Sponsorship Request

It is that time of year again where many people take to the streets to run in the Robin Hood Festival of running! Many do it for charity and four very important men are doing just that! Kev, Lee, Nod and Marc are taking to the streets of Nottingham and running the half marathon in aid of The Ear Foundation!

Why The Ear Foundation? Well we have seen first hand the support this charity can offer, our friends son has just come out of hospital after his second Cochlear Implant and this charity has been very important to them, he was born profoundly deaf, so without his implant he would never of heard and would have no verbal language, although he is a whiz at sign so can communicate brilliantly, he is actually bi-lingual with English and BSL!!

 

So please if you can help, sponsor the boys, they have a page over at Just Giving and every little really does help, if everyone was to sponsor just 10p they would easily pass their target, if you could stretch to £1 they could get there even quicker!!

Kev is also donating 20% of all sales from his Etsy store to the charity, so you can get yourself a little piece of art and help out!

Charity Support - The Ear Foundation

As Piddley Pix grows we would really like to support some of our favourite charities, so we would like to take the opportunity today to introduce you to the first of our nominated charities for the rest of 2010.

The Ear Foundation

Their Vision is  
"All deaf people have the opportunity to hear, communciate and develop spoken language using the latest technological interventions"

The Ear Foundation is an independent charity that works with deaf people and their families in many different ways to make the best use of technologies to improve hearing and communication.

They do this through Education, Family and Clinical services, Carrying out Research and Advocating for access to the latest hearing technologies.

Through a friend of ours we have seen how important the work of The Ear Foundation is and we believe they are vital in helping close the gap between the clinical side of the technology and the actual usage in everyday life.  It is because of this that earlier this year Kev (our artist) took on a challenge to complete the Robin Hood Half Marathon in Nottingham to support this charity (the first half marathon Kev had ever done) and we would like to continue to support the charity and this is why they are one of our nominated charities!

Keep your eyes peeled for the pictures on sale in support of the foundation or you can donate direct to the charity of course! 

If you would like to find out more about The Ear Foundation please visit their website