The Polar Bear Project

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A huge thank you to The Polar Bear Project who have provided Easter eggs for us to deliver to local families. We’ve been in touch with as many as we could today and our lovely Maureen will be out tomorrow safely delivering these lovely Easter goodies!

Massive thank you to Scott Jamieson and family for a fantastic donation of Easter eggs, these will be distributed to local youth football teams, to raise a smile for local children after a difficult 12 months 😁 thank you so much for you support again!

🤍HELLO ALL🤍

We apologise for not being very active since Christmas, as I’m sure you can all appreciate it has been a difficult time for us all!

But again, we as Jamie’s family cannot thank every single person enough who has helped donate, give up time to wrap, deliver gifts, send wishes & support the project in Jamie’s Memory - thanks to your generosity we managed to help give just under 1000 local children who needed it, a Christmas gift 🤍

We are hoping to list some of those who generously donated over the next few weeks to thank you properly 🤍

Cash donations made were used to purchase specific items for children with special required needs or to bulk up age groups with any short falls, the raffle money also left some funds and along side Runcorn Police (who have also been collecting donations), we have been able to purchase 400 Easter Eggs to distribute to nominated specific schools and charities within the local community🐣.

Along with local dental practices we are also aiming including tooth brush and toothpaste donations for the children!

If anyone would like to donate eggs, children’s tooth brushes or toothpaste please message the page!

And once again Thankyou 🤍

*please note as with the Christmas presents, these are going to nominated schools & charities to distribute, we cannot take individual messages/cases*

🐻‍❄️💙 THANKYOU💙🐻‍❄️

From the very bottom of our broken hearts, every single person that donated, contributed to raffles, offered help wrapping, delivering gifts and organising this absolutely amazing project set up in memory of our dearly missed & loved, Jamie Evans❤️

Because of that, we managed to directly help a huge 954 local deprived children & their siblings this Christmas!!!!!!

What started as a small family idea, snow balled into helping nearly 1000 children receive a wrapped gift Christmas , we know Jamie would be so proud & we are truly over whelmed at how generous people have been towards making this happen.

Anything left over, was donated to Helping Haltons kids who are so kindly organising Christmas dinners for those in need, to give out💙

We will get round to posting our individual thanks to businesses /people who where an enormous help, but for now - THANKYOU & a merry Christmas to all💙🐻‍❄️

Christmas is coming early we have around 300 new toys so we would like to be able to give them out on Tuesday so that the little ones get a little early gift from us. A big thanks to The Polar Bear Project and Halton housing for kindly donating them to us after they had a huge response to there appeal.

We’re going to be at Halton lodge shops from 12-2pm on Tuesday with Santa.

Children must collect there own toy and be accompanied by a adult.

Will be hot drinks and minced pies for adults 😁

A HUGE thank you to all at Beechwood Junior Football Club for their donation of ONE THOUSAND POUNDS on Sunday! We were truly blown away at their kindness & generosity!

All raffle/money donations have been used to purchase more items that have been gone directly to local deprived Runcorn children, affected by the corona virus pandemic this Christmas in memory of our Jamie Evans💙 once again, thank you!

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PCSO’s Emma & Louise have delivered presents to Castlefields Community Centre for local families on behalf of the Polar Bear Project. The staff were totally overwhelmed by the generosity of everyone who have donated gifts.

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PCSO’s Emma and Louise have just delivered loads of presents to OBA courtesy of the Polar Bear Project.

Today is our LAST DAY for donations ONEpm--4pm at Bridge View Runcorn if anyone would like to come down and donate!!!

To say we are overwhelmed with what we have achieved is an understatement.
As a family we wanted to do something positive this Christmas in a time where our hearts are in unfixable pieces due to the tragic loss of our dearly loved & missed Jamie Evans, but also in his memory, something as a family we could do together to focus on whilst helping others... ❄️🐾💙

What started out as helping a few locally deprived children in our children’s schools this Christmas, has escalated into a town wide appeal and we have already helped around 400 deprived school children and siblings, receive gifts this Christmas🙏🏼 we still have more to go!
But thank you to EVERY SINGLE person that has donated and made this possible, it’s been hard and challenging at times but so worth it, the change being made to these children that have nothing, is huge!

We hope we have done you as proud as you made us, Jamie💙❄️🐾

The reason behind why we are Helping so many children this Christmas - in memory of our amazing wonderful caring loving dad & family man, our Jamie Evans💙🤍

Family's plea this Christmas after young dad of two died at work Jamie Evans, 32, from Runcorn, sadly died in August

Hi everyone,

We have been extremely busy today wrapping a packaging up for the local school children going without this Christmas!

