people specialist care at the end of their lives.
Please vote St Catherine’s Hospice!!
St Catherine’s Hospice is a centre of excellence for palliative care in Central Lancashire, treating over 1,300 patients per year from the Preston, South Ribble and Chorley area. In addition to inpatient care our charity also provides Day Therapy Services and helps to support people within their own home through our Community Nurses.
Gooooooo!
St Catherine’s Hospice gets my vote, supporting the people of Central Lancashire to have quality of life and dignity in death, there for you when it matters most. More information about their work is available on the website http://Www.stcatherines.co.uk
St Catherine’s Hospice gets my vote, supporting the people to have quality of life and dignity in death, there for you when it matters most.
All charities do amazing work and everyone will have their favourites or ones they’ve had personal experience of. Please spare a vote for girl guiding, everyone’s heard of them, lots of people have been involved or know someone who has but few would recognise it as a charity – they’re the ones that could do with a bit of a boost x
I’m voting for St Catherine’s hospice, because of the dedicated and hard working staff. Please support this charity
I am voting Integrate Charity, the way they work with their service users is just fantastic, they are always looking for opportunities to build the charity with projects such as 2 open charity shops (Penwortham and Lane Ends), a charity plant outlet (Plants+), a garden centre (Sow ‘n’ Grow), a wood recycling project (The WoodHouse) and a sealing packaging project (Pak-it). I recommend this charity because their determination and dedication deserves recognition. To find out more about their work go to http://www.integratepreston.org.uk 🙂
They do a fantastic job