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The Christopher Salmon Poetry Competition 2025
Rowan McCabe at Calday
The Christopher Salmon Poetry Competition winners 2024
The Christopher Salmon Poetry Competition winners 2024
The Christopher Salmon Poetry Competition winners 2024
The Christopher Salmon Poetry Competition 2023
2020 Christmas Tree donated to Greasby Village in memory of Christopher
June 2018 HMRC Tuck Shop Donation
We are delighted to announce
Wirral Scout & Guide Christmas Charity Post 2017
Events
Future Events
Past Events
Quiz Night Irby Cricket Club 13/10/18
Quiz Night Irby Cricket Club 3/02/2018
Race Night Irby Cricket Club October 2016
Julie's friends and colleagues fundraising day
Fashion Show & Clothes Sale Thursday 19th November 2015
Quiz night and Cheque Handover Event Saturday 17th October 2015
Christmas Lights to benefit the local Community
Fashion Show November 2014
Chris Hughes raises funds for the Foundation.
Liverpool Marathon 14/10/2012
Sue's 60th Birthday Celebrations
Family and Friends do Tough Mudder in April 2014
Charity Auction April 2014
Fashion Show Fundraiser November 2013
Casino night 2013
Fashion Show Fundraiser May 16th 2013
OMD - VIP Ticket Raffle
FPH Law Fundraising Day March 2013
Bootle Contact Centre raise funds from Dress Down Day
Magnificent sum raised by Bennett House at Calday Grange Grammar School
Dan tackles the 3 peaks dressed as a Cow !
Foundation benefit from Slimming World Group (Serpentine Road) fundraising in 2013
Greasby Junior School raise over £2000 for the Foundation during Charity Week 2013
Glassfire "The Reunion "6th September 2012
5K Liverpool September 2012
Casino Night Fundraiser
Wirral Coastal Walk 2012
The Glassfire Sept 2011
The Liverpool Half Marathon
Carol Ann Duffy dedicates Poetry Evening to Chris
Sky Dive July 2010
Soccer Aid 2010
Signed Football Shirt Raffle April 2010
Rushie Bear October 2009
Jay and Bobbo at the Farmers
Frockswap March 2009
Wirral Coastal Walk 2009
Signed Football Shirt Raffle April 2010
Bingo Night April 2009
Tuck Shop Fundraiser
Queens Garden Party May 2015
Poetry
The Christopher Salmon Poetry Competition 2025
The Christopher Salmon Poetry Competition 2024
Winning entries for the Christopher Salmon poetry competition 2023
The Christopher Salmon Foundation Poetry Competition 2023
The Winners of The Christopher Salmon Poetry Competition 2022
Winners of The Christopher Salmon Poetry Competition 2021
The Winners of the Christopher Salmon Poetry Extravaganza 2020
Poetry Extravaganza 2020
Poetry Extravaganza 2019
Poetry Extravaganza 2018
Poetry Awards Evening Photos 2018
Poetry Extravaganza 2017
Poetry Extravaganza 2016
Poetry Extravaganza 2015
Poetry Extravaganza 2014
Poetry Extravaganza 2013
Poetry Extravaganza 2012
Chris's Poetry
The Siege of Ghosts
Sinking Ships
What do I smell of?
It Was The Butler
The Tattoo
Writer’s Block
My My Macadamia
Gallery
21st Birthday Charity Auction
Gallery 1
Gallery 2
Russia
Siege of Leningrad book
Trip to St.Petersburg
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he Christopher Salmon Foundation is a registered charity : number 1132231.
The charity has two aims, firstly to raise funds to help pay for some research into the streptococcal virus that cruelly robbed Chris of his young life, in the hope that in future no other family has to go through the heartbreak we have.
Secondly to fund educational projects such as the annual poetry competition we run in conjunction with Wirral Library Service.The Chris Salmon Poetry Extravaganza started out in 2010 initially as a poetry competition for young people living or attending school in the Wirral area but in 2012 we also opened it to aspiring poets of all ages residing to attending school in the Wirral area. The overall Prize Winner under 18 is awarded the Chris Salmon Poetry Extravaganza cup and will be The Wirral Libraries Young Poet of the year. Winners in five age categories are awarded cash prizes and invited to attend a workshop with renowned local poets. We have had the pleasure of working with the wonderful and inspiring Levi Tafari, John Hughes and Curtis Watt.The 2018 competition attracted nearly 1100 entries which was phenomenal and we look forward to it growing each year.
We have provided Calday Grammar School with a cup to be awarded on an annual basis for outstanding effort in Russian studies. Chris studied Russian in Calday and through the encouragement of his wonderful Russian teacher he was passionate about the language- by having the award we wanted to encourage this enthusiasm in future students.Three students from the school were also awarded money by the foundation towards an educational visit to Auschwitz and a further three to Peru .
We have also provided Greasby Junior School ,where Chris spent his earlier school life very happily, with a behaviour cup. The title was chosen by the Head and teachers at the school as part of the effort to encourage good behaviour - the cup is awarded weekly to the best behaved class - apparently this has been compared by one of the pupils as similar to winning the FA cup!!
The Junior school themselves had a new library in spring 2010 which thanks to the Head and Teachers is known as " The Chris Salmon Library" a fitting tribute that we are most proud of.We donated £2000 to the school to purchase new books for the library.
We have also placed a bench dedicated to Chris on the prom in West Kirby for everyone to enjoy ,if you would like to visit the bench it is at the far end, at the bottom of Riversdale Road just before you go on the beach walking towards Red Rocks. In the memorial garden at Calday school there is a tree and plaque dedicated to Chris and this can be visited at anytime by walking down the driveway at the back of the school by the field on Column Road.
It would have been Chris's 21st birthday in April 2014 and
to
mark the occasion we set ourselves a challenge to raise £21,000 between
September 2012 and April 2014. Thanks to the kind and generous support of our friends we managed to achieve this target on Chris's actual Birthday. This has enabled us to make a donation of £1000 to the Candice Colley Foundation and donate £7,000 each to Meningitis Now and The UK Sepsis Trust
, as both conduct research into the condition that affected Christopher. We donated £4,000 for the purchase of additional Christmas lights for Greasby Village in Chris's memory, as we felt that this was a fitting tribute to him, as he not only loved Christmas but he lit up our lives,so now he can light up everyone else's over the festive season. The final £2,000 was used to fund the 2015 Poetry Extravaganza.
Although our £21,000 goal to mark Chris's 21st was reached in April 2014 our fundraising continues , as we have the annual Poetry Extravaganza to fund and several other projects in mind. For details of future fundraising events please see the future events page. Thank you to everyone for your continued support as we could not have got this far without you.
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