6pm – 11 pm Poplar Springs Manor Warrenton, Virginia
Black Tie Optional
Ticket Sales are Open and You are Invited!
Our Hearts of Gold Gala 2024 event will take place Friday, November 22nd at the beautiful Poplar Springs Manor in Warrenton, VA which is the same location we host our annual Couples Retreats for our moms & dads. We are so excited to celebrate as we look back on the last 10 years of Alex’s Army and fund raise the night away to help launch us into these next 10 years! Your ticket and/or sponsorship will include cocktails, buffet dinner, dessert, silent and live auction items, a program you won’t want to miss, plus music, dancing, & more! Our Hearts of Gold Gala only comes around once every 5 years and we do not want you to miss out!
Sponsor Information: There are sponsorship levels for all, a few of which include overnight accommodations at the beautiful Poplar Manor Inn & Spa! Not able to attend? We would LOVE for you to consider sponsoring one of our local families with an enchanting night out!
More information on sponsorship levels can be found in our sponsor packet here
We also are seeking out in-kind donations for our silent auction, live auction, and our 2024 wine grab! If you have items you’d like to contribute towards our auction OR if you’d like to donate a bottle or two of wine for our wine grab, use the Contact Us link below. All donors will be recognized on signage at the Gala event, as always donations can also be indicated as anonymous as well.
For questions or more information on how you can sponsor or support through in-kind donations for our 10-year anniversary Gala event, contact us.
This past weekend Alex’s Army hosted our End of Summer Bash & Family Day 2024 and we couldn’t have asked for more perfect weather for our Luau themed party! We loved seeing all the smiles on everyone’s faces and feel so blessed to be able to host events like these for our fellow childhood cancer families & community.
Special Thank you to Crockett Park & Fauquier County Parks for their efforts in making sure this event was such a success and to Mini’s Mission & the Jeff Gordon Foundation whose grant to Alex’s Army last year helped us put on such an awesome event! Thank you also to Bruno’s Bounce House, Dream ArT Facepainting & Balloons, Cookies & Cream, Mission BBQ, United Rentals, The Barber Family, to all our awesome volunteers, and special thank you to Karen & Jason Halsall for donating their time and photography talents to help capture such a beautiful event.
(Childhood Cancer Fams – make sure you don’t miss out these and other family events by requesting to join our mailing list by sending us a note through our Contact Us form)
Pictures from this year’s event can be found below thanks to Karen Halsall Photography and on our social pages @alexsarmyccf
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To make a Tax-Deductible donation so that our team can continue hosting events like these for the childhood cancer community, visit here. Every donation helps and allows us to fulfill our mission to fund research, raise awareness, and to be a source of encouragement and support through faith, hope, and love!
On Sunday, May 15th, our Foundation attempted 1 more time to break an Official Guinness World Records title as part of our Childhood Cancer Awareness & Support event and wow – what a day it was!
While unfortunately, we did NOT break the Official Guinness World Record for Most people performing push-ups Sunday…we did something very special and I believe I can speak for all who were a part of it…they will not soon forget the day.
Once again, we came close with roughly 1,100 people in attendance – we just were not close enough to break that darn record. It would be easy to get discouraged as really getting 2,000 people together for an actual Guinness World Record attempt honoring families impacted by childhood
cancers and the honored heroes of our community – should not be that hard. But when you have the opportunity to be part of an event like this, when we have the opportunity to host an event like this – it’s truly not about the record at all. It’s so much more. Like some have said, breaking the record would have been icing on the cake – but the
cake was pretty darn good!
The skies opened up and the sun shone brightly down all day so that the flyover from our friends the Glory Hounds could happen not just once but several times – one of which created the shape of a heart over all of the honored families, our honored heroes, and all in attendance!
We had over 20 families participate from our area join us both in the ceremony and others amongst the crowd on the field who were celebrated and honored by all who were there.
We filled our last minute goal for Stewards which was a gift as that alone seemed to be an uphill battle that came in the last week of preparations for the event! Thank you to Park Valley Church and all who came to join us at the last minute to fill this need! You are truly amazing and we are so thankful.
The Tug-of-War teams from Battlefield (aka Champions of the Field????), Gainesville, Brentsville, and Patriot all really had a blast and we had a blast watching and cheering them all along! Thank you again to our friends at Sweet Julia Grace for lending us the rope from their Adult Field Day the day prior!
Huge Congrats to team Battlefield and to all the participating teams – which reminds us to ask – did the losing teams really get in that dunk tank???
Below are the winners of our Event Raffles:
Winner of the Insignia TV goes to MaryBeth Michel!
Winner of $250 Smoothie King Gift Card goes to Susan Wallace!
Winner of A Year of Chick-fil-A (52 meal cards) goes to Bridie Sheehan!
Winner of A Year of Chick-fil-A KIDS (52 kids meal cards) goes to Danica Davis!
All winners will be contacted via email to claim their prizes!!!
Congrats all!
Thank you to all our amazing sponsors and supporters of this event. We truly could not do what we do without your support and we are so thankful.
Thank you to all our volunteers, our planning team, to our Guinness World Record Adjucator who was awesome – to our Minion, Cavman, and Chick-fil-A Cow who ALL 3 joined in doing push-ups!
Finally, thank you to Scott Sikes Photography for capturing pictures from the entire day!
As mentioned at the event every dollar raised from this event will be allocated towards our 2022 Research Fund. If you’d like to make a donation, Donate
We do have some leftover EVENT specific apparel, get yours before midnight June 17th, go to Temporary Merchandise Shop!
Thank you again to everyone who contributed to making this event wonderful in every way!
Remember – no matter what it is you are going through, you are never alone, you are loved, and you have an ARMY behind you every step of the way!
It takes an ARMY to fight childhood cancer…. Together we are Alex’s Army!
This is a childhood cancer awareness event. We are creating a banner (or a few banners) with “Our Reasons Why” including pictures of local childhood cancer kiddos to honor your child and to show our community that childhood cancer is not rare. If your child would like to be included on this banner you can do so in 2 ways. IF you’re able to attend the event, simply sign up using the registration link above and indicate you would like more information about participating in the ceremony part of the event. If you are not able to attend the event, send us an email through our Contact Us page and someone will reach out to you to get your child’s info and photo. All photos & info will need to be submitted to us by April 15th to be included on the banner.
Have questions about the event? Click on
register and check-out the FAQs section in the Eventbrite sign-up! Feel
free to reach out if you still have questions afterward!
SPREAD THE WORD! Follow us on social and help spread the word for this event!!!
Learn more about how your school or organization can get involved by watching the video below or checking out our 2018 flier below.
Want to donate items for Alex’s Army care packages? We’ve created an Amazon Gift List to easily purchase items that will be delivered to us for this year’s care package drive.
If you haven’t already, be sure to pick Alex’s Army as your Amazon Smile charity and a small percentage of each of your Amazon Smile purchases will support Alex’s Army. Make sure you’re on Amazon Smile when you buy those Gift List items.
