The Happy Faces Children's Charity is a registered charity based in North Wales. The charity raises money in North Wales and spends it on children who are sick or disadvantaged.
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Happy Faces was set up by Ray Herbert https://www.facebook.com/ray.herbert1?fref=ts in 2003 who had been an active fund raiser for the Variety Club of Great Britain for many years. After the https://www.variety.org.uk/ decided to remove any funding from north Wales Ray and a few friends set up Happy Faces to provide much need funds for Disadvantaged Children living in North Wales
Happy Faces has a team of volunteers who raise funds for sick, disabled and disadvantaged children in the area of North Wales, with the sole purpose of spending funds on recognised Sick, Disabled and Disadvantaged Children.
The main aim is to supply life enhancing equipment to children on the basis of need. Each case is assessed individually and when a need is identified the Happy Faces team raise funds to meet that need.
Happy Faces are successful in achieving targets by not being hampered by costs. Happy Faces has no overheads such as offices or staff. Happy faces is based in North Wales and raises money in North Wales and spend that money on the children of North Wales without any unnecessary admin costs.
The aim of Happy Faces is to raise funds in the North Wales area, with the sole purpose of spending all the money collected on Sick, Disabled and Disadvantaged Children who live in the North Wales Area.
The committee members and fundraisers are all unpaid volunteers
Funds are raised by putting on Shows in Llandudno Town hall during the summer, collect donates via Buckets, there is a team who ran the London Marathon, 2014 had 11 runners who fund the trip themselves.
Happy Faces has also carried out charity auctions which have raised lots of money.
http://www.happyfacescharity.org.uk/about.html
Secretaries David Pratt
Chairperson David Pratt
Treasurer Ray Herbert MBE