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…
The Children’s Respite Trust were hugely grateful to have be chosen by Waitrose Uckfield as one of their three Community Matters “Good Causes” for October 2019. Throughout October shoppers were given the chance to support the Trust with their green tokens. We are very pleased to announce that an amazing £420 was raised. Thank you…
On Saturday 23rd November 2019, Peter Wilkes Chairman of the Uckfield Runners presented a cheque of £1,000 to the Children’s Respite Trust. The members of Uckfield Running Club pay £1 each time they run and over the course of the year their pounds soon add up. The Trust were very grateful to have been their…
Thank you to everyone who made our Comedy Night on Friday our most successful Comedy Night yet! We raised a huge £3,721 for the Trust 🌟🌟🌟 Thank you to Jim Grant from Oi Oi Comedy Sussex and our acts Craig Campbell, Marc Lucero and Katherine Atkinson for entertaining us. We wouldn’t have even had a…
The Trust are extremely grateful for the continued support received from Renato Pires and his team at Acting Moon Events. Renato recently attended the Respite Centre here in Uckfield and presented the Trust with a donation towards Phase 2 of our building works which are due to begin shortly. Acting Moon Events also attended our…
What an amazing night we had on Saturday night at the Masquerade Ball 2019. We’d just like to say a huge thank you to everyone involved – you helped us to raise over £30,000 towards the work of the Children’s Respite Trust. It’s a fantastic total and we can do a heck of a lot…
Please check out this video and see how the Trust’s work can make such a difference. Our sincere thanks to Vickie and Jaxson, who are the real stars of the film and to everyone at Global Radio. Today marks the start of Global’s Make Some Noise Month. Global are responsible for some of the biggest…
Last Friday we were taken down memory lane with the Jackson 5, Tiffany, Queen and of course no 80’s Night is complete without glow sticks and rubix cubes!! Thank you so much to The Crown & Anchor, Eastbourne, to DJ Nick Betts of Level Eleven Entertainment, our Ambassadors Derek and Helen Blaney and to everyone…
We are hugely grateful to Battle Abbey Senior School for choosing to support the Children’s Respite Trust with their Summer Carnival event. An amazing £3,040.36 was raised for the Trust together with match funding from the Don Hanson Charitable Trust. The money will be used towards our project to make the Centre more accessible for…
The Uckfield Singers Summer Concert took place last month at the Civic Centre in Uckfield. The Community Choir’s annual event welcomed approximately 200 visitors to the town. We were very honoured to have been chosen as the recipient of their raffle proceeds and an amazing £365 was raised on the evening. This donation will be…
Gavin met with Ian Turnball of The Hawthorns, Eastbourne this week and Ian presented Gavin with a cheque for £400. A huge thank you to everyone at The Hawthorns- their residents, staff and visitors for supporting the Children’s Respite Trust. Donations such as this make a big difference to the Trust. They help fund care…
The lovely Gemma and Molly from Little Punnetts Toddler Group visited the Respite Centre yesterday. They presented the Trust with a cheque for £307. Thank you so much to everyone for their fundraising efforts, we are very grateful. We will be using this donation towards providing our summer holiday respite services at the Centre here…
We were delighted to welcome sponsors of the Children’s Respite Trust’s Masquerade Ball to a special Ambassadors’ Reception at Stone Cross Garden Centre yesterday evening. The reception marked the Launch of this year’s Ball. Tickets officially went on sale at 6.30pm yesterday evening and we have already sold half of the allocation. So we urge…
Year 8 pupils from Holmewood House School, Tunbridge Wells, visited the Children’s Respite Trust on Tuesday 14th May 2019. Fourteen pupils aged 12 and 13 visited the Children’s Respite Centre in Uckfield and assisted with various tasks to help prepare sensory resources for our children’s holiday sessions. They made colourful slime, created kinetic sand, play…
In April 2019 we hosted our first ever Uckfield Quiz Night raising £1,125 for the Children’s Respite Trust. Thank you to everyone who joined us for the evening, we hope you had a great time. Thank you also to the Cinque Ports Club for enabling us to host the event, David Beck our awesome Quiz…
We are pleased to introduce our newest member to the Children’s Respite Team, Rachel. Rachel joined the Charity in April from another children’s Charity based in Sussex and with a background in law. Rachel will be working alongside Gavin and is looking forward to meeting our supporters, getting stuck in with the preparation of our…
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…
