THE registration deadline is looming for this year’s Marie Curie Cancer Care Daffodil Schools Challenge and Mini Pots of Care fundraising activities.
These are educational activities that encourage creativity and industry in young people of all ages throughout the North-East.
Daffodil Schools Challenge tasks pupils aged 11 to 16 with designing, planning, and creating a visual display based on the charity’s daffodil emblem, either at their school or elsewhere in the community. They are also challenged to raise money for Marie Curie Cancer Care in the process For Mini Pots of Care, children aged three to 11 receive a free pot and a daffodil bulb to plant in the autumn term. The children then care for their flower over the winter months to reflect the work of Marie Curie Nurses. In spring, when the daffodils bloom, the children have fun on Mini Pots of Care Day by learning, and painting their pots before taking them home to someone they care about in return for a donation for Marie Curie Cancer Care.
Registration for both activities closes on September 30. To find out more – including free downloadable lesson plans and activity resources for youth groups – please visit mariecurie.org.uk/schoolsandyout h or call 08700 340 040.
Jane Dennison, Marie Curie Cancer Care, Newcastle
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