Is it the real @Status_Quo & @willyoung performing @wirralrocks?
Published on: 29/02/2016|
In a word, yes! Wirral Hospice St John’s really and truly are bringing real life rock legends Status Quo to the Wirral! We promise you it’s not a tribute act, it will most definitely be Francis Rossi and Rick Parfitt! The mighty Quo will be performing an amazing back catalogue of hits old and new, at our Wirral Rocks concert at Prenton Park on Sat 21 May 2016.
But before all that, the very real, funky hunk Will Young will be belting out some fabulous tunes at Wirral Rocks’ opening night on Fri 20 May 2016. But where did this idea stem from? Well, it was a light-hearted chat between some Hospice colleagues that snowballed to where we are today! We wanted to put on a much bigger fundraising event than we have ever done before to try to raise awareness of our special care within our local community and importantly raise a significant amount to contribute towards that special care our charity provides to hundreds of families across Wirral each year, which although free to our patients costs in the region of £3.5million per annum – only a third of which comes from NHS funding. In an increasingly tightened economy, we need to have a wide range of opportunities for people to support us. We know not everyone is in a position to give cash donations time and time again. Getting value for money is understandably important to people, so if that can be coupled with a rather good night out in aid of charity (like at Wirral Rocks or perhaps one of our other, smaller fundraising events) then even better! We went through a comprehensive process to ensure that our plans for Wirral Rocks were discussed appropriately with our charity’s Board of Trustees before gaining a seal of approval. We need to be honest with our supporters though, this event is not happening for free. Although there are some elements that are free or have come with a significant charity discount. But because of this financial outlay, it’s essential that this event is a success. And for that we are calling on you for your help! How can you help?
We want our supporters and ticket buyers to be reassured that all profits Wirral Rocks makes will be put to immediate and important use in providing crucial care and support for our patients and their loved ones at their time of most need. And we look forward to sharing how much money the event helps us to raise afterwards. This is the biggest and boldest event we’ve ever committed ourselves to, and we will be promoting is heavily on social media and is some of the local newspapers over the coming months. Even if you’re not a Status Quo or Will Young fan, please be patient with our promotions about it – it’s all for the fantastic cause that we know you all care as much as we do about. It will all be helping to raise lots of interest in who we are, what we do and hopefully people who don’t know very much about us may come away after the event feeling proud of playing a part in helping us to raise much-needed funds for our charity. Tickets for both acts are on sale via www.wirralrocks.com or you can call Ticketmaster on 0844 844 0444 (premium number) to book standing or seated tickets. Will Young tickets are £35 and Status Quo £35.50, both subject to standard booking and postage fees. If you’d like to help distribute flyers or join a volunteer promo team one night and/or pop your name on our list for ‘volunteer crew’ members for one of the nights, please contact the Fundraising Office on 0151 343 0778 or email my colleague, Michelle Talgam at michellet@wirralhospice.org. Thank you so much for taking the time to read this, we do hope to see you at one of our Wirral Rocks nights, or perhaps at one of our other fundraising events in the near future. Best wishes, Teresa xx
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