Ellie's Haven is pleased to announce a winner of its photo competition connected with its recent "Rainbow Mufti Day", in which thousands of pupils in schools and staff in businesses wore colourful casual clothes to celebrate the 5th birthday of Ellie, the inspiration behind the Cornish charity.

The winner is 6-year-old ...

Millie Foster

... from Looe, the subject of the best photo of a Rainbow Mufti Day outfit  posted on the Ellie's Haven group page on Facebook, the social-networking website:

Millie wins a prize of a silver Ipod Nano, kindly donated by Waitrose.

"The goal of the photo competition was to encourage people to join the Ellie's Haven group on Facebook. It worked.  We now have a network of more than 580 online supporters," says Nigel Libby, Ellie's father.

More than dozen schools and a number of businesses participated in the Rainbow Mufti Day, staged on Jan 22 and 25.  Each individual participant gave a small donation to Ellie's Haven, but with so many people involved, the total could eventually top last year's figure of  £7,906.05.   The event has been running for three years now.

Ellie's Haven is a charity that aims to being relief to families with children suffering from long-term and life-limiting illnesses, by offering them holidays in a purpose-designed haven in South East Cornwall.

The charity was founded in 2007 by Nigel and Julie Libby, who have a severely-disabled child, Ellie.   The charity has won widespread support from the local community, which has already raised more than £250,000 towards building costs estimated to be in the region of £1.6 million.