You may have heard us mentioning the New Pyjamas Campaign, and how we played at the launch at Dundas Castle last weekend, but you probably don't know what it's all about and why we got involved.
Well, we're supporting the new pyjamas campaign to raise £15 million for the new Sick Kids hospital to be built in Edinburgh by 2012. This money will go to the new hospital, funding equipment and services which are not provided by standard NHS budgets.
We are supporting the charity in the way that we know best - through music. We played at the launch, and we wrote the song 'Turn it around' specially for the campaign. Music is such a fantastic way of making people feel better and we love the idea of helping that happen by doing what we love – playing our music.
Here’s a quote from Elaine McGonigle, director of the new pyjamas campaign, she says:
‘When I first heard about Tamikas Treehouse, I had just been appointed director of the new pyjamas campaign to raise £15million for the new Sick Kids hospital in Edinburgh.
‘It seemed so opportune that this group of young guys was beginning to break ground in their field of music whilst I was trying to do the same in ours for a new fundraising campaign. When I met the band I was so impressed - not just with their music but as them as individuals, that I asked them to be the campaign band – and thank heavens they said yes. The guys are so supportive of what we are doing, their music is creative and professional and I know they will be loved by everyone. Tamikas Treehouse really will be helping us in ......making sick kids better....’
For more information about the campaign, visit
www.newpyjamas.org, join the
social network, and listen to our audio podcast while you're there.
We'll keep you updated with New Pyjamas news, as well as our own, as things develop.
