Truck Run
UPDATE: 28th March 2010 date for the next event
UPDATE: £10,000 raised for Sporting Hearts Children’s Charity on the day. Thanks so much to all who attended or helped in any way!
Welcome to Dungannon Truck Run. “Ireland’s Favourite Truck Event”
Everyone welcome
Truck’n’ fun for all the family. Trucks & Lorries of all shapes and sizes welcome. Help us raise funds for Sporting Hearts children’s charity and help make this the biggest Truck Run In Ireland. You can Download a sponsorship form today or alternatively you can make a donation on the morning. Best of luck.
See you all at Granville Mart on Sunday 28th March 2010 (Gates open 9.30am)
Dungannon Truck Run Ireland’s best
Attractions
- Live music
- Bouncy castle
- “Rolling Motorbike Marshall’s” Courtesy of Northland MCC
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Welcome to Dungannon truck run! The biggest Trucking event in Northern Ireland, 5th / April / 2009 in Granville Mart Dungannon.
Dungannon Truck Convoy 2007
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Armed with a box of disposable cameras and a battered old banjo he bought in a second hand music shop in London Cormac Heron from Maghera set off in early October 2006 for Belgrade as a “goodwill” ambassador for Sporting Hearts.
Cormac’s weekend brief was to bring a group of 50 children from the Roma Children’s Centre in Belgrade to one of the cities many children’s theatres, followed by a trip to the zoo and then finally a well earned happy meal in McDonalds.
Dungannon Truck Convoy
Perhaps the most important feature of Cormac’s brief was the insistence that he entertains and enthrals the children. This he did with the greatest of ease with some illusions and his singing and banjo playing as he walked the children through the centre of the Serbian capital.
Cormac presented each child with a disposable camera so they could record their own personal photo diary of the day’s events. You can see a selection of their Photographs in our photo gallery.
Following to the success of his weekend with the Roma children in Belgrade Cormac has volunteered to take more kids to the theatre in April next year. If you wish to help him raise the funds for this trip all you have to do is click justgiving and make a donation to Sporting Hearts.
Truck Run
Resnik Refugee Camp
Sporting Heart has an ongoing project at the Resnik refugee camp on the outskirts of Belgrade. For the past two years we have been organising outings for the children who live there. Our second annual weekend of events was held on Saturday 15th and Sunday 16th October 2005 and was hailed a huge success by both children and organisers a like. On Saturday we travelled to the Puzic children’s theatre in the centre of Belgrade to see a production of The Four Piglets. This was followed by a very boisterous kids meal in McDonalds. Following this the children walked to Knez Mihajlova (Main pedestrian area) where they took part in an afternoon of action and awareness highlighting the plight of refugees and IDPs living in Serbia and Montenegro. This day of awareness was organised by Group 484 who also coordinated and provided volunteers for our events. Sunday saw us journey once again by bus to the centre of Belgrade to visit Belgrade Zoo. Each child was given a disposable camera to record his or her unique photo diary of the day’s events. (click on gallery to view photos) By popular demand we made a very hungry B-line for McDonalds before journeying back home to the Resnik refugee camp.
Children’s Play Area
When Big hearted lorry driver Kieren Conroy and his girlfriend Joanne Campbell, from Ballygawley and Omagh respectively, volunteered to travel to the Resnik refugee camp to help with this years weekend of events they had no idea that they would be so moved by the plight of the children that they would make a pledge to build safe a play area within the Resnik camp. Kieren and Joanne raised over £700 pounds for the trip and this has now been set-aside for the building of a play area in April 2006.
Spring Sports Camp
The Sporting Hearts spring sports camp will be held in April 2006 at Lake Palic . It will bring together teenagers form thirteen to nineteen years of age from refugee camps and collective centres throughout Serbia and Montenegro for a weekend of football, basketball, cycling, martial arts and an experimental introduction to Gaelic football, a first for the Balkans, coached by Sporting Hearts committee member Thomas Colton who has seven years coaching experience as a Tyrone county GPO. Thomas hopes to nurture a team of young player which, if we secure funding, he will bring to Ireland, in the not too distant future, for a series of games and coaching master classes.
Photographic Exhibition
As a result of the high standard and interesting content of the photographs taken by the children on our outings, using only basic single use cameras, we are happy to announce that a selection of these photographs will be exhibited in a fourth coming international exhibition. Watch this space for venues and dates.
Roma Project
On a recent trip to Serbia two of our volunteers visited the Roma encampment of Staro Sajmiste on the outskirts of New Belgrade. They both thought it a matter of urgency that we look into how best to channel our resources in a way that would best serve the interests of the Roma children. I am glad to say that we are now establishing links with the Roma community in Serbia with the view of hosting an annual event, similar to our Resnik event.
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