Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity
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Because helping is child's play. Next year our charitable collection will be held in aid of specialist children's hospitals. Are you ready to play with us?
Our charity supports Polish Mountain Volunteer Search & Rescue teams! This time we donated 72 fully equipped "rescue backpacks" and professional paramedic bags worth over 500 000 PLN!
The 12-year old has shown he has what it takes to become a real hero by helping a senior citizen. The boy learned first aid during CPR for Schools lessons at his primary school!
The members of the Board of the Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity Foundation received European Citizen's Prize in the European Parliament. We have been honoured to receive the award alongside three other Polish NGOs: Polish-Jewish Forum and Alicja Szatkowska.
Find out why participating in our CPR Record attempt is a great idea. Join us on October the 16th and try to set a new record at performing simultaneous cardiopulmonary resuscitation with hundreds of thousands of people nationwide!
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Because helping is child's play. Next year our charitable collection will be held in aid of specialist children's hospitals. Are you ready to play with us?
Our charity supports Polish Mountain Volunteer Search & Rescue teams! This time we donated 72 fully equipped "rescue backpacks" and professional paramedic bags worth over 500 000 PLN!
The 12-year old has shown he has what it takes to become a real hero by helping a senior citizen. The boy learned first aid during CPR for Schools lessons at his primary school!
The members of the Board of the Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity Foundation received European Citizen's Prize in the European Parliament. We have been honoured to receive the award alongside three other Polish NGOs: Polish-Jewish Forum and Alicja Szatkowska.
Find out why participating in our CPR Record attempt is a great idea. Join us on October the 16th and try to set a new record at performing simultaneous cardiopulmonary resuscitation with hundreds of thousands of people nationwide!
Jurek Owsiak, the chairman and the creator of the Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity Foundation, picked up the European Citizen's Prize on behalf of the entire Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity Foundation.
Volunteers from Collection Centres in Holland met to discuss new ideas, plans for the future fundraiser, and compared experiences of holding our vibrant fundraiser in the Netherlands.
We won! After a tense match, which ended in a draw, came a series of penalties. The Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity team score, while the team of TVN TV station managed to score 2.
The team representing our charity will come face to face with players from TVN TV station. The charitable game took place for the second time, and we played to raise money to buy a state-of-the-art ambulance for a neonatal ward of a teaching hospital in Poznań.
Join us in this year's record attempt. We will be celebrating "Restart a Heart' Day on October the 16th and showing how easy it is to learn the basics of CPR. Everyone is welcome to participate or hold their own event locally!
We are launching a new training session at Szadowo-Młyn training centre. Our 3-day course is a great combination of team-building, first aid and survival exercises and tasks, which prepare future volunteers for their work at the Pol'and'Rock Festival and other activities of our charity.
Wondering who will be facing off with the team from TVN during the game on September the 9th? Watch the video to meet the players representing the Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity Foundation!
Today is the second day of the Most Beautiful Festival in the World Pol’and’Rock Festival. It is already 24th edition of this amazing event.
White WV golf of well-known TV presenter Filip Chajzer dates from 1984. During Pol'and'Rock Festival it will change its appearance. Szymon Chwalisz – an artist known for painting guitars is going to perform his art on it.
Pol’and’Rock Festival is a great summer Festival where our volunteers who work hard during the winter fundraising concerts can be rewarded for their hard work. Although this is a time to celebrate and fest this is also a place where one can learn lots of useful skills that complement our Foundation’s mission.
On Sunday 9th of September at the stadium next to the Łazienkowska Street in Warsaw, one more time teams of TVN and the Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity are going to meet.
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Because helping is child's play. Next year our charitable collection will be held in aid of specialist children's hospitals. Are you ready to play with us?
Our charity supports Polish Mountain Volunteer Search & Rescue teams! This time we donated 72 fully equipped "rescue backpacks" and professional paramedic bags worth over 500 000 PLN!
The 12-year old has shown he has what it takes to become a real hero by helping a senior citizen. The boy learned first aid during CPR for Schools lessons at his primary school!
The members of the Board of the Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity Foundation received European Citizen's Prize in the European Parliament. We have been honoured to receive the award alongside three other Polish NGOs: Polish-Jewish Forum and Alicja Szatkowska.
We are launching a new training session at Szadowo-Młyn training centre. Our 3-day course is a great combination of team-building, first aid and survival exercises and tasks, which prepare future volunteers for their work at the Pol'and'Rock Festival and other activities of our charity.
On Sunday 9th of September at the stadium next to the Łazienkowska Street in Warsaw, one more time teams of TVN and the Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity are going to meet.
In the light of the recent events, the Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity Foundation made a decision to expand the programme providing rehabilitation equipment for disabled people. The charity will increase the sum and scope of its activity in the area of personal help.
This year's Woman of the Year is Lidia Niedźwiedzka-Owsiak: medical director of the Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity Foundation, social activist and driving force behind the charity. She has been acknowledged for consistency, prudence, and diligence in building the Foundation.
30 major Polish NGOs have issued a joint statement on the proposed changes to the laws regulating public charitable collections in Poland. The changes were put forward by the Ministry of Interior and Administration and might be used to prevent Grand Finale charitable collection.
Peace Patrol just began its training season in the picturesque Szadowo-Młyn training centre. If you'd like to learn new skills, meet new interesting people and begin an adventure of a lifetime, it's high time you applied to take part in the weekend course!
Th Foundation publishes detailed financial reports in order to account for the funds raised at public charitable collections and list what the money has been spent on.
The emotions are still running high but we are able to announce the preliminary amount of money we have raised in 2018. This sum exceeded our expectations!
The Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity Foundation presents the financial report of the 24th Grand Finale charitable collection and preliminary financial report of the 25th charitable collection.
It's been 6 years that the Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity has been cooperating with Mastercard. This year we are rolling out some exciting new features for our volunteers!
Learn more about the motivation behind our new awareness campaign and what steps we are taking to tangibly improve the conditions in which parents and guardians stay at hospitals with their children.
As the name itself might suggest - our fundraiser has music at its core. This year the line-up of the concert in front of the Palace of Culture and Science reads like a memory of this year's Woodstock Poland.
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Our charity supports Polish Mountain Volunteer Search & Rescue teams! This time we donated 72 fully equipped "rescue backpacks" and professional paramedic bags worth over 500 000 PLN!
In the light of the recent events, the Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity Foundation made a decision to expand the programme providing rehabilitation equipment for disabled people. The charity will increase the sum and scope of its activity in the area of personal help.
During the 50th Open Tender, we have signed contracts to purchase almost 5 000 pieces of different equipment. Medical experts purchased equipment for paediatric and neonatal units as well as pull-down beds and recliners for parents, who stay by their children's side.
The Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity Foundation buys equipment by means of an open tender procedure in order to negotiate the best prices and service period for the medical devices. This time we buy equipment for paediatric units and beds and recliners for parents.
The representatives of the Foundation, Jurek and Lidia have officially donated the fully-equipped ambulance to University Children's Hospital in Kraków. The emergency vehicle is worth nearly 600 thousand PLN.
The Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity Foundation has donated a bone densitometry scanner to W. Orłowski Hospital. The device has been purchased with the funds bequeathed to the Foundation by the famous actress, Nina Andrycz.
Just in time for the holidays - together with our friends from TVN Foundation we have officially donated state-of-the-art ambulance purchased with the money raised during our charitable football game to the medical director of the Memorial Children's Hospital.
Learn more about the motivation behind our new awareness campaign and what steps we are taking to tangibly improve the conditions in which parents and guardians stay at hospitals with their children.
Jurek Owsiak, the Chairman of the Board of the Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity Foundation addresses the paediatric hospital directors in a plea to improve the conditions in which parents stay at the hospitals when they accompany their children.
As a result of 49th Open Tender, the Foundation's experts decided to buy equipment for 25 million PLN. We have purchased 3 148 pieces of different equipment for paediatric wards.
Equipment purchased during the 49th Open Tender will be donated to 224 different hospitals in Poland. This time we are buying devices for paediatric wards - you can check which children's hospitals will receive equipment purchased this week below.
The money raised at the 25th Grand Finale collection enables us to plan an impressive set of purchases. We aim to buy 3147 devices which will be then donated to 224 paediatric wards across Poland.
Today we observe World Prematurity Day, which is meant to raise awareness about preterm birth and medical implications and research behind saving prematurely born babies. We aim to purchase equipment which helps save tiny newborns.
We are celebrating World Diabetes Day - it's a great time to think about diabetes awareness and to tell you a bit more about what the Foundation does to help people with diabetes.
Lidia and Jurek Owsiak visited Łódź to commemorate a double anniversary - 20 years of children's cancer treatment in the region and first anniversary of ONCOLAB, which bears the name of the Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity.
Leaps in medicine, doctors' and nurses' dedication - and access to the best available equipment, donated by the Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity Foundation allowed for a successful operation on a tiny newborn baby.
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Wondering who will be facing off with the team from TVN during the game on September the 9th? Watch the video to meet the players representing the Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity Foundation!
During the 50th Open Tender, we have signed contracts to purchase almost 5 000 pieces of different equipment. Medical experts purchased equipment for paediatric and neonatal units as well as pull-down beds and recliners for parents, who stay by their children's side.
Founder, chairman of the board and a long-term volunteer of the Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity Foundation has been named the most admired public figure in Poland by the YouGov ranking for 2018.
The representatives of the Foundation, Jurek and Lidia have officially donated the fully-equipped ambulance to University Children's Hospital in Kraków. The emergency vehicle is worth nearly 600 thousand PLN.
CPR for Schools instructors arrived in Kalisz to show primary school teachers how to present first aid knowledge to their young pupils.
First Grand Finale in Munich, Germany will go down in history as a resounding success for the charity and volunteers have collected €16. 000!
Armed in hats, sunscreens and water bottles, our colleagues from New Zealand held the fort! Thanks! You rock!
The team from the Collection Centre in Toruń invites you to take part in the weekend activities and events at the historic Fort IV in Toruń.
Gadgets from the edges of the world from Polish Polar Station on Svalbard! Handmade and one-of-a-kind souvenirs from the team of researchers and scientists.
The Orchestra will be 'playing' to help neonatological wards on January the 14th, but the Roan band decided to kick-start our charitable collection the only way they can - rock'n'roll style and take the charity on a tour of China.
The Collection Centre based in Rotterdam invites everyone to enjoy some great music from Poland.
Ørganek will be playing in Dublin to support the efforts of the Grand Finale charitable collection in January next year!
The Collection Centre in Krakow has launched a process for drafting Grand Finale volunteers! Check how you can join their team below and find out about their unique charitable auctions below.
As the name itself might suggest - our fundraiser has music at its core. This year the line-up of the concert in front of the Palace of Culture and Science reads like a memory of this year's Woodstock Poland.
26th Grand Finale will take place in the state capital of Victoria. We will be sharing our positive energy and enthusiasm with our friends and neighbours.
The money raised at the 25th Grand Finale collection enables us to plan an impressive set of purchases. We aim to buy 3147 devices which will be then donated to 224 paediatric wards across Poland.
