Priory Dental Care Fundraising News 2016

Thanks to your help in 2016 we raised a grand total of £971.61 (plus gift aid) for charity!

In May our Priory Dental Care quiz team (aka ‘Pearls of Wisdom’) won 2nd place in the Downham Market Lions Club Mega Quiz, donating the £100 prize money to Magpas Air Ambulance.  To read more about Magpas, please visit www.magpas.org.uk

In June and October we sold our old, disused dental crowns and bridges for scrap metal, raising £71.60 which we donated to Downham Market & District Macmillan Cancer Support.  For further information about how Macmillan Cancer Support improve the lives of people affected by cancer, please visit www.macmillan.org.uk

In September, members of the Priory Dental Care team took part in the King’s Lynn Colour Dash 5k, raising £583.00 (plus gift aid) for East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices (EACH).  For more information on the vital work that EACH provide, please visit www.each.org.uk

Throughout the year we raised £217.01 for Dentaid from patients kindly giving their loose change, and making a donation for toothpaste samples.  For further information on the valuable work that Dentaid provide, please visit www.dentaid.org

We also supported the Dental Wellness Trust and sold 24 Good Deed toothbrushes – for every toothbrush sold, another one is donated to a child in need!  To find out how the Dental Wellness Trust promote oral health to less fortunate communities in the UK and abroad, please visit www.dentalwellnesstrust.org

And, to help the planet as well as fundraising, we donated our empty printer cartridges and used stamps to The Norfolk Hospice, Tapping House, our plastic bottle tops to The Matthew Project, our trigger spray heads to Cats Protection Downham Market and our old papers and magazines to the town paper bank, run by the Downham Market Rotary Club.  These items are then recycled to raise money for the charities. To find out more, please visit  www.norfolkhospice.org.uk,  www.matthewproject.org,  www.downhammarket.cats.org.uk  and  www.therotaryclubofdownhammarket.co.uk

As ever, the Priory Dental Care team will continue with our fundraising efforts in 2017 and we will keep you updated with all forthcoming charity events.

Thank you for your valued support.