One of the things I am most proud of is the forum charity prize draws - with the help and generosity of Damien and our amazing fandom, we have successfully fundraised for a total of 4 important charities!
A new section with all the details has been added to the lead post, but the highlights are below.
The DMF & Damien Charity fundraisers
Embrace CVOC, January 2015
From 13 January - 10 February 2015 The Damien Molony Forum and Suspects TV Show fanpage ran a fundraiser for Embrace CVOC, a charity helping child victims of crime. With Damien's help we raised£580.18! Damien kindly personalised a huge number of items for the prize draw, including photos and DVD covers. Read more about that here
Make A Wish Ireland, January 2016
January 2016 The Damien Molony Forum ran a fundraiser for Make A Wish Ireland and with Damien's help raised £256 to help make a New Year wish come true for children battling life-threatening illnesses. Damien kindly gave us a personalised Clean Break DVD for the prize draw. Read more about the Make A Wish fundraiser here
The Mega Molony Memorabilia Charity Prize Draw, December 2016
Autumn 2016 Damien gifted the forum with very special mementos (props, costumes, signed posters, photos) from his projects (Being Human, Suspects, The Body Of An American, Tiger Raid, No Man’s Land). His exclusive goodies enabled us to run a ‘Mega’ charity Prize Draw (from 10 October to 4 December) and raise £1040 for two very important causes Combat Stress, the UK’s leading veterans’ mental health charity and Mind, the leading mental health charity in England and Wales. Read more about the MMM Charity Prize Draw here
In 2017, Damien also helped DMF with another charity fundraiser, this year in Aid of Age UK.
That is 4 years in a row he has enable us to support important an important cause!
Christmas King Lear Charity Prize Draw For Age UK, December 2017
Damien personally organised a programme signed by him and every single cast member of the Chichester Festival Theatre production of King Lear for our 2017 charity prize draw, which ran from 27 November to 17 December 2017. With his help and support during the campaign, we fundraised a total of £445 for Age UK the largest UK charity supporting older people.
During the fundraiser, Damien posted on his Instagram page and added the fundraiser page in his Instagram Bio!