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Marvin’s Marvellous Picnic is here for the summer!
This summer, Marvin – mascot of Roald Dahl’s Marvellous Children’s Charity – is inviting the nation to pack their sandwiches, grab a blanket, and get together to host a delumptious picnic to raise funds for Roald Dahl Nurses.
Launching on 30 June, National Children’s Nurses Day, Marvin’s Marvellous Picnic is a fun way for friends, families, colleagues, and communities across the UK to come together, enjoy the sunshine, and help establish more marvellous nurses.
To help make every picnic phizz-whizzing, Marvin has put together a fundraising pack filled with everything you need to host the perfect picnic – from games and invitations, to a handy picnic check-list, and plenty of fantastic fundraising ideas to inspire your guests to get involved. Whether it’s a garden get-together, a picnic in the park or even an office lunch, it couldn’t be easier to take part.
Picnickers who raise over £250 will be entered into a prize draw to win an exclusive signed Revolting Recipes book and other Roald Dahl goodies.
Sophie Fanning-Tichborne, the charity’s Director of Fundraising and Communications, said: “Marvin’s Marvellous Picnic is an exciting way to bring people together this summer and do something for an incredible cause. Every picnic will directly help to establish more Roald Dahl Nurses, who provide specialist care and life-changing support to seriously ill children and their families when they need it most. We can’t wait to see picnics taking place all over the country this summer!”
Behind each picnic is a marvellous purpose. Every child’s life should be full of wonder, mischief, and marvellous mayhem. For thousands of children these years are taken up by illness and fear. Roald Dahl’s Marvellous Children’s Charity exists to write a different story for these children by providing specialist nursing care.
Leaders in their field, Roald Dahl Nurses transform the lives of seriously ill children and the families who love and care for them. They bridge the gap between hospital and home life, coordinate care across appointments and specialists, cut through medical jargon and are there in the moments of crisis when families feel the most overwhelmed.
Help raise funds for more marvellous nurses and join Marvin on a picnic that makes a real difference. Find out more and download your fundraising pack to get started here.