TA Sunshine Appeal

We always remember that we're only the custodians of the money you give us. This graph shows how we've given it away to children's charities since our first in Lithuania in 2003. And because of your generosity, we've not missed donating at an away match since.

Thank you very much. And good luck.

So far, 7 (seven) people have signed up and made their first predictions.

The Tartan Army Sunshine Appeal thanks the organisers for adding the charity to the list of recipients of donations.

Tartan Army Sunshine Appeal delivers "chemo-ducks" from Aoibheann's Pink Tie to Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Glasgow. http://www.tasunshineappeal.co.uk/2015/07/chemo-ducks-for-yorkhill/

Names only appear in the mini league list when people competitors make their first prediction.

Bluesbrother/Dennis Town - your email bounced. Can you contact info@tasunshineappeal.co.uk

Thanks, albamajorbadges. We appreciate your support. We don't think you'll have to worry about sending anything to Cyprus TA.

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It's back!! The (nearly) World Famous Sunshine Appeal Predictor Competition. Once again we're piggy-backing on the platform provided by Scottish Football Forums and we thank them for all their hard work. In order to join, you have to sign up to join Scottish Football Forums (if you haven't already). http://forums.scottishfootballforums.co.uk/ Then, send £10 entrance fee via Paypal to info@tasunshineappeal.co.uk - include your player name for ID purposes. Please ensure that you pay any fees. If anything less than £10 arrives at the Sunshine Appeal account, you will not be entered into the competition. You do not require to have a PayPal account to send money by PayPal. Once your entrance fee has been received, you will be sent a code with which you can join the mini-league, imaginatively entitled "Tartan Army Sunshine Appeal". Half of all monies received will be taken for Sunshine Appeal funds. The remaining money will be split as prize money. First Prize - 25% Second Prize - 15% Third Prize - 10% In addition, the highest scorer in each calendar month will win £10 courtesy of Church of Maradona Tartan Army PLUS two badges from the portfolio of albamajorbadges. We thank both of them for their support.

Well, that's planning. The Tartan Army Sunshine Appeal are grateful to Saltire Executive Travel for their support and commitment to contributing to the Sunshine Appeal's funds for every booking through their Sunshine Appeal portal. www.notjusttravel.com/tartanarmy

Our report on the donation is up on our website. http://www.tasunshineappeal.co.uk/past-projects/2015-2/everywhere-we-go-ireland-june-2015-donation-53/

Our report on the donation is up on our website http://www.tasunshineappeal.co.uk/past-projects/2015-2/everywhere-we-go-ireland-june-2015-donation-53/

Probably will be, yes. Just waiting for the webmaster to let us know when he's up and running and we'll let everyone know. Unless there's a huge pressure from people to increase the fee, it'll be the same as last season. £10 to join. 50% to Sunshine Appeal funds. 25% to the winner 15% to second place 10% to third place. Monthly £10 prize for highest scorer sponsored by Church of Maradona Tartan Army

Thank you to everyone who turned up at Slattery's Bar on Friday evening. I don't think I'm pushing the truth if I say that it was a braw night. Pics

Pics from the donation in Slattery's Bar can be found on Facebook here

Thank you to WESTA members (and others) who bought merchandise on the way to and on the ferry on Friday. Thank you also to Fair City Tartan Army who had a collection on their trip home for the Sunshine Appeal funds and realised €150.38 and £28.05. Much appreciated. Pics of the donation to Aoibheann's Pink Tie can be seen on Facebook here

Last chance. If you want to order something from our Ebay page (T-shirt, Polo, Hat and/or scarf), and you want to pick it up in Slattery's tomorrow night, now's your last chance. Follow the link to our Ebay shop, place your order and in the comments field, make it clear that it's for pick up in Slattery's. http://www.tasunshineappeal.co.uk/2015/05/tasas-ebay-shop/

We've just sold the following match badges Euro 2004 V Germany WC 2006 V Italy WC 2006 V Norway Euro 2008 V France WC 2010 V Netherlands http://www.tasunshineappeal.co.uk/fundraising/match-badges/

We've just sold the following match badges Euro 2004 V Germany WC 2006 V Italy WC 2006 V Norway Euro 2008 V France WC 2010 V Netherlands http://www.tasunshineappeal.co.uk/fundraising/match-badges/

