Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity
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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.
The Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity and KręciołaTV lead popularity among NGOs and social initiatives YouTube channels according to the Sotrender ranking.
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.
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.
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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.
The Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity and KręciołaTV lead popularity among NGOs and social initiatives YouTube channels according to the Sotrender ranking.
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.
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.
We aim to deliver colourful plaques to primary schools taking part in our CPR for Schools educational programme. We think it's a great way to acknowledge schools which go the extra mile to educate their pupils.
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.
As spring approaches us so swiftly, we would like to wish you joy, love, and happiness. Let your days be filled with friendship, tolerance, and understanding.
Our charity holds the 24th edition of the Most Beautiful Festival in the World! The time has come for our festival to emerge under a new, genuine name. Join us in Kostzyn nad Odrą in August to experience an event like no other!
The Board of the Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity Foundation decided that this year the charity will be using the funds raised through 1% charitable tax donations to support the child and adolescent psychiatric facilities.
Today we were able to reveal the amount we have raised at the public charitable collection held on January the 14th! The sum is truly amazing - and you made it all possible!
Volunteer firefighters took part in 3-day first aid and pedagogical training preparing them to take part in the educational initiative CPR for Schools.
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!
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 process of counting the money raised at the Grand Finale public collection is lengthy and complicated. There are different fundraising methods to be accounted for and the money we raised is counted until March the 8th.
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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.
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.
We appeal to all parents and carers of children suffering from congenital limb diseases to research treatment options for your child's affliction in Polish clinics before seeking help abroad!
264 pieces of equipment - ranging from heavy-duty chainsaws and professional first aid equipment to power generators and powerful mud pumps - have been donated to 178 volunteer fire departments across Poland.
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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.
We appeal to all parents and carers of children suffering from congenital limb diseases to research treatment options for your child's affliction in Polish clinics before seeking help abroad!
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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.
...and support our educational initiative CPR for Schools Programme by taking part in the 12th GOCC Run which will take place on the day of the Grand Finale, on January the 14th, 2018.
