Show You Care With A Bear
Victoria Plaza
Southend-on-Sea
10th November 2016
Martin and Su from Heart Breakfast Show show they 'care with a bear' at Victoria Plaza's Christmas Tree Project launch
A spectacular 22 foot tall tree, adorned with over 1200 soft toys was launched yesterday, 10th November 2016, in The Victoria Shopping Centre, Southend, as part of The Christmas Tree Project that the shopping centre is running with the Cliffs Pavilion.
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​The soft toys decorating the tree are themed on the Cliffs’ Christmas Pantomime, Robinson Crusoe and the Caribbean Pirates, and these toys will be distributed to a collection of organisations in early January. ‘Donation Stations’ will be placed at the Victoria and at the Cliffs Pavilion with the tagline ‘Show you care with a Bear’ so that the public also can donate brand new cuddly toys. 
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​Westerings Primary Academy are also supporting the project and pupils were invited to donate toys at their ‘Donation Station’ at the school.
The organisations to benefit include Southend Hospital’s Neptune Ward, Little Havens Hospice in Benfleet and the Children’s Society.

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Representatives from both The Victoria and the Cliffs Pavilion were joined by Martin & Su from Heart Essex Breakfast as well as representatives from some of the organisations benefiting from the project, plus the principal and a small group of children from Westerings Primary Academy (who are supporting the project).








​from left to right:
Elise Fleetwood - Events & Corporate Relations Manager - Southend University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Tina Seckleman – Chairman of Southend on Sea Committee for The Children’s Society
Sally Bridger, Community Fundraiser, Havens Hospice
Cyndy Strange - Supporter - The Children’s Society
Photo credits: Stephen Hawke
For tickets for Robinson Crusoe Pantomime go to www.southendtheatres.org.uk
To Donate Click Here 
For more info about the Victoria Shopping Centre go to their website
Martin and Su are on Heart every weekday morning