We can now announce the donation for The Gibraltar match in October. We will be donating £5,000 to the Rainbow Ward of the Gibraltar St. Bernards Hospital. The rainbow ward is the department that cares for children from 0-16 years of age, ranging from referrals from local GP's to chronic illness. Rainbow ward is located in Block 1 on the fourth floor St. Bernard’s Hospital and is a 21-bedded unit offering inpatient and outpatient family centred care to children aged 0-16. The unit provides 24 hour care for all children with a variety of conditions and work closely with specialist units in UK and Spain. All inpatients are nursed by highly skilled and qualified paediatric nurses and three paediatricians working on a rotational basis. We offer Paediatric medical care as well as emergency and elective surgical and orthopaedic care. We provide up to date evidence based care and health promotion advice and support on all child health and wellbeing issues such as breastfeeding, and looking after and unwell child. We hold bi-weekly clinics for children needing care that are referred to us from the GP or A&E and on-going care and support to children with many different chronic conditions such as asthma, eczema and diabetes. We have a number of children with complex medical, surgical and psychological needs and also provide a service for rarer cases of haematological, endocrine, oncology and palliative children. We also hold clinic with visiting consultants for neurology, geneticist, and psychiatrist; we will soon have a Tourette’s specialist visiting too. 2014 saw the units admission rate rise with a total of 706 children pass through the department. We work closely with the community and have a yearly Christmas party for the children with chronic condition or those that spend a long time with us throughout the year to celebrate their achievements. We also may have other smaller parties during the year for those children and families that have endured a difficult journey of which we have played a close part in. I think we will all agree, another very worthy contribution from the Tartan Sunshine appeal and all Scotland Supporters !!!! We are hoping to visit the ward on Saturday 10th October, full details of the visit will be posted once confirmed

We can now announce the donation for The Gibraltar match in October. We will be donating £5,000 to the Rainbow Ward of the Gibraltar St. Bernards Hospital. The rainbow ward is the department that cares for children from 0-16 years of age, ranging from referrals from local GP's to chronic illness. Rainbow ward is located in Block 1 on the fourth floor St. Bernard’s Hospital and is a 21-bedded unit offering inpatient and outpatient family centred care to children aged 0-16. The unit provides 24 hour care for all children with a variety of conditions and work closely with specialist units in UK and Spain. All inpatients are nursed by highly skilled and qualified paediatric nurses and three paediatricians working on a rotational basis. We offer Paediatric medical care as well as emergency and elective surgical and orthopaedic care. We provide up to date evidence based care and health promotion advice and support on all child health and wellbeing issues such as breastfeeding, and looking after and unwell child. We hold bi-weekly clinics for children needing care that are referred to us from the GP or A&E and on-going care and support to children with many different chronic conditions such as asthma, eczema and diabetes. We have a number of children with complex medical, surgical and psychological needs and also provide a service for rarer cases of haematological, endocrine, oncology and palliative children. We also hold clinic with visiting consultants for neurology, geneticist, and psychiatrist; we will soon have a Tourette’s specialist visiting too. 2014 saw the units admission rate rise with a total of 706 children pass through the department. We work closely with the community and have a yearly Christmas party for the children with chronic condition or those that spend a long time with us throughout the year to celebrate their achievements. We also may have other smaller parties during the year for those children and families that have endured a difficult journey of which we have played a close part in. I think we will all agree, another very worthy contribution from the Tartan Sunshine appeal and all Scotland Supporters !!!! We are hoping to visit the ward on Saturday 10th October, full details of the visit will be posted once confirmed

Back in March we ended up with a few spare tickets for the home international friendly against Northern Ireland. We decided to donate these to Sense Scotland. http://www.sensescotland.org.uk/ The tickets were passed on to the Overbridge Service (residential care on St Andrews Drive http://www.sensescotland.org.uk/media/1501870/sense-scotland-residential-services-overbridge-web.pdf ) where two of the people they support went along to the match. It was their first ever game and by all accounts they absolutely loved it! They must have seen a different game to us! Here’s a wee report from Service Manager, Sean Macfarlane, on what happened on the night. “Stewart, Graeme and their support staff had a fantastic time at the Scotland V NI football game, soaking up the atmosphere and singing songs, especially when Scotland scored Stewart and Graeme were shouting ‘Goalllll’, this was the first time both boys had attended a football match and they both purchased a Scotland scarf as a souvenir and reminder of their experience.” Graeme “We are very grateful for the donation of the tickets from The Tartan Army Sunshine Appeal which allowed Stewart and Graeme the opportunity to experience a football match.”

Going somewhere? The Tartan Army Sunshine Appeal has the following currencies available (usually in small amounts). Please help our funds by converting them into Sterling. Poland USA Croatia Serbia Bahrain Bulgaria Latvia Sri Lanka Iceland Jordan Egypt India Belarus Phillipines UAE Iraq Tunisia Costa Rica Denmark Sweden South Africa Moldova Hungary Norway Japan Switzerland Turkey Singapore Macedonia Of course, if you have any currency lying about that's no use to you, we'll take it!

The Tartan Army Sunshine Appeal are mightily grateful to Craig Walker who will be running the PAris marathon this Sunday (12 April) to raise funds for the Sunshine Appeal funds. From a standing start little over a year ago, Craig has put in tremendous effort and made tremendous progress to get to the stage that he can tackle a marathon. Please consider sponsoring him. Thanks. https://mydonate.bt.com/fundraisers/parismarathon