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Over £1,200 raised by local school for Leicester’s leading family support charity.

Home-Start Leicester, a charity which has been delivering family support in the city for almost 40 years, has had their funds boosted by local children from St John the Baptist C of E School in Clarendon Park, Leicester.

Between them they have raised £1,271.94 for Home Start Leicester’s ‘Helping Home-Start build Happy Homes’ campaign by filling up tubes of Smarties with 20 pence pieces.

Home-Start Leicester was the first to be set up in 1973, and now along with 333 other Home-Starts forms part of the UK’s leading family support charity.

Home-Start recruits and train volunteers who then offer emotional and practical support to families who are struggling to cope. Support is confidential and non-judgmental, taking place in the family’s own home. Home-Start supports parents for as long as they need it as they grow in confidence, strengthen their relationships with their children and widen their links in the community.

The money raised by the children will go towards Home-Start Leicester’s next training course for volunteers and will also be used to give Christmas treats to families supported by Home-Start including a trip to the Curve Theatre to see a production aimed at the under threes.

Elaine Murphy, senior coordinator at Home-Start Leicester said: “We are overwhelmed with the generosity of the children, parents and staff and are delighted to receive this cheque. A big thank you to Lands’ End Clothing also who sponsored this campaign by buying the Smarties for us.”

For more information on the Home Start Charity click here:

Download our Traditional Christmas Carol pdf

Celebrate the Christmas season with our pdf download of traditional Christmas Carols.
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Movember Update

It’s now Day 17 of Movember and our group of dedicated Mo Bros are making fine progress in their attempts to grow moustaches!

You will see two of our team (our captain Owen and also Darran) with their head shots from Day 1 and then also Day 10. All of the Mo Bros as well as some Mo Sistas have been campaigning tirelessly to generate as many donations as possible, none more than Catherine and Ravi who donned some rather fetching fake moustaches to go around the business and sell raffle tickets earlier this week! Between the raffle and several other competitions, including a guess the veg competition – which will be appearing on Facebook tomorrow – we have managed to raise over £250 and we're still counting. When this is added to all of the online campaigning the Mo Bros have done we have this week topped the £1,500 mark with still 13 days to go!

Would you like to get involved and donate to our boys? If so follow the link below to the Movember website, every little helps!

http://uk.movember.com/donate/team-details/id/330120/searchTerm/big+stubble

Movember – the month of the moustache!

Want to know more about Movember?

http://uk.movember.com/about/

Want to know how you can get involved and support our Mo Bros? Follow the link below to donate to our team –

http://uk.movember.com/donate/team-details/id/330120/searchTerm/big+stubble+in+little+mo-kham

Download our FREE Spooky Halloween Masks for your children

Great fun for your little monsters – simply download our cut-out face masks and get scaring!

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Join the Lands' End online community

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LEGENDARY POLO COMPETITION – WINNERS!

A huge thank you to all those who entered our Legendary Polo Competition. We had loads of fun judging the entries but there could be only 3 winners - please see below for their entries. We will be sharing a few commended entries in the near future too, so keep coming back to see if yours appears!

I think we were all impressed by the poem Suzy Harris wrote about her “superhero” husband!

He's great at plucking eyebrows,
He shapes them with such pride,
And when my hair needs sorting
Trevor Sorbie, step aside!    

A skill for mending hoovers
With computers he's a whizz
Whatever's needing mending,
With his spanner he's the biz!    

A foot rub sent from heaven,
Or making perfect cups of tea,
I really feel so lucky
That my hubby's wed to me.  

He's not afraid of housework
Or knocking up a dinner,
An all round superhero
My hubby is a winner.
Sent in by: Suzy Harris, Sheerness.

How could we fail to help Margaret Young’s husband’s dream come true after this touching story?

I was standing at the door of the village hall in my WJAC uniform shaking a charity tin when this handsome young man in his ATC uniform came up to me.  He asked, “If I put some money in your tin will you kiss me?” This was 53 years ago and we are still happily talking aeroplanes!  My husband’s passion is Concorde.  We treated his Mum to a flight on Concorde although he would have dearly loved to have gone himself. His unselfishness, sense of humour and love for our two girls and me make him the most wonderful husband.
Sent in by: Margaret Young, Oxford.

After hearing about Karen Lane’s husband’s kind act for his children last year, we thought he deserved a special day for himself!

Last year my hubby spent his Father's Day building our two children a pirate ship/climbing frame in the garden! It started out as a fairly modest project but turned out to be a mammoth task which went on for weeks! There was no breakfast in bed that day, no traditional Sunday lunch or tea time barbecue. It was just a limp sarnie grabbed on the run whilst balancing a frame in one hand and a saw in the other! How lovely for this Father's Day to be just about HIM?
Sent in by: Karen Lane, Birmingham.

Congratulations to all our winners and we hope you enjoy your amazing simulator experience flying Concorde.

Chelsea - we've won Gold!

The Lands' End garden has won Gold at this years Chelsea Flower Show. Well done to Adam Frost, Barnsdale Gardens & New Ground Landscapes. Come and see us if you're visiting the RHS Chelsea Flower Show - we’re on Royal Hospital Way, plot RHW28. Let us know what you think of our 'Across the Pond' garden & enter our prize draw competition to WIN a garden consultation with Adam Frost!


Gold winner Adam Frost with Alan Titchmarsh photographed just before Adam was interviewed for the BBC to talk about the inspiration for the garden design.

You can rate the Lands' End Garden at the RHS website by clicking here.

Local News: I Love Rutland photo competition winners

Lands' End recently teamed up with the Rutland Times to help launch their 'I Love Rutland' campaign with the first ever 'I Love Rutland' photo competition.

We are pleased to present the winning image alongside the two runners up. Congratulations to Stephen Buzzard of Uppingham for his winning image - 'A view of Belton-in-Rutland'.

Lands' Ends Employee & Customer services Director, Mark Harris, said...
"The standard of entry in the competition was excellent and we have seen many wonderful images of this part of the country. We thought the winning photograph perfectly captured Rutland's beauty in all its glory. It summed up the rural, idyllic nature of the county and we congratulate Stephen on taking a well-composed picture."

The winning photographer is:


'A view of Belton-in-Rutland' by Stephen Buzzard of Branston Road, Uppingham who will receive £100 of Lands’ End vouchers.

Comic Relief at Lands' End

For every order taken today (Friday 18th March)  we will be donating £1  to Comic Relief: Red Nose Day so get your orders in! Throughout the day we will be  uploading pictures to our Facebook page of how we're raising extra money at Lands' End HQ so keep checking back!

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