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The Acorn Committee (Reg Charity No: 1149223) Raises Funds for People with Dementia and their Carers in the Harrogate and Ripon Area and for Research into Scleroderma Disease at Leeds General Infirmary
Since 1999 Acorn has raised over £850,000 and donated funding for equipment, facilities and a research fellow at Leeds General Infirmary Rheumatology Department under Professor Emery; provided start up funding for a service for early onset (working age) dementia in Harrogate, raised funds for a befriending scheme supporting people with dementia; funded lunch clubs, social activities, singing for fun, outings and holidays for people with dementia and their carers and much, much more...
Acorn has raised £70,000 so far in this financial year (April 2012 - April 2013) bringing our total to just over £850,000 since we started in 1999!
Thank you all for helping to make this a fantastic fundraising year for Acorn. For details of what's gone on and how the money has been raised, do read our latest Acorn Update or go to our press releases page
Do you shop Online?
Did you know that when you buy something online you could be raising money for Acorn? Over 3,000 retailers including Amazon, M&S, Boden, Waitrose, House of Fraser, Vodaphone, Virgin Atlantic, Lakeland and many more will donate a percentage of what you spend to Acorn when you shop with them via fundraising website www.easyfundraising.org.uk (and select Acorn).
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