Charity
 
While the 501st was initially founded to unite Star Wars villain costumers, one of our real-world missions is to bring good to our communities through volunteer charity work. The 501st is always looking for opportunities to brighten the lives of the less fortunate and to bring awareness to positive causes on both a local and global scale.
 
While we do not charge a fee for appearances (public or private), we enthusiastically welcome donations to our charity work. Your Nordic Garrison event coordinator can tell you which charity we are currently supporting.
 
If you would like to help support the Nordic Garrison in our efforts to help sick children throughout Scandinavia then you can donate money directly to our PostGiro account. The account number is 304070-6 and we are grateful for every donation, no matter how small our large it is. Please make sure to include your name and, if possible, an email address so that we can thank you.
If you have a Paypal account then you can also donate money to us directly.
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At the end of 2006, Nordic Garrison began to collect money for charities in the four countries we represent. Since then we have made the following donations:
 
Date Charity Amount Amount in USD (approx)
01-04-2008 Barncancerfonden 9300SEK $1550
08-01-2008 UNICEF 15700SEK $2500
24-08-2007 St Olav's Hospital 24000NOK $4400
22-07-2007 Barncancerfonden 9000SEK $1400
05-06-2007 Børnecancerfonden 10000DKK $1900
23-05-2007 Barncancerfonden 7000SEK $1000
       
    Total: $12750

You can also check out the payment received and thank you notes here.

 
The children's ward of St. Olavs Hospital Universitetssykehuset in Trondheim will be the recipient of all money that we raise for Norway.  
 
 [Photo © 2004, St.Olavs Hospital]

 
The Danish troopers have selected their local Children's Cancer Foundation as their main charity.
We are also supporting the Children's Cancer Foundation in Sweden.
 

 

 In Finland we support UNICEF, the international organisation which raises money to help protect vulnerable children throughout the world.
 

www.onskefonden.dk  We also support the Danish Make-A-Wish Foundation (Ønskefonden).
 
Internationally, some of the charity groups that the 501st Legion proudly worked with include:

Updated by: TB-5573, 1 April 2008  
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