events committees

Snow Fair Committee

The Snow Fair Committee has been fundraising for Addenbrooke's since 2004. The Snow Fair is a bi-annual Christmas shopping fair - the most recent of which was held in November 2007 raising nearly £20,000.

Additionally the Committee was busy throughout 2007 hosting a series of fundraising events as well as the Snow Fair, all contributing towards its goal of raising £100,000 in 2007 for a paedaitric gastroscope.

The Chair of the Snow Fair Committee is Siobhan Cassidy.

Pink Rose Dinner Committee

The Pink Rose Dinner Committee is involved in organisng The Pink Rose Dinner campaign. Volunteer hosts give their friends dinner, lunch or even drinks (it doesn’t matter how big or small), and the guests bring a donation for the cause. This huge event, involving more than a hundred hosts and many hundreds of guests each year, is a highly sociable and enjoyable dining celebration, and also a remarkably successful fundraiser.

2007 is the fourth year of The Pink Rose Dinners, raising over £63,000, and still rising, towards a state-of-the-art ultrasound scanner for the new breast cancer research unit at Addenbrooke's. In the first three years over £180,000 was raised towards the build of the new breast cancer research unit due to open in early 2008.

The Chair of The Pink Rose Dinner Committee is Louise Sunderland.

Friends of Addenbrooke's

The Friends committee brings valuable voluntary support to Addenbrooke’s Charitable Trust by raising awareness of the need to fundraise for the hospital. They organise regular events and encourage new membership and extra support.

For each event they adopt one ward or department and aim to raise enough money to buy a specific piece of equipment that will make a real difference to the quality of care that patients receive.  

The annual summer party in the grounds of Trumpington Hall and summer event at the Old Vicarage, Grantchester are both very successful raising £12,500 in 2007 alone. Since its inception in 1999 the Friends Committee has raised approximately £270,000 for various causes around the hospital.

The Chair of the Friends of Addenbrooke's Committee is Michele Satchwell.

For more information about the Friends see the Become a Friend page.