- CHRISTMAS FUN AT MUSEUM
- Special seasonal activities at the
Liverpool Natural History Centre
- "On my day off at Christmas my true love took me to see...
several penguins standing,
six geese a-posing,
five golden orioles,
four calling birds,
three Colonial hens,
two turtles (stuffed),
...at the Centre for Natural History"
You can see all of these mounted specimens from Liverpool Museum's collections and more in special festive displays at the Natural History Centre from Saturday 20 December 2003 to Tuesday 6 January 2004.
Visitors can also find out what gold, frankincense and myrrh actually look like, why mistletoe is displayed at this time of year and why we put up Christmas trees. The popular hands-on Natural History Centre in Liverpool Museum closes for essential annual maintenance from 15-19 December and will reopen for the school holidays on Saturday 20 December with a range of special seasonal activities.
Liverpool Museum is a perfect place for family days out over the holidays. It is open every day except 24-26 December and 1 January. Admission is free.
Letters to the editor:-
Dear Southport Reporter and Mersey Reporter.
"I am writing to ask all local schools in your area to join me in setting a world record and raise funds for Marie Curie Cancer Care. The charity has joined forces with the Wordsworth trust to celebrate 200 years of Wordsworth's famous daffodils poem "I wandered lonely as a cloud" and is attempting to enter the Guinness Book of Records for the largest reading aloud, in this case a poetry recital.
The record attempt - 'Words Worth Reading' - will take place in schools across the UK at 9.15am on Friday 19th March and we hope to attract at least 150,000 school children to take part. This figure is significant because it represents the number of lives claimed by cancer in the UK each year. If you think your school is up for the challenge then visit www.mariecurie.org.uk/daffodil for more information.
'Words Worth Reading' is a unique partnership between Marie Curie Cancer Care and the Wordsworth Trust, a charity that provides a living memorial to the life and work of one of England's greatest poets, and actively promotes the public enjoyment of poetry. March is also the month of Marie curie Cancer Care's daffodil Campaign, supported by Yellow Pages. The campaign aims to raise funds to provide high quality nursing, totally free, to give terminally ill people the choice of dying at home supported by their families."
Marie Curie Cancer Care
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LOTTERY CASH FOR TEN NORTH WEST NURSERIES IS A CHRISTMAS CRACKER NURSERY
provision across the North West is being given over £1.1 million in Christmas cheer with the announcement of ten new nurseries being funded by the biggest of the National Lottery distributors, the New Opportunities Fund.
The awards will be used to build and renovate nurseries in the region, creating quality nursery care for young children and enabling parents to explore work and training opportunities.
These awards are the final wave in an investment of £20.2 million by the Fund in nurseries for the region as part of its £100 million Building Neighbourhood Nurseries programme.
Baroness Jill Pitkeathley, Chair of the New Opportunities Fund said:- "These grants demonstrate the Fund's commitment to working with local communities to support the creation of quality nursery places by investing in new and existing buildings."
Michelle McNamee, the Fund's North West Regional Manager said:-
"Grants such as these are paving the way for the creation of much needed new childcare places in the North West, directly, benefiting children and their families."
Monetary breakdown
First Footsteps Ltd receives £37,518, 20 places, grant will be used to create a new state-of-the-art baby room to an existing nursery, providing 20 new places. Liverpool.
Kids Out Childcare receives £213,690, 32 places, with the aid of this grant the organisation hopes to convert the ground floor to create new provision in an existing nursery. Trafford.
St Gabriel's Area Partnership Enabling Play and Learning for Everyone receives £150,000, 32 places, the funding will help to provide a 32-place nursery for children living in East Huyton. Knowsley.
St Helens MBC receives £87,000, 47 places, the project will create 47 new places for 0-4 year olds. It will serve the wards of West Sutton, Sutton.
Other areas in the North west, receive £456,228, 190 places.
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