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Breakout Liverpool announces
their 3rd Charity Day
BREAKEOUT Liverpool is excited to
announce its next Charity Day will take place on Thursday, 21 April 2016. For
this event all proceeds from Breakout Liverpool are being donated to Charity.
This is the 3rd time Breakout have held a charity event, which involves donating
our sales proceeds, but some charities also take some rooms and sell them on
themselves to their members and partners.
► Cursed Carnival and Shipwrecked; All proceeds from
these rooms will be donated to Imagine If
Trust. This is a local charity aiming to
transform lives through community projects and education. Breakout have worked
with Imagine If Trust for their Charity Events before and have built a strong
relationship with them.
► Wanted, The Facility and Classified; The proceeds from the sales of these games
are all being donated to
Barnardos, who work to improve the lives of
vulnerable children and young people.
► Sabotage; This game's proceeds are all being donated to
Parkinson's
UK, who support people suffering from the disease and fund research for better
treatments and a cure.
► Breakout Manchester's High Street games' will see
the proceeds being donated to
charity. The charities benefitting from this are; The Christie, a Manchester
hospital charity striving to provide specialist cancer treatments and
researching more effective combatants and an eventual cure for this disease that
effects so many, and Joining Jack, a charity based in Wigan who work to fund
research into treating and bringing an end to Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy which
effects 1 in every 3,500 boys worldwide.
► Nationally the Breakout have now put out feelers to gauge if other escape game
companies would be willing to join them in donating to charities for the day, if
this goes well, they hope to expand this for the next charity event in October
2016.
What is Breakout Liverpool
Liverpool?
Breakout Liverpool operates live escape rooms, with their main site located in
the City Centre, by the Met Quarter. Teams of 2 to 5 people have 1 hour to
escape a locked room by solving a series of clues and puzzles. |
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Thousands of Merseyside car
journeys abandoned as children jump on bikes
Photograph by Livia Lazar from Sustrans
CHILDREN from Shoreside Primary School,
Southport, got their superhero outfits on to celebrate the start of the Big
Pedal in Merseyside. 1500 schools, containing over 500,000 children, are taking
part and jumping on their bikes and scooters like those in Shoreside Primary
School over the next 2 weeks, in an attempt to reduce 4.8 million balloons worth
of carbon dioxide from being released into the atmosphere in the North West.
Parents and teachers from across the North West region will leave their cars at
home for their normal trips to and from school, preventing over 145,000 car
journeys from taking place. Instead they will be cycling and scooting over
230,000 miles during the Big Pedal, a two week cycling and scooting competition
run by charity Sustrans.
The competition could save over 3 tonnes of Nitrogen Oxides and over 1,000
tonnes of CO2 from being emitted into the environment as part of the school run.
Nitrogen Oxides can cause breathing difficulties in vulnerable people, such as
asthmatics and older adults.
As well as reducing pollution which affects us all the Big Pedal can also help
reduce individuals' exposure to pollutants. Reports have shown that children who
travel actively could reduce their exposure to Nitrogen Oxides by up to 60% as
concentrations are higher inside the vehicle than outside.
Rosslyn Colderley, Sustrans' England Director for the North said:- "Over
40,000 people die each year in the UK directly because of air pollution and it
is simply unacceptable. The Big Pedal demonstrates the difference that can be
made if people are encouraged to leave their cars at home. Not only will they
get fitter and healthier by cycling and scooting, dangerous emissions are
reduced which benefits everyone. To make this happen on a large scale the
government must transform our towns and cities into places where cycling and
walking is the natural choice for journeys to school and work. Only by doing
this can we hope to prevent the thousands of deaths caused by air pollution and
at the same time make the nation healthier."
As well as providing environmental and health benefits, the Big Pedal also
enables parents and teachers to save money, last year collectively over £475,000
was saved in fuel costs by people cycling and scooting, instead of driving
during the competition throughout the UK.
Big Pedal in Britain which is running until 29 April 2016 and if you are taking
part please let us know, via emailing us to:-
News24@SouthportReporter.com. For more information on the event or
for tips on cycling and scooting to school, visit:-
Sustrans.Org.UK/BigPedal. |
