We have supported Alder Hey since the Foundation was launched. In 2022 we made a grant to support the Sunflower House project. Alder Hey’s Charli Canfer sent us this update. “Our specialist inpatient unit Sunflower House provides a safe and nurturing ‘home from home’ for children and young people with some of the most complex […]
As Henry Ford once famously said “If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself”. A recent project with three different groups moving forwards together definitely led to success and lots of fun. This story is about a group of students at The Downs School in West Berkshire, working as a team
Lansdown Friendship Club (LFC) is a small group in Bath run by volunteers to support people living with dementia and their families. We gave them a grant in 2023 to buy play equipment. This time we helped fund their Christmas 2024 party. Mary-Jane who runs LFC, told us how it all unfolded. “Before the event,
Institute in the Park is a Partner Charity. We have supported their research into childhood illnesses since 2016 and have now made seven grants totalling over £100,000. Our latest grant was made in July 2024 to purchase a plate washer. The research into health and diseases often goes under the radar with progress appearing to
Alder Hey was our first Partner Charity and we have been supporting them since 2015. Our last grant for £9,974 funded two state of the art, high-specification defibrillators. Our total grants to the hospital are nearly £63,000. This is a long term relationship. Adam Challoner from Alder Hey told us what the new defibrillators mean
The research into dementia led by Professor Myra Conway is part of our Partner Charities programme. We made our fifth grant in July 2024 bringing the total since 2019 to over £45,000 primarily to fund much needed specialist equipment. We asked Dr Roshita Edward, a key member of Myra’s team, to update us on progress.
For the third year running we were very pleased to be able to support Love Marlborough Kids Meals at Christmas. This is a local charity helping a growing number of families that are struggling to make ends meet. Ensuring that they can enjoy a delicious Christmas dinner with some extra treats is indicative of what
Fun and play are the themes of our third project with Stockdales. We really wanted to do something different this time, having focussed previously on their residential homes, so we were excited when Emma Morris, their CEO, talked about another part of what they offer, Community projects. These schemes focus on learning life skills through
