Donations
100 Women Who Care donate $24K to AIDS Foundation
(CNS): More than 200 members of the 100 Women Who Care Cayman Islands giving circle recently voted for the Cayman Aids Foundation (CAF) to receive the almost CI$24,000 raised at their fourth meeting since the group’s inception in October 2016. Each member who attends a meeting donates $100 for the opportunity to select a beneficiary […]
Handmade benches donated for HSA patients
(CNS): Patients of the Cayman Islands Health Services Authority (HSA) chemotherapy unit and Merren’s Health Centre now enjoy additional seating due to a joint initiative by the Rotary Club of Grand Cayman Sunrise and HMP Northward. Three crafted and varnished benches were donated to the facilities in an initiative spearheaded by Rotary Sunrise in partnership […]
Help ‘Stuff the Bus’ for Cayman’s students
(CNS): A Cayman company has kicked off its annual “Stuff the Bus” school-supply drive to help collect items for students returning to classes in August. The goal of the community drive, according to Caribbean Alliance Insurance, which spearheads the initiative, is to stuff a big yellow school bus full of donations such as backpacks, notebooks, […]
Campbells staff support Cayman’s charities
(CNS): With a combination of company donations and dress-down day contributions during July, Campbells has raised more than $15,000 for local charities. The majority of the funds will be given to the YMCA ($5,000); Cayman HospiceCare ($3,000); the Cayman Islands Humane Society ($3,000); and the Cayman Islands Crisis Centre ($3,000). Campbells launched its staff dress-down day […]
Cayman firm offers ‘Hand Up’ with giving initiative
(CNS): Ronco Cayman, a Cayman-based information technology company, has launched a giving programme, “Hand Up”, which supports charities both locally and internationally. The initiative aims to assist those in need globally through relationships with various organisations, including UK-based Children’s Helpers Worldwide (CHW) and Save the Elephants, which is headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya.
Dress-down day benefits museum
(CNS): Civil servants and staff members of the Cayman Islands National Museum recently dressed down to fundraise ahead of the “Looky Ya! Mango Season” event at the museum, held Saturday, 16 July. T-shirts were sold downstairs in the Government Administration Building for several days, raising nearly $1,000 for the conservation and preservation of the museum […]
Father and son off to Iowa to cycle for charity
(CNS): A father and son from Cayman leave today (13 July) for a biking adventure in the US, where they and another local rider will be joining a group of friends and several thousand others on a weeklong 500-mile trip across Iowa. Tim Dailey and his son Alex, 9, are taking part in RAGBRAI (the […]
Kanuga faces ultimate challenge to fight childhood cancer
(CNS): Local real estate agent and ultramarathon runner Kerri Kanuga will undertake her biggest endurance challenge to date this month in aid of the St Baldrick’s Foundation, the largest non-government funder of childhood cancer research. On Monday, 18 July, Kanuga will set out to complete Badwater, the most demanding and extreme running race on earth, covering […]
Heroes needed to support childhood cancer research
(CNS): The fourth annual Hannah’s Heroes fundraiser is set for 23 September during childhood cancer awareness month. Organisers of the event are encouraging members of the community to come out to shave their heads to raise funds for the St Baldrick’s Foundation to support childhood cancer research. Once again, the venue will be the Wicket […]
Lions Club raffle winner drives off with new car
(CNS): The Lions Club of Grand Cayman capped off its major fundraiser, “Benzarama 2016”, with a celebration at Lions Community Centre that included picking a raffle winner for a new car and music by local DJ “Super C” and the Regeneration Band. At the grand finale event, held 25 June, in addition to naming the winner […]
New company donates savings to NCVO families
(CNS): A recently launched company is already giving back to the community, with Club Save donating 79 memberships, at $25 each, to the parents of children who attend Miss Nadine’s Preschool and the Jack and Jill Nursery under the National Council of Voluntary Organisations (NCVO). The donated memberships to the savings club, which offers discounts at […]
Climbers reach fundraising heights
(CNS): Despite bad conditions and a health issue for one of their team, Derek Haines and Vico Testori finished the last of three climbs in Bolivia, as part of the Mountains & Marathons Challenge to benefit Have a Heart Cayman. Third team member, Barry Yetton, was forced to abandon the last climb due to respiratory […]
Fundraising initiative helps four charities
(CNS): An Intertrust Cayman staff initiative run over six months in 2015, which combined employee wellness with corporate social responsibility, raised almost US$32,000 that was divided among four local charities. The “One Intertrust, Give It Your All” programme involved four teams given the task of representing four youth and education charities chosen by the company’s […]
Donation for young Caymanian future pilots
(CNS): The Zak Quappe Flight Scholarship (ZQFS) has donated CI$2,500 to the Cayman Airways Flight Club (Clifton Hunter High School Chapter), which will be sending eleven boys and eight girls to the Florida Institute of Technology’s week long summer flight camp at the end of June. ZQFS is one of many Cayman Islands business sponsors of […]
CDS receives $50k anonymous donation
(CNS): Announcing an anonymous donation of US$50,000, the Cayman Drama Society, the leading provider of theatrical entertainment in the Cayman Islands, said that the gift will help the organisation as they expand the role of CDS in the community and in particular the support it provides to schools and to individuals, both young and old […]
DG’s Challenge raises $60K for new ambulance
(CNS): The 2016 DG’s 5K Challenge raised $60,000 towards Cayman Heart Fund’s appeal to buy a new ambulance. The total is $10,000 more than the goal Deputy Governor Franz Manderson set for the event, which was held in April. “I always say that I want the civil service to exceed expectations and I am very […]
Civil servants nourish Feed Our Future
(CNS): Members of the civil service took part in a “Dress for a Cause Day’” on Friday, 27 May, to show support for the Feed Our Future Cayman charity. In the spirit of the occasion, many in attendance at the Government Administration Building took the opportunity to sport the commemorative Child Month/Feed Our Future T-shirt. […]
Derek Haines leads soaring fundraising effort
(CNS): After completing the first of his fundraising tasks, the gruelling Cayman 50K Off the Beaten Track in February, local marathon runner Derek Haines has been training hard, together with Vico Testori and Barry Yetton, for his second mission – to undertake a three-mountain climb in Bolivia, with a combined height of more than 57,285 […]
