Charities 2000
All profits from the 2000 Yorkshire Awards Dinner were donated to Yorkshire-based charities, each nominated by one of the main sponsors of the dinner.
The Helping Hounds Appeal
The appeal was launched earlier in 1999 to raise funds in aid of Canine Partners for Independence. The charity enables people with disabilities to enjoy a better quality of life by partnering them with specially trained dogs to help them with daily activities.
Helping hounds are trained to carry out a variety of tasks that include emptying washing machines, picking up dropped items, switching on lights, opening doors, and even getting help in the case of an emergency.
Nominated by Yorkshire Electricity
St. Gemma's Hospice
St Gemma's Hospice in Leeds is the largest Hospice in Yorkshire providing specialist medical and nursing care to local people with terminal illnesses, predominantly cancer. In the past year care was provided for 551 in-patients, 1,940 patients visiting the Day Hospice and and in addition 4,638 visits were made by St Gemma's community nurses to patients in their homes.
Nominated by Aon
The Prince of Wales Hospice, Pontefract
The Prince of Wales Hospice in Pontefract provides care for people with life threatening illnesses and also support for their families and friends. This year, it celebrates the tenth anniversary of being open for 24 hours per day, 365 days a year.
Nominated by the Yorkshire Society
Yorkshire Cancer Research
Yorkshire Cancer Research raises money and funds research in Yorkshire only. The objective of the charity is to promote research in Yorkshire into the cause and cure of cancer, which today accounts for one in four deaths in the UK. YCR, which prides itself on its 'Yorkshireness', is the most successful regional cancer research charity in the UK and raises around £4 million each year to fund research.
Nominated by the Yorkshire Society
The NCPCC Full Stop Campaign
The NSPCC has embarked on its boldest and most ambitious challenge since it was founded by Benjamin Waugh more than 100 years ago. The NSPCC FULL STOP campaign aims to end child cruelty within a generation. Child abuse and neglect can almost always be prevented if the will to do so is there.
Yorkshire BankThe Right to Read
Right to Read is a collaboration of agencies working together to improve literacy levels in Yorkshire and Humberside. The scheme has been set up because 24,000 children in the region are not achieving the expected standards in English. The aim of Right to Read is to recruit and train volunteers to provide reading support for children of primary school age.
Yorkshire TelevisionLeukaemia Research Fund
Leukaemia is the most common childhood cancer and along with the related blood disorders such as lymphoma, myeloma and myelodysplasia affects over 18,000 adults each year. This year is the 40th anniversary of the Leukaemia Research Fund, and it remains the only national charity dedicated to funding research in the the causes, improving treatments and searching for a cure for all of the blood cancers.
Nominated by
Black Sheep BreweryThe Sporting Chance Campaign Fund
A major Yorkshire Post campaign to promote the teaching of sport in Yorkshire schools has resulted in the founding of a teacher's sports coaching fund. All donations to the fund are being used to pay for hundreds of places for primary and secondary school teachers on specially commissioned sports teaching courses to be held at six centres across the county.
Tony Watson, editor of the Yorkshire Post said, "Proceeds from the Yorkshire Awards will mean that even more teachers will have the opportunity to develop the sports coaching skills and introduce more Yorkshire children to the benefits of participating in sports competition...and it's all thanks to the generosity of Yorkshire people."
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