If anyone would like to donate we have extended our hours THIS Sunday for the last drop of day 1pm-4pm at the bridge view in the old town (car park entrance) we are currently short on girls ages 8-11 items and girls pre school (peppa pig items are popular and running v low)

Thankyou in advance for your generosity, it’s been an extremely challenging and heart breaking time for our family, and we are very proud to be helping hundreds of local children this Christmas in Jamie’s memory ❄️💙 Thankyou for your support 💙❄️

The Polar Bear Project has and is been managed by a small family trying to bring a smile to struggling families this christmas, we are currently only able to distribute gifts via third party agencies and via local schools, we ask if your struggling and could use our help this Christmas to please reach out to your local school to contact us, unfortunately we are unable to help individual cases at this time due to the sheer volume of requests

We would like to take the opportunity to thank every single person for their support with the project, and for bearing with us at such a difficult time!

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Once again THANKYOU! ❄️🐾 to EVERY single person that came down on Sunday and donated gifts & purchased raffle tickets/ polar bears!

The picture below show just HALF of the gifts we have received and are wrapping ready to be distributed directly to local children who will go without this Christmas! The difference made to these families is HUGE & we are so privileged to be able to do something amazing in Our Jamie’s memory ❄️❤️🐾

Huge Thankyou to Zavier age 7 who has been making mince pies and managed to raise an AMAZING £162 to purchase toys to donate you are amazing! 👏🏼

Another Thankyou to Iris Macgugan for donating money raised from santa licenses to us yesterday!

Thankyou to our volunteers (elves) who worked super hard yesterday in the wrapping room;

Tracy Kenwright
Donna Sadler
Yvonne furfie
Tanya smith
Kerry Daley
Helen Brownbill
Leanne Cartwright
Kelly Cartwright
Emma kilduff
Louise lawless

And again Thankyou to the Bridge View Runcorn owners and staff for allowing us to open every Sunday!

NEXT WEEK IS THE LAST DAY FOR DONATIONS - SUNDAY 13Th 2-4pm AT THE BRIDGE VIEW ❄️🐾

Hello everyone!

We will be at Bridge View Runcorn tomorrow 2pm-4pm for new donations in memory of our dearly missed and loved Jamie Evans ❄️🐾

We are currently running lower on girls and boys pre school items and boys 11-teen items ❄️🐾

We also have a fantastic raffle on tomorrow if anyone would like to come down, with the chance to win prizes such as:

Amazon echo
LOL suprise Campervan
Large Scalectrix track
Large Alcohol hamper
Large chocolate hamper
Moet & Chandon Champagne
£25 balloon voucher
£25 voucher
And much much more!! (Pictures to follow)

£1 per ticket! All money raised will go straight towards buying more toys, being donated to local deprived children effected by the Coronavirus pandemic this Christmas!

We have already distributed gifts this week and we can assure you every donation is making a huge difference directly to a local child this Christmas 🙏🏼✨❄️🐾

Helping Haltons kids are doing some incredible work to help those struggling this Christmas, absolutely amazing!! ♥️

Christmas is getting closer so we are now planning our Xmas dinner project.

We’re aiming to provide atleast 150 family’s with Xmas dinners 😊

If anyone would like to be added to the list then please get in touch.

We’re also looking for

Tinned Sweet corn
Tinned Peas
Tinned Carrots
Gravy
Yorkshire pudding mix
Stuffing mix
Mince pies

Hi everyone!

We have been asked to talk on BBC Radio Merseyside in the morning at 7.25am if anyone would like to tune in, 95.8fm & DAB🐾❄️

To tell of why we are doing what we’re doing in memory of our Jamie Evans, and why it is so important we do this🐾❄️

We once again thank EVERY single person, family & business for your extremely generous donations making this possible, we have already helped local deprived children get a gift they want this Christmas & will continue to do this for them🐾❄️

- Jamie’s family ❤️ xx

Huge Thankyou to the Curiosity Bookshop Liz and Chris Howard pledging very thoughtful and generous a donation of books to ❄️🐾📚

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The reason we are so driven in doing what we are doing. ❤️🐾❄️

All In memory of our wonderful, amazing, loved & dearly missed Jamie Evans❤️🐾❄️

Family's plea this Christmas after young dad of two died at work Jamie Evans, 32, from Runcorn, sadly died in August

WOW! Is all we can say!

Week 3 of our toy collection for local deprived children this Christmas in memory of our dear Jamie Evans and we are speechless at the generosity of everyone involved❤️

Today we gathered our first load of gifts to go to our first school for them to return to the local children in need & it really hit just how important this is and why we are doing it. Thankyou all for making this possible the difference being made to the children is unbelievable🐾

THANKYOU to our elves today for giving up their time to come down and help wrap:

Stacey Cawley & her mum
Beverley Jones
Andrea Gumbs
Maxine Gumbs
Gillian Wright
Suzanne Kearney
Kim Betton Talbot
Abbie Lea Talbot

And once again Thankyou to Bridge View Runcorn for giving up time to open and allow us to run the from there ❄️🐾

DONATION DROP EVERY SUNDAY UNTIL THE 13TH OF DECEMBER 2PM-4PM ‼️❄️🐾

WE ARE AT

THE BRIDGE VIEW TODAY 2PM-4PM
78 HIGH STREET RUNCORN
WA71JH

FOR DONATION DROPS OF NEW TOYS🌲❄️

For local deprived children this Christmas❤️❄️

Last week we were low on Male/female teen items such as smelly sets pyjamas etc! And pre school items❤️🌲

Hi all,

Once again Thankyou so much for your support in making a difference within the community this Christmas in memory of our dearly missed Jamie Evans❤️🌲❄️

However, as we only intended on this being a small family run event we made a decision at the beginning to distribute the gifts via local schools/nurseries only so are unable to take on individual cases personally.

