{"id":11067,"date":"2016-03-23T10:01:29","date_gmt":"2016-03-23T09:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/?p=11067"},"modified":"2016-03-23T10:02:17","modified_gmt":"2016-03-23T09:02:17","slug":"giant-fundraising-campaign-for-cavan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/2016\/03\/giant-fundraising-campaign-for-cavan\/","title":{"rendered":"GIANT FUNDRAISING CAMPAIGN FOR CAVAN"},"content":{"rendered":"

Easter Monday \u00a0The Belfast Giants, together with multi award winning Peninsula Care Services, will be hosting an eggcellent fundraising campaign for Belfast toddler Cavan O\u2019Neill, at the Belfast Giants\u2019 last home game at the SSE Arena against Nottingham Panthers.<\/h1>\n
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Belfast Giant Brandon Benedict is pictured with Jonny Cook and Simon Brown from Peninsula Care Services and Emma and Cavan O'Neill to launch the 'Cavan's First Steps' fundraiser at The Belfast Giants Game on Easter Monday. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Jonny Cook, MD of Northern Ireland\u2019s leading domiciliary care, nursing and recruitment agency is encouraging as many people as possible to attend the Giant\u2019s game and show their generosity to help young Cavan O\u2019Neill take one giant step towards taking his very own first steps. Jonny says;<\/p>\n

\u201cTwo year old Cavan has a specific kind of cerebral palsy, which means he cannot walk.\u00a0 Cavan\u2019s family are presently fundraising through the campaign Cavan\u2019s First Steps, to take Cavan to St Louis\u2019 Children\u2019s Hospital, where Selective Dorsal Rhizotomy surgery will, in the words of the American surgeon, \u2018allow him to walk unaided in all environments.\u2019\u00a0 Peninsula raised a lot of money at their annual Peninsula Care Awards last year and we will continue to support the charity throughout 2016.\u00a0 Hopefully people will dig deep during the Giants\u2019 game next Monday and text donations to help Cavan\u2019s family raise as much money as possible, so that they will get closer to their target of \u00a380,000, a sum that will not only cover the pioneering surgery, but the intensive post-operative physiotherapy and equipment needed.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n

Belfast Giant Brandon Benedict, who met Cavan last week says;<\/p>\n

\u201cCavan is full of energy and fun and thoroughly enjoyed it when I took him in my arms for a spin around the ice-rink. On behalf of all the Belfast Giants, we appeal for as many people as possible to come to our last home game of the season and give as much money as they can to help this beautiful, smart little boy walk. Hopefully this time next year I\u2019ll be teaching Cavan to skate.\u00a0 Now, wouldn\u2019t that be amazing!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Tickets for The Belfast Giants\u2019 Game cost \u00a316 for an adult and \u00a39 for a child and family (2 adults, 2 children) cost \u00a344.00 from the SSE Arena box office or by calling 02890 739074 or from www.ticketmaster.ie<\/a>. Face Off is at 7pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Easter Monday \u00a0The Belfast Giants, together with multi award winning Peninsula Care Services, will be hosting an eggcellent fundraising campaign for Belfast toddler Cavan O\u2019Neill, at the Belfast Giants\u2019 last home game at the SSE Arena against Nottingham Panthers. Jonny Cook, MD of Northern Ireland\u2019s leading domiciliary care, nursing and recruitment agency is encouraging as … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11067"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11067"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11072,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11067\/revisions\/11072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}