PRESS CALL NOTICE from RIBI

June 2003

Date: Tuesday July 1st 2003
Place: Richard House Children’s Hospice, Richard House Drive, London E16 3RG
Time: 10.30 am

ROTARY LAUNCHES PARTNERSHIP WITH ASSOCIATION OF CHILDREN’S HOSPICES

Rotary International in Great Britain and Ireland is launching a partnership with the Association of Children’s Hospices to offer Rotary support to the children’s hospice movement throughout these islands. The Association will benefit from Rotarians providing hands on help to all 43 of their member organisations’ hospices as well as fund raising initiatives throughout the next year. Rotary will be announcing details of the partnership which will include organising Butterfly Tea Parties in Children’s Hospice Week 22-27 September 2003.

Programme of Launch event

10.30am Coffee
Press Photo call with Fiona Phillips from GMTV, Brian Stoyel President Rotary International in Great Britain & Ireland, Barbara Gelb Chief Executive of Association of Children’s Hospices
11am Welcome from Brian Stoyel, President of Rotary
11.05 Robin Jones, Rotary Community & Vocational Chairman: The Rotary programme for ACH
11.15 Peter Ellis, Chairman of Trustees of ACH & Barbara Gelb, Chief Executive of ACH : The role of ACH
11.25 Fiona Phillips from GMTV officially launches the partnership and cuts a celebration cake.
11.45 Guests tour Richard House
13.00 Close
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For further details about this press release, please call Judith Diment, on: 01628 672965 or 07860162313 Email: judithdiment@aol.com
Radio interviews can be arranged.

Directions to Richard House
Access to Richard House Children’s Hospice is from Richard House Drive, just off of Stansfeld Road, which runs between Tollgate Road and Royal Albert Dock.

Please note Richard House Drive does not feature on some older A-Z maps.

Richard House is about five minutes walk from the DLR Royal Albert station:

* From the platform walk down the stairs and straight ahead
* Pass the London Development Agency building
* Turn right over footbridge which passes over main road
* At the very far end of footbridge take path to right
* Turn immediately left and left again into Richard House Drive
* Richard House Children’s Hospice is behind large green gates.

Richard House is a few minutes drive from the North Circular, A406, linked to M25, M11, M1, M3 & M4. Turn off and head into the City and Docklands along Royal Albert Way, signed for ExCel. Richard House Drive is the first proper left turn off Stansfeld Road, which is a right turn off Royal Albert roundabout.
There is free parking at the Hospice.