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Michel Roux Jr turns ‘Celebrity Trader’ in aid of VICTA

By |2019-09-16T12:18:41+01:00September 16th, 2014|Categories: Fundraising, Stories|Tags: , |

VICTA patron Michel Roux Jr is the latest high profile name to take on the financial markets and become a ‘Celebrity Trader’. Every month City Index challenge a celebrity to learn to trade on the financial markets and then dive straight in with the aim of raising as much money as possible for their chosen charity. [...]

Highfield Support VICTA at Charity Dinner

By |2019-09-16T12:13:24+01:00September 16th, 2014|Categories: Fundraising, Stories|Tags: , |

Over the year VICTA have received great support from Highfield Awarding Body for Compliance – both through their fundraising and volunteering. After running the London Marathon for VICTA earlier this year, Managing Director Chris Sprenger was taken with our charity and wanted to get further involved. From this, Highfield selected VICTA as their company charity and [...]

VICTA Support Britain’s First Blind Cricket Team

By |2019-09-13T10:22:40+01:00September 13th, 2014|Categories: Stories|Tags: , |

VICTA recently awarded ‘The Change Foundation’ a grant which contributed to them being able to travel to Nepal for the first ever international female visually impaired cricket match. The Change Foundation (the new name for ‘Cricket for Change’) is a charity which aims to use cricket as the means to change the lives of disadvantaged and [...]

Paula Gunnell’s Blind Marathon

By |2019-09-16T12:22:36+01:00September 16th, 2013|Categories: Fundraising, Stories|Tags: , |

13 years ago, my Son Daniel was born 15 weeks early. He spent months being kept alive in hospital, surviving one traumatic hurdle after another, including operations. Before being allowed to bring him home on oxygen, I had to be trained to resuscitate him, as on top of everything else he was also a ‘blue’ baby. [...]

MKFM donut run visit VICTA

By |2019-09-16T12:33:39+01:00September 16th, 2012|Categories: Fundraising, Stories|Tags: |

VICTA were the lucky winners of MKFM’s donut run last week. MKFM are giving local businesses the chance to appear live on the radio as well as win some tasty donut’s for their staff. Chief Executive Tracie Tappenden appeared live on the radio telling the local listeners exactly what VICTA do, the staff were also allowed [...]

VICTA Snowdon Walk

By |2019-09-16T12:29:56+01:00September 16th, 2012|Categories: Fundraising, Stories|Tags: , |

On Saturday 4th June VICTA held an ‘open’ fundraising event in the Beautiful Snowdonia National Park. Lots of people turned up to help us raise funds for VICTA, and had a whole lot of fun in the process, by walking up Snowdon. The Llanberis path is the easiest of the Snowdon paths and was suitable for [...]

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