Oxford Road Baptist Church Parent and Toddler Group win Meningitis UK’s national Mini Maskathon competition
Children and Staff from Oxford Road Baptist Church Parent and Toddler Group will be presented with £200 worth of Early Learning Centre Vouchers by Meningitis UK's Chief Executive, Steve Dayman
Creative tots from Oxford Road Baptist Church Parent and Toddler Group are looking forward to splashing out on £200 worth of new toys after coming first in Meningitis UK's national Mini Maskathon competition.
Meningitis UK invited nurseries across the UK to make masks and hold a sponsored event to raise money for life-saving vaccine development research. The competition was to find the most imaginative group based on the creativity of their masks and way of raising money.
Children from Oxford Road Parent and Toddler Group beat over 100 nurseries and pre-school groups to win the Early Learning Centre vouchers by making clown-themed masks and doing an obstacle course. 40 children took part and raised over £900.
Janet Johnson, the event organiser said "the children slid down a slide, whilst singing along to the ‘It's a Maskathon' CD and hopped and skipped along a corridor to the large stepping-stone path that we made and then followed this into the church, where they paraded up and down the aisles."
Bacterial meningitis and meningococcal septicaemia continue to kill more children under five than any other infectious disease. Although successful vaccines exist to protect against some forms of meningitis, there is still no vaccine to protect against the most common form of the disease in the UK - meningococcal group B which can cause both meningitis and septicaemia. Meningitis UK has a single focus - to support research into finding a vaccine to eradicate all forms of meningitis.
Steve Dayman, Meningitis UK's Chief Executive said "we are very grateful to all the nurseries that took part and congratulate Oxford Road Parent and Toddler Group for their tremendous efforts and I'm sure they will find the Early Learning Centre vouchers useful. Support such as this is crucial in enabling the charity to continue making a significant contribution towards eradicating meningitis."
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