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Thames Valley Charity of the Year 2020
Play2Give in the Press!
During the course of our lifetime, our incredible work as a charity has been followed hugely by our local and regional press, and sometimes we have hit the headlines nationally, too. A wide selection of just some of the many newspaper articles online including TV reports can all be viewed by the links below.
2022
- Truck Festival raises more than £120k for charities
- Play2Give raises more than £700 at Halloween Disco
- Sleigh2Give launches for 8th year
- Didcot charity celebrates 15th anniversary by changing legal status
- Didcot charity founder receives private invite to No10
- Didcot’s Play2Give annual football tournament makes £2,000
- Angels Performing Arts in Didcot raise more than £1,900
- Mocky Khan steps down as Mayor of Didcot
- Didcot’s Play2Give doubled its Easter egg donations
- Didcot’s Play2Give hopes to raise £15,000 to celebrate 15 years of fundraising
- Didcot Town Awards celebrate community champions
- Play2Give launches Easter egg appeal
- ITV Meridian News: Community Champions
- ​PROFILE: Who is Andy Baker, Didcot’s Play2Give founder
- Charities congratulate Play2Give founder for 20 years of fundraising
- Brain injury survivor and founder of Didcot charity Play2Give celebrates fundraising milestone
2021
- ​Dance School teams up with children’s charity for Christmas
- Christmas Sleigh2Give gift campaign kick starts with business leaders toy donation
- Didcot’s Play2Give founder awarded with MBE for 20 years of fundraising
- ​Superheroes blasted with colour in Didcot’s charity fun run
- Disability charities launch colourful superhero fun run
- Oxfordshire Health & Social Care Awards: Volunteers of the Year Award finalists
- ‘I shaved my hair off for my mum Angela’
- ​Sponsored head shave and dye for Play2Give
2020
- Didcot’s Play2Give founder to be awarded MBE
- New Year Honours list: Award winners in Oxfordshire
- Sleigh2Give delivers thousands of Christmas gifts in Oxfordshire
- David Johnston: My first year as Wantage MP
- Mini festive market in Didcot this weekend
- Milton Park donated its Christmas party cash to Didcot charities
- Sports company owner runs 100 miles to raise £1000
- Didcot Christmas appeal Sleigh2Give had a spectacular superhero launch
- Didcot garage donates hundreds to help young carers
- ​The brain injury survivor that has raised thousands
- Angels keep dancing for charity effort
- Foodbank gets an eggcellent Easter donation of 200 eggs
- Charity football tournament is getting ready to kick off
- David Johnston: I’ve now met two of Didcot’s greatest heroes
- Didcot Charity ‘Play2Give’ founder given award
- Prime Minister awards Didcot charity ‘Play2Give’ founder
2019
- ​Sleigh2Give brings toys to the Oxford Children’s Hospital
- Christmas has come early for the children in Didcot
- Town centre is now home to 24-hour gym
- Supermarket shoppers can now donate gifts to children in need
- Surprise a child with Christmas present they may not have otherwise received
- Pride of Britain Fundraiser of the Year
- ​ITV Meridian Pride of Britain Awards Fundraiser of the Year
- Goal! Andy’s up for ITV Pride of Britain Awards
- Superheroes walk almost twelve hours for charity
- Town’s most talented take part in sell-out show
- Fundraiser named ‘community champion of the year’
- Does Didcot have talent? Auditions open for big show
2018
- Volunteers celebrate record year for Sleigh2Give campaign
- ‘Driven by my gift of life’ – brain-injured fundraiser smashes his £100,000 target
- Sleigh2Give campaign aims to collect thousands of presents this Christmas
- PICTURES; Didcot’s first summer fayre ‘absolutely fabulous’
- Didcot Summer Fayre: Inaugural event to bring whole town together
- ​New weekly quiz nights to start in Boundary Park for Play2Give
- Dedicated Play2Give fundraiser visits palace for 30th to remember
- Didcot man pledges to walk a million steps in a month
- Oxfordshire Business Awards 2018 – finalists announced
- ​Charity champion invited to Royal garden party
​2017
- ​Fundraisers and Father Christmas bring joy to sick children
- Play2Give raise almost double £10k target in record breaking year
- PICS: Santa run at business park raises hundreds for charity
- Didcot honours best businesses and community organisations at glitzy ceremony
- Charity that helps sick children aims to raise £10,000 to mark 10th anniversary
- Tenth charity football tournament ‘extra special’ for organiser
- Emotional day for dedicated fundraiser as he collects national award
- BBC South Today Oxford: British Citizen Award for Andrew
- Dedicated fundraiser honoured by award for his 15-year campaign
- Emotional moment for charity campaigner after fundraising efforts pay off
- Leaping and twirling family fun day raises cash for Children’s Hospital
2016
- Elf Baker spreads Christmas spirit to poorly children in hospital
- Christmas toy-appeal sees flurry of supporters to make it the biggest yet
- Footballs swapped for sleigh bells as charity launches its Christmas toy appeal
- Walker battles through brain injury to raise cash for charity
- High scoring fundraisers took to the pitch for annual tournament
- Oxford Children’s Hospital fundraising heroes kick off 2016 efforts with charity football match
- New year starts for footballing fundraiser Andrew Baker
- Feature: The funding team with a £50k goal in sight for children’s hospital
