TIGGY'S TALES

01 February 2013

Paddington Playstation - IWK Change Bandits

Thank you to Paddington Play Station bringing change to @shophsc in support of Change Bandits! #IWKRadiothon @c100fm twitter.com/IWKFoundation/…
— IWK Foundation (@IWKFoundation) February 1, 2013

What is Change Bandits?

Change Bandits is a community-based fundraising campaign that takes place during the months leading up to the IWK Radiothon broadcast.

Led by an IWK patient hero, individuals, businesses, groups and schools are invited to register to become Change Bandits to begin raising money for the IWK.

Change Bandits can raise money in a number of ways including:

Collecting spare change from family, friends, fellow students and co-workers
Creating a personal online fundraising page that your family, friends and co-workers can visit to make donations to your campaign
Hosting your own creative fundraising event

Change Bandits are asked to bring the money they’ve collected to the Change Bandit Round-up at the IWK Radiothon broadcast. IWK Foundation staff and volunteers will be on-hand to count the money you’ve raised (you don’t have to count it yourself – they’ll have a coin machine to count your change!) and they will give you a card with your total.

All of the money raised online and collected during the Change Bandit Round-up will get tallied toward the final total, which will be announced by the Change Bandit hero at the end of the Radiothon broadcast.

26 January 2013

A Train Set In The Attic

Those of you not from Halifax, NS, you may be interested to hear that there is a wonderful model train set situated on the ground floor of the IWK Children's Hospital.
Not only is there a model train, but the entire ward has been outfitted with train symbology: everything from train track floor tiles, to information fliers on the Trans Canada railway tours stapled to the walls.

Charlotte is lucky enough to have an Uncle and Aunt with just as impressive a train set in the attic of their house. Co-incidentally, this particular model was painstakingly assembled by David who also happens to volunteer his time looking after the model train set at the IWK.

A quick peek at Charlotte enjoying her Uncle David's very own personal train station.

If model trains interest you, then check out the short video I borrowed below, of the setup at the hospital--from the image above, you can see they have recently introduced a model helicopter.