We are delighted to announce that Sussex Cricket Captain, Luke Wright, has become a Patron of the Children’s Respite Trust. Luke joins other local notable names Jayne Torvill, Sandra Huggett and Roger Daltrey in becoming a Patron of the Charity, which has a Day Care Centre in Uckfield as well as a team of support-workers…
A huge thanks to everyone who helped to make Friday Night’s Comedy Night our most successful one ever! We raised a fantastic £3,315 and we can do a whole lot of good with that. Our thanks go to comedians Michael Fabbri, Nas Osmanoglu and Spring Day. They had over 180 guests in stitches and it…
The wonderful chaps that are the William De Warenne Masonic Lodge came to visit us at the East Sussex Children’s Respite Centre on Tuesday with the great news that their Lodge were donating a truly incredible, £1,000! The William de Warenne Lodge The William de Warenne Lodge No.6139 was constituted in 1945 under charter from…
The wonderful Stevens and Carter from Hailsham have helped the Children’s Respite Trust by donating an incredible £383.21! Keely went down to meet with the wonderful chaps that are Stevens and Carter and was presented with a cheque for us. We will be using this towards providing our respite services across Sussex and Kent. We…
Thank you so much to everyone who attended the Children’s Respite Trust Masquerade Ball at the Cavendish Hotel in Eastbourne on Saturday night. We’re delighted to announce that the grand total raised was a phenomenal £25,026!!! The Entertaiment Guests arrived to a drinks reception while a quartet from Sussex Strings entertained along with stilt-walkers from…
The Children’s Respite Trust is delighted to announce that Wendy Marlow is to be the Charity’s new Representative for Sevenoaks & West Kent. The Children’s Respite Trust, has for eight years helped families to get a break from the strain of caring for a disabled child 24 hours a day throughout the South East. However,…
The Childwick Trust The Trust was established as a charity in 1985 by Mr. H.J. (Jim) Joel who was a successful racehorse owner and breeder based at his Stud on The Childwick Bury Estate in Hertfordshire. The Joel family had extensive wish to help young people and families in need is reflected in the Objects…
Boshier-Hinton Foundation The Boshier-Hinton Foundation exists to improve quality of life for people with disabilities or learning difficulties, and their families.They help charities all over the country, by making donations to charitable institutions providing facilities and advocacy for children and adults with special educational or other needs. What they have done for us The Boshier-Hinton…
The wonderful bunch of Rotarian’s that make up the Sovereign Harbour Rotary Club have donated an incredible £500! We recently went to meet the Sovereign Harbour Rotary Club at a lovely little restaurant in Sovereign Harbour, Eastbourne. We introduced them to the charity and explained about what it is we are trying to achieve with…
The Foundation The Arbonne Charitable Foundation have a mission, and that is to provide support for programs and opportunities that promote the development of confidence and self‑esteem in teenage girls and boys. They have helped more than 340,000 teens develop increased confidence through programs supported by the Foundation. Our Empowerment Program The incredible amount donated from the Arbonne Charitable Foundation…
Gavin and the mighty Three Peaks Team are back from their epic journey, the Three Peaks Challenge! Last week, on Thursday 7th June Gavin and said team embarked on an adventure to walk up the three largest mountains across Scotland, Wales and England, in 3 days. The team was 21 people strong, and they ventured…
The Ian Askew Charitable Trust have donated an amazing £500 towards the core running costs of the East Sussex Children’s Respite Centre. This amazing amount will go towards the running of the centre; on craft materials and general running costs of our holiday sessions in the summer of 2018. As we are still a small…
Golf Day 2018 Our Golf Day 2018, held at the stunning Chartham Park Golf Course was a huge success, and we raised a whopping £8,595!! The Day We kicked off with an early start with bacon sandwiches and cups of coffee in our CRT keep cups. All our awesome attendees registered in their teams, and…
DM Thomas Foundation The DM Thomas Foundation has a mission, that is to transform young lives. They do this by raising money to support a wide range of fantastic projects that help disadvantaged young people to Achieve It, Beat It, Live It and Experience It. Thanks to support from fantastic people all over England, they are able…
The Lady Eileen Joseph Foundation The Lady Eileen Joseph Foundation generously awards grants towards; general charitable purposes, the advancement of health or saving of lives, disability, the prevention or relief of poverty, arts/culture/heritage/science, animals and environment/conservation/heritage. In 2017 they have awarded over £64,000 in small grants many differing charities across the South. What have they…
Who are the Big Lottery Fund? They are a distributor of National Lottery funding, established as a non-departmental public body by an Act of Parliament. The Big Lottery Fund funds projects and activities that make communities stronger and more vibrant, and that are led by the people who live in them. They support charities, community…
The ACT Foundation The ACT Foundation (ACT) was formed in 1994 and is registered with the Charity Commission. They provide grants to individuals and other UK registered charities with the aim of enhancing the quality of life of people in need and, particularly, those on a low income who have a physical and/or mental disability or the…
Uckfield Waitrose The wonderful team at Uckfield Waitrose have been such incredible supporters over the last few months, we popped our application in for the Waitrose scheme ‘Community Matters’ to the branch, and a few months later they were handing us a cheque for £440! They have not just helped us with a financial donation…
How are they supporting us? The wonderful chaps Richard and Chris came down to meet us at the centre last week, had a good look around and saw our plans for the future and the development of our centre. They have kindly decided to offer the Trust a percentage of the commission for each house…
Our development The Children’s Respite Trust is delighted to have acquired a fantastic building in November 2017 which we are developing into a warm, welcoming and homely respite centre in the heart of the Charity’s catchment area, Uckfield, East Sussex. To assist us on this journey, Meeching Lodge have very kindly been fundraising over the…