We are liasing with many schools around our local area & are currently aware of an idea of just how many children in our community sadly this year, will go without due to hardworking families being shattered financially by the coronavirus pandemic💔

‼️If you are struggling & have been effected by covid this Christmas, we ask you contact your child’s school/nursery to maintain full confidentiality & to allow us to ensure the gifts are given out properly & fairly (regarding covid, volunteer timing etc).
If Anything at all is left over it will be distributed to other local year round charities‼️

We also ask however sadly, please be respectful. We are trying to make a positive difference out of such a heartbreaking tragedy, but we are still grieving & all of this is being done out of our own time & the goodness of people within our local community coming together.
We have been alerted of people not being completely honest & trying to abuse this as a ‘free toy’ drive😞.
It is not, please be mindful of the families in our community that can not afford to heat their houses let alone Christmas presents for their children this year & respect the generosity & kindness of those donating for those most in need❤️

We hope you all understand, once again Thankyou from the bottom of our hearts everyone who has been and is getting involved in making a HUGE difference to our local children❤️

DONATION DROP 2PM-4PM Bridge View Runcorn Old Town, SUNDAYS ONLY car park entrance only ❤️🌲

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Guys, we was going to run a toy appeal alongside our usual service over the Christmas period but after hearing The Polar Bear Project were doing just that we certainly didn't want to hamper the great work they will be doing so we ask if any one would like to make any toy donations please get in touch with the amazing team over there. They will be working closely with the schools so please speak with your child's teacher if you need help with a few presents and they will contact TPBP on your behalf. Everyone give there page a follow too.

Zavier, Age 7 is working hard making mince pies and donating toys with the money made from selling them, to as he wants to help the children in his local area who will go without this Christmas! What a lovely kind act 🤍 🥧

Once again Thankyou all so much for your generosity. We are currently working with local schools & we can assure that your generous donations will make a huge difference & go directly to children most in need in our community this Christmas🤍

Thankyou for making this possible & allowing us as a family to make such a positive change in Jamie’s memory 🤍🐾

Hi All,

It has been brought to our attention the following article says ‘email’ for donations, however we do not have an email address it is the @ for The projects page.

Sorry for any confusion.

Anyone wishing to contact should do so via the pages messenger where the family will collectively reply.

Thankyou. 🐾

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/dad-32-who-died-work-19300490.amp

Family's plea this Christmas after young dad of two died at work Jamie Evans, 32, from Runcorn, sadly died in August

🐾THANKYOU🐾 to everyone single person who has already donated, offered support and well wishes, and to every single person & family that dropped off today. We are overwhelmed as it is only our second week.

Your donations will be wrapped and donated directly to children within our local community that would of been without this Christmas due to the corona virus pandemic.

On behalf of Jamie’s entire family, we thank you all for giving us a focus in such a positive way, at a time that is so raw and heartbreaking for us, especially as he absolutely loved Christmas.

If anyone would like to donate any items (new only due to covid) we are currently lower on the following:

Pre school aged toys/pjs/etc (18months - 3 years)
Boys aged 11+
Girls aged 11+

We will be at the Bridge View, Runcorn old town every Sunday until the 13th of December 2pm-4pm (carpark entrance).

Once again, Thankyou🐾
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Completely overwhelming and humbling that individually and collectively we are all able to help make a difference for some families struggling this Christmas in our local community, the biggest thank you to every single person that has contributed time, gifts money, kind words and well wishes.

🐾We are at The Bridge View, between 2pm - 4pm today for any donations🐾

again thank you all so so much Jamie I’m sure is so proud❤️🐾

Rose # # #

HUGE THANKYOU - to this wonderful little boy Zavier, who is raising money from homemade mince pies to donate to the polar bear project! 🐾🎄🎁

All donations going to support local deprived children affected by the covid-19 outbreak this Christmas 🐾🎄🎁

Donation drop every Sunday 2pm-4pm at the bridge view Runcorn (carpark entrance, until the 13th of December)

HUGE THANKYOU to all at Play Away Day Nursery - Langdale road 🐾

For their extremely generous donation from their children in need week! All donations going to support local deprived children affected by the covid-19 outbreak this Christmas 🐾🎄🎁

Thankyou all for your children in need donations Last week, we have purchased lots of gifts for Halton’s children that are in need and will be donating them to ‘The Polar Bear Project’ ensure all children wake up on Christmas morning with a gift 🎄🎁💗 Rosemary Evans