Kaleidoscope for CHAS are delighted to announce the third Butterfly Ball in support of Children's Hospices Across Scotland. Throughout the charity’s history, it has been constantly reviewing service delivery to ensure the most efficient and effective level of support for families.

If all of that is not enough, there will be dancing into the wee small hours to the fantastic sounds of Scoonie Brae punctuated with a reviving beverage and homemade shortbread break at midnight. In recent years Caudwell Children has been re-defined as the ‘national charity with a local heart’, maintaining its roots within local communities and enjoying life-long relationships with many of its thousands of We were extremely privileged that charity beneficiaries, Maxwell and Chara attended the ball where they shared their own stories of feeling different but being accepted, understood and supported by Caudwell Children.As Caudwell Children continues its annual growth and plans for greater expansion and development unfold, the driving inspiration for its initial formation remain as important as it did in 2000. This year’s Butterfly Ball, London celebrated diversity of all forms and successfully painted a picture of the world the charity is shaping in which everyone’s differences are seen as their strengths, instead of their weaknesses.

Donnelly, Kevin (26 February 2002). Pop Music in British Cinema: A Chronicle. Bloomsbury Academic. p.85. ISBN 978-0-85170-863-8 . Retrieved 11 January 2022. Passionate, positive and practical, the charity team are motivated to improve the lives of the estimated 770,000 disabled children in the UK living, starting with the 400,000 living on or below the poverty line. Driven from the Chief Executive and the Board of Trustees, Caudwell Children remain passionate about making a real difference to the lives of individual disabled children. Caudwell Children always pull out all of the stops to make each event even more spectacular and life-changing than the last, so keep your eyes peeled to see when you can book for next year’s event. An accompanying animated short film, The Butterfly Ball, was made by the Halas & Batchelor company. [4]From this sprang the partnership with the late William Plomer, winner of the Queens Gold Medal for Poetry and former President of the Poetry Society, who wrote completely new verse to complement Alan Aldridge’s final total of twenty-eight illustrative plates. The charity is now widely recognised as one of the fastest growing children’s charities in the UK and the second largest independent providers of specialist equipment.

Roger Glover The Butterfly Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast review". Allmusic. Rovi Corporation . Retrieved 24 January 2022. It's fascinating to read this older work and spot all the little connections with the more recent work of Plomer and Aldridge: Thompson, Dave (2004). Smoke on the Water: The Deep Purple Story. ECW Press. p.207. ISBN 978-1-55022-618-8 . Retrieved 11 January 2022. Exposé (1976) Written and directed by James Kenelm Clarke, Exposé (released as House on Straw Hill in some markets) starred former Warhol… At this point, with the network of support associated with being a part of a multinational corporate now gone, the charity team expanded and increased the volume of community and corporate fundraising activity across the country.Following the successful sale of his family business, entrepreneur and philanthropist, John Caudwell, committed to a long-term partnership with the charity. This generated a minor UK hit single titled Love Is All, with vocals by heavy metal vocalist Ronnie James Dio, and plans were made for a full-length animated feature – but by the time Glover had finished writing songs for the proposed movie, production was cancelled. In 2012 the charity officially launched their seven Core Projects; devised after a decade of learning about the needs of families with disabled children and designed to fill the gap left by statutory services and other charities.