Keep updated on news and events from The Hanging Lantern Company...
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9th March 2010
The Hanging Lantern Company featured in leading wedding blog...
"Rather than have bright lighting at a venue I think it’s far nicer to create a much more romantic setting with the use of softer lighting such as paper lanterns, fairy lights, chandeliers, projected lighting and candles for those places that allow it. Even sparklers, although only alight for a short time, offer attractive illumination which can look amazing if captured on camera (I’ve seen some awesome images of this which I’ll post at a later date).
My love of lighting may well pop up on several occasions on this blog but today I am just going to focus on paper lanterns. Apparently these lights were initially used by the Chinese to ward off bad spirits. Although they’re now mainly just used for decoration it couldn’t hurt if they did really work in warding off bad spirits at your own wedding right? Magical powers or not I love these papery balls of light and have collected a few images to show you how pretty they can look...."
You can continue reading the blog and see some great Chinese lantern picures at http://www.belleamour.co.uk/
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28th February 2010
The Hanging Lantern Company was pleased to exhibit at the Sundridge Park Wedding Show 2010 in Bromley, Kent. With a large selection of our hanging Chinese lanterns on display, the event was a great success! Click here for all of our hanging lantern event photos.
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26th February 2010, Sussex Express
Lanterns for Schools
A new firm based in Ringmer has donated Chinese lanterns to local schools so children can decorate them. Rob Payne founded The Hanging Lantern Company last November. Its part of a business in the USA which owns a lantern factory in China. To mark the firms launch and let people know what they do, Rob has given local schools £100-worth of lanterns each including Framfield primary school for a Chinese New Year day last month.
He has also pledged to give 3% of all orders to the Chestnut Tree House Hospice near Arundel in West Sussex. He is planning to organise fundraising events throughout the year for the charity and provide the hospice with lanterns to add colour and spectacle.
Rob said “I’m delighted to have the chance to get involved in bringing even the smallest joy to a child’s life” Visit www.hanginglanterns.co.uk .
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24th February 2010
The Hanging Lantern Company will be exhibiting at the Sundrige Park Wedding Fair (bromley, Kent) on 28th February 2010, and will have over 150 of its chinese lanterns on display.
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February 19th 2010
Sussex Express
Children at Framfield Primary School celebrated the start of the year of the Tiger with a special Chinese day last week. They painted lanterns (donated by The Hanging Lantern Company) and paraded a life sized dragon around the school. There was a Chinese assembly and some of the children demonstrated how they had learned to count in the Chinese language. One group got together to tell the others the story of how each year carries the image and name of an animal. They heard that people born in the year of the Tiger are lucky and courageous. Children were told that Chinese New Year is a major holiday for Chinese people wherever they live and families celebrate with a feast and firecrackers. Early the next morning children greet their parents by wishing them a happy and healthy New Year and receive money in red paper envelopes. The Chinese New year tradition, they were told, is when every family thoroughly cleans the house o sweep away ill fortune. It is also a great way to forget all grudges and sincerely wish peace and happiness for everyone.
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February 12th 2010
The Hanging Lantern Company is proud to have provided its 20-inch Red Nylon lanterns to the City of Lincoln Council (Lincolnshire), for the City’s Chinese New Year celebrations. You can see our lanterns hanging in roads surrounding the cathedral. You can see a few of the photos in our gallery, or on our Hanging Lantern Facebook page
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February 5th 2010
THE HANGING LANTERN COMPANY - SHINING SUPPORT FOR CHESTNUT TREE HOUSE.
Chestnut Tree House, the children’s hospice for Sussex, is delighted to have a new corporate supporter - The Hanging Lantern Company.
The Hanging Lantern Company, based in East Sussex, is a brand new UK business, launched very recently in November 2009. The company are part of the largest lantern business in the US and also have their own factory in China. With around 100,000 lanterns in 150 different designs and colours, The Hanging Lantern Company is the UK’s leading supplier of high quality Chinese paper lanterns and accessories.
Rob Payne, from The Hanging Lantern Company, has pledged to donate 3% of all orders to Chestnut Tree House. In addition, he plans to organise fundraising events throughout the year in aid of the charity. He has also offered to provide the hospice with lanterns to add colour and spectacle at the House and at fundraising events.
Rob said, “I am delighted to have the opportunity to support a local charity and to get involved with bringing even the smallest joy to a child’s life.”
Chestnut Tree House is thrilled to be receiving The Hanging Lantern Company’s support. Corporate Fundraiser, Sarah Arnold, said, “Thanks to the generosity of The Hanging Lantern Company, we will be able to help more children and young people with life-limiting illnesses, not just in East Sussex, but across the whole county.”
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For a PDF copy of the Chestnut Tree House and Hanging Lantern Company press release click here.
Notes to Editors
Chestnut Tree House Children’s Hospice
Chestnut Tree House is the only children’s hospice in Sussex and cares for children and young adults from 0-19 years of age with progressive life-limiting and life-threatening illnesses from all over the county.
Completed in 2003, the hospice provides a ‘home from home’ environment with 10 children’s bedrooms plus 8 family rooms, a wet and dry play area, computer and music rooms, a multi sensory room and hydrotherapy pool. The house is set in beautiful gardens within an area of outstanding natural beauty.
There are potentially 400 families with life-limited children in Sussex. Chestnut Tree House offers support for the whole family including psychological support, care in bereavement therapy, end of life and respite care and sibling support.
It costs approximately £2 million per year to provide our care services. Families are not charged for their care and the hospice receives hardly any government funding at all, so it relies completely on the generosity, help and support of the people of Sussex.
Contact:
Janet Parsons, Communications Manager, telephone 01903 524106
Email: janet.parsons@stbh.org.uk
Website: www.chestnut-tree-house.org.uk
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February 3rd 2010
We are excited to report that Chestnut Tree House has a new supporter. The Hanging Lantern Company is based in East Sussex, and is extremely proud to support Chestnut Tree House by donating 3% of all sales to the charity.
Chestnut Tree House is delighted to be receiving the support of The Hanging Lantern Company. Sarah Arnold, Corporate Fundraiser of Chesnut Tree House said, 'We are very grateful to The Hanging Lantern Company, with their generosity and support we can provide more children and families with the help they so desperately need!'
http://www.chestnut-tree-house.org.uk/default.asp?id=243
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February 24th 2010
Chinese New Year 14th February 2010
The Hanging Lantern Company is based in Ringmer, East Sussex, and is the UK’s leading supplier of Chinese hanging lanterns, with over 150 different designs and colours available through it’s website - www.hanginglanterns.co.uk .
We are currently searching for a schools that is looking for a unique and special way to celebrate the Chinese New Year occurring in early February.
We are looking to donate some white hanging lanterns, enabling them to be used as part of a classroom display. In fact, Chinese symbols, animals (it’s the year of the Tiger), or the child’s name (written in Chinese) could be drawn on black or red card, and stuck to the lantern before hanging.
We would like to attempt to involve local press, and to use photos (with the schools/parents permission) on the charity pages of our website.
If this is of interest, and you would like some lanterns, please do not hesitate to contact us on 0845 465 5585, or e-mail us at contact@hanginglanterns.co.uk .
Many Thanks,
Kind Regards
Rob
Robert Payne
The Hanging Lantern Company Ltd
http://www.hanginglanterns.co.uk/Chinese-New-Year-2010.pdf
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December 7th 2009
Hanging Lanterns was proud to support Cash For Kids, and donated 100 hanging battery lanterns to Jubilee Fireworks for sale at their display. All proceeds were donated to the charity. See the Wave FM Website for more details.
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