The ‘Pop Putt Rally involved a Bristol Radio Lollipop volunteer attempting to fit in as many rounds of crazy/mini golf into a two week period to raise money for Radio Lollipop, a charity that provides music and play to children in Hospital all over the world.

Starting Saturday August 1st, to mark Radio Lollipop Bristol’s 25th Birthday, a Bristol Radio Lollipop volunteer and DJ John Goss travelled from Lands End in Cornwall to John O’Groats in Scotland over 2 weeks. Over this time he aimed to play Crazy Golf at 25 different courses (1 for every year of Bristol Lollipop and if time allows a bonus 5 courses for Radio Lollipop International’s 30th birthday) and get sponsorship money along the way. If each course was 18 holes, that’s 450 holes to be played in two weeks! John intended to pop in on all the Radio Lollipops of the UK on the way and challenge other volunteers to a game.

The itinerary…

31/07 Lands End
01/08 Plymouth
02/08 Weymouth
03/08 Southampton (Radio Lollipop)
04/08 Brighton
05/08 London (Radio Lollipop, Evelina and GOSH)
06/08 Bristol (Radio Lollipop) – the new Cabot circus course
07/08 Birmingham (Radio Lollipop)
08/08 Manchester (Radio Lollipop)
09/08 Newcastle (Radio Lollipop)
10/08 Edinburgh / Glasgow (Radio Lollipop)
11/08 Dundee (Radio Lollipop)
12/08 Inverness
13/08 John O’Groats
14/08 York (on the way home)
15/08 Bristol (home)

Related links for this event:

To donate to our cause, please visit:
http://www.justgiving.com/popputtrally

The facebook group…
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=91721164774

Follow the preparations and the trip itself on Twitter…
http://twitter.com/popputtrally/

John completed his mission successfully and if you would like more information on this event and how it went, please email john.goss@radiolollipop.org and he’ll let you know further details. Your sponsorship will provide essential play materials and radio studio equipment for the children of the Bristol Royal Hospital for Children.

Here are the latest details for the Radio Lollipop 25th Birthday Party! Whether you are a current volunteer at Radio Lollipop Bristol or elsewhere, a former volunteer, hospital worker or patient or just a friend of Radio Lollipop, you are invited to our 25th birthday bash!

Details:

September 18th 2009 – Paintworks event space- Brislington – £27.50

It will start at 7.30 and finish around 12.30/1am. There is a bar and we will be having a bbq with various choices of meats and veggies. There will be rolls, salads, pasta salads, rices etc etc and hopefully a birthday cake. We will also be having a disco and we are still organising extra entertainment as we speak, so wll be great fun. Hopefully some of the Harley Davidson Owners Group (HOGS) who have been raising a lot of money for us will be coming too. It will be a great chance to all get together and celebrate all the good work we do, so please come along and bring your friends – the more the merrier!!

If you would like to attend please let us know ASAP, by the 28th August. Post cheques to:

Radio lollipop – party
Bristol Royal Hospital for Children
Paul O’Gorman Building
Upper Maudlin Street
Bristol
Avon , BS2 8BJ

or email Jen Harris on: flatbob40@hotmail.com

Thank you
Hope to see you there!

The organisation ‘Young Bristol’, part of the national campaign ‘vinspired’, approached Radio Lollipop Bristol about the volunteering work we do in the Royal Children’s Hospital. They asked whether any of our volunteers between the ages of 18-25 would be willing to be part of a short film (made by a filmmaker but mainly by young volunteers). The purpose of the film was to promote volunteering in a positive light to young people, and will be shown in schools, colleges and the local Connextions centre. Two of our volunteers kindly agreed to be part of it, and special thanks go to Ellie Harris and Gemma Foster. A couple of months after the filming, we were invited to a special screening of the finished film at the Watershed Media Centre in Bristol and were all really pleased with the results! For further info or to watch the film please contact: kate.angel@radiolollipop.org and got to:

http://www.vinvolved-bristol.co.uk/

Last night Gold Coast Radio Lollipop were lucky enough to have star basketball players, Tyson Demos, Pero Cameron and Chris Goulding from the Gold Coast Blaze drop in for a visit!

The kids were prepared, busily making welcome signs and colouring in basketball’s and getting very excited about the professional players coming by. As they entered the playroom we all had to crane our necks and look upwards to greet them…these guys are tall!

The guys had a great time and got busy, painting, playing ping pong and adding to our ‘hands of fame’ posters. The paint covered hands even made their way on to an unsuspecting volunteer’s head, funny man Doug, giving him a colourful look for the rest of the evening (and doesn’t he look happy!).

It was a great night of fun and games, a big thank you to the guys for stopping in and helping to put some huge smiles on their littlest fans’ faces! A highlight was seeing little visitor Tyson interview big basketballer Tyson on the radio, lots of giggles!

Thanks guys, make sure you come back again soon in between your pre-season training. The Blaze kickoff the NBL season September 25th!