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11/01/2010 - Chatterbox - New Recycling Initiative Generates Much Needed Cash for Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital, Crumlin
On Monday 11th of January, The Children’s Medical & Research Foundation (CMRF) at Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital Crumlin is announcing the launch of its new ‘Chatterbox’ campaign with recycling expert Redeem Ireland. The new recycling initiative is calling on supporters to donate any unwanted mobile phones, digital camera, MP3 players or inkjet cartridges to help raise vital funds for Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital, Crumlin.
This nationwide appeal will be officially launched by 2FM Presenter Laura Woods and Jade Lunan, a young patient at Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital, Crumlin. The campaign starts with ‘Chatterbox Day’, which will take place on Friday 15 January, in partnership with Blanchardstown Centre in Dublin.
Supporters and friends of Crumlin will be encouraged to dig out old phones, digital cameras or MP3 players and bring them along to the Blanchardstown Centre on Friday 15th and Saturday 16th to help Ireland’s sick kids.
CMRF hopes to raise over €80,000 in 2010 through the ‘Chatterbox’ recycling campaign, with all proceeds helping children across Ireland who attend Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital, Crumlin.
The money raised each year through the CMRF and Redeem partnership will help to support the development of hospital departments and research facilities, ensuring Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital, Crumlin can continue to care for children across Ireland with life limiting conditions and provide support for their families.
Nicola Mernagh, Chatterbox’s Campaign Manager from The Children’s Medical & Research Foundation said: “We are excited about our new ‘Chatterbox’ campaign, As severe cuts reverberate throughout the country, our children’s hospital, its patients, and their families are feeling the pressure. We want to make it easy for people to continue to support us so that we may provide the best for our children and their families.
We believe ‘Chatterbox’ will raise much needed funds for our patients. As it stands there are now nearly as many mobile phones in Ireland as there are people. A lot of them just sit in people’s drawers and cupboards gathering dust. To us, our hospital and patients, they are unrealised revenue that can be translated into vital life saving equipment. With the Irish people’s help this campaign will inject vital funds into our children’s hospital.”
Jamie Rae, Chief Executive of Redeem Ireland, commented: “The Chatterbox campaign is a great initiative for us to be involved with and we are really pleased to be able to offer another fundraising stream for such a worthwhile charity in Ireland. The public across Ireland are renowned for their generosity, and we hope that they will get fully behind this campaign that helps young children right across the country. We are asking for people to look in drawers and cupboards and see if they have any unwanted phones or ipods that they might be able to donate.
“In these trickier economic times it is so important that we make it as easy as possible for people to continue to donate to good causes and at the same time dispose of the toxic waste contained in these recycled products to prevent it from ending up in landfill.”
Over the past ten years Redeem has developed partnerships with 200 charities in the UK and Europe and has generated €6.5 million for good causes and prevented 146,000 tonnes of toxic waste going to landfill.
It is easy to donate to the
Chatterbox campaign. Either call down and visit the CMRF team at the Blanchardstown Centre on the 15th or 16
th of January, phone lo-call number 1800 933 616 or visit
www.recyclingappeal.ie/chatterbox to donate your old mobiles, digital cameras, MP3 players and inkjet cartridges throughout the year. All money raised will go towards Ireland’s largest paediatric hospital, Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital, Crumlin.
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