Wow what a night! Thank you so very much to everyone who supported our first fundraising event of 2023, our Spring Comedy Night! We are pleased to announce we raised an incredible £3,630 which is simply amazing! The raffle was our most successful yet, raising an enormous £780 on its own so thank you to…
Wow – where do we start! The Firework Ball was an incredible evening, raising a huge £63,000 for the Trust. We are simply blown away by your support and cannot thank everyone enough. We had 17 amazing sponsors LMDB Accountants, HPC Classics, Aspray Limited, DT Decorators, CBL Fastenings, W. Bruford – The Beacon, Eastbourne JPC…
The Trust is extremely grateful to the Teddy Bear Run for supplying and delivering Care Packages to our children and their families during December 2021, prior to Christmas. After another tough year for everyone we were so happy that our families were able to receive these amazing care packages funded and put together by the…
Thank you to everyone who came to the Trust’s Summer Comedy Night on the 30th July 2021. The fantastic line-up included Paul Pirie, Steve Hewlett and Imran Yusuf and hosted by Oi Oi Comedy’s Jim Grant. A sell-out crowd enjoyed a night of laughs raising £2,825 in the process. Our sincere thanks go to everyone…
We are delighted to announce that the Masquerade Ball tickets for 2021 are now LIVE! Tickets are sure to sell-out, so grab yours now over at the Masquerade Ball 2021 page. This will be the first event at the Winter Garden in Eastbourne since its closure for a major refurbishment back in 2018 and we…
Over the last couple of months, the Trust has been supported by Apple Green Garage in Uckfield who has collected and donated various sweet treats to us. The Garage set up a “donation bin” to enable their customers to purchase goodies for the Trust while buying fuel and other items and leave these in the…
The Racetrack Run is a new and unique tour of 19 of the UK’s motor racing circuits to raise funds for the Children’s Respite Trust. The 1,650-mile Racetrack Run includes stops at some of UK racing’s most cherished locations over five days departing from Goodwood on Wednesday 23rd June and returning to the Trust’s Respite…
We are excited to launch our Christmas Raffle! Tickets are £5 each and can be purchased by commenting on our Facebook post or by emailing rachel@crtcharity.org and we will issue you with a ticket number. Payment is to be made via bacs. We have some amazing prizes up for grabs to include a Chocolate Hamper,…
With a little help from our team of volunteers and a very generous donation from Staverton Nursery our garden has had a little make-over! Our annual plants have been replaced with some gorgeous new perennial plants bringing both colour and a sensory experience to our garden. We look forward to seeing these bloom over the…
Did you know you can support us via the Eastbourne Local Lottery for as little as £1 per week. Eastbourne Local Lottery was created in 2018 by Eastbourne Borough Council to support community projects in the local area. Tickets are £1 each and 60p from each ticket sale will come directly to us! Each ticket…
Congratualtions to Linda Baker, winner of a Luxury Fortnum and Mason Charity Hamper. Thank you so much to everyone who supported the Trust by purchasing tickets for our draw. We are very pleased to announce that the total raised amounted to £320! Our winner of the Charity Hamper was Linda Baker of Westways Vending from…
The whole team here at the Children’s Respite Trust are missing our families and children very much. While community care continues, we cannot wait for the day that we are able to welcome everyone back to the Respite Centre. We greatly look forward to hearing these rooms filled with the sound of our wonderful children…
We have kindly been donated a Luxury Fortnum and Mason Hamper!! If you would like a chance to win this stunning Hamper, raffle tickets are £5 each and can be purchased at Raffall.com by following this link. The closing date for entries is 31st May. Good luck and thank you! 🍾
We are so very grateful to everyone who joined us at our Spring Comedy Night on Friday 13th March. Thank you to our sponsors of the evening Crabapple Barn, Purebrite Cleaning Company, CBL Fastenings,J Kirby Electrical Ltd, and Acorns Charitable Trust. We are hugely grateful to Langney Sports Club for hosting the evening free of…
The Trust are very grateful to of W Bruford for the very generous donation recently presented by Ashley Pugh to Gavin Fisher. The donation represented half of the total amount raised at W Bruford’s “Moment in Time” dinner back in November. The other half being donated to St Wilfrd’s Hospice in Eastbourne. During the dinner,…
Thank you so very much to Cornerstone Uckfield for their recent donation to the Trust. Members of the Church gathered together to sing carols in the run up to Christmas as well as giving donations to the Trust instead of buying Christmas cards. Thank you everyone for your support, we are very grateful.
We are extremely grateful to everyone who donated Christmas gifts via the campaigns set up by Basepoint Crowborough and Anytime Fitness, Uckfield. Both Anytime Fitness and Basepoint Crowborough visited the Respite Centre prior to Christmas to deliver the donated gifts and our children and families were delighted with their presents. Over the Christmas break we…
On Saturday 14th December, Louisa and Tilda took on a challenge of their own for the Children’s Respite Trust. Tilda and her brother both have autism, sensory processing difficulties and severe learning difficulties. Tilda also has dyspraxia, hypermobility and other conditions which means that walking can be difficult. Tilda absolutely loves Sheffield Park and her…
We’re delighted to say that phase II of our building work is now well underway and the new car park is complete. A huge thank you goes to all the guys at Taylor Wimpey for working tirelessly through the bad weather to complete it in a week. They gave their time and talents free of…
Zuzana from Z-Energy kindly organised a fundraising event for the Trust- “Zumba for Everyone” at Dean’s Leisure Centre, Rottingdean. It was a fantastic afternoon with goodie bags for everyone plus a Raffle and bracelets to purchase to raise money for the Trust. There were some wonderful raffle prices- a Joules bag, some homemade Christmas Bunting…
